What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIV)

Dylan: Basement Tapes. Not my favourite Bob but but enough here for an occasional listen.

Lenny Breau: Swingin' on a Seven String. Great guitarist, little heard of these days.

A classic Mulligan album, essential in any record collection.

Field Music - Commontime

Driving, uplifting tunes for a sunny outlook.

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Billie Marten - Writing of Blues And Yellows

Streaming on NAS.......   Starting of Monday morning with the sweet and beautiful voice of Billie Marten.......Nice!

Hummel - Piano and violin concerto

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Mary Coughlin - Sentimental Killer

Streaming on NAS.......   Keeping it simple this morning with lovely female voices to gently nudge me along on this Monday morning......   

Bert Schurink posted:

Weak old fashioned album in my ears...

Not on the level of the other albums I know of her, or perhaps it's just not according to my taste...

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Tritonis.

Not a very well known album of Dave Brubeck, but imo a very good one.

Allmusic.com:

This underrated but talented version of the Dave Brubeck Quartet (featuring tenor-saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi, drummer Randy Jones and Chris Brubeck on electric bass and bass trombone) performs "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," a sparkling version of "Like Someone in Love," Howard Brubeck's "Theme for June" and three fairly recent Dave Brubeck compositions. Bergonzi's Coltranish tenor acts as a perfect foil for Brubeck's unpredictable piano, making this album worth searching for.

Jeroen20 posted:

Brad Mehldau - The art of the trio vol. 2: live at the Village Vanguard

Allmusic.com:

It takes a certain nerve for a young jazz artist to subtitle an album Live at the Village Vanguard. The title evokes some mighty powerful spirits from the jazz pantheon. John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins. Bill Evans. Joe Henderson. But pianist Brad Mehldau is more than up to this daunting challenge. On this set of standards by the likes of Cole Porter, Thelonious Monk and Henry Mancini, Mehldau exhibits a musical erudition and a technical prowess that belies his youth. Though the obvious comparisons are with Evans and Keith Jarrett, Mehldau has a highly individual style that draws heavily on his classical training. Along with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy, he has made a stunning album of exploratory jazz that holds its own with the great "Live at the Village Vanguard" recordings of the past.

I'm a huge fan. I really enjoy his Radiohead/Nick Drake/Beatles interpretations. The anchoring in familiar melodies makes it just that much more accessible for me. He's not "Jarrett-lite", but if anyone likes Jarrett but sometimes finds him just a bit too much work, I really recommend this guy. One of my favorite albums of his is an early one "Elegiac Cycle" which is more laid back than many and perfect for a rainy Sunday afternoon. Another cracker is "Quartet" with Pat Metheny. But really, they're all good. A passionate performer live, too. Really worth heading out to see him if you get the chance.

An accessible and truly excellent album of (mostly) covers by Brad, Larry and their (then) new drummer Jeff Ballard.

1. "Knives Out" (Radiohead) - 8:29
2. "Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:46
3. "Martha My Dear" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 4:38
4. "Day Is Done" (Nick Drake) - 9:26
5. "Artis" - 6:21
6. "Turtle Town" - 6:18
7. "She's Leaving Home" (Lennon, McCartney) - 9:07
8. "Granada" (Chris Cheek) - 7:30
9. "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (Paul Simon) - 8:32
10. "No Moon at All" (Redd Evans, David Mann) - 5:49

Enjoyable album....

Nice album....

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Mary Coughlan & Erik Visser - Scars On The Calendar

Streaming on TIDAL.........  Selecting another Mary Coughlan album, fantastic voice and supported by the talented guitarist Erik Visser.  

José Cano Fernández posted:

A classic Mulligan album, essential in any record collection.

Thanks for the reminder, playing it now.

Sade - The Ultimate Collection

(2011)

With a voice as smooth as warm melting chocolate, I regret never having seen her doing her thing in a club like Ronnie Scott's.

Too often I scroll past Allan Taylor, a habit I need to get out of .. he is well worth a listen.  Especially on cold wet days like today.

Imagine, John Lennon, vinyl.

Probably Lennon’s best post-Fabs work, some genuinely great songs on here.

Ramsey Lewis - Routes. Some very enjoyable jazz funk on here. This on original vinyl. 

Clive Gregson and Christine Collister, Home and Away, original vinyl.

Great album, Chris Collister has a stunning voice, which blends superbly with Clive Gregson’s, his sensitive guitar playing and the singing makes the well chosen numbers sound wonderful, and they’re well appreciated by the audiences at the venues. Fun interplay between numbers at times, SQ surprisingly good for something I think was recorded on a 4track cassette deck. A fantastic album, well worth exploring if you don’t know it.

Judging by the Festival Records £5.99 sticker I bought it at a festival, probably Cambridge as Google tells me they played there in ‘87.

Stevee_S posted:

Sade - The Ultimate Collection (2011)  With a voice as smooth as warm melting chocolate, I regret never having seen her doing her thing in a club like Ronnie Scott's.

 

This is pretty good, from around 2003.