What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIV)

Chunky posted:

Christopher_M posted:

Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger

My favourite apart from Gold.

Have I already got the best two? Or do I need to sweat it?

C.

I've got most of his albums and all have their merits (although I'm not a fan of Rock n' Roll from 2003).  He puts so much stuff out, he can be a bit inconsistent, but if you like Easy Tiger and Gold, I think you'll enjoy most of his other albums.

Thanks Chunky. I have 29, Ryan Adams and Ashes and Fire too, so seems I can rest easy.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand, 180gm vinyl 2nd issue

New purchase, 1st spin. The album is great, two wonderful singers complementing each other superbly, in a varied set of excellent numbers with a top-rank band. Impressive SQ from this pressing.

Steely Dan, Greatest Hits 72-78, On Vinyl. It’s been well documented elsewhere (and recently by Richard Dane on this forum) that this greatest hits has great sound quality. Amen to that. Side1has always been special to me as it consists of maybe my 4 fave Dan tracks: Do it Again, Reelin in the Years, My Old School and Bhodisattva. This evening was the first  time I’ve played it on Vinyl in a quarter of a Century. The guitar parts on My Old School were revelatory, the squeally natural and finger harmonics are just superb and the mental picture of the guitarist (Jeff Baxter?) playing it in front of me was quite a trip! Superb. 

james n posted:

An album that's been in my collection for a while but has never been played much up until now. I started listening to this earlier and it's actually rather lovely. Bonnie has a beautiful voice and this is a gorgeous recording. I noticed the HR symbol lit on my 1Z and it's a 24/96 version of a Ken Christianson True Stereo recording from the Naim label. 

Bonnie Koloc - Visual Voice

Recorded at a small chapel with great acoustics at Lake Forest Illinois, the place we go for Sunday afternoons classical chamber music concerts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzmIN8FuxDw

Count Basie and his Orchestra - April in Paris, " one more,once" 

Vinyl released 1975 - The Crusaders are on top form on this album. Some excellent licks from Larry Carlton. Great album ????

• Drums, Percussion – "Stix" Hooper
• Guitar – Larry Carlton
• Keyboards, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Clavinet, Synthesizer – Joe Sample
• Saxophone, Bass – Wilton Felder

Now Playing.........

Paul Simon - In the Blue Light

Streaming on TIDAL...........  Let me repeat myself.......  taking Paul's new album out for a spin.......  it is always nice to see & hear folks that I listened to in the 60's  still releasing albums decades later!  and it is nice to still be around listening...... 

Graham Russell posted:

Smoooooth

Surgically so: what an operator!

Today: 

Muse: Resistance a superbly clean recording and now with added detail thanks to recent upgrades.

Duran Duran: All you need is now: growing on me as I lately understand the imherent allegory.

Preparation for the night: Allegri Miserere, now with identifiably separate voices ( Tallis Scholars, Peter Philips, CFP, 1980, original vinyl from mes jours du salade en ecosse.

Followed that up with another - I think this album doesn't get near enough credit for how good it is.

Not so exited as his earlier album, a bit more of the same...

Didn’t know him years ago, but got to know him through thevrecordings of piano concertos with Karajan. Good interpretation.

Classy, swinging, hard bop.

ted_p posted:

Paul Weller

True Meanings (Deluxe Edition) - CD Rip

The Soul Searchers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfg-VWlopq8

 

Movin’ On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOvUCSH0mKo

 

Aspects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQD3LJhwDt0

Edward

Really looking forward to getting my vinyl version of True Meanings which according to amazon  will arrive on Friday. If the first three tracks that have been released on you tube over the past couple of months are anything to go by we are in for a treat.

I'm really hoping that people will take the blinkers off and give his latest offering a try because if a British song writer is still striving to write new and relevant material after 40 years instead of clambering up on stage and playing the same old stuff then he should be celebrated. 

Vinyl released 1986 - Carlton’s acoustic album, no electric guitars, just a fine album of acoustic jazz. Great stuff ????

Larry Carlton – guitar, bass, keyboards, arrangements
Abraham Laboriel, Sr. – bass
Terry Trotter – synthesizer, keyboards
Rick Marotta – drums
Michael Fisher – percussion

This is an excellent recital album, with the Busoni a fine contrast between the Bach and Beethoven. 

Playing on Compact Disc on Naxos - Nice Cello Vivaldi Concertos - This has become a real grower this Compact Disc

Bob the Builder posted:

ted_p posted:

Paul Weller

True Meanings (Deluxe Edition) - CD Rip

The Soul Searchers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfg-VWlopq8

 

Movin’ On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOvUCSH0mKo

 

Aspects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQD3LJhwDt0

Edward

Really looking forward to getting my vinyl version of True Meanings which according to amazon  will arrive on Friday. If the first three tracks that have been released on you tube over the past couple of months are anything to go by we are in for a treat.

I'm really hoping that people will take the blinkers off and give his latest offering a try because if a British song writer is still striving to write new and relevant material after 40 years instead of clambering up on stage and playing the same old stuff then he should be celebrated. 

Couldn’t agree more, I was in a second hand music shop yesterday buying some CDs, when I went up to the till to pay and there on the shelf was Paula’s new album, they had just got a delivery, being a huge Paul Weller fan I had to buy it.

Had my first listen last night and  IMHO it is brilliant, I will not be surprised if after a few more listens it becomes my album if the year. 

You can hear shades of “The “Style Council”,  “The Jam” and Paul solo work.

Edward

Vivaldi. What a good idea. 

Paul Weller

Paul Weller [Deluxe Edition] -  CD Rip

Edward

Pascal Roge - Poulenc: piano music vol. 2

Bob the Builder posted:

al9315 posted:

LP - Very lucky to have discovered Miles all these years ago - keep coming back to him

Listening to this & shortly after treated to 'In A Silent Way' !

I guess you already have heard 'Circle in the Round' from the same period but if not then you are in for a treat I heard it a couple of nights ago and it blew me away .  On the LP of the same name or on the 'Complete Quintet Recordings' I think it's called

Coincidentally also listening to 'Filles' quite a bit recently, spurred by the recent purchase of the MFSL 45 rpm double LP - which is fantastic by the way - although the standard CD is also very fine. Mademoiselle Mabry has been infectious as I just can't seem to get the tune out of my head - written apparently as an homage to Jimi Hendrix (The Wind Cries Mary). You will easily spot it when you hear it. The LP liner notes state that the writer initially perceived this LP as a concerto for drums and you can see why , Tony Williams absolutely nails it with some of the most inventive playing imaginable - he hits them soft, hard; fast, slow; rhythmically, off kilter - amazing stuff. The rest of the band ain't bad either 

Prompted by some recent posts above, time to dig out the debut by Miles' 'Second Great Quintet'. On bog standard early 80s vinyl.