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

I am a little glum at the moment, so put this on the cheer me up. It's beautifully played and the recording is lovely, with none of that ten foot wide piano effect you sometimes get. Clearly the music has special powers, as the sun's just come out. The album is the third of the series, and is newly released on Hyperion. It probably has the most understated cover possible, quite unusual in a world where young female violinists seem so often to be presented as Vogue covershoots.

Solid 'bob' jazz from the Criss Cross label.

I purchased this many years ago and didn't get on with it at that time, so I thought I'd give it another spin. Just realised that it's certainly not a record to play when the mother-in-law comes to visit!

This is safer and a lot more civilised!

joerand posted:

John Mellencamp. Freedom's Road. On CD from 2007. Johnny Cougar, John Cougar and John Cougar Mellencamp were always well-recorded with great dynamic range. About the time he became John Mellencamp the loudness wars happened and he fell prey. Still the same artist, still well-recorded, still great music, but this album is unfortunately compressed to the hilt. I don't think it was ever set to vinyl.

New album due out within the next few weeks.

Goldfrapp - Silver Eye, on vinyl...

On vinyl... excellent album!!

A + 3 | Tidal

I totally forgot to pre-order this but surprised and delighted to find it available on Tidal...

Hewitt's second Goldberg recording from 2015 on Hyperion...

Signed CD. Arrived today. Pleasingly squelchy synth-fest from the mighty Frapp:

apye! posted:

Goldfrapp - Silver Eye, on vinyl...

Giving it a second play on Tidal and enjoying it a lot.  

Brilliant posted:

Sahib Shihab - Sahib's Jazz Party (aka Conversations) . Rec 1963 at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen. CD rip

Immersed in my first listen of this.  Never come across Shihab before. Jazz flute is just sooo cool :-)

^ This little write up on some other Jazzmen with a few samples might interest you

http://www.npr.org/2008/12/02/...t-it-with-jazz-flute

ToddHarris posted:

Hewitt's second Goldberg recording from 2015 on Hyperion...

Ooh, thank you, I love her 2000 recording, when this Mozart finishes I'll buy the newer performance, thanks again!

First play after >30 years and a spin on the Okki Nokki.

Yusef Lateef - Jazz Mood. Nice  'n easy groove from 1957.

A + 3 | WAV

(1983)

Hard to know what to play after the new Goldfrapp, so going with something from the 'Tops when they were raking in the cash big time. 

Brilliant posted:

^ This little write up on some other Jazzmen with a few samples might interest you

http://www.npr.org/2008/12/02/...t-it-with-jazz-flute

Thanks Brilliant. This is very interesting. I have some of the albums referred to so they will get an airing this evening.. 

A + 3 | WAV

(1990)

Leaping ahead seven years fromEliminator toRecycler. This was five years in the making since Afterburner 1985, possibly because the boys were too busy taking their gas axes to their various Ferraris and converting them into pick ups fit for tooling around in Texas!! 

Original vinyl

Why? I fancied something rocky but different.

steve

Time for another Blue Note classic:

On Cd... playing loudly