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;
Ralph Towner, classical and 12-string guitars
Gary Peacock, double-bass
Monk - Prestige LP 7027 reissue. CD-rip
Tony2011 posted:ewemon posted:
no picture, ewe. i know you're not allowed to talk about new releases but don't expect us to guess them
Weird Tony pic shows up at my end on both yours and my posts. If you still can't see it then the band is called Midland and it is a Country album entitled On the Rocks.
Just finish up........
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of The Summer Lawns
A nightcap with Joni prior to calling it a night......
A bit Indie, a bit world, a lot listenable.
Yikes! Mark E Smith launches into a garbled incoherent opening - fortunately it’s knowing self-parody and he proceeds to deliver a surprisingly good Fall album. Heck, they’re all good.
And vanilla roibos is in my mug.
Ton Koopman - Bach
Lost myself listening to these two yesterday afternoon - really enjoyed them !
Jeroen20 posted:Ton Koopman - Bach
Ton Koopman: always interesting to listen to. No one removes dust so easily from too often recorded music.
This has just arrived!! Ordered from his web site in June. I had forgotten I had ordered it and was about to reorder it! Playing the CD but will play the vinyl in due course. I am a very happy bunny! (and the Gilmour in Pompeii is on its way...my birthday pressie to my self!...should be a good weekend!)
Keith Jarrett - Dmitri Shostakovich
From allmusic.com:
Dmitri Shostakovich's epic series of preludes and fugues for solo piano was inspired by the very composer whom you would immediately suspect -- Johann Sebastian Bach. Indeed, the Russian composer was motivated to write this huge work after a visit to Bach's home city Leipzig in 1950; and, in fact, it resurrects the premise behind Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier," providing one prelude and fugue for every major and minor key. So having conquered the Bach work on recordings, Keith Jarrettdecided to tackle its 20th century sequel in this two-CD set. Looking at it from one angle, this is Jarrett's most impressive technical achievement in the classical repertoire so far. Generally speaking, the Shostakovich is more difficult to play than the other classical works that he had recorded previously, and he is clearly up to all of its sometimes fearsome demands. From an interpretive angle, though, Jarrett doesn't get as much out of this music as, say, the late Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva, who gave the first performances of the work. With Nikolaeva, each note is captured and spotlighted in ever-changing lights. Jarrett is on the hunt for detail, too -- the "No. 11," "15," and "17" fugues are particularly invigorating in that respect -- yet much of the time, he tends to color things in one way. Part of this impression may be due to the sound of his piano, which is treated with ECM's usual soft-focused cloud of reverb. For Jarrett fans who are following his classical adventures, this could be a most intriguing left turn, but those seeking the definitive recording of the pieces would find Nikolaeva more stimulating.
Now Playing......
John Scofield - Country For Old Men
John Scofield: guitar, ukulele (12); Steve Swallow: bass; Larry Goldings: piano (1, 5-6); Hammond organ (2-4, 7-11); Bill Stewart: drums.
Review by John Kelman from All That Jazz: When guitarist Bill Frisell first began a more decided focus on roots music, bluegrass and country & western music with the release of 1996's Nashville (Nonesuch), despite being largely very well-received, jazz purists rankled when the largely bluegrass/folk-informed album began to garner awards like Downbeat Magazine's Best Jazz Album of the Year. While Frisell's oftentimes Americana-tinged work has, in the ensuing years, become more fully accepted for the wonderful music that it is, fellow six-stringer John Scofield is unlikely to find himself the subject of such purist criticism with Country for Old Men. A play on the Coen Brothers' acclaimed 2007 film No Country for Old Men, a reference to the vast majority of source material on Scofield's first album of entirely non-original music since 2005's That's What I Say: John Scofield Plays The Music Of Ray Charles (Verve), and a not-so-subtle reminder that the 64 year-old guitarist isn't getting any younger, Country for Old Men may demonstrate his clear love of music from songwriters including George Jones, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton and Bob Wills, but it is still unequivocally a jazz record...one that may have a touch of twang but also swings mightily on nearly half of its twelve songs.
Full Review here
Haim Ronen posted:
Interesting! I don't know Jenny Lin. I'll see if I can find her on Qobuz. Thanks for posting Haim!
Great Sibelius 4th recorded in '65. Listening to the remastered CD (different cover). Beautiful recording/performance!
Jeroen20 posted:Haim Ronen posted:Interesting! I don't know Jenny Lin. I'll see if I can find her on Qobuz. Thanks for posting Haim!
I highly recommend:
(1969)
Not my favourite Doors album but I just fancied a listen to it this evening.
After playing the Live at Fairfield Halls album yesterday, which I enjoyed very much, I thought I'd give this one a run out. I've actually got three copies of this in various formats. This is the remastered CD version played through the NDS.
