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;
Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs - "God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise" (2010)
Leroy Vinegar - Leroy Walks Again!! CD-rip. Rec. 1962/63 at Contemporary Studios. Nice 'n easy sounding groove.
Paul Simon - "Opus Collection: This Better Be Good" (2009) sixteen track solo career overview, originally released through Starbucks.
Percussion-led jazz fusion(?), the two percussionists are superb, great bass playing, Jan Garbarek's 2 outings are lovely. I haven't played this for at least 10 years, really enjoying it. Listen if you really like percussion and post-bop, if not stay well away.
WAV CD rip. Lovely lyrical playing, well recorded instruments, the tape hiss is easily ignored as the music sings through.
This is one of my all time favourite albums, just brilliant.
This wasn't my favourite Steve Hillage album, but it's just so good on these beautiful sunny days, I had to play it three times!
Norah Jones - "Little Broken Hearts" (2012)
Playing this again this evening. Oh boy! This is a jolly fine album, which I'd recommend to anyone who likes intelligent contemporary female singer songwriters.
Freddie King - Burglar.
A nice slice of blues / funk, with some interesting names among the pickup band.
I liked this album the first time I played it, and on every occasion since I appreciate it more. The penultimate song, A Case of You, is a most beautiful ballad that can give me goosebumps. And then the album concludes with the classic Just The Way You Are on which the sax is wonderful. Highly recommended.
Muddy Waters - Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live.
Continuing the Chicago Blues vibe with this cracking live album from Muddy, with the late great Johhny Winter in attendance.
John Lee Hooker - Don't Turn Me From Your Door.
Slowing things down a little with the master of laid back trance blues ............ nighty night. 
LP - Matador Records 2000 : )
Chan Marshall – vocals, guitar, piano
Matt Sweeney – guitar
| Original artist(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | The Rolling Stones | 3:05 |
| 2. | "Kingsport Town" | Traditional | Bob Dylan | 4:54 |
| 3. | "Troubled Waters" | Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow | Mae West with Duke Ellington's Orchestra | 3:29 |
| 4. | "Naked, If I Want To" | Jerry A. Miller Jr. | Moby Grape | 2:47 |
| 5. | "Sweedeedee" | Michael Hurley | Michael Hurley | 3:53 |
| 6. | "In This Hole" | Chan Marshall | Cat Power | 4:26 |
| 7. | "I Found a Reason" | Lou Reed | The Velvet Underground | 2:00 |
| 8. | "Wild Is the Wind" | Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington | Johnny Mathis | 4:10 |
| 9. | "Red Apples" | Bill Callahan | Smog | 4:24 |
| 10. | "Paths of Victory" | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | 3:24 |
| 11. | "Salty Dog" | Traditional | Papa Charlie Jackson | 2:07 |
| 12. | "Sea of Love" | Philip Baptiste, George Khoury | Phil Phillips | 2:19 |
Recorded 1998/1999 - Album release: 21st March 2000
Mozart Requiem - Insula/Accentus Naïve 44.1/24 flac
A + 3 | WAV
(1990)
Something pleasant to see in the sunrise this morning.
"Although I prefer, on principle, Simon Standage's period instrument recording of Mozart's Violin Concertos (with the Academy of Ancient Music on Decca), I must confess to being very positively impressed by Takako Nishizaki's modern instrument version recorded in 1987 and 1989 (the Adagio and the Rondo) at two locations in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava. Ms Nishizaki, wife of Naxos label owner Klaus Heymann, is an excellent soloist and plays the two concertos with great gusto and delight, although without the sensitivity for historical accuracy that Simon Standage brings with him: Ms Nishizaki's cadenzas, for example, are obviously more in the Fritz Kreisler vein and definitely not within eighteenth-century parameters. The Capella Istropolitana accompanies suitably, and conductor Stephen Gunzenhauser chooses lively tempi that allow the pieces to develop all their original charm. The recordings do suffer from a certain sharpness caused by the echoing acoustics of the empty recording venues, but at budget-price this is still a recording which is able to provide a good deal of listening pleasure. Needless to say, the "Turkish" element in the last section of Violin Concerto No. 5 is given full rein." - Leslie Richford, Amazon
Starting this morning with Murray Perahia playing Bach-Busoni transcriptions, Schubert-Liszt and Mendelssohn's beautiful Songs without words.
During workout, impressive voice, will not be the last listen...
