what was the last cd you bought?
Posted by: AL4N on 13 March 2004
after a suggestion,i have split up the old topic into this one and what was your last vinyl purchase.I hope it makes life easier.
so to get things off and running
queen--the highlander sound track
Posted on: 08 March 2005 by sjust
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Originally posted by Huwge:
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Kozena: Err. She's in every review, now. Left me surprisingly cold. Have to grow on her ?
Try "Love Songs" - she sings in her native Czech and this is the one that convinced me.
This was playing on the in car CD player when I got stopped for speeding in the US - I didn't get a ticket
I will re-try, Huw !
(and keep a copy in the car. Just in case...)
Stefan
Posted on: 08 March 2005 by Squonk
Stefan -
Aldo Romano - don't know what you heard all those years ago that put you off.
Anyway you must try two CD's of his. They are
Non Dimenticar
Canzoni
This is by his Italian quartet or quintet - can't remember which - including one of the best trumpet playets I know, Paolo Fresu (if you do not have any of his CD's I can recommend a few!)
These two CD's are beautiful renditions of Italian Neapolitan songs jazz style - extremely tuneful - makes you want to drink a bottle of Chianti whilst cruising on a gondola in Venice - aahhh....
Adrian
Posted on: 09 March 2005 by sjust
Adrian,
will check Aldo Romano
Gianluigi Trovesi, Gianni Coscia - Round About Weil - Have seen them 2 years ago and was overwhelmed by their poetry. Will see them again, very soon...
post scriptum: "The Ground" (Tord Gustavsen Trio) is marvellous - as expected
Stefan
Posted on: 09 March 2005 by bhazen
Graham Coxon, Happiness In Magazines; just got it today, haven't even slit the shrinkwrap. Will the Britpopper in me like it, I wonder?
Posted on: 12 March 2005 by Squonk
Aldo Romano - Prosodie - good European jazz made in 1995
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Posted on: 12 March 2005 by sjust
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Originally posted by Expat in Oz:
Aldo Romano - Prosodie - good European jazz made in 1995
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Hi Adrian,
I wasn't overwhelmed by the Bright Eyes album - what's YOUR thought ?
Nguyen Le - Walking on the Tiger's Tail - A must, also because there's Paul McCandless in the band
Michel Godard, ... - Trio Rouge - On the traces of Erika Pluhar, Trovesi, etc.
Heinz Sauer, Michael Wollny - Melancholia - Old meets Young meets Old... A German Sax Dyno meets one of the rising stars on German Jazz piano
Richard Galliano - Ruby, My Dear
Paolo Fresu - Plays the music of Roberto Cipelli - to start with, Adrian. Can you recommend other Fresu CDs ?
Posted on: 12 March 2005 by Squonk
Stefan -
Two Paolo Fresus to try are
Melos - my favourite - a beautiful masterpiece
Night on the City - almost as good
Others worth looking at are
Wanderlust
Kind of Porgy and Bess
Metamorfosi
Angel
Bright Eyes is OK but not special. I bought it as I am going to see him suporting REM in a couple of weeks - not really something that will get too many plays out of my collection.
I ordered Nguyen Le - Walking on the Tiger's Tail - waiting for it to arrive
New ECM our soon - Trovesi/Coscia - Round about Weill, Charles Lloyd - Jumping the Creek, Saluzzi/Christensen - Senderos
Adrian
Posted on: 16 March 2005 by Mick P
Chaps
Just bought hits of the Shadows.
Very er Shadowy.
I enjoyed it.
Regards
Mick
Posted on: 16 March 2005 by Geoff P
Buy this
QUEEN LATIFAHI picked it up in the US. It is very good and almost genre less ranging from raunchy jazz to soulfull to light vocal.
GEOFF
Posted on: 17 March 2005 by Mick P
Geoff
I played a couple of tracks and it sounds great.
Placed an order this morning.
Regards
Mick
PS Pity it is not on vinyl.
Posted on: 17 March 2005 by greeny
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Hi Adrian,
I wasn't overwhelmed by the Bright Eyes album - what's YOUR thought ?
I've had this for a couple of months and I've got to admit it didn't really grab me initially (after pretty much the best reviews of any album I've seem this year). However it really is a grower and the melodies seep into your soul after a few weeks (and maybe 6 - 8 listens). This is now one of my favourites of the year.
Posted on: 17 March 2005 by BigH47
Bonus vouchers from work so off to HMV 4 4 £20:-
GP/Grievious Angel - Gram Parsons
Action Packed - Richard Thompson
Drama - Yes
Freedom - Neil Young
Howard
Posted on: 17 March 2005 by sjust
Post scriptum to a CD I had bought last week (sorry, too much messing around with the Cremonas...)
Ralph Towner / Gary Peacock - A Closer View - This CD from 1995 is AWSOME !!! Such a great piece of music making. Double bass and guitar with most involving dialogs. Gosh ! This can suck me in for hours and hours and hours !
Stefan
PS:
Adrian, you probably have this. If you don't: Run !
greeny, thx for the feed back. A case for spinning it in the car, then...
Posted on: 17 March 2005 by rch
Tori Amos - The Beekeeper
Nice although not her best album.
Christian
Posted on: 17 March 2005 by TT
Album - Stereophonics Language, sex, violence, other.
Top band.
Posted on: 17 March 2005 by NB
Pink Floyd Echoes!
Posted on: 17 March 2005 by GML
'Bimbling' by Martha Tilston.
Delightful, refreshing and airy.
Posted on: 18 March 2005 by BigH47
Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles:Live! from an Amazon marketplace seller Caiman. 4 days from Florida. Some UK sellers can't match that.
Howard
Posted on: 19 March 2005 by Squonk
So Frenchy, So Chic - first rate compilation of current sounds fom France - some excellent tracks - the unofficial soundtrack to the Sydney French Film Festival
Josh Rouse - 1972
Yello - Essential
The Waifs - A Brief History
Eskimo Joe - A Song Is A City
Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends Live on Stage - much more enjoyable that I expected - nostalgic
Jack Johnson - On and On - more summery laid back sounds
Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales
All quiet on the jazz front this week....
Stefan - yes I do have the Towner/Peacock you mentioned - have not played it in years so will give it a listen again.
Adrian
Posted on: 19 March 2005 by sjust
Andy Bey - Amercian Song - A self-tribute, nicely arranged (with the help of Geri Allen). A voice full of a life time's history. Respect !
Florian Ross Quintet - home & some other places
Posted on: 19 March 2005 by Squonk
Stefan - you inspired me
Andy Bey - American Song
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Tribute to Lester
Cheers
Adrian
Posted on: 19 March 2005 by mapem
Helene Grimaud playing Chopin and Rachmaninoff sonatas. She plays just wonderful, but the recording is very "round-earth". The piano sound as if it is 10 meters wide. Too much engineering?
Posted on: 21 March 2005 by Not For Me
Earth - In the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword
Maurizio - M-Series
DS
OTD - Meloboy - Hot Love
Posted on: 22 March 2005 by Huwge
A bit of a splurge, which will probably be last for a while now that I have pulled the trigger on a Fraim:
Low - Things we lost in the fire
Mogwai - Government Commissions (something to keep the neighbours on their toes)
Otis Taylor - The Truth is not Fiction (excellent)
This Mortal Coil - It'll end in tears (couldn't find the LP, and the single "Song to the Siren" seems to be on its last legs)
Françoise Hardy - Tant de belle choses (tempted me to smoke a Gauloise and drink some Pastis
)
Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico - Sumiglia (excellent, songs from Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica and much of eastern Europe)
Dino Saluzzi & Jon Christensen - Senderos (up next on the CD player)
Tord Gustavsen Trio - The Ground (deserves the rave comments here)
BVSC presents Manuel Guajiro Mirabal - a nice late night session, a tribute to Arsenio Rodríguez
Hélène Grimaud - Rachmaninov, Chopin piano concertos, etc. (very definitely not just a pretty face!)
Posted on: 23 March 2005 by sjust
quote:
Originally posted by Huwge:
A bit of a splurge, which will probably be last for a while now that I have pulled the trigger on a Fraim:
Low - Things we lost in the fire
Mogwai - Government Commissions (something to keep the neighbours on their toes)
Otis Taylor - The Truth is not Fiction (excellent)
This Mortal Coil - It'll end in tears (couldn't find the LP, and the single "Song to the Siren" seems to be on its last legs)
Françoise Hardy - Tant de belle choses (tempted me to smoke a Gauloise and drink some Pastis
)
Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico - Sumiglia (excellent, songs from Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica and much of eastern Europe)
Dino Saluzzi & Jon Christensen - Senderos (up next on the CD player)
Tord Gustavsen Trio - The Ground (deserves the rave comments here)
BVSC presents Manuel Guajiro Mirabal - a nice late night session, a tribute to Arsenio Rodríguez
Hélène Grimaud - Rachmaninov, Chopin piano concertos, etc. (very definitely not just a pretty face!)
Interesting lot, Huw !
Can you share your experience with Saluzzi/Christensen ? Sounds appealing to me. Can't agree more on Grimaud. My guess is she deserves an anti-mob campaign (look at Amazon.de reviews: There's a battle going on...) . She's both a victim of "hyping" and "mobbing", currently. After I've seen her play live, my verdict is clear: One of the 10ish top players, today.
cheers
Stefan
