What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2017
2017 has arrived today, so time to start this thread afresh.
Last year's thread can be found here;
The Waterboys: Room To Roam. This is a truly superb album, one of my favs in fact and never fails to be uplifting. Highly recommended.
Now concluded for me. It's not bad, but Ramsey Lewis is not my kind of music...
Jean-Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger
The last few walks (today's weather: bright blue skies, not so chilly) have been accompanied by several of Jean-luc's 70s jazz fusion albums (£12 for 5 on Amazon). Today's suited the weather perfectly, bright, bouncy, optimistic.
Simple Minds
Acoustic - 24bit 48kHz Wave
Edward
Bert,
Back in the day (maybe 30-40 years ago) when I was seriously discovering all things musical I believe Alexis Weissenberg was my very first exposure to Rachmaninov's Preludes. At least in a complete album. It was borrowed from the library.
I have not listened to this since those years and have moved on and my Rachmaninov Preludes collection is quite diverse and remains music that I cherish.
I remember being on a road trip in my diesel VW Rabbit probably in 1981/82 and listening to this on a cassette tape during a severe thunderstorm. Some of the Preludes seemed so perfect and emblematic of the powerful storm I was in. It seems funny how one can distinctly remember details like this and today I can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday or where I put my keys. When I am reminded of these things (in the instant after seeing your post) it is like having a vision play out in slow motion like in a movie only better.
Pretty Things - Parachute = Excellent!
A wonderfull album by the Bobo Stenson trio.
A + | WAV
(1990)
Dusty greatly missed, this was billed as a come back album aided and abetted by the Pet Shop Boys with some excellent tracks on it.
Fancy getting a bit proggy after a three-hour meeting with my bank manager
A great 3-CD set from the golden era at Harvest records. Check out this tracklist!
Kevin-W posted:Fancy getting a bit proggy after a three-hour meeting with my bank manager
A great 3-CD set from the golden era at Harvest records. Check out this tracklist!
Without reverting totally to Old Codgerism...Harvest were one of a select few labels whereby you knew you'd have to listen to whatever they released because it'd be something special. Like Elektra up to the point they started releasing Bread albums, Dandelion (briefly).
Makes me come over all dewy-eyed.
Nearest modern equivalents would be Factory, Zoo, Warp, Tri Angle
This is my favorite Bennie Wallace CD. It's a live recording of a concert in Germany.
There is also another CD of a live recording (I believe also in Germany) that has George Cables on piano. That one is on my wishlist.
On CD:-
Ray Lamontagne - Supernova
On CD:-
Oleta Adams - Circle Of One
Gary Shaw posted:Kevin-W posted:Fancy getting a bit proggy after a three-hour meeting with my bank manager
A great 3-CD set from the golden era at Harvest records. Check out this tracklist!
Without reverting totally to Old Codgerism...Harvest were one of a select few labels whereby you knew you'd have to listen to whatever they released because it'd be something special. Like Elektra up to the point they started releasing Bread albums, Dandelion (briefly).
Makes me come over all dewy-eyed.
Nearest modern equivalents would be Factory, Zoo, Warp, Tri Angle
Every time I see a Harvest album cover it always takes me back to the time when I booked The Edgar Broughton Band for a gig and the Manager asking me how big the stage was. When I told him he said that they had never played on a stage that big.
Big John Patton - Got a Good Thing Goin'. Blue Note CD rip. Patton and Green!
A + | WAV
(2000)
Ewemon,
A special request which of course you are perfectly at liberty to decline.
I have been fascinated watching your 'review of the blues' but there is a huge mass of material to try to sample here and I am not sure where to start. 'The Blues' is also a wide and extremely varied genre. But I wondered at the end of your blues binge, if you might highlight some of the....err.....highlights (artists/albums) for you. I realise this is like asking you if you prefer apples, oranges or pears but it would give us who want to learn more about the blues a starting point.