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;
Leo Marjane - Vinyl.
1967 - Vinyl - UK first(mono) pressing....
(1999)
Stevee_S posted:
(1999)
I must buy that album, just for that track, if nothing else. Who's Rodney crowell?
fatcat posted:Stevee_S posted:
(1999)
I must buy that album, just for that track, if nothing else. Who's Rodney crowell?
He's a country artist with a bunch of country hits, many bands and artists pick up on his song writing and use them just as AK has done here.
Stevee_S posted:fatcat posted:Stevee_S posted:
(1999)
I must buy that album, just for that track, if nothing else. Who's Rodney crowell?
He's a country artist with a bunch of country hits, many bands and artists pick up on his song writing and use them just as AK has done here.
I'm sure it was written by Todd Rundgren.
Just purchased "Forget About It"
Now Playing.....
Glen Frey - Strange Weather
Traveling back in time on a Saturday afternoon.....
fatcat posted:Stevee_S posted:fatcat posted:Stevee_S posted:
(1999)
I must buy that album, just for that track, if nothing else. Who's Rodney crowell?
He's a country artist with a bunch of country hits, many bands and artists pick up on his song writing and use them just as AK has done here.
I'm sure it was written by Todd Rundgren.
Just purchased "Forget About It"
You're quite right Fatcat it was indeed Todd Rundgren (after checking the album credits). It looks as though my Audirvana Plus metadata will need more editing.
2014 - Vinyl...
Children In Paradise, Morrigan.
Why? When the dark recesses of the mind want to play silly buggers I find this album can sate their hunger, or I have just had one to many G&T’s
Now Playing......
Fink - Resurgam
Now Playing......
Charlie Hayden & John Taylor - Nightfall
Charlie Haden (double-bass), & John Taylor (piano)
I recently purchased this album and thought it would be appropriate for a Saturday Night. A terrific album!
Review from All About Jazz: by John Kelman --
Taylor who, aside from his own projects, is a regular member of projects by trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and reedman John Surman, has a style that is typified by an impressionistic and harmonically dense style. A sensitive player, and never one to waste a note, he tends to create rich clusters of sound, leaning towards abstraction while remaining deeply lyrical. On this outing, however, driven more by Haden’s choice of material and contributing but two compositions of his own, he displays a more stripped down sound; the harmonies are as abstruse as always, but are more spacious, less close.
That’s not to say the compositions don't provide challenge, but Haden's compositions tend to be simpler vehicles for improvisation. "Chairman Mao" revolves around a straightforward ascending and descending pattern; "Nightfall" is a simple but moving eight-bar melody; and the oft-recorded "Silence," with its two chords to the bar, is deceptively straightforward until one hears what Taylor does to move through its compelling structure. Even Haden's choice of cover material is characteristically spare, from Don Sebesky's "Bittersweet" to William Walton's "Touch Her Soft Lips."
Taylo's two compositions, however, take a more oblique view. Both "Au Contraire" and "Windfall" demonstrate a richer sense of harmony, but under Haden's direction the approach is more economical than one might expect had this been Taylor's session.
Taylor's touch is deft as always. On "Windfall," the most outgoing piece on the album, he displays a musical perspicacity, empathically finding the common ground between his impressionistic complexity and Haden's almost folk-like simplicity. Haden's sound is characteristically visceral, resonating deep in the body. Spartan yet strangely elegant, one can almost feel him choose the absolutely right note for the moment.
On this introspective programme, Haden and Taylor create moments of unadulterated beauty. The almost painful poignancy of "Touch Her Soft Lips" is a benchmark for the rest of the recording, as is the melancholy "My Love and I." Impeccably recorded, live with no editing, Nightfall puts two players with different approaches together; the result is both hauntingly beautiful and a lesson in simplicity.
Track Listing: Chairman Mao; Nightfall; My Love and I; Au Contraire; Windfall; Touch Her Soft Lips; Song for the Whales; Bittersweet; Silence.
Now Playing.....
Harry Connick, Jr. - Blue Light, Red Light
After this lights out.......I think. This is my favorite album by Harry!
Tatiana Nikolayeva - J.S. Bach: piano music
From allmusic.com:
Even when playing Bach on a modern piano, most pianists interpret the composer's music through a Baroque stylistic lens: sharp attacks, quick releases, little to no pedal, a palate restricted to black and white and shades of gray, and a sense of austerity. Running against this trend, Soviet pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva plays Bach as if he were a Romantic composer. Fittingly, then, for this Regis disc licensed from A-Tempo in Prague, Nikolayeva fittingly chose a program of transcriptions with a similar emphasis: six by Busoni, including the demonic Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565; the titanic Chaconne from the Partita in D minor, BWV 1004; one by Myra Hess; the serene "Jesu bleibt meine Freude" from the Cantata No. 147; and one by Wilhelm Kempff, the haunting "Siciliano" from the Sonata in G minor, BWV 1031.
These are all deeply Romantic performances. Nikolayeva's tone is rich and full with a bass that echoes deeply. Her lines are legato, each singing with complete independence. Her sonorities are lushly colored and balanced between clarity and warmth. Nikolayeva favors a very flexible tempo rubato, especially in slow movements, and her phrasing shapes the music extensively. Though they may antagonize purists, these are compelling performances that find universal themes in music three centuries old. Skillfully remastered by Paul Arden-Taylor from performances taped in Moscow in 1980, the sound here is surprisingly clear and real.
Now Playing.......
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Well a night cap with Leonard to help me sleep the night away.......
A good and appropriate start for the Sunday morning after a good sleep....
Beautiful rainy morning! While packing and moving out.....
Nice album, especially the songs on the death of her father are touching ..,.
Actually playing it on a Sunday morning. I've always liked the sound KJ gets from a piano and there's lots of lovely tunes here.
Maybe its because there was Mozart playing on the radio when I woke up this morning, but I felt an overwhelming need to listen to this, Mutter/Karajan version of No. 3.
I searched on the Naim Audio n-stream app, but couldn't find it. Then I searched on n-serve, still no joy. I thought maybe I hadn't ripped it, so I went upstairs and searched through the CDs, but no luck there either. I thought I might have lost it. Then I remembered: it was on vinyl - and very nice it sounds too.