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:
Now Playing........
John Abercrombie - Open Land
John Abercrombie (guitar), Mark Feldman (violin), Kenny Wheeler (trumpet, flugelhorn), Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone), Dan Wall (organ) and Adam Nussbaum (drums).
Streaming on NAS........... Purchased awhile back and taking out for another spin, this is one enjoyable album and love the interplay between the musician/instruments. Mark with the violin on the second track 'Open Land' is fantastic with the interplay with Adam on Drums is catching my attention at the moment....... I need to settle back and let this wash over me.....
Just got some time. I have 12 items on my download list. Just downloaded from HD Track. Sounds nice.
Bailyhill
Now Playing.............
Boz Scaggs - Come on Home
Streaming on NAS.......... CD in the mail box when I arrive home, ripped to NAS and now taking out for a spin. Boz is sounding mighty sweet with these blues songs!
Now playing.........
Boz Scaggs - Out Of The Blues
Streaming on NAS......... sticking with Boz and the Blues! Sounding sweet!
David Gilmour. Rattle That Lock. On vinyl from 2015. An album that continues to impress me more with each listen. A classic AFAIC. Makes me want for a new Gilmour album.
seakayaker posted:Now playing.........
Boz Scaggs - Out Of The Blues
Streaming on NAS......... sticking with Boz and the Blues! Sounding sweet!
If you haven't already try the Mike Farris album and the Johnny Rawls sets I posted a day or so back. You might like them both.
Listened to the just released Led Zeppelin...
One of my favourite Hilliard albums.
Freddy Kempf - Bach partitas 4 & 6
Excellent performance of the Partitas by Freddy Kempf.
I shall be going to the RAH to see Camel on Monday, where they'll be performing the whole of Moonmadness plus dome other favourites, so I started the day with this album, Nude, which I don't know as well as the others. It still has the Camel flavour of long extended solos of a progressive nature. Some people claim to be able to hear Jazz in Camel, though I don't hear that myself.
Now following Camel with Caravan. Currently playing the 'For Girls Who Grew Plump' disc from this set and right now enjoying 'For Richard', which has long been a favourite Caravan song for me.
Clive B posted:
I shall be going to the RAH to see Camel on Monday, where they'll be performing the whole of Moonmadness plus dome other favourites, so I started the day with this album, Nude, which I don't know as well as the others. It still has the Camel flavour of long extended solos of a progressive nature. Some people claim to be able to hear Jazz in Camel, though I don't hear that myself.
My favourite is Rajaz by Camel...anyway lucky old you seeing them at RAH.
I really enjoyed my little session od mid/late 60s Miles on vinyl, so I thought I would continue with this transitional work from 1968. On 1980s vinyl.
Mojo magazine CD of old guys singing Stones songs. The album is called Uncovered. Eddie Cochrane, Twenty Flight Rock; Chuck Berry, Around and Around; Muddy Waters, Mannish Boy etc.
Hang on, they're songs the Stones have covered 
More Miles, working backwards from Filles... on 1980s vinyl:
Purchased these 2 for 20p from Help The Aged charity shop in Crosby this morning whilst killing an hour waiting for my daughters car to be serviced. Two fine albums. ????
1967 - Vinyl - US pressing...
Kevin-W posted:More Miles, working backwards from Filles... on 1980s vinyl:
Why not move forward in time? Just sidestep In a Silent Way and you'd arrive at this milestone, now playing in this part of Wiltshire:
sjbabbey posted:
Quintessential Van the Man. No reasons needed for playing this one.
One of my favourite Van the Man albums containing one of my favourite songs of his "Stepping out queen".
Still travelling back... recorded late '67, released early 1968, another 1980s vinyl album.
Clive B posted:Why not move forward in time? Just sidestep In a Silent Way and you'd arrive at this milestone, now playing in this part of Wiltshire:
No way would I sidestep In A Slient Way... it's far superior to Bitches Brew, being less bombastic and wasteful (I think IASW has aged better than BB too).
For me BB is a transitional (albeit hugely popular) step between the oceanic washes of IASW and the more radical 1970s experiments with tape cuts, loops and open-ended improvisation that one finds on albums like Agharta, Dark Magus, Jack Johnson and On The Corner.