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

The Sunday afternoon vinyl Fela-fest continues with a gem from 1989:

A+3 | WAV

(1967 | 2017)

50th Anniversary Edition extracted from the Blu-Ray Audio in 24/96- Stereo from the box-set, sounding fresh, vibrant and so much fun. 

Bernd Reiter Quintet featuring Eric Alexander - Workout at bird's eye

Really enjoying Mr Jukes - God First

A recommendation from the Sunday Times.  Been streaming it from QOBUZ but just ordered the CD.

on Tidal, a mix of Span, Unthanks, Watersons - first real listen through. 

NFG posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

Moving to something else a bit older. Great recordings....

 

Picture doesn't show let's hope this one does while the original picture of Mercury Living Presence is the correct one...

 

I hate this trouble with pictures. Hope we will soon have a different solution for the forum. So for those interested. I am listening to Paul Paray with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, to overtures etc of Wagner recorded by Mercury Living Presence...

Bert - have you tried to find the disc pic on muddy river or selected retailer, right click - copy image location & paste into post? or use: insert/edit image button.

N

Googled it - but not every picture apparently works...

A fairly recent addition to my Eddi Reader collection.

While editing yesterday's images of our overflowing Des Plaines river:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/...n/dateposted-public/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L74K8OP84GY

A+3 | 24/96 WAV

(1968| 2012)

Sticking with some old classics and this one is from the 2012 Hi-Res remasters downloaded from Qobuz a few years ago. 

Next up.....

Joshua Redman - The Bad plus Joshua Redman

Bert Schurink posted:

The other one I listened to earlier in the car...

 

I'm on that album! In the crowd...

steve

I've been a fan of KC for very many years, have a number of their albums and have always regarded this as their best.

Paper Plane posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

The other one I listened to earlier in the car...

 

I'm on that album! In the crowd...

steve

Nice one!

Our local record shop didn't stock it and for some reason wouldn't order it for me. I ended up ordering it from an advertiser in the back of the NME using a postal order and praying it wasn't a rip-off. The album turned up in the post about two months later!

Clive B posted:

Tony2011 posted:

Everytime I see a post on PT or SW,  I go into a fit. 

Sorry, Tony...

  ...

Back to my MK1 Cortina GT and Motorola 8 track days

Radio Paradise, naturellement. In quick succession this morning: Baba O'Riley by the Who, What's So Funny About Peace, Love And Understanding by Elvis Costello and Neil Young. Not Elvis and Neil together.........

You can blame Bert for the for the following (FLAC rip from CD):

Focus - Moving Waves

Additionally,

Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Complete Symphonies etc. by Beethoven. Symphonies No 5 and 9. Download from Qobuz.

Joshua Redman - The James Farm

1st run, so far liking what I hear...

VladtheImpala posted:

Kevin-W,

It's difficult to answer your proposition without seeming to denigrate a very talented artist. But I'll try!

I had wanted to start by making a comparison with four of her contemporaries - Prince, Madonna, myself and Michael Jackson but you can probably see where that might be going...... In any case, my multi-media quadruple album jazz-rock odyssey, "Pigs In Space", has yet to find a stage suitable for a completely satisfactory performance.   

Joni Mitchell does what she wants when she wants to, produces herself and does the album artwork, writes her own songs (which at least to me have a deeper resonance than Kate's). She is also a subtle and talented guitarist, if not quite so sophisticated on piano. I prefer her voice to Kate's, which while capable of a beautiful warmth can sound shrill at times. A similar argument could be put forward for e.g. Rickie Lee Jones.

A more convincing case for an artist who shapes the way her music sounds and has been at the more cutting edge of contemporary music is Bjork. She also has a tremendous interest in the visuals that accompany her recorded and live music. And maybe slightly more bonkers than Kate.

Compositions at a young age? Mozart had written four operas by age 13 (though I've only heard two of them), five (?) symphonies, four piano concertos etc etc. Surely the greatest prodigy in music history. And he was near-virtuoso standard on violin and keyboard.

Frankly, I don't really care if she is a good dancer and I think her mime/choreography is Am Dram at best. And it's not as if she has had a chance to hone her performance skills across many tours, is it? Her most memorable video to me was her duet with Peter Gabriel on "Don't Give Up" where she barely moved!

As you say, on her day she is capable of (and has achieved) greatness and she holds a place of honour in my music collection.

Regards,

Vlad

Prince, Jacko and Mozart are all singular talents. But they are not female, which was my original point.

I agree with you about Bjork, though, who fits in nicely with a tradition that includes Kate, Bobbie Gentry, Joni, Annette Peacock and Yoko Ono.

Madonna is a different matter - not really an artist though, but a moderately talented hack with an eye for the main chance and a very good career strategist.

Kevin-W posted:

VladtheImpala posted:

Kevin-W,

It's difficult to answer your proposition without seeming to denigrate a very talented artist. But I'll try!

I had wanted to start by making a comparison with four of her contemporaries - Prince, Madonna, myself and Michael Jackson but you can probably see where that might be going...... In any case, my multi-media quadruple album jazz-rock odyssey, "Pigs In Space", has yet to find a stage suitable for a completely satisfactory performance.   

Joni Mitchell does what she wants when she wants to, produces herself and does the album artwork, writes her own songs (which at least to me have a deeper resonance than Kate's). She is also a subtle and talented guitarist, if not quite so sophisticated on piano. I prefer her voice to Kate's, which while capable of a beautiful warmth can sound shrill at times. A similar argument could be put forward for e.g. Rickie Lee Jones.

A more convincing case for an artist who shapes the way her music sounds and has been at the more cutting edge of contemporary music is Bjork. She also has a tremendous interest in the visuals that accompany her recorded and live music. And maybe slightly more bonkers than Kate.

Compositions at a young age? Mozart had written four operas by age 13 (though I've only heard two of them), five (?) symphonies, four piano concertos etc etc. Surely the greatest prodigy in music history. And he was near-virtuoso standard on violin and keyboard.

Frankly, I don't really care if she is a good dancer and I think her mime/choreography is Am Dram at best. And it's not as if she has had a chance to hone her performance skills across many tours, is it? Her most memorable video to me was her duet with Peter Gabriel on "Don't Give Up" where she barely moved!

As you say, on her day she is capable of (and has achieved) greatness and she holds a place of honour in my music collection.

Regards,

Vlad

Prince, Jacko and Mozart are all singular talents. But they are not female, which was my original point.

I agree with you about Bjork, though, who fits in nicely with a tradition that includes Kate, Bobbie Gentry, Joni, Annette Peacock and Yoko Ono.

Madonna is a different matter - not really an artist though, but a moderately talented hack with an eye for the main chance and a very good career strategist.

I can't quite remember where I was going with the Prince, Jacko theme.......... Perhaps that Madonna has made it by the very virtues you describe and Kate did play to her sexuality, or at least to her male audience, in the early stages.

It is very much harder for a woman to make it any business, especially the music business, and to do so on their own terms. Hats off to those who do.

To a certain extent, Kate was shielded from initial pressure to turn a profit by already having songs to record and the power of her sponsor, Dave Gilmour, at EMI. Bobbie Gentry wasn't so lucky and quit. I'm not sure that Yoko has had a "musical" career!

There are, though, quite a few contemporary female artists in charge of their own destiny, whatever their record labels would want e.g. Angel Olsen, P J Harvey, Agnes Obel, Alison Krauss, Karine Polwart, Sarah Jarosz etc.

More power to their elbow, bow, plectrum, keyboard! And more good music to listen to. 

 Regards,

Vlad

Les McCann - The Truth

Why? because Ive managed to extract Miles Davis - Kind of Blue from the player...

If you like Jazz, you'll like this, trust me!

Steve Hackett, The Night Siren WAV CD Rip.

My first play of this album, impression is that I will have to give it a chance and try it again a few more times.

Next up and this should take up the afternoon......

The Complete Miles Davis Featuring John Coltrane

......listed with 58 tracks - length: 06:24:31

If not all then some....

Black hill, On A Desert Path, WAV download.

Now for something to chill too with a nice glass of Red.

This is a bit of a bargain on Bandcamp.