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:
Why even bother making a best records of 2017 list if you're not going to put Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts at the top of it...
You maybe need to be in a receptive mood to listen to this for the first time, but after a few months of it, you'll realise that the above quote is on the money.
https://boomkat.com/products/grafts (24 bit, iyl)
The very first Al Jarreau album from 1965.
2015 - CD (rip)...
One of those albums I Just wouldn't want to be without. Always perfect.
2002 - CD(rip)...
Tony2011 posted:
2002 - CD(rip)...
\o/ Tom and Ed \o/
2008 - CD(rip)...
Now Playing.......
Tomasz Stanko - Leosia
Tomasz Stanko (trumpet), Bobo Stenson (piano), Anders Jormin (double-bass), and Tony Oxley (drums).
Streaming on NAS....... A wet and windy evening and a little Tomasz Stank to relax and recover after a long walk
Note on the ECM Records website here:
The second ECM album from this Polish-Swedish-British edition of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet follows the critically-heralded Matka Joanna. As Jazz Journal wrote, 'Trumpeter Stanko's vibrant breadth of tone and poetic feeling for cross-rhythmic drama are second to none.' Leosia marks a further progression, incorporating six first-rate Stanko compositions in his brooding 'Slavic' style, darker than the darkest Miles (and incorporating a tribute to Lautréamont, literature's Count of Darkness), as well as bracing and exploratory duo and trio improvisations, and solos of the higherst calibre by all concerned. The group has an unusual claim on idiomatic completeness; it seems to summarize, in highly original manner, many of the important developments of jazz of the last 30 years. Stanko, however, distances himself from the general drift toward reinterpretation of standards in the 1990s. His bent notes, slurs, smears and violent fanfares are put to the service of a new group music.
Now Playing.......
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Streaming on NAS........ Some Dire Straits before heading off to bed....
Classed as Country but more like Maroon 5
I'm a late comer to this artist, but thanks to the Forum it's become one of my favourite albums.
This is an album where the tunes just get inside your head and you find yourself humming them to yourself all day. Looking forward to exploring the rest of her work.
Aimee Mann - Mental Illness
Andrei Gavrilov - Bach: French suites
Tommy Emmanuel - Accomplice one
Allmusic.com:
Following a year that saw both a collaborative album with mandolinist David Grisman and a live album from the Ryman Auditorium, Australian acoustic guitar hero Tommy Emmanuel returns to his Music City muse with Accomplice One, a duets album with a strong Nashvillian flavor. Coming in at a rather lengthy 16 tracks, one gets the feeling that many of these sessions yielded more fruit than could fit on one disc, leaving the door open for future explorations and inspired pairings. Emmanuel's sparring partners here range from similarly virtuosic instrumentalists like nimble blues-rock guitarist J.D. Simoand ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro to country singer/songwriters like Suzy Bogguss and Rodney Crowell. Warmly captured in various studios in and around Nashville, Accomplice One offers a fairly wide swath of what Emmanuel and his friends have to offer, from the tasteful-but-sprightly Celtic airs and reels of the Clive Carroll collaboration "Keepin' It Real" to a surprisingly tender take on Madonna's "Borderline" with singer Amanda Shires. A mostly acoustic rootsy feel ties the whole affair together as Emmanuel offers himself up as co-vocalist to Mark Knopfler on the backporch blues of "You Don't Want to Get You One of Those" and to Jason Isbell on Doc Watson's "Deep River Blues." As relaxed and affable as these vocal duets are, it's still the fireworks that get the biggest response and Emmanuelis smart enough to toss a pair of red-hot instrumentals near the front in the J.D. Simo and Charlie Cushman standout "Wheelin' and Dealin'" and the David Grisman and Bryan Sutton bluegrass blazer "C-jam Blues."
On, vinyl, the second of this series is definitely the best; Brass Construction, JBs, Kool & The Gang, Ohio Players, Detroit Emeralds, Blackbyrds, Donny Hathaway, Eddie Hathaway, etc.
'Cause I just can't get enough oif that funky stuff...
Today i went to hospital to have one of my knees MRI scanned;
the experience sounded like a live demo with Ralf and Florian.
Back at ohm now for another knees up : )
Debs
On 1980s vinyl.
It has to be vinyl really, because of the inner gatefold. They don't make 'em like this any more...
