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

Starting this morning with the Beethoven symphonies 5 and 6.

Jeroen20 posted:

Larry Young - Into something.

This is another good example of my own guideline: Blue Note plus recorded between 1955 and 1965 equals good jazz.

This is his debut recording for Blue Note as a Leader. His playing on this recording is very nice.

Larry Young - Organ

Grant Green - Guitar

Sam Rivers = Tenor Sax

Elvin Jones - Drums

I have several issues of the Penguin guide to jazz, as well as the Gramophone guide, but I don't think you can go wrong with your guideline. Not only is the music released on Blue Note in that period consistently good, but so too is the recording quality. 

For Gregg. 

George Benson: Standing Together

Hard to believe it's been almost 20 years since its release. This was the last Benson album I bought. A wall paper smooth jazz. '90s wasn't the best out put for Benson but I kind of like this tune mixed with Hancock's 'Thought IT was you'. ( original, of course is miles better )

'nuff said.

G

both on vinyl

GraemeH posted:

'nuff said.

G

Indeed...

One of my favourite mail vocals - Mario Biondi 

Original Vinyl

Live concert of the Aaron Parks trio in Amsterdam.

You can download this for free at http://livejazzlounge.com/2010...msterdam-april-2017/

From the big new Kraftwerk vinyl box - the second LP, Radioactivity.

Bowie, Lodger Japanese vinyl (RPL-2107). I just fancied hearing it. Overshadowed by its two illustrious studio predecessors, I think it's Bowie's most underrated album.

From Naim records website:

Australia's finest young jazz trio, Trichotomy, blend a touch of the avant-garde with a liberal spoonful of attitude to make a traditional recipe taste sweeter than ever. The Gentle War, is the superb new album from Australian piano trio Trichotomy and the follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed Naim Jazz debut Variations. Recorded shortly after the band's UK tour early last year it finds the lauded trio in especially dynamic form and while their music could be compared to the likes of EST or The Bad Plus, Foran also cites his time here as an influence the music - and not just our beer, but bands such as label mates Neil Cowley Trio, John Taylor and Acoustic Ladyland - but The Gentle War is very much the sound of a band developing their own unique sound. The Gentle War finds the band happily building the success of Variations but is more tightly focused the trio itself. Mixed by Brent Sigmeth (The Bad Plus) the album brings a rockier edge to the mix but without compromising the beauty of the piano sound. It's an aural reflection of the band's music, what e critic called their 'juxtaposition of aggresiveness and tenderness'. Indeed it is this friction which is at the heart of the band's appeal: Their music is both densely rhythmic and sharply melodic, with Foran's excellent compositions seeking a balance between heavily notated sections and completely free improvisations and with the trio allowing ideas to develop naturally.

On vinyl, released in 1972.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykWJ5ngvcPI

1987 compilation on vinyl. Because the title sums up my existence.

Jeroen20 posted:

Live concert of the Aaron Parks trio in Amsterdam.

You can download this for free at http://livejazzlounge.com/2010...msterdam-april-2017/

Thanks - I didn't know about this site.

The usual Radio Paradise and Aretha Franklin "Don't Fight The Feeling" ("Live At The Filmore" expanded set). Sadly, not the Rhino CD box set but a download from Qobuz.

This gives me religion........ which prompts the following:

Happy listening.

Vlad

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757):  Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

18  Keyboard Sonatas beginning in d minor and ending in d minor.  Perfect start to this day!

Open up Sunday Morning with .....

Loreena McKennitt - Live in Paris and Toronto.

Soothing opening with a wonderful prologue and the tempo then slowly opens up........

.....fits nicely with a morning cup of coffee.