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

Tabby cat posted:

Fabulous Yes album - My favorite album of the original line - the musicianship is breathtaking.

Playing on Vinyl on Atlantic Records 1977

Not my favourite, but a damn fine album indeed. Awaken is Yes doing what they do best. Think I'll play this later...or Relayer? Mmm...

Being teased by Shai Maestros contribution I gave this record of a - to me unknown - jazz bassist a first spin today and what should I say: great music with nice interplay...

seakayaker posted:

Now Playing.........

Shirley Horn - You Won't Forget Me

Shirley Horn (piano, vocals), Miles Davis (trumpet), Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), Buck Hill (tenor saxophone), Branford Marsalis (Tenor Saxophone), Toots Thielemans (guitar, harmonica), Charles Ables (double bass), Billy Hart (drums), Buster Williams (Bass), and Steve Williams (drums).

Streaming on TIDAL..........  A fantastic album with Shirley's sweet vocals and some fine musicians backing her up on the 14 tracks on the album. Definitely worth the time to give a listen.

Now that’s a backing band!

Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park

First time for me and Kacey and I am rather enjoying this one.

Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Lost Trident Sessions - WAV CD rip

Thanks,to,Clive B for recommending this, first play though. Superb jazz fusion, great musicianship allied to great musical feeling, i’m not sure how I missed this album, it’s Mahavishnu Orchestra at their best.

TK421 posted:

Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park

First time for me and Kacey and I am rather enjoying this one.

A stunning album indeed.

Now Playing......

Sade - Soldier of Love

Streaming on TIDAL.......   Continuing on with some background music while getting some work done...... sounding mighty fine!

Clive - Loved your comments on my posting of Yes's Going for the one album with regard to awaken and that track is Yes doing what they do best.......You have got me wanting more prog so got this cassette out of Genesis at Knebworth 1978 recorded off the Friday Rock show - I was there.Genesis where brilliant - Lasers and mirrors - superb P.A .......this is a pic of the gig from an image search ........playing on tape TDK  AD C90      

Boz Scaggs - Memphis

....interrupted by the fabulous Bentley Caldwell - The Place That I Call Home

There I was, quite happy listening to a nice bit of Boz, then I saw someone had recently posted the Bentley Caldwell album on here. I was only a third of the way through Memphis when I saw it and I just had to switch to the superb Bently Caldwell album, and I always listen to albums right through. Sorry Boz, you need to make way for the future, not that these two artists are comparable, just competing for my attention.

I know I must be getting boring now, but each time I listen to The Place That I Call Home, the more I appreciate it. Just stunning.

Cheers Ewe.

My second listen. This young lady has a powerful singing voice.

The Hoax - Unpossible, WAV CD rip

Great recent blues from a band I discovered through Ewemon, classic blues beat, excellent songs, really good musicians, and blues vocals round it off. Played to cheer me up before I settled down to watch the Test “highlights”. 

ewemon posted:

JeffA I had heard rumours of a new Matthew Ryan album and here it is.

He has joined up with the ambient band The Summer Kills for this album.

Quite a departure for him.

Love to H

Thanks, Ewen.  I knew about that somehow (memory ? what memory? might have been a MR emailing) and have that album in my 2018 folder.  Listened to it once and enjoyed it but need to listen more.  There simply is not enough time, even by retired/no kids/few social obligations standards. He does some unusual projects at times.  In 2005, he joined with Neilson Hubbard on a "band/group" release Strays Don't Sleep.

I love his songwriting, though it is very often a bit on the dark side ( similar Ray LaMontagne's "Till The Sun Turns Black")  Also, love his work with Kate York.

best  regards to you and Mon, Jeff A

Now Playing........

Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love

Streaming on TIDAL.........  Sweet afternoon & sweet voice, some very nice background music......

Joe Brown - The Very Best of - 50th Anniversary , a 25 track comp that shows he had more talent than he was given credit for

ALANP posted:

 

Joe Brown - The Very Best of - 50th Anniversary , a 25 track comp that shows he had more talent than he was given credit for

He played Cropredy Festival a few years ago with Dave Edmunds in the band, a really classy old-boy rock set, Joe really knew what he was doing vocally and on his guitar, and worked the crowd really well, I have none of his music, but remember that set very fondly.

Eoink posted:

ALANP posted:

 

Joe Brown - The Very Best of - 50th Anniversary , a 25 track comp that shows he had more talent than he was given credit for

He played Cropredy Festival a few years ago with Dave Edmunds in the band, a really classy old-boy rock set, Joe really knew what he was doing vocally and on his guitar, and worked the crowd really well, I have none of his music, but remember that set very fondly.

Have you seen The Concert For George where he closes proceedings with a very moving version of"I'jj See You In My Dreams" ?

Van. Prison - Moondance, 1980s vinyl

Young Van, probably the first of his lyrically spiritual albums. fantastic wind section propelling an R&B/rock drive, with jazzy and folky rhythms adding complexity when the song requires. Some of Van’s greatest songs, and thus some of the greatest songs of rock, Into the mystic remains haunting for me 35 years after I heard it, can anyone resist the title track’s bouncy beauty?  Great album from one of the greats.

ALANP posted:

Eoink posted:

ALANP posted:

 

Joe Brown - The Very Best of - 50th Anniversary , a 25 track comp that shows he had more talent than he was given credit for

He played Cropredy Festival a few years ago with Dave Edmunds in the band, a really classy old-boy rock set, Joe really knew what he was doing vocally and on his guitar, and worked the crowd really well, I have none of his music, but remember that set very fondly.

Have you seen The Concert For George where he closes proceedings with a very moving version of"I'jj See You In My Dreams" ?

Yes, but weirdly I’d forgotten that was him, must watch it again soon, thanks Alan. 

ALANP posted:

Eoink posted:

ALANP posted:

 

Joe Brown - The Very Best of - 50th Anniversary , a 25 track comp that shows he had more talent than he was given credit for

He played Cropredy Festival a few years ago with Dave Edmunds in the band, a really classy old-boy rock set, Joe really knew what he was doing vocally and on his guitar, and worked the crowd really well, I have none of his music, but remember that set very fondly.

Have you seen The Concert For George where he closes proceedings with a very moving version of"I'jj See You In My Dreams" ?

Yes, I was surprised he was there, until he gave his wonderful song, it all made sense, obviously held in great regard by his peers.

Rather spookily  had this primed to play before Eoin's comment above regarding Cropredy and even more fitting as I am visiting Cropredy in a couple of weeks time.

Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief

Gazza posted:

ALANP posted:

Eoink posted:

ALANP posted:

 

Joe Brown - The Very Best of - 50th Anniversary , a 25 track comp that shows he had more talent than he was given credit for

He played Cropredy Festival a few years ago with Dave Edmunds in the band, a really classy old-boy rock set, Joe really knew what he was doing vocally and on his guitar, and worked the crowd really well, I have none of his music, but remember that set very fondly.

Have you seen The Concert For George where he closes proceedings with a very moving version of"I'jj See You In My Dreams" ?

Yes, I was surprised he was there, until he gave his wonderful song, it all made sense, obviously held in great regard by his peers.

Yes George Harrison and Brown were great mates apparently .

ALANP posted:

 

Rather spookily  had this primed to play before Eoin's comment above regarding Cropredy and even more fitting as I am visiting Cropredy in a couple of weeks time.

Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief

Hopefully to have a beer in the Brasenose or the Red Lion.  I’ll next be in that village on the second weekend in August, for the obvious reason.

Eoink posted:

ALANP posted:

 

Rather spookily  had this primed to play before Eoin's comment above regarding Cropredy and even more fitting as I am visiting Cropredy in a couple of weeks time.

Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief

Hopefully to have a beer in the Brasenose or the Red Lion.  I’ll next be in that village on the second weekend in August, for the obvious reason.

No doubt it'll rain that weekend then...it has rained every time I've gone to Cropredy!

Various 1980s English folk-rock artists, Hard Cash, original UK vinyl

Music for a BBC TV snow, scheduled for 1990, I don’t think it was ever shown. The elite of English folk/folk-rock of the late 1980s, Richard THompson, Gregson & Collister, June Tabor,  Martin Carthay, The Watersons and others. The band had Thompson and Gregson on guitar and Dave Mattacks on drums, politically committed songs about the work hierarchy in the modern ago, played superbly. Any album with Chris Collister and June Tabor each contributing a couple of numbers and Richard Thompson on guitar will be worth hearing, although I’ve not checked, but suspect this may not be easy to find.