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;
A+3 | WAV
(2012)
Something smooth to relax with and set off this evening.
Joe Pass - Summer nights
From allmusic.com:
During the last few years of his life, guitarist Joe Pass enjoyed having reunions with the same musicians who played with him 25 years earlier for the classic For Django recording: rhythm guitarist John Pisano, bassist Jim Hughart and drummer Colin Bailey. This 1989 recording could almost be called For Django 2, for it is the same vein as the original. Pass takes his remake of "For Django" unaccompanied and performs four of Django's tunes, along with five standards from the 1930s and three originals. Pisano, who was instrumental in organizing the session and the repertoire, sticks to acoustic guitar, while Pass alternates between acoustic and electric. Although Joe Pass' main influence was Charlie Christian and he really does not sound like Reinhardt, he manages to evoke the spirit of Django while swinging in his own fashion. It is particularly nice hearing such tunes as "Belleville," the haunting "Tears" and "For Django" in newer versions.
A+3 | WAV
(2014)
S/T by This Patch of Sky
I have to admit that I get a bit boggled with all the music genre tags, this is down as ambient, instrumental, post-rock, cinematic rock, It's delicious and very well worth a relaxed listen to. Check it out on bandcamp or Tidal.
Coldplay - "Kaleidoscope" (2017) 5 song EP
Matthew Ryan - "Hustle Up Starlings" (2017)
Mathias Eick is something of a new discovery for me. It's great to hear violin on a jazz album too.
Fleet Foxes - "Crack-Up" (2017)
The wife's out for the evening so a bit of this
Followed by a bit of classic German space rock from Eloy
Finishing with a bit of that other progressive rock band from Canada Saga
All sounding great on the old fruit box
Joe Pass - Blues for Fred. Nice and calm for - a wet Friday! CD-rip.1988. A tribute to the elegant Fred Astaire who had passed in 1987.
ToddHarris posted:Sort of a hard title to find, this one is a Japanese pressing CD of the 1982-83 recording sessions. Good album with Scofield and Mike Stern on guitar, Al Foster on drums, Marcus Miller on electric bass, (the young) Bill Evans on sax, etc.
Not as good as the “Live in Japan” release (also hard to find) with the same band, but worth hearing nevertheless…
This disc was included in one of the cheap 5cd box sets that come out. It was a CBS equivalent of the Original Album Series. Might be possible to find the box set? Fine album with some great tracks. I saw him play at the RFH just after the album came out. Great gig.
lutyens posted:ToddHarris posted:Sort of a hard title to find, this one is a Japanese pressing CD of the 1982-83 recording sessions. Good album with Scofield and Mike Stern on guitar, Al Foster on drums, Marcus Miller on electric bass, (the young) Bill Evans on sax, etc.
Not as good as the “Live in Japan” release (also hard to find) with the same band, but worth hearing nevertheless…
This disc was included in one of the cheap 5cd box sets that come out. It was a CBS equivalent of the Original Album Series. Might be possible to find the box set? Fine album with some great tracks. I saw him play at the RFH just after the album came out. Great gig.
If you do downloads, it is available at CD quality at Qobuz
Milt Jackson, Joe Pass, Ray Brown. The Big Three. CD-rip, rec. 1976. A good one.
Vinyl
Haim Ronen posted:
Great album! Impeccable sound quality. Beautiful version of "Carnival".
Hook posted:Haim Ronen posted:Great album! Impeccable sound quality. Beautiful version of "Carnival".
Hook,
All the recordings on the Indian Navigation label were made with tube electronics.
The title receives an extra dimension with all the severe flooding along the Wisconsin border:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AioRlycVWaQ
A+3 | 24/96 WAV
(2017)
Some beautifully recorded Hi-Res Hopkinson Smith to start the day.
"A fascinating journey into the heart of the Elizabethan age. This anthology contains four pieces connected with John Dowland and others by the generation of lute composers that preceded him. Lute virtuoso Hopkinson Smith named the piece 'Mad Dog', as a symbol of his creative process: 'There are many orphaned lute pieces in English sources that have come down to us with no name at all. I have taken the liberty of christening four such pieces in this programme with names that seem to suit their musical spirits. As we grow into a repertoire and ingest its language and freedoms, a process of entering the creativity of an age gradually takes place. A fluency develops that leads to many types of extemporisation. The naming of unnamed pieces can be seen as a natural extension of this.'
Hopkinson Smith has been praised as one of the masters of repertoire for early plucked instruments and has produced over 25 prize-winning recordings for naïve including his lute arrangements of the Bach solo violin 'Sonatas and Partitas', released in the year 2000, which was called by Gramophone 'the best recording of these works on any instrument."
The Beatles. Hard Day's Night (1964). On mono CD remaster from 2009. Inspired by TOBYJUG's Guitars topic. Whatever the format, plenty of energy and excitement to be found in this album.
Beethoven Symphony no. 9 - Emmanuel Krivine
Bonnie Raitt. The Glow (1979). On original CD from 1988. Soulful and bluesy, chock full of PRaT, and Bonnie can play a velvety-smooth slide guitar.