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;
Although Buzzcocks rules I still play this … not bad either.
more from the Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky box set. This one recorded in 1954-55...the remastering from the original tapes is superb! Front cover art is "Vasr of Flowers" by Picasso.
The 1970s were brilliant, so I'm staying with them for the time being. Haven't played this landmark debut from '77 in quite a while... On 1980s vinyl.
I seem to have got Imgur working on the iPad....
Kevin-W
Kevin, your constant changing of your very glamourous avatars is very confusing for us all who still have the blood pressure in the right places to get excited. Can I suggest you have something a little more restrained & in keeping with our genteel readers
Mike, I changed it to Sid James recently but everyone moaned! 
Just changed it back to Ali G because there will be some very serious Frappage going down at Somerset House tomorrow night so I am just getting ready.
Going to see the Frapp tomorrow night at Somerset House (gig #26, and third GF show this year) so it's Will and Alison all the way from now on. Original UK vinyl from 2000.
Lou Donaldson - Lou takes off
Kevin-W posted:Going to see the Frapp tomorrow night at Somerset House (gig #26, and third GF show this year) so it's Will and Alison all the way from now on. Original UK vinyl from 2000.
Enjoy the show Kevin, this and Tales Of Us remain my favourite albums of hers.
On CD:-
Chris Rea - The Road To Hell
On the Classic Records vinyl:-
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
A + 3 | WAV
(1979)
This was a very well recorded album, lovely SQ, sounding wonderfully funky and bluesy right now.
Michel Petrucciani - Au theatre des Champs-Elysess
This is a very wonderful recording of a live performance by Michel Petrucciani. Just the first track is worth this double CD: it's a 40 minute medley of jazz standards.
From Amazon:
Michel Petrucciani, who died at age 36 in early 1999, entered the professional jazz world as a teenager in France. He developed an early style most critics and listeners likened to Bill Evans's or Keith Jarrett's. This live two-CD set demonstrates that Petrucciani indeed owed some debt to Jarrett and Evans, but he also blows listeners away with cascading, hyper runs and huge harmonic expertise. The Thelonious Monk doubling of "I Mean You" and "Round Midnight" (spelled here in the configuration Miles Davis popularized with his album of the same name) manages to burn and then burnish in a matter of moments. There is much technical brilliance in these tunes, but at no point does the set come off as needless display. Rather, Petrucciani supports all his considerable flash with layers of nuance that evoke both a brushstroke of jazz history and an aesthetically solid commentary on each facet of the music
osprey posted:
I used to have the original vinyl with the clenched fist stencil labelled Not to be used for graffiti", it disappeared at a party when I was a student 35 years ago, this has prompted me to replace it. Thanks.
Van Morrison: Keep on Singing. CD rip. First listen and it's ok, not blown away by it on this first run through, but his albums have a way of getting under your skin over time.
A + 3 | WAV
(1985)
Sticking with the Tops, they're hard to shake off when you've got them going. This one more into their later commercial years which coincided nicely with music video and MTV, Rough Boy video anyone? 
. Another very well recorded album with a DR of 15 for those interested.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Sergey Schepkin (piano)
The Well-Tempered Clavier I, BWV 846-869
Oh the sanity.... It never changes as this music just rises up to reside far above fray in the world that exists today.
A + 3 | WAV
(2005)
Streaming from CD 2 of 3, some of those great tunes from the Peter Green years.
Vintage Dan. And why not?
It's a bit of an ECM day: this recent album is very good.
Thanks to Osprey, streaming this from Tidal, with a CD and a vinyl copy ordered from the River. One of the most complete New Wave albums, excellent songs, and it takes me back to my teens.