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;
Spoon Records 2-LP reissue from about 1981. Simply one of the best records ever made:
Water Lily SACD...great series!
ewemon posted:
Marcus Malone - A Better Man.
His best album yet. Whap the volume up and annoy the neighbours.
One for you Dave.
Oh yes ............. good shout ................. Tidalising it right now.
Paul Rogers meets Joe Bonamassa?
UK first press. I bought this the day it came out, when I was 14. It is hugely battered (huge amounts of surface noise, even after multiple scrubs on the RCM) now but I retain an affection for not only the album, but also the physical object.
Via Tidal.
UK first press double vinyl from 2003. The first side and a half is pretty tedious but it livens up thereafter; although it's not a patch on their 1970s work.
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Alone & Acoustic.
Some late afternoon lazy blues from Buddy and his long term sidekick, Junior Wells, on harp.
Low key, laid back, acoustic session, from two masters of their art .................. and it's on Tidal.
A + 3 | WAV
(2008)
Tobyjug's playing of this last week prompted me to put it into my play queue as a reminder, its getting a spin now the first time in quite a while.
Review
Tellier's take on the classic French crooner is an update, rather than an echo, though. Sexuality is a prime example of the 21st Century's obsession with the thick vintage synthesisers and clicking drum machines of the '70s and early '80s, an almost fetishistic recreation of the warm, enveloping textures of progressive pop...
Eric Bibb - Migration Blues.
More laid back acoustic blues, this time, Eric's new album.
If this guy has ever done a less than great album, I've yet to find it.
Tidal
Coldplay - "Parachutes" (2000)
Walter's Brahms 3rd, recorded in January 1960 with his LA band, is hard to beat...
Bach's music performed on a lute by Hopkinson Smith.
As some of you may know, this album 'the scene changes The Amazing Bud Powell' is primarily piano based first released on Blue Note Records in 1959. I have a 2014 Music Matters reissue however after many plays over the years and some changes to the set up I still find the recording of the piano particularly thin, almost scratchy! and ill defined within the soundstage.
However, having seen these reviews
"The RVG piano sound is a classic case of "love it or hate it." I read somewhere that Bill Evans refused to record with RVG because he hated it."
"But there is one peculiarity to Van Gelder's recordings of the '50s and '60s that is almost universal: the piano. For whatever the reason, that piano—with only a few passable exceptions—sounds like it was recorded underwater, or under a blanket in a closet, on virtually every recording he engineered. It's not hard to imagine, if given the opportunity to set up a session to record a leading pianist like Herbie Hancock (or Duke Ellington, or Horace Silver, or McCoy Tyner), that the studio piano would sound its best. This apparently did not dawn on Van Gelder until many years later. His pianos always sound small, dulled and indistinct".
I would be very interested in what the 'jazz heads' on here who own any copy of this album CD or LP think.
Tidal. Tyvm Joerand for posting.
Jack Johnson - "On And On" (2003)
Because its brilliant, Flac via Audirvana/Hugo
tonym posted:
I've listened to this album several times (CD rip), but I can't quite warm to it. Not their best.
Tony, i know what you mean but it can't be easy for them to keep up with the bonzer stuff they've produced over the years.
Toy - on vinyl LP sounded absolutely wunderbar on my Sondek this afternoon in the Cymbiosis dem room though Kudos 808s, ...helped out no doubt with a freshly fitted Tranquility, and Sarum T cable : )
Debs
Joe Henry - "Short Man's Room" (1992) studio album with The Jayhawks as backing musicians
Original vnyl
Why? I was looking along the cubes...and there it was.
steve
Jeff Anderson posted:
Jack Johnson - "On And On" (2003)
Yet another great shout, Jeff.
Having listened to less than half of this on Tidal I know I have to own the CD and rip it on my trusty (well it is at the moment) UnitiServe. Feeling a little guilty as I have bought so many CDs recently, I ventured onto the big river and there it was pre-loved in very good condition for 1p, yes 1p for such a great album! A guilt-free purchase has been concluded and am listening to the rest of it on Tidal with a rather stupid smug grin.
I know I will get many hours of pleasure listening to this in the coming years, all funded from a rummage down the back of the sofa!
Cheers!
On original vinyl
Why? In my head it seemed to follow.
steve
Quad 33 posted:
As some of you may know, this album 'the scene changes The Amazing Bud Powell' is primarily piano based first released on Blue Note Records in 1959. I have a 2014 Music Matters reissue however after many plays over the years and some changes to the set up I still find the recording of the piano particularly thin, almost scratchy! and ill defined within the soundstage.
However, having seen these reviews
"The RVG piano sound is a classic case of "love it or hate it." I read somewhere that Bill Evans refused to record with RVG because he hated it."
"But there is one peculiarity to Van Gelder's recordings of the '50s and '60s that is almost universal: the piano. For whatever the reason, that piano—with only a few passable exceptions—sounds like it was recorded underwater, or under a blanket in a closet, on virtually every recording he engineered. It's not hard to imagine, if given the opportunity to set up a session to record a leading pianist like Herbie Hancock (or Duke Ellington, or Horace Silver, or McCoy Tyner), that the studio piano would sound its best. This apparently did not dawn on Van Gelder until many years later. His pianos always sound small, dulled and indistinct".
I would be very interested in what the 'jazz heads' on here who own any copy of this album CD or LP think.
I am a jazzhead as you call it. But not so much into Bud Powell, so will give it a try on Tidal - always interested in something new for me at least.....