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;
Now playing......
Bill Evans & Toots Thielemans - Affinity
The Bill Evans journey continues and this is a lovely album.
From Tidal: Pianist Bill Evans (who doubles on electric piano on this album for the final time in the recording studio) welcomes guest harmonica player Toots Thielemans and Larry Schneider (on tenor, soprano and alto flute) to an outing with bassist Marc Johnson (making his recording debut with Evans) and drummer Eliot Zigmund. The material contains some surprises (including Paul Simon's "I Do It for Your Love" and Michel Legrand's "The Other Side of Tonight") and only two jazz standards ("Body & Soul" and "Blue and Green") with the latter being the only Evans composition. Excellent if not essential music that Evans generally uplifts. ~ Scott Yanow
Listening to CD2 : Symph No. 2 + Violin Concerto OP. 53
that 'haunting' sound... !
enjoy
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Clive B posted:For some reason at the end of last week I wanted to listen to something new by Loreena McKennitt. It seems that much of her material is hard to obtain new, but I managed to get a s/h copy of this album, which I played for the first time this evening. Not as magical as Book of Secrets, but there are some appealing melodies. I think it might be one of those albums which improve with repeat plays.
CD. Excellent. The best SM in my catalog, recently acquired.
Now Playing.....
Shirley Horn - Remember Milles
A mention and recommended by Hain Ronen, Nigelb & Erich, just needed to give this a spin.
After listening to a couple of tracks, it is very nice!
Erich posted:
CD. Excellent. The best SM in my catalog, recently acquired.
Ensemble 415 has very good recordings of Boccherini's string quintets which I posted a couple of nights ago:
Great music and top notch playing as well as sound. Highly recommended.
Haim Ronen posted:Erich posted:
CD. Excellent. The best SM in my catalog, recently acquired.
Ensemble 415 has very good recordings of Boccherini's string quintets which I posted a couple of nights ago:
I Have them in my wish list. I will look for them in Tidal and Qobuz while I get a CD. TYVM.
Now Playing......
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, & Jimmy Cobb
Downloaded the Hi Res 192/24 version of this album. Just fantastic, wow!
Lenny Breau - The guitar sonds of Lenny Breau.
Exploring the music of a for me new guitar player.
Streaming | WAV
(2008)
Very much looking forward to his new album, which is soon due....
Anna of the North. It is a pop music morning.
The new National album
Working at home today, so this is on in the background
Let's get the day off to a slightly haunting start. On 1980s UK (well, West German actually) vinyl:
Jeroen20 posted:Lenny Breau - The guitar sonds of Lenny Breau.
Exploring the music of a for me new guitar player.
Some of the greatest chops out there - there is a real good biography of him out called "One Long Note", and if you look on YouTube you can find a documentary his daughter did - broken into several parts. A truly tragic figure who was ruined by drugs, had a death that was mysteriously never explained, and sad inasmuch as if guitarists were well known based on their abilities, everyone would know who this guy was. Chet Atkins tried very hard to help him, but he just couldn't be helped.