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:
Benny Golson - Free
Very nice jazz by the Benny Golson quartet. Recorded in 1962.
Benny Golson - Tenor Sax
Tommy Flanagan - Piano
Ron Carter - Bass
Art Taylor - Drums
2015 reissue vinyl originally released 1992 - Great mix of Tex-Mex, with a host of guests. Fine album.????
Jeff Anderson posted:Jeff Anderson posted:Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Doesn't leave much choice what to play next, from 1969:
Well, the YouTube video has been removed already, here is a link to the TV segment from earlier today:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...iful-music-together/
Sorry for the double post (padding). I need a break. Be well. Jeff A
Jeff,
Can I cheer you up with a vaguely related Stills/Collins fun fact?
Apparently the most played song by the Grateful Dead was Me And My Uncle.
It was written by John Phillips of The Mamas And Papas, though he didn't realise it. He started receiving royalty cheques for it and was mystified. When he asked his publisher what was going on, he was told that Judy Collins had recorded it and had credited him with it.
He still had no recollection of writing it, so he contacted Judy. She reminded him of a visit he made to her hotel in Arizona with Stephen Stills and Neil Young that involved heroic amounts of Tequila. In the small hours, well the worse for wear, she said that Phillips had switched on a tape recorder and made up the song on the spot, though he woke up with no memory of the event. She kept the tape and recorded the song.
He now says that each time a cheque arrives, he remembers composing it a bit more clearly.
1976 - Vinyl - UK first pressing...
Neil Young - Harvest Moon, original UK vinyl
Test over, back to vinyl, and continuing with Young’s acoustic(ish) albums. Love this album, some amazing songs, beautifully played, Unknown Legend remains one of my favourite soft-rock songs ever, I’m not sure why, but it sticks in my head every few weeks and has done in the quarter century since I bought this. (Although I felt Old King was mawkish when I first heard it and time hasn’t mellowed my view.)
Felt like a bit of "live" Rod
Nick Lees posted:Jeff Anderson posted:Jeff Anderson posted:Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Doesn't leave much choice what to play next, from 1969:
Well, the YouTube video has been removed already, here is a link to the TV segment from earlier today:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...iful-music-together/
Sorry for the double post (padding). I need a break. Be well. Jeff A
Jeff,
Can I cheer you up with a vaguely related Stills/Collins fun fact?
Apparently the most played song by the Grateful Dead was Me And My Uncle.
It was written by John Phillips of The Mamas And Papas, though he didn't realise it. He started receiving royalty cheques for it and was mystified. When he asked his publisher what was going on, he was told that Judy Collins had recorded it and had credited him with it.
He still had no recollection of writing it, so he contacted Judy. She reminded him of a visit he made to her hotel in Arizona with Stephen Stills and Neil Young that involved heroic amounts of Tequila. In the small hours, well the worse for wear, she said that Phillips had switched on a tape recorder and made up the song on the spot, though he woke up with no memory of the event. She kept the tape and recorded the song.
He now says that each time a cheque arrives, he remembers composing it a bit more clearly.
Thank you, Nick. Very much appreciated. I love learning those kinds of things about the artists who have so profoundly affected my life. I was fortunate to see Judy Collins around 1968 at Cleveland Orchestra Hall. A hippie friend and I hitch-hiked from the small college we were attending about 60 miles away. I was surprised we got a ride. He was the first person I knew with a huge afro and I wore my only set of clothes - jeans, tie-dye- t-shirt and a buckskin fringed leather jacket. Life was so much different in those years. You know me well, my friend. Peace.
Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
CD (2015) Haven't heard the latest release, "7", but scanned the shelves and found this for listening,
Original vinyl released 1969 - One of the best albums of the 60’s. ????
Qobuz 24/96 streaming;
Dan Steel posted:
Vinyl released 2008 - This is a great album. I saw her do a solo acoustic gig at Liverpool University a few years back. She was brilliant and is a fine guitar player.
She broke my dream when I found out she was a dyke.
As Ian Dury said “What A Waste”.????
Horses for courses, I guess!
Good steer re the album though! Great from the get go... and Dusty would have been proud. Produced by Phil Ramone, I see - sounds great. Whets the appetite for some of her more recent stuff,
Oh, and well worth reading her bio - sounds like she had an "eventful" upbringing.
(1969 | 2004)
Santana's fine debut album suiting yet another warm sultry evening here. This is the well remastered Sony Legacy edition which adds a few tracks recorded live at the legendary Woodstock Festival on Saturday 16th August, 1969
10 Savor 5:29
11 Soul Sacrifice 11:39
12 Fried Neckbones
It starts with the name: the Modern Lovers. I can't think of a more perfect name for a band: if rock'n'roll was about romance and the forward motion of popular culture, that name captured the promise of the music in as economical a form possible. It continues with the cover: no glossy photo, or Storm Thorgerson faux-profundity, just a logo that looks like the commercial signage you see flashing past as you drive through the strip developments of suburban America. But the only album ever released by the Modern Lovers – and it's not even really an album, just a collection of 1972 demos released in 1976, long after the band had broken up – rests on the songs of Jonathan Richman.
Brand New Boots and Panties, various artists cover Ian Dury's best known album with backing from The Blockheads on most tracks
Silversun Pickups - Better Nature
CD (2015) Indie rock. I seem to have a 2015 theme beginning. Feel like I am checking on first round draft picks from 3 yrs ago.
Jesse van Ruller - Views
Good mordern jazz from Jesse van Ruller on the great Criss Cross label.
- Jesse van Ruller - Guitar
- Seamus Blake - Tenor sax
- Sam Yahel - Organ
- Bill Stewart - Drums
patk posted:
Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
CD (2015) Haven't heard the latest release, "7", but scanned the shelves and found this for listening,
Pat, I thought it was pretty good on my first listen this week. Jeff A
Nathalie Loriers - Nympheas
- Double Bass – P. Aerts
- Drums – M. Verderame
- Piano – Nathalie Loriers
- Saxophone – K. Van Herck
Vinyl released 2011 - I don’t know if anyone is fimiliar with the Norwegian label Hubro. They have a great range of albums. This one Scent Of Soil is brilliant a combination of rock to ballads with jazz influences. Recommended ????
On vinyl...
Due to Tony2011's mentioning above
