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:
Giving Mr Evans a rest for while, but staying with piano jazz. This is a cracking fine album.
now playing.........
Jakob Bro - Balldeering
Jakob Bro (guitar), Paul Motian (drums), Bill Frisell (guitar), Lee Konitz (alto saxophone), and Ben Street (bass).
via CD player........ Starting this Sunday morning with Jakob and friends, what a great line up. The spacing, interplay, and support between the musicians on this album is fantastic. Love this album!
BBC Radio London FM. Listening to The Filth v The Mighty Irons. Sounds like a good game so far. Even the Chelsea supporters are making a bit of noise...
After not playing any Renaissance for years and Years,really enjoying going threw their back catalog - A lovely mixture of atmosphere and quite progressive arrangements and orchestration.Great musicianship and Annie Haslems Vocals.Playing on Vinyl on Sire Records 1976 - Live Double album
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My first listen to a new purchase. Another artist that is new to me that I discovered through this thread.
Now Playing........
Jakob Bro - Time
Jakob Bro (guitar), Lee Konitz (alto saxophone), Bill Frisell (guitar), and Thomas Morgan (bass).
Continuing on with second album of the trilogy. Paul Motian had recently passed away and no drummer was added for this recording and Thomas Morgan is now playing bass. Another very fine album!
Now Playing.......
Jakob Bro - December Song
Jakob Bro (guitar), Lee Konitz (alto saxophone), Bill Frisell (guitar), Craig Taborn (piano) and Thomas Morgan (bass).
via CD Player....... continuing on with the third album which had added the pianist Craig Taborn for this album. Each of the album stands on it own but I do enjoy giving all three of them a spin in order. I could not find these albums in the US so I did order them from PladeKistenin in Denmark and found they were well worth the effort to locate and order.
Bandoneon and string quartet. It sounds like it might be an odd combination, but it’s an excellent album.
I only got this quite recently, but it really is a gem. It certainly shows the massive contribution he made to the evolution of jazz.
Heard 3 trax off this which is coming out in June.
Pink Floyd - Meddle - CD
Just been watching F1 Bahrain GP, and then into the first track of this CD with racing car sounds also! I played The Division Bell earlier. And then on track three there is the sound from the Kop at the end! I am taken by how well the 282 sounds playing their music. The guitar and voices sound so good. I found myself preferring Melody Gardot’s My One and Only Thrill on the 282 as well. The demo 552 and demo 252 probably needed the Naim glass isolation shelves as well. Or perhaps these are CDs that the 282 excels at playing. There are others such as Vangelis’s Chariots of Fire where the 552 was superb even without the isolation shelves and the 282 can’t touch.
Phil
On 45rpm vinyl.
ewemon posted:
Is that a new one, ewemon? Not a Ray L album that I recognise.
Mike
Now Playing.......
Jakob Bro - Gefion
Jakob Bro (guitar), Thomas Morgan (double bass), and Jon Christensen (drums).
via CD Player........ it looks like it's going to be a Jakob Bro kind of day! Love his music and works well for this damp Sunday that I am home and on-call for work........ So while waiting for the beeper to go off I might as well be listening to some tunes!
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated - R & B from the Marquee. Cyril Davies - Preachin' The Blues.
Getting back to the roots of UK blues with these two.
Alexis Korner, mentor to so many of the young up and coming blues musicians who then went on to stardom, and the second one,
an album from Cyril Davies, harp player in Blues Incorporated, and surely UK's finest ever electro-harmonica blues player.
We are having a fake April here (27F), trying to warm up to Paul Desmond's tunes:
Good Delta Blues from Honey Boy Edwards - Playing on Vinyl on Earwig Records
MDS posted:ewemon posted:
Is that a new one, ewemon? Not a Ray L album that I recognise.
Mike
Out on the 18 May, Mike.
(1998)
The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power
Good engaging Canadian rock from a band who to my knowledge never made a bad album.
1968 - Vinyl - UK pressing...
Eric Burdon & Animals - The Twain Shall Meet
Tony2011 posted:MDS posted:ewemon posted:
Is that a new one, ewemon? Not a Ray L album that I recognise.
Mike
Out on the 18 May, Mike.
Thanks, Tony.
M
