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;
Pretty good sounds with Kenny Barron.
Cannonball Adderley - Them dirty blues.
Cannonball Adderley - Portrait of Cannonball
Another example of a collaboration between Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans. This time in a quintet setting.
From Allmusic.com
This fine Riverside debut by Adderley was cut just a few months after the alto saxophonist had contributed to Miles Davis' stellar Milestones release. Joining Adderley for the six tracks here are fellow Davis alumni Philly Joe Jones on drums and Bill Evans on piano. These three are augmented by the wonderful and often-underrated Blue Mitchell on trumpet and the equally illustrious Sam Jones on bass. Everyone is in top form on a varied set that takes in two Adderley originals (the fine ballad "Straight Life" and "A Little Taste"), a classic Gigi Gryce number ("Minority"), and Miles' oft-covered "Nardis." Filling out the program, we have a rare Sam Jones-penned cut, "Blue Funk," and a lone standard in the Rogers & Hammerstein chestnut from Oklahoma, "People Will Say We're in Love." One of the highlights from Adderley's hard bop prime.
On CD:-
Camel - A Nod And A Wink
First spin of a present received yesterday:
The DJANGO REINHARDT NY FESTIVAL is the first of its kind in America at the legendary club, BIRDLAND on West 44th Street in Manhattan.
Conceived by Producers Pat Philips & Ettore Stratta, this Festival is unique as it brings to America the top artists of the Django Reinhardt "hot swing" style of Jazz from Europe (many of whom are coming to our shores for the first time) and combining them with our own great Jazz stars as Guests!
The Festival pays tribute to the legendary guitarist, DJANGO, who became famous in the 20's and 30's when he teamed with the brilliant Jazz Violinist, STEPHANE GRAPPELLI, to form The Hot Club Quintette. This group became the rage of Europe performing the great American standards and Django originals in a virtuosic, infectious, melodic, hot swing style that took the music world by storm .
1976 - Vinyl - US first pressing...
Vinyl
Why? I needed soothing. It's been an active day (gardening, housework, etc) and the washing machine has died. (Have you seen the prices of new ones!)
steve
My days listening.
A beautiful relaxing record.
Try this track...
Fleurine - Meant to be
Stevee_S's posting of Split earlier caused me to realise that Groundhogs don't feature on here much . So I thought I'd give this a play.
Vinyl
Why? Still calming.
steve
Vinyl
Kevin-W posted:Paper Plane posted:Original vinyl
Why? No played any PF for a while.
steve
It's not Pink Floyd though.
I'm happy to call it so 
steve
A+3 > Downloaded from Qobuz.
I'm digging out the oldies tonight. I can still recall as a teenager being instantly impressed when I first heard this.
Last of the day.
Vinyl.
I sneaked one album in before going out to dinner last night. The album that turned me on to Joni at the beginning of the '80s, Joni in fine voice, lyrically and musically superb as you'd expect.