Buddy Whittington - eponymous. All time fave track of mine is his cover of ZZ's ' Sure got cold after the rain fell'. Rare for a cover to best the original, especially when it's ZZ Top, but this surely does so for Guitar, Vocals and especially for sonics. Spine chiller.

Buddaheads- Mumbo Jumbo. Fine album. Listening now to their v. Nice version of Tupelo Honey.

......next up

Chris Anderson (Piano), Savina Sciubba (Vocals), Billy Higgins (Percussion), David Williams (Double Bass)

Trying something new once again.....

Now Playing......

Paul Lay - The Party

Going with the mention by BERT SCHURINK above and giving 'The Party' a listen.

seakayaker posted:

......next up

Chris Anderson (Piano), Savina Sciubba (Vocals), Billy Higgins (Percussion), David Williams (Double Bass)

Trying something new once again.....

Chris Anderson was hired in the late fifties to be the accompanist of Dinah Washington and was fired (like many before him) after six weeks. He remained in New York and started recording as a leader.

"Entirely self-taught, unfazed by blindness and brittle bone disease, Chicago born Chris Anderson (1926-2008) remains a legendary figure among jazz pianists and an acknowledged influence on Herbie Hancock, who studied with him in 1960. Hancock was quick to spread the word among musicians. His teacher, he said, had "a whole other facet of tools of expression and harmonies that I hadn’t heard in Bill Evans," adding that "Chris Anderson is a master of harmony and sensitivity." The reverence in which he is held by jazz musicians was not reflected in anything remotely like wider acclaim, but Anderson’s few recordings are much sought-after gems among those in the know. His first two trio albums, for VeeJay and Riverside/Jazzland, both of which are included here, were made in 1960 and ’61 respectively. They show a very individual and provocative harmonic sense, as distinctive as Thelonious Monk’s or Bill Evans’s, a light but firm and elegant swing, and a delicate balance of the cerebral and the emotional. It gave his music tremendous power to touch the heart and appeal to the intellect at the same time. His was a very special talent."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JC9LwRL1Sw

Next up......

Buddy Whittington - Buddy Whittington

Buddy Whittington (Guitar, Vocals), Michael Hamilton (Piano, Organ), Mike Gage (Drums, Percussion)

Taking the lead from Keven above and given Buddy's debut solo album for a spin......

The opening number will wake you up and get you moving. Definitely Texas blues/rock 'n roll!

Celebrating the return of the Cooper brothers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...5INgTCx37e9rx4i04vuq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...5INgTCx37e9rx4i04vuq

kevin J Carden posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

Nice floating jazz album, easy to listen to..

 

Bert, it may be my sever or whatever, but your album images are showing up blank here. Maybe another photo bucket issue? Shame, as I value your input. Worth checking your source perhaps. Thanks for the tips on Lisa Batiashvili btw. Really good �� 

In this case I am now using Imgur and the pictures do show up for me, so I don't know why they wouldn't show up for you. Perhaps their service was down for a while. Please let me know if it's still invisible as even on this reply I see properly this picture.

Bert Schurink posted:

kevin J Carden posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

Nice floating jazz album, easy to listen to..

 

Bert, it may be my sever or whatever, but your album images are showing up blank here. Maybe another photo bucket issue? Shame, as I value your input. Worth checking your source perhaps. Thanks for the tips on Lisa Batiashvili btw. Really good �� 

In this case I am now using Imgur and the pictures do show up for me, so I don't know why they wouldn't show up for you. Perhaps their service was down for a while. Please let me know if it's still invisible as even on this reply I see properly this picture.

Bert, this image is working fine for me here.

A+3 | WAV

Something from the Tangerine Tree to start the morning off.

Some trax off the up and coming Michael Macdonald album due mid Sept.

Bert Schurink posted:

kevin J Carden posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

Nice floating jazz album, easy to listen to..

 

 

In this case I am now using Imgur and the pictures do show up for me, so I don't know why they wouldn't show up for you. Perhaps their service was down for a while. Please let me know if it's still invisible as even on this reply I see properly this picture.

Still blank for me Bert, but since others aren't experiencing the same problem I guess it's something at my end. On iPad it's just a blank white square. On my PC it shows a picture icon in the white square, but that icon doesn't open when clicked upon. Strange.

Listening to this older album from Christian Scott. A masterpiece. Christian is a leader in renewing jazz and ensuring it stays relevant for a younger audience as well, while not forgetting about the roots of jazz. Absolutely recommended...

With the review information of AllAboutJazz

Christian Scott: Anthem

Two years have passed since the city of New Orleans was irrevocably changed by Hurricane Katrina, but the horrific images of death and devastation wrought by the lethal combination of natural disaster and political ineptitude remain firmly fixed in the minds of many Americans, especially those with roots in the Crescent City. A gifted musician born and raised in New Orleans, Christian Scott has released a hauntingly beautiful collection of songs inspired by the spirit and struggles of his hometown, as well as changes in his personal life. If Scott's primary aim was to capture the complexity of human emotions and the resiliency of the human spirit, the trumpeter has achieved his goal on Anthem. Not afraid to showcase his broad musical palette, Scott relies on the divergent sounds of jazz, progressive rock and hip-hop to convey emotions ranging from lucid despondence to buoyant triumph.

Anything but predictable, Anthem opens with Scott's dramatic "Litany Against Fear." The track takes on the characteristics of a Sunday sermon, starting off with penetratingly introspective blue notes, rising to rebellious anger, and then ending with a moment of peaceful resolution. The percussive playing of pianist Aaron Parks, the muscular sound of drummer Marcus Gilmore, the resonant bass lines of Esperanza Spaulding, and the explosive riffs of guitarist Matt Stevens blend masterfully with Scott's brooding lyricism.

Very much like his idol, Miles Davis, Scott has a very laidback style, but as is the case with so many players from New Orleans, he definitely possesses the ability to swing. On the edgy "Re:," which features some dynamic drumming from Gilmore, Scott goes hard bop, slicing and dicing like pre-electric Donald Byrd and Freddie Hubbard. Elements of 1960s jazz can also be found on "Remains District." The song's sound is 21st century, yet Scott's angular playing and elliptical approach on the soprano trombone strongly suggests that he's studied the music and compositional style of Wayne Shorter. What Scott proves on "Remains District" is that one can embrace innovation yet still be a keeper of the tradition.

Anthem ends on a passionate note. A truncated version of the title track features Brother J of the rap group X-Clan. Brother J's fiery rhetoric detonates the aural landscape, as he registers his discontent with the state of affairs in New Orleans and the world. Not all hip-hop/jazz pairings work, but the closing track is a solid effort and a perfect ending to a strong release.

Last year, Christian Scott received a great deal of press, garnered a Grammy nomination, and built a diverse fan base. Definitely a step in the right direction, Anthem should not only bring Scott more fans, but solidify his status as one of the more promising young musicians and composers in the world of jazz.

2017 - Tidal...

Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness. 

Continued with Christian Scott.......even a better album than the one before.....

Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

By CHRIS MAY 
January 25, 2010
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Trumpeter Christian Scott started raising expectations in 2006, with Rewind That (Concord), and hit the spot again in 2007 and 2008. Those earlier promises of greatness are clinched by Yesterday You Said Tomorrow. Scott's fourth Concord album is a gym-ripped amalgam of edgy jazz, hip hop and rock rhythms, off-kilter ostinatos, intimate rhapsodies and full-on passions, all welded together by the New Orleans-born player's alternately caressing and searing horn, and by his most tightly focused band to date.

Scott's very modern approach to jazz gains added weight from the album's close embrace of the stylists of the mid- to late-1960s. References to trumpeter 

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Other 1960s resonances can be heard: the electric acid blues of 

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Fast forward 40 years, and it's what Scott has done with the backdrop that matters. The track titles give a clue. "K.K.P.D.," the ramped-up tune which kick starts the album, has a title which stands for Klu Klux Police Department, and refers to what Scott calls the "phenomenally dark and evil" attitude of the local police toward the African-American citizens of New Orleans. "Angola, LA & The 13th Amendment," its episodic ebb and flow steered by Scott's by turns melancholy and incandescent trumpet, equates aspects of the prison system with slavery. "The American't" targets the same depressingly enduring racism referenced by "James Crow, Jr. Esq." on Live At Newport (Concord, 2008). "Jenacide" needs no explanation.

The mood endures, other than on the emollient "The Eraser" (written by Radiohead's Thom Yorke and the only non-original on the album), and two gorgeous ballads, "Isadora," from Live At Newport, and "The Last Broken Heart."

Still only 26, Scott has decades of further development to look forward to. Meanwhile, this is his first landmark album, and one to make you feel good about the future of jazz.

Just about the sexiest singer on the planet. Terrific recording, great musicians.

George Szell with the Cleveland Orchestra

• Grieg - Peer Gynt
• Bizet L'arlesienne

Michelle Makarski, violin
Ronald Copes, viola

These works by Tartini, despite their bare construction, ask of the musician a certain depth of expression that Makarski handles with intuitive linearity. The music of Crockett similarly draws out the violin’s potential as songstress, shedding the husk of programmatic arbitrariness in favor of direct communication. Both write music without masks, and both are given the ideal mouthpiece in a violinist whose touch is supreme.(ECM)

Michelle Markaski on another ECM recordings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhMpT5ncqiI

Laying in the garden, "broadcasting" to any one who will listen. CD rips:-

Eurythmics - Greatest Hits

Steve Earls - Gutar Town

ELO - Eldorado

ELP - Trilogy

tonym posted

 

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Just about the sexiest singer on the planet.

Possibly....

Borders Nick posted:

dave marshall posted:

Borders Nick posted:

Chris Stapleton - From A Room Vol 1.  Finally bought the CD after falling foul of Tidal's fair use policy .  Definitely a contender for an album of the year.  Eagerly awaiting Vol.2 due later this year apparently.

Hi Nick,

What's all this about a "fair use" policy on the Tidal thingy?

I've not noticed, (ignored?), that before, and since I'm reduced to Tidal only at the mo', best I get up to speed. 

Hi Dave - it was a tongue-in-cheek comment.  No limits on Tidal usage as far as I know (and for me, I still think it's something of a bargain at  £20 /month).  Just don't break it please .. 

If there was a Tidal fair usage policy, I would have certainly transgressed many times with this album. It is a stunner and am looking forward to Volume 2 although Ewe reckons this might be delayed.

seakayaker posted:

......next up

Chris Anderson (Piano), Savina Sciubba (Vocals), Billy Higgins (Percussion), David Williams (Double Bass)

Trying something new once again.....

Seakayker, if you like Sabina Sciubba and it appears you like Antonio Forcione also, if you haven't done so already you might like to take a listen to this. There are some wonderful tracks on here that shows off the talents of both artists.

It's on Tidal