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

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Originally posted by HR:


Bill Evans / Alone / Verve

Recorded in New York in 1968, remastered in 2002. Some of the best solo piano one can listen to.

Haim

Haim

Picked this up today following your recommendation. First listen suggests that this is a mighty fine record. Thanks.

Nic

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Originally posted by nicnaim:
[Haim

Picked this up today following your recommendation. First listen suggests that this is a mighty fine record. Thanks.

Nic

Hi Nic,

I am glad you enjoy Evans. He is one of a very few musicians whom I could listen to forever. He never bores me, and I am always left with the notion that beyond the mechanics of playing the instrument with his fingers, his mind is in a constant search for new ideas and his heart is wandering into unexplored moods.
Two other albums of his that I cherish dearly are sixteen years a part.
In 1963, after the death Scot LaFaro (the bass player of his trio) Evans recorded 'Conversation With Myself', where he played all three parts of the trio on his piano, and the music was dubbed later together.
'The Paris Concert' was recorded in 1979 by Radio France. Bill Evans plays with Marc Johnson on bass and Joe LaBarbera on dums.

Regards,

Haim

Gleda / Songs From Scandinavia / Stunt Records

Stefano Bollani, piano
Jesper Bodilsen,bass
Morten Lund, drums

Stefan,

Thanks again. The CDs I ordered from your site in Germany arrived today, within a week, which is excellent. Last time I ordered directly from ECM, it took over five weeks to get them.
I am very GLAD to have goten GLEDA.

Regards,

Haim

Haim

I love Bill Evans but have only one of his records - the wonderful 'Everybody Digs........'

I've ordered the Paris Concert and Alone - the latter is a crazy £3.44 via Amazon marketplace. I'm pleased to see that the Paris Concert has Marc Johnson on bass. I'd never heard of him till a couple of months ago when I bought his 'Shades of Jade' after a recommendation here - from Stefan I think. It turned out to be one of my very favourite records of last year.

Nigel

Earlier:
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage. Pretty lousy mastering of this Zappa masterpiece. Sonically, a bit of a torture, but muscically full of funny ideas, quotes, irony, etc.

Oh, my youth, where has it gone...

One of the rare moments when I play it loud. Had to transform all this testosteron I had gathered test driving cars all day...

cheers
Stefan

Both bits of the Paris concert are worth having. However, for my money, the finest bit of Bill Evans on disc is the Village Vanguard sessions (I think from 63 or 61, can't remember exactly) but the two albums are Waltz for Debbie and Sunday at the Village Vanguard.


regards, Tam

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Originally posted by HR:


Gleda / Songs From Scandinavia / Stunt Records

Stefano Bollani, piano
Jesper Bodilsen,bass
Morten Lund, drums

Stefan,

Thanks again. The CDs I ordered from your site in Germany arrived today, within a week, which is excellent. Last time I ordered directly from ECM, it took over five weeks to get them.
I am very GLAD to have goten GLEDA.

Regards,

Haim

Happy you like it, Haim, So do I !

cheers
Stefan

Currently: Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band - Reincarnation of a love bird.
Not yet as esoteric as the recent stuff Motian produces (though nice...). Lots of swing, great guitar support by Thorsten Rosenwinkel and Wolfgang Muthspiel. Another great Winter & Winter remaster. What could I want more ?

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Originally posted by hungryhalibut:
I'm pleased to see that the Paris Concert has Marc Johnson on bass. I'd never heard of him till a couple of months ago when I bought his 'Shades of Jade' after a recommendation here - from Stefan I think. It turned out to be one of my very favourite records of last year.

Nigel

It was me - glad you liked it.

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It was me - glad you liked it

Thanks - it's so nice to get help to find a way through all the stuff that's available.

Seeing Stefan refer to Paul Motian above, another ECM I have been enjoying is his 'I Have The Room Above Her' with Joe Lovano and Bill Frissell. I bit dull on first listening, but really excellent on further acquaintance. Good records are often like that, I find.

Nigel

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Originally posted by hungryhalibut:



I've ordered the Paris Concert and Alone - the latter is a crazy £3.44 via Amazon marketplace.
Nigel

Bloody hell, paid £10.99 in Virgin!!!

Thanks for the other pointers, the Bill Evans section of the collection will be getting bigger.

Regards

Nic

'neath your covers by the Cowboy Junkies, a nice freebie.


Now in the mood for some Townes on vinyl

Pixies - Trompe Le Monde

followed by

well it's getting later

I've just listened to my first ever CD album, Michael Jackson - Bad, that i bought over 20 years ago. And it is the first time in over 20 years that it is reproduced a satisfactory way (without being too edgy), thanks to my new Naim CD5i.

Bye.

"You Can't Take My Blues" Doug MacLeod on JVC xrcd. Wonderful acoustic blues

A favourite British bubble gum pop group.
Still fresh sounding to me.
Love the cover art by the Hipgnosis, too.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by hungryhalibut:
Haim

I love Bill Evans but have only one of his records - the wonderful 'Everybody Digs........'

Nigel,

I have around twenty of his albums. The other three that he recorded with LaFaro are excellent too (Portrait in Jazz, Waltz for Debbie and Sunday at The Village Vanguard'). I also listen a lot to 'The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album' which is a great work of voice and piano recorded in 1975.

Regards,

Haim

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Originally posted by Tam:
However, for my money, the finest bit of Bill Evans on disc is the Village Vanguard sessions (I think from 63 or 61, can't remember exactly) but the two albums are Waltz for Debbie and Sunday at the Village Vanguard.


regards, Tam

Tam,

Out of the four LaFaro recordings I prefere this one by far.

Regards,

Haim

Naoko Terai: 'Pure Moment'
A Japanese jazz violinist.
Mostly cover. But the title track 'pure moment' is a pretty good original score.
I've discovered it at the 47Lab room at the Osaka Hi-Fi show few years back.

The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler, private Investigations A great collection!

P.S. I agree with any Bill Evans. This is one of my favorites and I think it answers the question of "Who wrote Blue in Green?"

Anthony

Ernest Bloch - Israel Symphony - Suite for viola and orchestra - Dalia Atlas

Ella and Louis - Verve records 1957 on cd

Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 - excellent.

As Keith Jarrett says in the liner notes - "Miles playing is so strong here that if it doesn't knock your socks off, you aren't wearing any".

Great band including Keith Jarrett on Fender Rhodes, Jack de Johnette, Airto Moreira, gary Bartz and John Mclaughlin

EM:T - 2295 - Pinnacle records