What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIV)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2017
On the eve of a new year, it's time for a new thread.
Last year's thread can be found here:
MDS posted:
This is a rather lovely album and it's getting plenty of air-time in my house recently
Following your recommendation. Streaming on Tidal now.
Why? because the wife is listening too 
Graham Russell posted:
Why? because the wife is listening too
Yeah, right!.Why do people always say their missus are listening to it. Why can't they just admit they love the stuff?
b-2017 posted:Stevee_S posted:kevin J Carden posted:I have to say that I fully agree that this version is more appropriate
Even if that were not the case, interestingly, googling for images just now I found none but the censored versions...
Here we go Kevin, the full monty as it was meant to be.
(Album art is usually always to be found in original format on Amazon when checking out vinyl and CDs)
In celebration of 100 years of women getting the vote perhaps, the model is Linzi Drew BTW
Great album !
Janis Joplin, I got dem ol’ kozmic blues again mama! WAV CD rip.
Why listen, because Janis was one of the finest wailers ever, amazing power, and able to reach for every bit of emotion in a song.
Tony2011 posted:Stevee_S posted:Tony2011 posted:
1970 - UK first pressing...
You're having a fine Zeppelin session there Tony, well done!!
Couldn’t think of anything better on this cold but sunny afternoon, Steve. Only five more to go... Coda is not really a proper album.
I can feel the temptation to have a Led Zep day growing within me 
1970 - UK first pressing...
MDS posted:Tony2011 posted:Stevee_S posted:Tony2011 posted:
1970 - UK first pressing...
You're having a fine Zeppelin session there Tony, well done!!
Couldn’t think of anything better on this cold but sunny afternoon, Steve. Only five more to go... Coda is not really a proper album.
I can feel the temptation to have a Led Zep day growing within me
It's very cathartic, Mike. Highly recommended!
CD Pearl Jam - Let's Play Two, Live At Wrigley Field
Both albums highly recommended.
Now Playing.......
Carrie Rodriguez she ain't me
Streaming on TIDAL....... A little Carrie this Thursday Afternoon to brighten up the day......
Something to restore our blood flow in this arctic weather:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94EEzDnfQIw
Now Playing.......
Maciej Obara Quartet - Unloved
Maciej Obara (alto saxophone), Dominik Wania (piano), Ole Morten Vågan (double bass), and Gard Nilssen (drums).
Streaming on NAS........ Streamed this on TIDAL a couple of times and loved the music, ordered the CD, arrived in the mail and ripped to NAS!
Now Playing.......
Paul Motian - Time and Time Again
Paul Motian (drums), Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone), and Bill Frisell (guitar)
Streaming on NAS........ Arrived in mail and ripped to NAS, I played this album on TIDAL and really enjoy this trio, so ordered the CD, simply lovely!
Last one for the night:
This 1953-1956 compilation represents Chet Baker's early days recording in Los Angeles. The appellation "cool" has been ascribed to Baker because of his often understated, contemplative approach to jazz, but on THE BEST OF CHET BAKER PLAYS we hear a trumpeter who defies any such categorization.
Boston. Eponymous debut on original vinyl from 1976. One of rock music's best debut albums and the guitar riff from "More Than A Feeling" remains for me among the most triumphant and enduring classics. Might be the epitome of a classic rock album for those of us around to hear its original release.
The atmosphere was electric before a recital by the pianist Denis Matsuev at Carnegie Hall on Saturday night, and the accent of the throng was mostly Russian. Mr. Matsuev, 32, won the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1998. He has since been heralded by some critics as the successor to Russian keyboard lions like Evgeny Kissin and Arcadi Volodos, and perhaps to Vladimir Horowitz as well.
In concert and on disc Mr. Matsuev has mostly specialized in finger-busting virtuoso pieces. But what was most striking about the account of Schumann’s “Kinderszenen” that opened this recital was the delicacy and introversion of his playing. Starting at a hushed volume and a relaxed pace he phrased with a dreamy freedom that had the feeling of spontaneous invention.
A diaphanous account of the “Träumerei” movement threatened to disappear altogether, and the bold silences and aching sustained notes of the concluding “Der Dichter Spricht” had an almost daredevil feel.
Mr. Matsuev was then forced to sit patiently while latecomers were ushered to their seats, and a cellphone provided a noisy counterpoint to the hushed opening bars of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor. (This and other intrusions will no doubt be magically erased when BMG Classics issues this concert on CD.)
If Mr. Matsuev was frustrated, Liszt gave him ample opportunity to take it out on the keyboard. Tumultuous passages here were almost overwhelmingly raucous. But his poetic instincts held fast in tender moments, with trills as thrillingly precise as one might ever hope to hear.
Liszt’s “Mephisto Waltz” No. 1 is a formidable musical roller coaster, and Mr. Matsuev proved more than equal to its demonic dips and curls. He superbly captured the moody fluctuations of Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 7, from anxiety and brittleness to haunted rumination, and offered a primal performance of the roiling Precipato finale.
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Tumultuous ovations elicited five encores — Liadov’s “Music Box”; a Scriabin étude (Op. 8, No. 12); “In the Hall of the Mountain King” by Grieg in a flamboyant transcription by Grigory Ginzburg; Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G minor (Op. 23, No. 5); and Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 — each greeted with increased passion. Mr. Matsuev’s vitality and control in the rhapsody, which included a deliriously jazzy cadenza, offered nearly a cartoon parody of Romantic virtuosity. When it ended, one fully expected to see smoke curling from his fingertips.
If Music presents: You Need This! A Journey Into Deep Jazz - compiled by Jean-Claude.
cd rip.
dav301 posted:On CD:-
Deacon Blue - Raintown
Really good live band. I fist saw them in a marquee playing to about 200 people before this album came out and knew they were going to be big.