What are you listening to right now? (VOL I)

Herbie Hancock / The Piano

Recorded Direct To Disk and issued as an LP only in Japan in 1978. I am listening to a CD that was introduced in 2004. Excellent piano playing as well as sound.

Haim

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Originally posted by sjust:
Charles Lloyd / Billy Higgins - Which Way Is East
Stunning artifact of the last cooperation of these great musicians before Higgins had to go. Far from being an audiophile recording, but telling SO many stories.

cheers
Stefan

I saw Lloyd and company live in Chicago's Orchestra Hall two years ago. It was very a disappointing performance in a huge hall with a million Watts of amplification. One of the rare occasions where I prefered the disk over the live music.

Regards, Haim

PS
Stefan, how about Moondog and his Sax Pax For Sax. Did you get it, or are you waitng for me to buy it for you?

Hi Haim,
Moondog being back ordered. BTW, I think he

- died only this or last year
- has spent a reasonable amount of his life in Germany

cheers,
Stefan

Fleetwood Mac, The Best of Peter Green's; unbelieveable album.
The Clientele, Strange Geometry
Stealer's Wheel, Ferguslie Park
Half Moon Half Baked, Let's Get Metaphysical* (test pressing)

*this last one is unavailable as yet; it's my guitar-sax-drums trio which sounds like a cross between mid-70's King Crimson and Albert Ayler at his most frazzled. We don't actually even have a proper name yet, the others want to call the band Meth Lab for Hootie.

Suk's Fantastic scherzo, Mackerras/Czech Philharmonic (from Decca's rather good 3 disc 'birthday' release).

regards, Tam

DiMeola / McLaughlin / DeLucia - Friday Night In San Francisco
Old chestnut, I know, but - hey - can't spend all day mumbling about strange behaviour with (ultra) low volumes without giving it a nice blast when I come home. And, Yipeeh ! WHAT a blast !

cheerio
Stefan

Ali Farke Toure & Toumani Diabate. Excellent album, one of my faves this year.

Nigel

Manu Dibango - Gone Clear. It's that kind of evening!

Nic

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk, earlier Tracy Chapman followed by Aretha but Monk wins hands down - how can Tracy and Aretha compete with a bass player called Spanky DeBrest?

So it will be Moanin' next Huwge?

Nic

And now Zakir Hussain's Making Music on ECM. A very fine record has emerged after a few listenings. Some lovely sax by Jan Garbarek.

Nigel

Nic,

next on the shelf but not on the TT

it will be Thelonious Himself and then bed

Huw

Maria Muldaur - Waitress in a Donut Shop and Richland Woman Blues, both on vinyl.

Recordings separated by 27 years but both great in their own way.

Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt2 Scenes from a memory.

Finally unloaded from the cars multi CD player and given another spin on a proper sistem.

Sounds fantastic!

Spock

Bobo Stenson / Goodbye

Haim

Das Rheingold/Solti/VPO

regards, Tam

Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat major & No 8 in B minor Wiener Philharmoniker Sir George Solti. This stuff is good. The converts are the worst!

Nic

Dear Nic,

There is no more magical 'start' to a symphony than that of Schubert Five, and it keeps is the same glorious vien! I am listening to some Bach, but don't ask, as I am mad enough to listen to the same thing twice in two days...

Fredrik

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Originally posted by hungryhalibut:
Ali Farke Toure & Toumani Diabate. Excellent album, one of my faves this year.

Nigel

Nigel,

Kind of hypnotic music. For some reasons I enjoy more hearing this music while driving the car than at home. Perhaps it is because I have a very small car and the nearfield listening is a bit more invoving.

Haim

Fredrik,

Moved onto one on my wife's few cd's Tchaikovsky Swan Lake conducted by Efrum Kurtz with Yehudi Menuhin on solo duties. Getting sucked into this stuff, it is just like joining the moonies.

Regards

Nic

But harmless though! Unlike the Moonies!! Fredrik

Fredrik,

Do I take it that Swan Lake is harmless, but lightweight (in the scheme of things), unlike the moonies who are clearly in need of a good night out as they say up north?

Regards

Nic.

I really meant, "Music," in all her forms! Including classical, which I happen to love the best, and I think is often mis-understood, and want to help people 'get.' Swan Lake is GREAT!

Enjoy!!! all the best from Fredrik.

PS. I have been to Newcastle many times to catch the ship to Norway, but that is from Tyneside really. Do you remember Fred Olsen Lines? I love seeing the coast disappear over the horizon. Last time I came back, we went through a good storm and low cloud, and we were so close to land that it could only have been a mile off when we came into bright glorious sunshine. The simplest pleasures are the best aren't they? And music IS a simple pleasure, though, for me, one without which life would be intolerable...

Fredrik,

Beautifully put. Not that I would expect anything else from you. If you are ever heading to Norway and need a place to stay, there are always a few rooms spare in our humble abode. Better get to bed as doing the school run tomorrow!

Just chilling down with a little old vinyl

Duke Jordan Trio - Two loves. Mads Vinding on bass, Ed Thigpen on drums.

Nic

Dear Nic, and Friends,

The Italian Concerto of old Bach. More Bach? Helmut Walcha playing a splendid harpsichord. Such grand music making!

Fredrik