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;
Rediscovering Way Out West in 24/192, downloaded this time from Qobuz and not from HDtracks.
Rollins' play on the left side is just like his sound and take, impeccable. The response given on the right by these West-Coasters of Brown and Manne to the New-Yorker allows for a quite a wonderful groove. Listen to that dance on the tune of the same title. Delicious! 
Chag -
Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons
The Fog Of War live video originally posted by Jeff Anderson (from the album By The Time Your Rocket Gets To Mars), that I circle back to because it's a great song but also because it has one of my all-time favourite guitar solos in it. Not just technically superb (it's no fretwank) it's an example of a man letting his spirit flow through his guitar strings.
For those new to it, trust me (and Jeff) that it won't be 20 minutes of your life wasted 
One of the two works for which composer Gavin Bryars is best known (the other being "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet"), his epochal "The Sinking of the Titanic" had been recorded three times in the 25 years since its creation. The composition is an attempt to metaphorically replicate the disaster of 1912 utilizing various elements associated with it, including the songs and hymns reported played on board that evening both before the iceberg was struck and as the ship was sinking. It's structured as an "open" piece, in that material subsequently uncovered may be added and information that becomes discredited may be discarded. The overall mood is, befittingly, sub-aqueous with long sustained tones on the strings, bass clarinet, and horn written to give the impression of sounds traveling great distances beneath the sea. This album was recorded in a large, abandoned water tower that adds enormously to its reverberative nature. (AllMusic)
Fascinating and highly recommended:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5poV0gwd_u8
Ancient thick as a plate Atlantic vinyl
Why? One of my favourite jazz albums. Also one of the only good things the weasel who stole my second wife did was to introduce me to this and Miles KOB.
steve
Paul Rodgers - The Royal Sessions.
Great album of soul covers, recorded in Memphis with a solid band behind him.
dave marshall posted:
Paul Rodgers - The Royal Sessions.
Great album of soul covers, recorded in Memphis with a solid band behind him.
One of my reference slabs of vinyl :-)
A truly superb rendition of the Goyescas and other works by Granados. Most of these works are tuneful, small in scope and amplitude and somewhat melancholic in mood. On FLAC disc.
Cheers
EJ
patk posted:More first listens. Both are very enjoyable. I have enjoyed going through the last month or so and reading all the blues posts here. Very educational and just great music.
Magic Sam Blues Band - West Side Soul
(2011) CD Recorded July 12 and Oct 25, 1967.
Now: Otis Spann IS The Blues
(1989) CD originally released 1960.
I too have had an educational and enjoyable blues month (thanks ewe and others) and that Otis Spann album is insanely good IMO.
nigelb posted:patk posted:More first listens. Both are very enjoyable. I have enjoyed going through the last month or so and reading all the blues posts here. Very educational and just great music.
Now: Otis Spann IS The Blues
I too have had an educational and enjoyable blues month (thanks ewe and others) and that Otis Spann album is insanely good IMO.
Hi Nigel,
As one of the blues fans on here, how come I managed to miss this one?
Now rectified courtesy of Tidal ........... good shout!
EJS posted:
A truly superb rendition of the Goyescas and other works by Granados. Most of these works are tuneful, small in scope and amplitude and somewhat melancholic in mood. On FLAC disc.
Cheers
EJ
I enjoy a lot Michel Block's performance of these works:
Some Little Feat to start the evening session
Terry Reid - Seed of Memory.
Smashing album from one of UK's sadly under appreciated soul voices.
Back to back, Chopin's preludes performed by Maurizio Pollini, close to 60 years apart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BczgDb9-ctQ
dave marshall posted:nigelb posted:patk posted:More first listens. Both are very enjoyable. I have enjoyed going through the last month or so and reading all the blues posts here. Very educational and just great music.
Now: Otis Spann IS The Blues
I too have had an educational and enjoyable blues month (thanks ewe and others) and that Otis Spann album is insanely good IMO.
Hi Nigel,
As one of the blues fans on here, how come I managed to miss this one?
Now rectified courtesy of Tidal ........... good shout!
No problem Dave. Any time you need a blues recommendation, just come to to me. I am now officially the newest, and most incompetent blues aficionado on the forum. 
Seriously, having had a look around on Tidal inspired by so many recommendations, I realise I haven't even scratched the surface of this wonderful genre that has a number of distinct categories within it which often merge or cross over. This thread has been a wonderful introduction to the blues and I already have some favourite artists, Otis Spann being one.
It makes you realise that we can so often spend too much time and money on improving our systems at the expense of time listening to and exploring music which surely is the point of having a decent system in the first place. Weird.
Not a fan of the man but i do like (most of) his music. This is a fine album and his duet with Becky Unthank on 'So to speak' is rather beautiful.
Sting - The Last Ship
A kind of after dinner after the concert ...
Very Cool Late Night Album . 24 Bit from Qobuz .
Kim Wilsons Blue Sessions mix.
