Karl

Karl

Disc 39 from the box set.

Captivating!

Karl

On CD:-

Streets Of New York [CD]

Willie Nile is  like the missing link between Dylan and Springsteen with a side order of Billy Joel, Try it you will not be disappointed promise.

Graham.

Disc 11

Karl

Disc 1

One of my best friends (Jeff Fasano) took the picture for this album cover!

On HDX

A sublime selection of jazz tinged, bass heavy, chilled out songs.

DrMark. It's a fantastic photo. Please tell me more.

Graham

He used to to work for a steamship line in the World Trade Center, but always wanted to be a photographer.  (In fact, the day of the first WTC bombing back in the 90's, his brother Tommy, who works for ABC News, called him because he knew Jeff always carried his camera, and there were no shots from the inside the building.  As bad luck would have it, Jeff hadn't brought his camera that day, and Tommy said "Too bad, we'd have paid $10,000 apiece for stills.")

Anyway, he got fed up with Korporate Amerika (who isn't who is still true to his or herself) and quit, and embarked on his dream.  He freelances and has done a LOT of work with musicians, including album covers for Manuel Barrueco and James Galway.  He has shot James Earl Jones, Pete Townshend, Todd Rundgren, The Avitt Brothers (from Concord, NC) and dozens of other Indie artists.

Google his name plus photography and you will find his site.  Former college roommate and lifelong friend.

Called Jeff after my last post, and got the inside info on this shot:

He had done an entire shoot with Willie Nile, and at the end he got a wild hair and decided to set his shutter speed on 1/30th of a second, and he had Willie just take his guitar & walk up and down in front of this building in NY (which he tells me has now been gentrified and is clean and no graffiti any more.)

The camera was a Mamiya 645 medium format film camera, and in fact this is a color film shot that they printed in B&W.  He used the Mamiya because he said he never could get the hang of the Hasselblad square negative format.

And now you know the rest of the story.

Karl,

Have you gotten to his Tchaikovsky No.1 with Toscanini yet? 

No!

I shall try to do so tonight.

Karl

Symphony No. 6 before work - what a brilliant start to the day!

Karl

Looking forward to seeing Fink, supported by Rae Morris tonight 

Fink - Wheels Tour 2012 Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1WDJhm8R1g

Someone mentioned it on another thread. Hadn't heard it in yonks so I thought I'd give it a spin...

On Original Black!

On CD, but glad I found the vinyl to buy yesterday. New album & tour next year hopefully.

Blimey, this was released in 1991 and still sounds great. Not sure what else was released in that year, but it would had to have been bloody good to sound better than this. My opinion of course

Joe's reinterpretation of Duke Ellington classics. I've never really listened to Duke Ellington but this is a fantastic album and a wonderful recording, like all Mr Jackson's albums. Highly recommended!

I heard this for the first time on a flight from the Far East to the UK.  I had no idea just how good this album is.  Bought the vinyl from amazon as soon as I got home.  

The man's a genius.  How could I have missed this album for so long?