What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)

ewemon posted:

nigelb posted:

Ewemon, please please stop. I have to stop listening to the blues and do some work! 

Ok I will take a week off to let you catch up.

Seriously, I much appreciate the time and effort you have taken to highlight some great music. I am loving working my way through the blues.

Cheers N

dave marshall posted:

Hi Nigel, Glad to see you are enjoying your initial trip into the blues, which has been my "thing" since schooldays. What's fascinating is the gradual realisation that much of the other music we listen to has it's roots in the blues. Dave.

Ain't that the truth!

I think I have been listening to a little too much blues!

RIP Peter. 

Joe Turner - Big Joe Rides Again

Absolute belter!

BT   " This Binary Universe "

Just one of those albums that make's  burning your dinner worth it .

1970 - Vinyl - U.K. First (non picture disc) pressing...

My wifes request. Brilliant album

One of his best recordings IMO,

In the mood to play this album.

Gene Harris - The Maybeck Recital Series, Vol 23

Oh my, this is wonderful. Just Gene Harris with a big old grand piano playing some beautiful numbers live with amazing skill in what sounds like a rather intimate venue. The man is a genius.

(Credit Ewemon for this find).

1973 - Vinyl - U.K. First pressing...

Original 1990 UK vinyl. Lush arrangements of pure genius frame the most melancholy, but probably the greatest, pop female voice ever recorded. Gorgeous.

nigelb posted:

Gene Harris - The Maybeck Recital Series, Vol 23

Oh my, this is wonderful. Just Gene Harris with a big old grand piano playing some beautiful numbers live with amazing skill in what sounds like a rather intimate venue. The man is a genius.

(Credit Ewemon for this find).

 

Correction, it was Haim Ronen who recommended this wonderful album.

The rather wonderful Ms Harry and band.  Flac via Audiirvana/Hugo 

Kevin-W posted:

Original 1990 UK vinyl. Lush arrangements of pure genius fram the most melancholy, but probably the greatest, pop female voice ever recorded. Gorgeous.

Couldn't agree more, the greatest female singing voice ever in my view

Easily one of my all time favourite albums and he was a really nice guy to boot. Met him on a Moody Blues tour.

Turn off the lights put your feet open a bottle of wine and sit back and enjoy.

One of those albums I have 3 copies of.

nigelb posted:

nigelb posted:

Gene Harris - The Maybeck Recital Series, Vol 23

Oh my, this is wonderful. Just Gene Harris with a big old grand piano playing some beautiful numbers live with amazing skill in what sounds like a rather intimate venue. The man is a genius.

(Credit Ewemon for this find).

 

Correction, it was Haim Ronen who recommended this wonderful album.

I was wondering as it isn't a Gene Harris album I have in my collection and I don't even have a copy on the terrabytes of music I have on HDD's 

dayjay posted:

Kevin-W posted:

Original 1990 UK vinyl. Lush arrangements of pure genius fram the most melancholy, but probably the greatest, pop female voice ever recorded. Gorgeous.

Couldn't agree more, the greatest female singing voice ever in my view

She's the best DayJay. Her tone is just so pure (and almost devoid of vibrato), and so full of sadness and resignation and a strange uncomprehending longing for something better in the future but which will never come. Just beautiful.

Against those slick, lush arrangements her lovely but bleak voicings stand out even more.

I always think of The Carpenters as a kind of transatlantic Joy Division, but hailing from the upper-middle class suburbs of LA rather than the grimy outposts of 1970s Manchester. Behind those well-tended lawns and neat frontages there is emptiness and despair.

The Carpenters were one of the bleakest of all late 1960s/1970s American acts - perhaps the bleakest.

Yep, added to that my wife's mum passed away several years ago and the Carpenters always remind my wife of their time together when she was young.  Bitter sweet to listen to but such a pure and beautiful voice.  Good songs well arranged too which helps.  Think I'll have a listen next when Debbie has stopped trying to beguile me.

Jeroen20 posted:

Kevin-W posted:

1970s/80s pre-barcode vinyl. Picked at random from the shelf, this 1961 album is a hard-swinging, big-toned collection of covers and standards:

Hi Kevin-W,

Thanks for posting this one. I hadn't heard of Dave Bailey before. I listened to this album on Tidal and I really enjoyed it.

Regards,

Jeroen.

I'd forgotten I even had it myself! One of the downsides of having thousands of LPs. Still, I really enjoyed hearing it after all this time as well - glad you liked it. No idea what happened to Dave Bailey, he was an in-demand drummer in the late 50s, then a bandleader, then disappears from the record (pardon the pun). I think he became a pilot, and from what I understand, he's still alive and is coming up to his 91st birthday.

As prompted by Kevin's earlier post. This coupled with a few bacardis is guaranteed to make you feel pleasantly mellow!  Flac via Audirvana/Hugo.  I'd forgot too how good these recordings are.   Mellower than I thought given how many times I had to edit this post!

All this talk about he blues.... I really wasn't expecting this album to be that good. It's absolute blues at it's finest.