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

Jim Hall - Jazz guitar

Jim Hall's debut as a leader. With Carl Perkins on piano and Red Mitchell on bass. Recorded in 1957.

Now Playing........

Kristjan Randalu - Absence

Kristjan Randalu (piano), Ben Monder (electric guitar), and Markku Ounaskari (drums).

Streaming on TIDAL....... Going with the double mention from BERT SCHURINK above and taking this new release, 04/06/18, out for a spin! First track, "Forecast," is wonderful and looking forward to the rest of the album!

Something different very enjoyable well worth the 20 pence I paid for it yesterday.

Really good Funk album - Playing on Compact Disc on ESC Records 1998

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue. Ok, so it may be the best known and most well liked album in the history of jazz, but there's good reason for that. Here playing from the 50th Anniversary box set. Marvellous!

(1969)

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

Kicking the weekend off with the live part (disc 1) of this double album recorded at Mothers Club in Birmingham and Manchester College of Commerce. I must admit to struggling with the studio album but the live stuff is fine...

Now Playing........

Melody Gardot - Live in Europe

Streaming on Tidal........  First time listening after having this in the TIDAL queue for awhile, some Friday mid-morning tunes and sounding mighty fine!

1973 - UK first pressing...

seakayaker posted:

Now Playing........

Melody Gardot - Live in Europe

Streaming on Tidal........  First time listening after having this in the TIDAL queue for awhile, some Friday mid-morning tunes and sounding mighty fine!

If it sounds as good as it looks it must be a cracking album

1977 - vinyl - Italian pressing...

(January 2016)

David Bowie - Blackstar

What a great final album he left us with. 

Bill Smith - Folk jazz

A record that could only have been made in the late '50s, 1959's Folk Jazz is a meeting of the two great collegiate crazes of the period, post-bebop modern jazz and traditional folk music. Clarinetist Bill Smith and a low-key piano-less trio ? Jim Hall on guitar, Monty Budwig on bass and the great Shelly Manne on drums ? take 10 songs from the folk tradition, strip them down to the bare essentials of melody and chord progressions and turn them into a Kind of Blue-like experiment in cool-toned modal jazz. Familiar standards like "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (which opens with an extended unaccompanied solo by Smith that's a marvel of economy) are presented in entirely new and fresh settings. Perhaps the best of the lot is an extended meditation on the spiritual "Go Down Moses" that turns the song from a gospel shout to an intimate whisper.

1966 - vinyl - UK first (mono) pressing...

(1981)

Hall & Oates - Private Eyes 

Tony2011 posted:

1966 - vinyl - UK first (mono) pressing...

I luv your fine collection of vinyl, have a good weekend Tony. 

First record, first beer.....kickin' the week away..

+1   Tony !

242 Foxtrot the Lear Jet Song on Fifth Dimension is Groovy not many words " Going to buy a Learjet,Going to buy a Learjet baby "

Playing on Vinyl From 1966 on Crescendo Records .Psychedelic Rock from The Seeds

Joshua Redman - Captured live!

• Bass – Christian McBride
• Drums – Brian Blade
• Piano – Brad Mehldau
• Tenor Saxophone – Joshua Redman

Thank you Steve and Ian. It’s great you guys share my humble taste in some of the best music ever made. I feel humbled. 

Tony2011 posted:

Thank you Steve and Ian. It’s great you guys share my humble taste in some of the best music ever made. I feel humbled. 

Tony, we were lucky to be born at a time when new music, new sounds and just about everything else was kicking off in the sixties, great days to be a 'youngster'. 

R3's In Tune Mixtape

Found it last night, and here I am again. Sounds great on the NAT, with supper on the stove and a cold glass of something or other.

(1977)

Hall & Oates - Beauty On The Backstreet 

Onward with perhaps their best album which holds a lot of great memories for me.