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

Now Playing........

Donald Fagen - Morph The Cat

Streaming on TIDAL........ Once you start hanging out with Donald you want the music to continue on, yes, once again, he is sounding mighty sweet!

dave marshall posted:

TK421 posted:

Kylie Minogue - Golden

This is purely in preparation for next Monday at the Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff.

I always enjoy a concert more when I know the majority of tunes. However, I don't do dancing.

 

No point in going, then. 

This is what's worrying me more than SWMBO posting on FB that we are at a Kylie concert.

I can only do DAD dancing and lets be honest it isn't cool. 

dknk posted:

Bentley Caldwell - The Place That I Call Home (2018). I've seen him mentioned on here. First listen. I get it, simply outstanding.

What took you so long 

Their free Demo EP from 2013. Excellent stuff.

Diana Krall - The Girl in the Other Room, this her first album to include original material, co-written with husband Elvis Costello, along with the usual covers.

Another fine album from the man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KpiDi68I4

John Themis Armospheric COnditions.Original pressing : mellow music for a day of contemplation, after scanning for the big C, facing mortality, and seeing others crushed by the same whilst helpless to respond.

Must last album for the evening.

ALANP posted:

Diana Krall - The Girl in the Other Room, this her first album to include original material, co-written with husband Elvis Costello, along with the usual covers.

Nice LP I have the recent Verve vinyl reissue which is pretty decent and very good value for money.

Semiramide didn’t have to be saved from obscurity, as so many other operas issued by Opera Rara, but I’m not complaining - this is easily the best of the three available studio recordings. The old Bonynge had a superb Marilyn Horne and a dramatically inert but wonderfully singing Sutherland but a disappointing supporting cast and several irritating cuts in the score. 25 years later, Cheryl Studer, Jennifer Larmore and Sam Ramey came with an altogether much more succesful and complete recording, only let down by unimaginative conducting (still, a must have).

This new recording is both complete, well conducted, has a pair of leading ladies that do not yield to their famous predecessors in any way, and also has the best orchestra. The male cast is pretty good, too. Having heard Ramey, it’s difficult to hear someone else as Assur, but Mirco Palazzi does well after a somewhat unimpressive opening. Likewise, Banks doesn’t have Lopardo’s ease but compensates with a more beatiful instrument. 

Opera recording of the year, for sure! Listened as hires download and from CD.

cheers

EJ

Now playing.........

Marcin Wasilewski Trio - Live

Marcin Wasilewski  (piano), Slawomir Kurkiewicz  (double bass) and Michal Miskiewicz  (drums).

Streaming on TIDAL..........   arriving home decided to take this new ECM release out for a spin. I believe this had been mentioned a couple of time by BERT SCHURINK and finally got around to putting it in the TIDAL queue. The opening track is sounding extremely nice and the musicians are in synch, smooth and sounding sweet! looking forward to the rest of this album......

Al

Streaming from my NAS.  Love Michael Brecker on the first cut.  Mendoza's orchestrations always intrigue me!

Now playing.........

Alison Balsom - Paris

Streaming on TIDAL..........   taking out Alison for a first time spin and she is sounding lovely!  My granddaughter is thinking about playing the trumpet in school band and thought it would be nice if I expanded my knowledge of female horn players. The two most recent that I have listened to that come to mind are Anat Cohen and Yazz Ahmed but nothing beyond that comes to mind. So if anyone has a favorite female horn musician give me a recommendation.

Found used on Vinyl. Heard this probably hundreds of times. Must say it's MUCH different on the Lp12 then when I heard it on a Sony Direct driven through Carver amps and AR9's... Frankly I'm shocked how much I was missing.

Chunky posted:

Stevee_S posted:

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Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter

Good album this.  The track Remorse Code is probably my favourite Richard Hawley song.

Good shout Chunky.

I've just given this a quick listen on Primemusic and liked it enough to order it on the river. Should be arriving Thursday.

seakayaker posted:

Now playing........

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Streaming on TIDAL..........  Spending some afternoon time with Donald and he is sounding mighty sweet! 

seakayaker posted:

Now Playing........

Donald Fagen - Morph The Cat

Streaming on TIDAL........ Once you start hanging out with Donald you want the music to continue on, yes, once again, he is sounding mighty sweet!

I never thought I'd read that Donald Fagen sounds "mighty sweet"!

seakayaker posted:

Now playing.........

Alison Balsom - Paris

Streaming on TIDAL..........   taking out Alison for a first time spin and she is sounding lovely!  My granddaughter is thinking about playing the trumpet in school band and thought it would be nice if I expanded my knowledge of female horn players. The two most recent that I have listened to that come to mind are Anat Cohen and Yazz Ahmed but nothing beyond that comes to mind. So if anyone has a favorite female horn musician give me a recommendation.

Hi Seakayaker, You might also want to check out 'Tine Thing Helseth'. She plays the trumpet. To my knowledge she only plays classical music. Regards, Jeroen.

Rossini’s Semiramide didn’t really need saving from obscurity, but this new recording is so good, it upgrades the work itself to the status of masterpiece. The opera recording of the year, for sure!

EJ

seakayaker posted:

 So if anyone has a favorite female horn musician give me a recommendation.

My daughter, but she is only 9 and has no serious recordings :-)

I gently pushed her towards French Horn since there is always a place for a good French Horn player, whilst there are loads of trumpet / flute / violin players. My son and I are playing the trombone so we just need to pick one of the many trumpetists to complete a quartet if needed for Christmas.

Let your granddaughter listen to the opening of Bruckner 4.

I look for some recommendations later, but I'm at work now.

@Seakayaker

Laura Jurd - UK Jazz trumpeter making a name for herself

" LAURA JURD trumpet & composition

Laura Jurd is a British award-winning trumpet player, composer and bandleader and BBC New Generation Artist for 2015-2017. Highly active throughout the UK scene, Laura has developed a formidable reputation as one of the most creative young musicians to emerge from the UK in recent years.

Her band Dinosaur,  is one of the most vital and creative new ensembles in the UK today. Described by All About Jazz as a musician who ‘embraces melody, harmony and groove as much as she provokes with blasts of dissonance and gutsy angularity’, it is her ability to combine the sweet with the abrasive, the soothing with the fiery, that makes her music so compelling.

In 2015 Laura received the Parliamentary Jazz Award for ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ and in the past has been shortlisted for a BASCA British Composer Award, received the Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition and the Worshipful Company of Musician’s Young Jazz Musician of the Year award. "

She has several CDs out - with her band 'Dinosaur' and herself

Playing on Compact Disc on Naxos - Delightful sounding Vivaldi to start the working day

Masaaki Suzuki & Bach Collegium Japan - Bach Cantatas BWV 188, 156, 159, 171