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

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Bruce Hornsby - Harbor lights.

One of my favorit Bruce Hornsby CD's. A nice mix of jazz(y) and pop/rock with contributions by Branford Marsalis and Pay Metheny.

Allmusic.com:

Leaving behind the Range, Bruce Hornsby trades heartland rock for a cooler, jazzier sound with Harbor Lights, an album that nonetheless retains his affinity for sincere portraits of American life, love, and heartache. The title track is a humid, celebratory song that evokes a romantic summer evening in the South, setting the stage for a collection of humanistic songs. If the album has an underlying theme, it's the necessity of seeing yourself and the ones you love through the hard times as well as the good. The purely upbeat songs, like "Rainbow's Cadillac" and "What a Night," are counterbalanced by the sober "Fields of Gray" and "Tide Will Rise," and the cultural commentary of "Talk of the Town." The music is uniformly excellent, with Hornsby's piano work blending seamlessly into the rich arrangements. Each song usually ends with an extended instrumental section, but these flow naturally instead of feeling like tacked-on jam sessions. And Hornsby isn't just showing off here, as he lets other voices, like Branford Marsalis' sax and Pat Metheny's guitar, get their say. In later albums, Hornsby's focus on music would tend to overtake his lyrical content, but Harbor Lights marks the point at which he found the right balance between virtuosic playing and personal storytelling.

More jazz-rock fusion (or is it progressive rock?) from Gong with Daevid Allen nowhere to be seen. Some beautiful, innovative, playing from the late Allan Holdsworth. 

D Bowie - Stage

Rock. And. Roll.

Highly recommended 2 x CD set, the Sonic Q is top-drawer! : )

Debs

Pinetop Perkins - Pinetop's boogie woogie.

Good blues music bij Pinetop Perkins.

Clive B posted:

I started the day with the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 FM, then switched to Record Review on BBC Radio 3 FM until I had the urge for something of my own choice. This album has been played frequently since it was mentioned on this forum. How did I let this pass me by?!

Just treated myself to the mobile fidelity original recording hybrid sacd/cd of this Santana album, my favourite. Oh what a treat, more detail, smoother, more musical. On amazon at £35,not cheap, but just had to, and was worth it.

Vinyl. I’m still listening to this regularly (it’s been on loop for a week running in my Nova & PMCs, so I catch snippets whenever I go into the upstairs lounge, but I also listen in a serious session every few days.) Among the greatest work Gregg ever did, the voice hasn’t got the power of his young days, but he still manages to belt out Live The Life I Love like a true blues man, and his reading of songs by Dylan, TIm Buckley, The Dead, Little Feat, Jackson Browne is that of a truly great singer. The only self-penned number, the opener, is as poignant a song as you’ll ever hear, taken to 11 by the fact he knew he had little time left when he sang it. His band are on stellar form, great songs, sung wonderfully by a great singer, a genuinely great album by one of the important artists of the rock era, my album of 2017. 

Thought it only fair to wait a couple of weeks before thrilling the Tablette 10 with this.  They’re relishing it!

The running man is going right through my head.

G

With Bobo Stenson on the piano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKTkG6o1rLc

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Dave Holland & Pepe Habichela - Hands

I saw this album mentioned by BRILLIANT yesterday and peaked my interest and read the Tidal notes and a short review in The Guardian I wanted to take it out for a spin.  Through the first three tracks and enjoying it quite a bit. If you liked the Charlie Haden and Antonio Forcione Heartplay album you will enjoy this. 

Streaming from TIDAL......

Notes from TIDAL: Dave Holland is best known as one of the great jazz bassists of his generation. Pepe Habichuela is an awe-inspiring flamenco guitarist. The two of them together, with Josemi and Carlos Carmona on additional guitars as well as a pair of percussionists, prove to be a wonderful combination. Holland brings his own experience to flamenco, subsuming himself in the genre, his bass imitating a voice on the glorious "Camaron," and giving free rein to the percussionists on "Joyride." It's Habichuela's magical fingers that mesmerize, covering the scales as adroitly as any pianist and bringing a rich fullness and a stunning imagination to the sound. But what's really at work here is a group consciousness, an exploration of flamenco, and the listener shares Holland's journey. There's nothing here that's diluted -- this is hardcore flamenco, very much the real thing -- and the hard realism is one of the great pleasures. Even though it can be overwhelming at times, that's in a good way. ~ Chris Nickson

.....and a small review in The Guardian by John Fordham can be found here: Dave Holland may be influential for his contemporary composition, but he has an equally vigorous life playing bass for other people. Hands is a departure for him, a collaboration with veteran flamenco guitarist Pepe Habichuela, his sidemen and his son Josemi. Holland's sound (at times echoing Charlie Haden's with the Spanish-inflected 1970 Liberation Music Orchestra) is a natural for this richly sonorous idiom, but traditional flamenco is mixed with lighter dance tunes and starker solo meditations here, and Holland's own Whirling Dervish lands somewhere between a Latin-jazz swinger and African hi-life. The title track is a classic flamenco strut varied by a heated bass break and the yielding thump of the cajon drum; handclapping and elegant melodies fuel graceful tangos; and the rumba El Ritmo Me Lleva has a song-like lightness. However, it's the brooding Bailaor that best balances the sense of patient negotiation and sharply seized openings of the best jazz groups with the directional certainties of flamenco song. Occasionally, the more world-jazzy parts veer towards the overly tasteful, but Holland's deep feelings for the rootsier parts of this programme are unmistakable.

Another cliche ‘test’ for the Tab Ten...raw & groovin’!

G

(2010)

Wolf People's debut album Steeple set the bar very high indeed and their subsequent albums have managed to keep up to their early standard. It's rock, psychedelic in parts that feels like a throw back to the great prog' era. The lead singer's voice sounds more suited to folk than rock but this adds to rather than detracts from the sound they continue to develop. Lots of nods to the past including Jethro Tull. 

After reading TonyM's post about old vinyl albums, I simply had to play this. Old vinyl, of course. Maybe not active DBLs, but the NBLs are doing a great job.

Clive B posted:

After reading TonyM's post about old vinyl albums, I simply had to play this. Old vinyl, of course. Maybe not active DBLs, but the NBLs are doing a great job.

Snap! I was within a finger's touch of playing this for the very same reasons but Wolf People just caught my eye while scrolling the library. 

I’ve picked my cat up from the cattery, which means a move from vinyl as she’s now lying on me and I’m not allowed to get up, so back to streaming. More solo Gregg, another superbly played and sung album.

(22 September 2017)

Jhené Aiko - Trip 

(June 2017)

Enjoying this psych rock recommendation from Spurrier Sucks.

Wolf People had completely passed me by until I saw Stevee_S’s post above. Really enjoying this, Cream, Tull, Fairport, Zappa, hints of Steeleye all rolled in to one. I’ll give their other albums a spin tomorrow (out to dinner tonight), I’ll get this ordered and probably the others. I might need to put Stevee on ignore, this is the second band he’s introduced me to in the last few weeks, it’s getting expensive. ????

Eoink posted:

Wolf People had completely passed me by until I saw Stevee_S’s post above. Really enjoying this, Cream, Tull, Fairport, Zappa, hints of Steeleye all rolled in to one. I’ll give their other albums a spin tomorrow (out to dinner tonight), I’ll get this ordered and probably the others. I might need to put Stevee on ignore, this is the second band he’s introduced me to in the last few weeks, it’s getting expensive. ????

 Enjoy your dinner. 

The Beatles

The White Album - CD Rip

Edward

(2017)

I was a bit late to the party with this one, concerned by some of the initial reviews. I shouldn't have worried, Percy has done it again. Quite a few new albums have been going into that virtual basket today, this is another. 

Mary Black - No Frontiers

I saw Mary mentioned on here a few times recently and as a big fan, thought I would listen on Tidal to the two albums forumites were talking about, No Frontiers and The Holy Ground. I like them both very much so I thought I would check out No Frontiers on the big river. I am now the proud owner of this wonderful album for the princely sum of £1.60 plus postage of £1.26. Feeling very pleased with myself at the moment. 

nigelb posted:

Mary Black - No Frontiers

I saw Mary mentioned on here a few times recently and as a big fan, thought I would listen on Tidal to the two albums forumites were talking about, No Frontiers and The Holy Ground. I like them both very much so I thought I would check out No Frontiers on the big river. I am now the proud owner of this wonderful album for the princely sum of £1.60 plus postage of £1.26. Feeling very pleased with myself at the moment. 

Whoops could be the first of many enjoy

Box Scaggs - Dig

I have been looking out for this one for some time now but it is always so expensive, even pre loved on the river. Then a couple of days ago there it was floating by at a very reasonable price. I though it must be damaged but I took a punt. It arrived, ripped and am listening to it right now. 

It is wonderful, such a cool album, Boz at his best.