What are you listening to right now? And why? (VOL IV)

I know some people don't think of this as proper Yes, but for me it is a better Yes line up than any, until the 'Topographic'/'Going for the One' reformed. Also their last good studio album (in my opinion).

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Originally posted by JamieL:

I know some people don't think of this as proper Yes, but for me it is a better Yes line up than any, until the 'Topographic'/'Going for the One' reformed. Also their last good studio album (in my opinion).

Completely agree. Lol, from Budd's " Lovely Thunder to Drama in one day, it is good to know that there are others out there as sonically confused as myself, great fun though in liking a very wide range of music.

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Originally posted by munch:
Oliver,
What are those pressings like?

These are the two I just recently got as part of the AU20 series of Gold CDs. I wasn't even aware that there were any special editions of FZ on CD. IMHO far better than the original and the best CD version of FZ I've heard.

Does anyone know if there are more of these FZ AU20 titles out there?

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Originally posted by Mat Cork:
On dog eared vinyl...favourite cover of mine.

... and one of my favorite FZs.

One For George...

Great call ewemon. I caught him at the wonderful Bimhuis in Amsterdam a few years ago...I wasn't a big fan, I have been since.

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Originally posted by Mat Cork:
Great call ewemon. I caught him at the wonderful Bimhuis in Amsterdam a few years ago...I wasn't a big fan, I have been since.

To be honest Mat never really heard much of him before I bought this. Great disc.

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Originally posted by munch:
ewemon,
Is it Jazz?

Yeah Stu.

Evening Ragas & Sagas

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Originally posted by matt podniesinski:

God Matt I have been meaning to get this album for ages. I have a copy of The Chief on cd which I think is great. Is this as good?

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Originally posted by ewemon:

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Originally posted by Mat Cork:
Great call ewemon. I caught him at the wonderful Bimhuis in Amsterdam a few years ago...I wasn't a big fan, I have been since.

To be honest Mat never really heard much of him before I bought this. Great disc.

Another gap in my collection.

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Originally posted by munch:

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Originally posted by ewemon:

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Originally posted by munch:
ewemon,
Is it Jazz?

Yeah Stu.

Thought so.
Nice cover = Jazz.
Can you point me to a good drumming Jazz album.
IE were the drummer is at the front of each track?

From Wiki:

Moanin' is a jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, recorded in 1958.

This was Blakey's first album for Blue Note in several years, after a period of recording for a miscellany of labels, and marked both a homecoming and a fresh start. Originally the LP was self-titled, but the instant popularity of the funky opening track "Moanin'" (by pianist Bobby Timmons) led to its becoming known by that title. The rest of the originals are by saxophonist Benny Golson (who wasn't with the Jazz Messengers for very long, this being the only American album on which he is featured). "Are You Real?" is a propulsive thirty-two-bar piece with a four-bar tag, featuring strong two-part writing for Golson and trumpeter Lee Morgan; "Along Came Betty" is a more lyrical, long-lined piece, almost serving as the album's ballad. "The Drum Thunder Suite" is a feature for Blakey, in three movements, or themes: "Drum Thunder"; "Cry a Blue Tear" (with a Latin feel); and "Harlem's Disciples". "Blues March" calls on the feeling of the New Orleans marching bands, and the album finishes on its only standard, an unusually brisk reading of "Come Rain or Come Shine". Of the originals on the album, all but the "Drum Thunder Suite" became staples of the Messengers book, even after Timmons and Golson were gone. The album stands as one of the archetypal hard bop albums of the era, for the intensity of Blakey's drumming and the work of Morgan, Golson and Timmons, and for its combination of old-fashioned gospel and blues influences with a sophisticated modern jazz sensibility.

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