What are you listening to? (Vol VII)

Happy Easter, everyone

Cheers,

EJ

Originally Posted by KeanoKing:

         

Well what do you think of it KK?


Wasn't for me.

I really like it.  I don't have anything like this in my collection.  Will ceratinly be checking out more.

atb

kk

should wake up the neighbors

next up

On CD:-

Easily in my top 10. But which is better? The Colour of Spring, Spirit of Eden or Laughing Stock? Worms and Can!

Stephen Stubbs ... has put together a risky but irresistible project of a kind that has lately become standard operating procedure at ECM. Instead of a traditional early-music program Mr. Stubbs and his period-instrument chamber band, Teatro Lirico, offer an extended fantasy built on musical free association. … Though the program is essentially Italian, it ends with dances from a 17th-century Slovak manuscript and a guitar piece by Mr. Stubbs. … Amid all this, Mr. Stubbs and company offer two imaginative deftly played improvisations on “Folias d’Espagnas”, a chord progression on which many Baroque works are built… But the improvisatory spirit is not confined to these: the players take every opportunity to embellish the formal works as well. … The playing is tight and shapely. In the improvised pieces, the musicians work together with the unity of purpose a listener expects of a good jazz ensemble.
Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

On CD:-

Miles Davis (1926-1991)

Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud

Miles Davis trumpet

Barney Wilen tenor sax

Rene Urtreger piano

Pierre Michelot bass

Kenny Clarke drums

Paris, 4th & 5th December 1957

[AAD]  polygram jazz © 1988

fontana CD © 2004

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So intreagued was i with this film soundtrack...

i also purchased the film on dvd, which i watched last night : )

Debs

p.s. They don't make em like they used to ...shame really

Symphony No4 

Cheers

Flettster

About Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud: I once read a review on allmusic that stated "only for completists" and therefore never really considered getting this album. Years later a friend put it on his record player and I went out and bought it the next day (Speaker's Corner vinyl reissue). A fabulous recording, stark, but at the same time purposeful and languid.

Presumably, all current editions are complete session recordings and, like mine, have lots of alternative and incomplete takes. You often hear Davis whistling to signal to the other players to cut the take short! 

Cheers

Flettster