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:
The best of the guys in the last years...
Playing on Vinyl on Elektra Records 1978 - Great 2nd album by NYC legends Television - Foxhole is brilliant - Although I think Marquee Moon is the better album
16/44.1 from Bandcamp:
2018 - Double CD courtesy of my local supermarket for a fiver.
Released a couple of months ago. Put together by Graham himself and some other bloke. Sounded good in the car on the way home but sounding much better on the main system now.
CD Track Listing
Tony2011 posted:
2018 - Double CD courtesy of my local supermarket for a fiver.
Released a couple of months ago. Put together by Graham himself and some other bloke. Sounded good in the car on the way home but sounding much better on the main system now.
You go to supermarkets Tony?! I had you down as a Fortnum and Masons' (delivered) kinda guy. 
Stevee_S posted:Tony2011 posted:
2018 - Double CD courtesy of my local supermarket for a fiver.
Released a couple of months ago. Put together by Graham himself and some other bloke. Sounded good in the car on the way home but sounding much better on the main system now.
You go to supermarkets Tony?! I had you down as a Fortnum and Masons' (delivered) kinda guy.
Nah, not me old mate, I’m just like the guy next door but without the Ferrari, the maids, the underground swimming pool, the touring around the world with his band, etc. I’m just a simple bloke with a huge passion for great music.
Tony2011 posted:
2018 - Double CD courtesy of my local supermarket for a fiver.
Released a couple of months ago. Put together by Graham himself and some other bloke. Sounded good in the car on the way home but sounding much better on the main system now.
Which supermarket chain?
Wouldn’t claim to be his greatest fan, but I’d take that for a fiver.
Suzy Wong posted:Tony2011 posted:
2018 - Double CD courtesy of my local supermarket for a fiver.
Released a couple of months ago. Put together by Graham himself and some other bloke. Sounded good in the car on the way home but sounding much better on the main system now.
Which supermarket chain?
Wouldn’t claim to be his greatest fan, but I’d take that for a fiver.
Sainbury’s, Suzy. Not available at Fortnum & Masons as yet.
(2015)
Calexico - Edge of the Sun
Some late'ish Calexico hitting the spot.
Tony2011 posted:Stevee_S posted:Tony2011 posted:
2018 - Double CD courtesy of my local supermarket for a fiver.
Released a couple of months ago. Put together by Graham himself and some other bloke. Sounded good in the car on the way home but sounding much better on the main system now.
You go to supermarkets Tony?! I had you down as a Fortnum and Masons' (delivered) kinda guy.
Nah, not me old mate, I’m just like the guy next door but without the Ferrari, the maids, the underground swimming pool, the touring around the world with his band, etc. I’m just a simple bloke with a huge passion for great music.
That's me utterly devastated at the first part of that news. 
Count Basie - Count Basie and the Kansas city 7
One of Count Basie's few small-group sessions of the '60s was his best. With trumpeter Thad Jonesand tenors Frank Foster and Eric Dixon filling in the septet, Basie is in superlative form on a variety of blues, standards and two originals apiece from Thad Jones and Frank Wess. Small-group swing at its best.
- Bass – Ed Jones
- Drums – Sonny Payne
- Flute – Frank Wess
- Flute, Tenor Saxophone – Eric Dixon
- Guitar – Freddie Green
- Piano, Organ – Count Basie
- Tenor Saxophone – Frank Foster (tracks: A1, A3 to B1, B3)
- Trumpet – Thad Jones
Gary Moore - Blues for Greeny, WAV CD rip
Great guitarist playing excellent blues numbers written by Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac), on the Les Paul that Green had sold him. Fantastic album of the blues.
(Edited to fix guitar name, not sure where Strat came from.)
Peter Green's Splinter Group - HotFoot Powder.
Greeny does a follow up to his previous one of the Robert Johnson songbook.
This time, he's ably assisted by Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Dr John, the late great Hubert Sumlin, among others.
Great album.
The Isley Bros : Santana - Power of Love
OK, I've just spent the last hour or so listening to a hi-resolution (24/96) rough mix of the first, and as yet untitled and unreleased, album by Ese & The Vooduu People.
Provisional tracklist:
Side 1 - Up in Smoke/Where Did I Go Wrong?/Family Affair/I Don't Mind/Untitled [that's the title! 
]
Side 2 - Silver Spoon/Alien/Peace of Mind/Grey Part 1/Grey Part 2
That may change, depending how everyone feels, and how the final mix and mastering goes.
Although I'm listening on hi-res digital files, the album was recorded (at RAK Studios in London) entirely in analogue; on a Studer A800 Mk3 24-track on two inch tape (multis) and another A800 Mk3 for the half-inch master. Everything went through a fabulous - and famous - API 32 track console from 1976. The amps and mics were all vintage gear from RAK's extensive collection. Darrel Sheinman, founder of Gearbox Records (many forumites maight be familiar with their superb all-analogue recordings and reissues), was the producer.
The sound was jaw-dropping in the studio at the time, and it's jaw-dropping at home. It's going to sound stunning, especially on vinyl - which will be mastered and cut to Gearbox's famously exacting standards. But fear not - there will be hi-res digital as well, for those without a record player!
What was really remarkable was that the whole album was cut in just two days (Monday and Tuesday of this week)!
Supplemented by Jackson Baird (keyboards, including Hammond and Wurlitzer electric piano) and Destra Orsheena Ross (backing vocals), Ese, Basile and Pharoah got down to work straight away.
Everything was recorded live in the studio (there's only one overdub on the whole album - on "Up In Smoke", because Pharoah was channelling his inner Bonham and there was a bit of drum spill into the vocal booth) and most of the takes are the first one, a few the second. As a producer, Darrel is very good because he knows when to stop, and knows when he's got the best take he's gonna get.
Another song, "Lies", was attempted, but after five takes we knew it wasn't happening, so that tune was shelved for the time being.
Everyone - band, producer, engineer, the staff at RAK, me () - was absolutely brilliant. I am delighted with how well everything turned out, and how quickly. On Tuesday night in the lounge we bumped into Wet Wet Wet, who were in Studio 1 recording, and they were amazed that we'd got a 40-minute album done in just two days!
Next up - final mixing, mastering, sleeve design and manufacturing. Hopefully it will be on sale in six to eight weeks. Fingers crossed. Think I might go and listen to it again!
PS - the pic at the top is Ese listening to a playback in the control room of Studio 2 on Monday night.
Released 2001 - A fine album of smooth relaxing jazz. ????
Dave McMurray — Soprano, Alto and Tenor Saxes, Flutes, Keyboards, Programming;
Marcus Miller, Al Turner, Darrel "Peanut" Smith — Bass;
Hershell Boone — Vocals, Bass;
Chuck Loeb, Wayne Gerrard, Adell "Showboat" Shavers — Guitar;
Bob James — Acosutic Piano, Rhodes;
Luis Resto — Keyboards, Rhodes, Piano;
Mark Isham — Trumpet;
The Ridgeway Sisters (Gracie, Esther, Gloria) — Vocals;
Larry Fratangelo — Percussion;
Ken Scott, Ron Otis — Drums.
Flanders and Swann - At the Drop of a Hat, WAV CD rip
Brilliant comic music duo recorded live in 1957. Witty clever songs, with amusing inter-song monologues. Includes Song of Reproduction, their tribute to early hifi. They’ve been amusing me for over 30 years, despite knowing pretty much everything off by heart I still laugh.