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:

https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...sted-vol-xiii?page=,

Posted on: 26 January 2018 by joerand

George Harrison. 33&1/3. On original vinyl from 1976. I can remember enthusiastically taking this home on its release, only to be let down. Some 40+ years of aging has led me to realize what great album it was. Artistic music with velvety-smooth lead guitar from a maestro.

Posted on: 26 January 2018 by osprey

nigelb posted:
Gazza posted:
nigelb posted:
Stevee_S posted:
PaulM160 posted:
Stevee_S posted:
Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Black Coffee
(26th January)
Another one released today and getting a first listen via Tidal.
I've got my fingers crossed for this one...
I don't think you'll be disappointed it's a belter IMHO. For some reason I thought it might have been yet another live album from the pair but it's all in studio.
Only half way through my first listen of this. Belter indeed!
Yep it’s an absolute belter, will need to order this one, thanks to Nigel.
Blame Steve, he started it. Listening to this on Tidal is not great, so I am going to have to purchase the CD also.
Great shout Steve.

Seems I have to visit the local record store later today.

Posted on: 27 January 2018 by Richard Morris

Tanto Tempo,

Posted on: 27 January 2018 by audio1946

osprey posted:
nigelb posted:
Gazza posted:
nigelb posted:
Stevee_S posted:
PaulM160 posted:
Stevee_S posted:
Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Black Coffee
(26th January)
Another one released today and getting a first listen via Tidal.
I've got my fingers crossed for this one...
I don't think you'll be disappointed it's a belter IMHO. For some reason I thought it might have been yet another live album from the pair but it's all in studio.
Only half way through my first listen of this. Belter indeed!
Yep it’s an absolute belter, will need to order this one, thanks to Nigel.
Blame Steve, he started it. Listening to this on Tidal is not great, so I am going to have to purchase the CD also.
Great shout Steve.
Seems I have to visit the local record store later today.

joes fine but much better with beth at the mike waiting for the vinyl . beth live is a good listen too

Posted on: 27 January 2018 by PaulM160

audio1946 posted:
osprey posted:
nigelb posted:
Gazza posted:
nigelb posted:
Stevee_S posted:
PaulM160 posted:
Stevee_S posted:
Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Black Coffee
(26th January)
Another one released today and getting a first listen via Tidal.
I've got my fingers crossed for this one...
I don't think you'll be disappointed it's a belter IMHO. For some reason I thought it might have been yet another live album from the pair but it's all in studio.
Only half way through my first listen of this. Belter indeed!
Yep it’s an absolute belter, will need to order this one, thanks to Nigel.
Blame Steve, he started it. Listening to this on Tidal is not great, so I am going to have to purchase the CD also.
Great shout Steve.
Seems I have to visit the local record store later today.
joes fine but much better with beth at the mike waiting for the vinyl . beth live is a good listen too

a big relief after some not great new releases, wow & a belter indeed!!

also joining HH in the new Nils Frahm, via Tidal, rather wonderful

Posted on: 27 January 2018 by Graham Russell

First listen to new downloads

Posted on: 27 January 2018 by Bert Schurink

Another run of this fine album

Posted on: 27 January 2018 by Jeroen20

Keith Jarrett - Handel: Suites for keyboard.

Handel wrote some beautiful suites for keyboard which are played wonderful by Keith Jarrett.

Posted on: 27 January 2018 by Bert Schurink

A fine disc as well...

Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson could be considered an anomaly amongst the ECM roster of piano players. His work over the past decades has been more controlled and, not to be taken as an insult or affront to Stenson's earthy lyricism, less challenging than the works of past and current label-mates such as Paul Bley, Marilyn Crispell, Carla Bley, Keith Jarrett, Craig Taborn, Vijay Iyer, Django Bates, Benedikt Jahnel, or Colin Vance.

Yet Stenson's deceptively beautiful molded organics have been highlights whether they've appeared under his own name as a leader or with the likes of Don Cherry, Charles Lloyd or other more iconoclastic music makers, and Contra la indecision might very well mark the pinnacle of Stenson's romantic style.

With a poppish/Latin lilt, "Cancion contra la indecision" by Cuban singer/songwriter Silvio Rodriquez, gets the trio's first disc in six years underway with a quiet, easy air. Bela Bartok's fragile "Wedding Song from Polinky" is as luxurious a listen as Erik Satie's eternally delicate "Elegie" is a ravishing up-tempo ballad of joy and exclamation; Stenson layering melody upon harmony while his long-standing, emphatic rhythm section of double bassist Anders Jormin sound-shapes drummer Jon Falt's sculpt time to secure Stenson the space needed to regale the listener.

All the music on this rarified disc resounds with a meditative poetry. "Alice," an outstanding composition from Stenson, sounds like it's always been somewhere in the back of your mind. Bassist Jormin's five contributions, especially the dark rumbling to release of "Three Shades of a House," "Stilla," and the haunting "Hemingway Intonations" roll like summer streams, taking you back to the source of inspiration and calm.
Track Listing: Cancion contra la indecision; Doubt Thou The Stars; Wedding Song From Polinky; Three Shades Of a House; Elegie; Cancion y Danza VI; Alice; Oktoberhavet; Kalimba Impressions; Stilla; Hemingway Intonations.

Personnel: Bobo Stenson: piano; Anders Jormin: double bass; Jon Falt: drums.

Posted on: 27 January 2018 by Pcd

George Micheal , Symphonica

Posted on: 27 January 2018 by osprey

Yet there’s no getting away from the fact that St Vincent is a singular rock star: able to continue the thrilling and transgressive glam traditions while also making her music a channel for deep emotional connection. If she needs to engage in a couple of intimidation tactics along the way to do so, then more power to her.

Posted on: 27 January 2018 by GraemeH