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

Alexei Ogrintchouk - Bach: Oboe concertos

seakayaker posted:

dayjay posted:

Tori Amos, Native Invader, my favourite Tori album for quite some time and far more accessible than some of her other work IMO.  Well worth checking out.  Flac via Audirvana/Hugo 

Thanks for the mention, it is a fantastic album!

Glad you like it, she has excelled her self with this I think.  My wife has tickets to see her soon and I'm a little jealous now!

Worthy of playing Bach...

Good idea...

Moving on to something nostalgic...

Jesse van Ruller - Here and there

From allmusic.com:

Jesse Van Ruller, the Dutch guitarist, makes a fine showing on this Criss Cross release, which is actually an amalgam of two sessions. The first six tracks feature pianist David Hazeltine, bassist Nat Reeves, and drummer Joe Farnsworth. The last four, recorded later the same year, omit Hazeltine and have Frans Van Geest and Willie Jones III on bass and drums, respectively. Hazeltine lays out on several other tracks as well, giving the leader's beautiful, woody tone and advanced interpretive skills plenty of room to shine. Among the highlights are seldom-played tunes like "The Best Things in Life are Free," "Bye, Bye Baby," and "Ballad of the Sad Young Men," as well as challenging jazz vehicles like Monk's "In Walked Bud," Buster Williams' "Christina," and Lee Konitz's "Subconscious-Lee." Like his labelmate Peter Bernstein, the young Van Ruller is an able champion of the straight-ahead jazz guitar tradition.

Murray Perahia - Schubert: Impromptus D899 & D935

A very accomplished guitar player from Bandcamp...

Tal Farlow, Eddie Costa, Vinnie Burke, Gene Williams.  Recorded by  Ed Hurst in his apartment, NY 1956. The sound is good enough to reveal the really nice extended and loose bop trio work. CD-rip

Portico Quartet - Art in the Age of Automation

I heard a snippet one night on Late Junction so bought the CD. This is a first play but good. I find it difficult to say how it differs from the earlier stuff. Perhaps this is a bit more polished. Bert will have a more cogent opinion. I'm sort of wondering if they've lost something with all the production values.

Thanks to Bert who reminded me of this one from another thread.

Oscar Peterson Trio - We Get Requests. Playing the  LIM K2HD XRCD  - CD-rip! Good one!

Got some time off work, so now relaxing to my favourite album by The National.

Siegfried Idyll from the supplementary CD in this box set. 

A perfect accompaniment to lunch! 

Now Playing.......

Norma Waterson - Norma Waterson

Another mention from the past few days and another musician I have not had the pleasure to hear. So kicking of the day with Norma.........

on Nonesuch...

Clive B posted:

Siegfried Idyll from the supplementary CD in this box set. 

Siedfried Idyll: Fantastic piece of music.

Charlie Christian - The Genius of the Electric Guitar. CD-rip.

He died at only 25 but his impact is significant:

quotes from wiki:

Christian paved the way for the modern electric guitar sound that was followed by other pioneers, including T-Bone Walker, Eddie Cochran, Cliff Gallup, Scotty Moore, Franny Beecher, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Carlos Santana and Jimi Hendrix. For this reason Christian was inducted in 1990 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.^[14]

Christian's exposure was so great in the brief period he played with Goodman that he influenced not only guitarists but other musicians as well. The influence he had on "Dizzy" Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Don Byas can be heard on their early bop recordings "Blue 'N' Boogie" and "Salt Peanuts". Other musicians, such as the trumpeter Miles Davis, cited Christian as an early influence. Indeed, Christian's "new" sound influenced jazz as a whole. He reigned supreme in the jazz guitar polls up to two years after his death.^[15] Earth/Black Sabbath's first manager Jim Simpson describes the band's first song, "A Song for Jim" as an “absolute Charlie Christian takeoff.”^[16]

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Christian was an important contributor to the music that became known as bop, or bebop. Some of the participants in those early after-hours affairs at Minton's Playhouse, where bebop was born, credit Christian with the name bebop, citing his humming of phrases as the onomatopoetic origin of the term.^[17]

On CD:-

The National - Sleep Well Beast

Another vote for this - downloaded from Qobuz. Lots of great music for £10.

Academy of Ancient music - Bach: Brandenburg concertos.

now playing......

Midge Ure - No Regrets

Someone new to me, the album was mentioned in the past few days and giving it a spin.......

Aldous Harding - Party 

This is by far the best album I have heard this year.

Now playing.........

Oded Tzur - Like A Great River

Oded Tzur (tenor saxophone), Shari Maestro (piano), Petros Klampanis (bass), and Ziv Ravtz (drums)

Something new, and from the first track it grabs your attention, very nice, smooth....... Wow......

Looking forward to the rest of this album!

Cannonball Adderley - Know what I mean!