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

Continuing with Khatia...

Heard the end on Rad3, now listening on Tidal

Quad 33 posted:

A little bit of a Stevie fest last night.

Both on original vinyl..

Me too! still sound great

Reply to C

Stevie Wonder - Songs in The Key of Life

Wiki tells me this was the last record of the three that comprise his 'Classic phase', the other two having had mentions here recently. Who am I to argue?!

Sides 1 and 4 are on one record, 2 and 3 on the other. Always baffled me.

C.

Reason was when you stack them on an automatic record player you can play the album in order, 1and 2 then flip them over sides 3 & 4.

My Dad was very good a this when cleaning the windows,  Art Pepper,  Stan Getz, Dizzy, Ella  one after the other with out having to manually change records. just flip the stack and listen to up to 8 LP's in a session.

lapman

Haven't played this one for a while.

From Amazon:

This is a diverse set of standards and original tunes that aims at the intimacy and spontaneity of John Pizzarelli's live performance with a studio setting. The singer-guitarist's long-established trio with pianist Ray Kennedy and brother Martin Pizzarelli on bass just keeps getting better, working with an instrumentation that Nat "King" Cole first perfected in the '40s and which also served Oscar Peterson well in the '50s. The trio achieves a sound that's both smooth and complex when all the parts are working in perfect synch, and that's what happening here. Whether they're flying on uptempo numbers like "I Got Rhythm," with Pizzarelli scatting in unison with his guitar, or playing at a medium bounce on the Cole signature "When I Take My Sugar to Tea," the group swings magnificently. Pizzarelli's light but resilient voice can suggest Chet Baker at slower tempos, but his relaxed delivery and conversational ease contribute to this music's distinctive charm. He sounds particularly good on some great Jimmy Van Heusen songs, both the well-known "I Thought About You" and "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" and the rarely heard "I Could Have Told You So." Pizzarelli's ingrained familiarity with the great American songbook is such that his own songs--like the witty "I Wouldn't Trade You" and the effective title ballad--sound right at home beside the classics. Kennedy wrote the sole instrumental, "Oscar Night," a fittingly ebullient tribute to Peterson. -

spurrier sucks posted:

DrMark posted:

Yet another $5 Big Lots pickup - as you can see ti's always worth a stroll over to see what they have for such little money!

One of my favorites growing up and still one of my favorite guitarist. Dude was a master!

Fantastic buy, I love this album. Does Your CD have the editing error where Suicide starts the the same words as Stealing Away finishes? I bought my CD when the album was released. Rhodes really was a talented Guitarist.

One Canadas premier Blues bands cd due out 26th May 

My wife just broke the nespresso machine so I need something hypnotic to take my mind off the morning coffee...

G

Keith Jarrett - Facing You

Sunday morning staple.

C.

Nothing like a strong black coffee, a fag and a CD of one of Haydn's many string quartets on a Sunday morning!

Good memories of a great live show back in January

Swans - The Glowing Man, on CD - Disc 1. I love the instrumentation on this thing and the great atmosphere; gives it a timeless quality. Micheal Gira's vocals are a bit "Marmite" but they are in keeping with the psychedelic strung-out grooves.

lapman posted:

Quad 33 posted:

A little bit of a Stevie fest last night.

Both on original vinyl..

Me too! still sound great

Reply to C

Stevie Wonder - Songs in The Key of Life

Wiki tells me this was the last record of the three that comprise his 'Classic phase', the other two having had mentions here recently. Who am I to argue?!

Sides 1 and 4 are on one record, 2 and 3 on the other. Always baffled me.

C.

Reason was when you stack them on an automatic record player you can play the album in order, 1and 2 then flip them over sides 3 & 4.

My Dad was very good a this when cleaning the windows,  Art Pepper,  Stan Getz, Dizzy, Ella  one after the other with out having to manually change records. just flip the stack and listen to up to 8 LP's in a session.

lapman

Thanks Lapman. A few people have mentioned this, which was obviously news to me. There I was venally thinking I may have a rare and valuable mis-pressed copy.

Quad 33, Will you complete your exposure to Wiki's 'classic phase' by giving Talking Book a spin later?

Chris

Guardian of the Galaxy Awesome mix vol 2

Edward

Studio Masters edition. Excellent.

G

Red vinyl. White Stripes. Red Blood Cells.

Lloyd Cole and The Commotions - Easy Pieces

Joyful, mid eighties pop. Lovely to hear, 'Won't you put on your dress and come down to Magazine Avenue, won't you put on your dress and come down' again.

C.

Still not sure about this one. Plus its spread over 4 sides / two slabs of vinyl with enough room on the run out to have clearly made it a single album...

PINK FLOYD The Endless River (2014 UK 18-track double LP pressed on 180gram vinyl.

Guardian of the Galaxy awesome mix vol 1

1. Blue Swede – Hooked on a Feeling
2. Raspberries – Go All the Way
3. Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky
4. David Bowie – Moonage Daydream
5. Elvin Bishop – Fooled Around and Fell in Love
6. 10Cc – I’m Not in Love
7. Jackson 5 – I Want You Back
8. Redbone – Come and Get Your Love
9. The Runaways – Cherry Bomb
10. Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
11. The Five Stairsteps – O-O-H Child
12. Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

Edward

From the Rolling Stones In Mono vinyl box. My favourite of all their albums, I think. Never tire of it.

A + 3 | WAV

(2007)

Playing disc one of two from this cracking collection:

Tracklist

ted_p posted:

Guardian of the Galaxy awesome mix vol 1

1. Blue Swede – Hooked on a Feeling
2. Raspberries – Go All the Way
3. Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky
4. David Bowie – Moonage Daydream
5. Elvin Bishop – Fooled Around and Fell in Love
6. 10Cc – I’m Not in Love
7. Jackson 5 – I Want You Back
8. Redbone – Come and Get Your Love
9. The Runaways – Cherry Bomb
10. Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
11. The Five Stairsteps – O-O-H Child
12. Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

Edward

Thanks Edward, I really must get this album!

Was just listening to the new one of Trombone Shorty...., to my ears too popular and not exciting enough...