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:
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions, a classic
EJS posted:
The start of a new Beethoven cycle by the Casals Quartet. Beethoven, and especially late Beethoven - should suit this group like a glove, and I'm really looking forward to the completion of this cycle in 2020.
Cheers
EJ
So how are your first impressions ?
Jason Palmer - At Wally's volume 2
Good jazz from trumpeter Jason Palmer.
JASON PALMER trumpet
NOAH PREMINGER tenor saxophone
MAX LIGHT guitar
CHRIS McCARTHY Fender Rhodes
SIMON WILLSON bass
LEE FISH drums
The Mirror with Three Faces: Delta Piano Trio - Gerard Spronk (violin), Irene Enzlin (cello), Vera Kooper (piano)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 (1944)
Lera Auerbach (b. 1973): Piano Trio No. 1 (1992/1994 | Piano Trio No. 2: Triptych - This Mirror Has Three Faces (2012)
All three works on this disc were written within the last 78 years. While being open minded and curious, for much of my life, I had quickly concluded that the classical music that had any effect on me was from early music (Medieval, Renaissance), then Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism and then ended selectively and roughly in the middle of the twentieth century (meaning around and stylistically of the kind of Bartok, Prokofiev, Shostakovich - screw atonality and twelve-tone kooks).
It is only since about five years now that I have become familiar with Lera Auerbach. So far she is the only exception of the crowd after around 1950. What I do understand is emotion in music (intuitively from my earliest recollections) and she has a way of identifying raw emotion with different sounds. I also find her music very well defined on a colour temperature scale. Hard to explain but I suspect that I am possibly a synesthete.
Another way to say this is that all great music to me is movie music. The movie though is the untitled one that plays in your head when you close your eyes and just let music take you in a dream to different places. Lera Auerbach's music for me has this element in it, from time to time, where you feel that you are looking at a distorted image of one's childhood. Maybe even like taking a nursery rhyme and twisting it to the point of a phantasmagorical horror or mystery while still being able to identify the innocence behind the veil. Perhaps, this is the key emotion - one of sadness. Being able to see beauty but not quite being able to grab hold of it?
I am so thankful for having Lera Auerbach in my life.
Now Playing.........
Charles Lloyd and the Marvels - I Long To See You
Charles Lloyd (tenor saxophone, alto flute), Bill Frisell (guitar), Greg Leisz (steel guitar), Reuben Rogers (bass), Eric Harland (drums), Willie Nelson (vocals), and Norah Jones (vocals).
Streaming on NAS........ The 'I Long To See You' and 'Vanished Gardens' albums by Charles Lloyd and the Marvels are both fantastic and worth the time to give both of them a listen. .......also a great way to start a Saturday morning, sounding mighty sweet!
Nice loud....
Hilton Ruiz quintet - Exition
Nice post bop jazz from pianist Hilton Ruiz
- Bass – Buster Williams
- Drums – Roy Brooks
- Piano – Hilton Ruiz
- Saxophone [Tenor & Soprano] – Frank Foster
- Trumpet – Richard Williams
Vinyl fest - albums originally purchased digitally:
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (Qobuz CD streams and iTunes purchase). Great vinyl package on 2 LPs.
Steven Wilson - To The Bone
Qobuz HD originally, this is on vinyl and has lovely lined inner sleves - 4 sides at 45 RPM.
London Grammar - Truth is a beautiful thing
(1972)
Neil Young - Harvest
An old classic sounding just perfect on yet another warm sunny day filled with great sport's viewing, Tour de France, Irish Open Golf, F1, British Superbikes Championship from Knockhill, Footie and of course Wimbledon which Mrs. Stevee_S was glued to elsewhere in the abode. The Sky Q is earning its keep today!
2008 - Triple CD helping with Little Wing(best version ever apart from Hendrix’s) and Tin Pan Alley as highlights among many others. One of the most “soulful” guitar player of the last three or four decades. Sadly missed!
Hope - R.E.M. (from ‘Up’)
I was innocently listening to my iPod on random shuffle last week when this came up and I was floored because it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard not just because it’s REM and I never really want it to stop.
There. Said it.
The Beautiful South - Solid Bronze Great Hits, TIDAL to Qb
Saw Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott last night, they played up a storm, I was still buzzing when I woke up this morning, so enjoying their previous incarnation while waiting for it to cool off enough to go out to the patio. For me Heaton is one of England’s great quirky songwriters, and this is a set of great songs brilliantly played and sung.
(Random question, I downloaded 10 albums (including this) from Tidal to my IPAD, when I open the Qb in the Naim app, it shows these albums. When I click on 8ne, does it Airplay from the tablet or stream from the ‘Net? I can’t see anything in the manual.)
Because it has been awhile …
Tony2011 posted:2008 - Triple CD helping with Little Wing(best version ever apart from Hendrix’s) and Tin Pan Alley as highlights among many others. One of the most “soulful” guitar player of the last three or four decades. Sadly missed!
Thanks for that Tony, I wasn't sure where to go next. I didn't know that this was also released as a triple CD, I have the double "Essential SRV", yep the Little Wing cover is the dog's undercarriage... 
George Shearing trio - I hear a rhapsody
(1985)
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Soul To Soul
A pleasant evening's walk/jog/walk, with pace setting from Rival Consoles & Teleman…
https://telemanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/f-nf-ep
(1968)
Family - Music in a Doll's House
Some old familiar British prog' in the form of their debut album fronted by the inimitable voice of Mr. Chapman.
The George Shearing quintet featuring Nancy Wilson - Swinging's mutual
The music on The Swingin's Mutual!, a dozen selections featuring the George Shearing Quintet, includes six that have vocals by a young Nancy Wilson. This was one of Wilson's most jazz-oriented dates (even if she was never a jazz singer) and is highlighted by her vocals on "The Nearness of You" and "The Things We Did Last Summer," along with instrumental versions of "Oh! Look at Me Now," "Blue Lou," and "Lullaby of Birdland."
Now Playing..........
Charles Lloyd and the Marvels + Lucinda Williams - Vanished Gardens
Charles Lloyd (saxophone, flute), Bill Frisell (guitar), Greg Leitz (steel guitar), Reuben Rogers (bass), Eric Harland (drums) + Lucinda Williams (vocals).
Streaming on NAS......... Continuing on with Charles Lloyd & the Marvels! Needed to run out and do some errands and now back for a short while to listen to some music. I love the opening track "Defiant" which then leads into a "Dust" with Lucinda Williams, this is one sweet album!
After loud Coldplay I had an appetite for some other loud music. This was a good choice...
Then moved to this with these great patterns on drums
Bert Schurink posted:After loud Coldplay I had an appetite for some other loud music. This was a good choice...
One of The great live albums, Bert.
And then continued to something which you also preferably play loud...
