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;
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.
A bargain for sure. Lovely album.
It's been a while since I played this. An album that encourages me to keep turning the wick up 
Sonny Clark - Cool struttin'
nigelb posted: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.
I have just got back into Boz after watching the Dukes of September on UTube, Boz, Donald Fagen of steely dan and Mike Mc Donald of the doobie bros in 2012, worth a watch.
nigelb posted: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.
Excellent album. My favourite Boz Scaggs album.
Is it the deluxe version with the DVD-A disc. I have the deluxe version, (nicest CD packaging I’ve ever seen), but, didn’t see the point in listening to the DVD-A, a budget DVD player wasn’t going to outperform a CDS2.
Is it possible to rip a DVD-A to a NAS and stream it. If so is there any point in doing it, at present I stream the ripped CD.
Free
Fire And Water - Tidal HiFi
Edward
Now Playing.......
Ferenc Snetberger - Titon
Ferenc Snetberger (guitar), Anders Jormin (double bass), and Joey Baron (drums)
Recently received in the mail, ripped to the NAS and now streaming......
Through the first four tracks and this is a fine album, enjoying it quite a bit.
Review on All About Jazz by Mark Sullivan found here:
Jormin and Baron have played together on live shows, but never on record, despite their many individual ECM appearances. Baron has considerable experience playing with guitarists: he has worked with John Abercrombie for twenty years, most recently appearing on Up and Coming (ECM, 2017); has a long association with Bill Frisell, going all the way back to Lookout for Hope (ECM, 1987); and was a member of Jakob Bro's trio on Streams (ECM, 2016).
The new trio was comfortable enough to produce the improvised performances that bracket the program: "Cou Cou" (featuring Baron playing drums with his hands) and the title tune open, while "Clown," "Rush" and "Inference" close. "Titok" is set up by Jormin's unaccompanied bass, and the brief "Inference" finds the leader unaccompanied. The rest of the music is a mix of older Snétberger compositions and new music written for the trio. "Kék Kerék" is one of the old ones, a beautiful waltz that makes an especially strong impression coming out of the improvised material that precedes it.
"Rambling" is the first of the new selections, a lyrical guitar piece that sounds like it could work very well as a solo piece (although sensitively accompanied by the rhythm section here). "Orange Tango" shows the trio in full conversational mode. It opens with unaccompanied drums, only hinting at the tango rhythm. The guitar enters in the lead, but constantly in dialog with the bass. "Leolo" features gentle guitar harmonics, with a spotlight on a beautiful arco bass solo. "Renaissance" finds Snétberger's guitar in a lute-like role, reflecting the song's title, but also has room for a pizzicato bass solo.
Ferenc Snetberger's style is just as distinctive in this trio setting as it was solo: blending classical, jazz, Gypsy jazz, and Latin American musics, but melded together into a singular voice. Jormin and Baron are completely attuned—nylon-string guitar fans should take note.
More Zep just had to follow.
fatcat posted:nigelb posted: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.
Excellent album. My favourite Boz Scaggs album.
Is it the deluxe version with the DVD-A disc. I have the deluxe version, (nicest CD packaging I’ve ever seen), but, didn’t see the point in listening to the DVD-A, a budget DVD player wasn’t going to outperform a CDS2.
Is it possible to rip a DVD-A to a NAS and stream it. If so is there any point in doing it, at present I stream the ripped CD.
Not sure if you can rip a DVD-A and stream it as it is a different format to CD. Others will have more technical knowledge than I.
Have Just noticed I owe BoZ an apology. Flippin' auto-correct has rechristened him Box. Ah, have also noticed the z and x are next to each other on the keyboard and my fingers are not the slimmest so it could be me.
The Live set from the Deluxe version.
Saw his tour to promote this album and the gig is still in my Top 20 of all time.
Not the usual 3 disc set but 4 discs from the legendary sold out shows.
Joss Stone - Water For Your Soul
I know I posted this recently but I liked it so much when I listened to it on Tidal I bought the CD and am listening to the rip right now.
This is soft reggae sung with soul by our Joss. It sounds bonkers and some of you will think I have lost my mind. Don't care, I love this. 
Now Playing......
Jon Balke w/ Magnetic North Orchestra - Further
Another album that arrived in the past couple of days, ripped to NAS and now streaming.
I have been really enjoying the music from Jon Blake quite a bit recently and after the first five tracks on this album it will just encourage pursuing more of his albums. Another album worth the time to give a spin......
Jon Balke (piano, keyboards), Jens Petter Antonsen (lead trumpet), Per Jorgensen (trumpet, vocals), Morten Halle (alto Saxophone), Tore Brunborg (tenor and soprano saxophones), Gertrud Okland (violin), Trond Villa (violin), Jonas Franke-blom (cello), Anders Jormin (bass), Marilyn Mazur (percussion), and Audun Kleive (drums)
Review from the ECM website found here:
Although Norwegian pianist/composer Jon Balke has effectively been with ECM since almost the very beginning, having appeared—at the tender age of 19, no less—with Arild Andersen’s early quartet on Clouds In My Head (1975), it wasn’t until the early 1990s that he broke out on his own with such distinct albums as Nonsentration and this fine follow-up. Further is not only a title, but also a mantra that has dictated his career hence through the mouthpiece of his Magnetic North Orchestra, debuting here. The incantation in horn-speak that is “Departure” welcomes us into a signature sound familiar to Balke aficionados: intimate pockets of detail, pianistic swirls, and robust horns that follow wherever he leads (or is led). Yet despite the 10-piece ensemble behind him, which includes such trailblazers as percussionist Marilyn Mazur and trumpeter Per Jørgensen, Balke finds plenty of room to breathe in arrangements as sparse as they are fruitful. His arcing lines, kissed by the sunlight and molten gold of Tore Brunborg’s reeds, take comfort in their surroundings. “Horizontal Song,” for one, languishes, letting cares fall like maple seeds propellering to the ground—prelude to Balke’s low-flying improvisations. Seemingly born to guide, he flushes through lovely chromatic spreads (“Shaded Place”) and groovy touches (“Moving Carpet”) with an easy charm, painting a children’s book of mythical beasts and cautious heroes.
For my money, the Jørgensen/Brunborg/Mazur nexus is where it’s really at on this date. The trumpet’s spaciousness in “Eastern Forest” and tenor’s limber rolls in “Taraf” evoke seasonal changes and unforgettable memories. Jørgensen flexes his vocal cords in “Changing Song” amid Mazur’s alluring, humid atmospheres, leaving the pointillist wonders of “Wooden Voices” to return us to the brassy fold of “Arrival.”
Balke is an artist whose music hides as much as it reveals, and Further is one way to get closer.
George Mraz and Emil Viklický - two of the leading Czech jazz musicians united again. George Mraz is one of the most profiled bass players in the world and Emil Viklický is the "patriarch of Czech jazz piano"(the London Evening Standard). They perform a new Czech way of jazz, fresh ideas on traditional foundations and no least of all two of the most remarkable voices of jazz can be discovered on "Together Again".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAs480RRBT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2noP-F4dLo
Now Playing........
Charlie Haden with Chet Baker, Enrico Pieranunzi, & Billy Higgins - Silence
Charlie Haden (bass) with Chet Baker (trumpet, vocals), Enrico Pieranunzi (piano), & Billy Higgins (drums)
This album arrived in the mail a few days ago and ripped to NAS and now streaming......
These four make a great quartet, a great album for a sunny Saturday afternoon of listening to some jazz!
Just Finishing.......
Edwin Mccain - Austin Sessions
A short trip back in time....... Great voice, great lyrics, great music...... that's why!
Now Playing.......
Fink - Perfect Darkness
Some Fink and Perfect Darkness on a Saturday Night........
Now Playing.......
Stephen Fearing - That's How I Walk
I put this in the TIDAL queue after seeing the mention from EWEMON yesterday. I have not heard one of stephen's album previously and decided to take one out for a spin.....
Three tracks down and enjoying the music quite a bit....... another catalogue to explore!
Sebastian Knauer - Bach & Sons 2
A nice mixture of keyboard concertos from J.S. Bach and his sons.
On CD:-
Anouar Brahem Trio - Astrakan Cafe
ewemon posted:
Saw his tour to promote this album and the gig is still in my Top 20 of all time.
Have you ever posted a list of your favourite gigs? You seem to have attended and enjoyed many. I'd be interested to see which were your favourites.