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

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Originally posted by Lontano:
On ECM - I just keep playing the title track over and over and over again - have been doing that all week. It must be what music sounds like in heaven. So beautiful.

ECM 2021

That first track is a short cut to musical heaven.

Adrian,
could you pls give me the best new ECM releases of the last 6-8 months, I've fallen a little behind.
Cheers ... Oliver

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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:

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Originally posted by ewemon:

I never get tired of the Blue Note cover art. Got two books on it.

Blue Note and ECM covers for me- wonderful pics.

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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:

Adrian,
could you pls give me the best new ECM releases of the last 6-8 months, I've fallen a little behind.
Cheers ... Oliver

You've been missing our little trips to Title then. Will be open in a couple of hours....

Enrico Rava - New York Days
Keith Jarrett Trio - Yesterdays
Arve Henriksen - Cartography (awesome)
John Holloway - Leclair Sonatas
Julia Hulsmann Trio - End of a Summer
Bobo Stenson - Cantando
Vassilis Tsabropoulos,Anja Lechner,U.T. Ghandi - Melos
Mathias Eick - The Door (not sure if we bought that one when I was last there)

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Originally posted by munch:

I TOLD HIM YOU PLAY LOUD.

Like to keep the neighbours on their toes. Mellowing a little more now in my older age.

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Originally posted by ewemon:

Blue Note and ECM covers for me- wonderful pics.

ECM cover art is a major part of what I love about the label. Just some of the best cover art going.

There are two superb books - Sleeves of Desire (ebay only job these days) and Horizons Touched - the Music of ECM by Steve Lake that are great to look at and admire the covers. A new book is coming out later in the year that will focus on the recent ECM covers as well.

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Originally posted by munch:
I TOLD HIM YOU PLAY LOUD.

You've not been round to Smiley Miles house then. Now that is what I call LOUD

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Originally posted by Lontano:
You've been missing our little trips to Title then. Will be open in a couple of hours....

I do indeed, just what I was looking for. Today is family day but I might swing by next week during lunch time.

Many thks ... Oliver

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Originally posted by munch:
He has to play loud ,Its that Valve stuff

... and you should listen to my new valves, Russian military grade, sound amazing.
If I could just get my hands on some NOS RCAs from the 50s - I'm chasing them for years now.

What you transistor guys don't get, I just switch a pair of valves and have a brand new system, you want a little more bass - no problem, more definition in the mid range - no problem.

On ECM - Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays - the classic As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls.


ECM 1190

A fantastic collection of jazz/swing covers from JJ & Co.

Probably the best version of Let It Roll, but I'm happy to be corrected

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Originally posted by Lontano:
On ECM - Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays - the classic As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls.


ECM 1190

I haven't listened to this one in a while, this might very well have been my first ECM, before I even recognized ECM as a label.

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Originally posted by MilesSmiles: before I even recognized ECM as a label.

Ah that day when I took you down to Title and maxed out your Amex card for you on ECM's.

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by MilesSmiles: before I even recognized ECM as a label.

Ah that day when I took you down to Title and maxed out your Amex card for you on ECM's.

Those were the days - most kids only knew the word 'recession' from their history books.

Disc 1

Over The Rhine "Drunkard's Prayer"



wooden screen door flapping in the wind, 3 people at the tables in the roadside tavern, tall glasses of lemonade sweating from the mixture of cold liquid and hot humid air, swivel fan making a racket in the corner, the mournful sound of the pedal steel, and at the upright, a beautiful woman with a voice from heaven.

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Originally posted by ewemon:

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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:

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Originally posted by ewemon:

I never get tired of the Blue Note cover art. Got two books on it.

Blue Note and ECM covers for me- wonderful pics.

I like the Blue Note covers as well ..There's a cafe' in Newcastle which has loads of old jazz album covers on the walls inc some Blue Note ones .....me cappucino went cold whilst I was looking at them all!

Hello Munchie,
my phone number is in your InBox, give us a call now...

nymph

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Originally posted by Analogue:
I have this on vinyl, i beleive it to be an American import - it has a square clipped out of the cover?
Must agree the drumming is excellent.

Chris,

Clipped corners, puch hole or sometimes just a slash, simply mean that it was an overstock item. ( mine has a vertical slash )

IIRC, there was a tax advantage for record retailers to do so on unsold inventories.

The Spy was my last Carly Simon record I bought and didn't think it was that good back then.
I bought it at the Rose Record in 1980 for 3.99$ and have never dreamt of buying the same record years later for 2.99$.