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

Frank Sinatra - Sinatra and Swingin' Brass

This is one of my favorite VM albums. Its the third of the great Astral Weeks, Veedon Fleece, Common One Trinity of improvisation and not for the faint hearted "I love Moondance" crowd. But it is magnificent.

CD  

An album I played to death on my LP12. Nearly 30 years on and i'm cueing it up via an iPad ...

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

Cd Rip, a CD/DVD set from the early 2000s. Mary is in great voice, Crow on the Cradle is haunting. 

dave marshall posted:

nigelb posted:

Lizzzzz Wright - The Orchard

Oh boy this gal can sing. Power, control, expression and a wonderful tone. Great choons too.

I should add there are some wonderful instrumental accompaniments on this album. It is a veritable belter.

Bought this unheard, on your recommendation ................ an absolute belter of an album, as you say. Great shout! 

Wow.  Thanks guys, another fantastic discovery from the Music Room.  I noticed Lizz Wright popping up in conversation here a few times recently, and have already been through a few albums, all of which have been great.  First time playing The Orchard though, and it is great too.  :-)  Plus the recordings on all the albums I've tried to date are top notch in my book.  

On Vinyl

Not because she looks great!

atb

kk

Now Playing........

Jon Blake w/Magnetic North Orchestra - Further

Streaming from the NAS.......

A fantastic and enjoyable album!

KeanoKing posted:

Not because she looks great!

 

atb

kk

Good call - not listened to this for a while so it's going onto my playlist 

Jeroen20 posted:

Brilliant posted:

Dizzy Reece - Blues in Trinity (rec. at Decca Studios, London in 1958). CD-rip.

Thanks for posting this one Brilliant! I don't know Dizzy Reece, but it looks interesting. Always nice to discover new music from the famous Blue Note period.

Regards, Jeroen.

I have to admit that at times I do feel a bit outdated and repetitive with my postings mostly coming out of the 50s/60s Jazz - so thank you! Dizzy Reece is 86 now I believe. Mosaic Records put out a Mosaic Select set of his four Blue Note albums which is sadly OOP. Here is a synopsis from their website:

"Born and raised in Jamaica, trumpeter Dizzy Reece first made a name for himself on the London jazz scene where he, Victor Feldman and Tubby Hayes played on each other’s albums for Tempo in the mid fifties. His big, brilliant tone, personal way of phrasing and highly original modern compositions immediately attracted the attention of American artists like Miles Davis who became an early champion.
When Alfred Lion heard his work, he commissioned British producer Tony Hall to record a Reece album for Blue Note. Blues In Trinity featured two American guests (Donald Byrd and Art Taylor) to Reece’s London band with Tubby Hayes. The results were so positive that Lion invited Reece to New York where he recorded Star Bright with the first-rate Blue Note cast of Hank Mobley, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Taylor. His third album for the label Soundin’ Off was a quartet affair with Walter Bishop, Doug Watkins and Taylor that really focused on Reece’s rich, lyrical ideas and big sound.

Dizzy recorded two more sessions for Blue Note in 1960 that were not issued until 1999 when they came out together in 1999 as Comin’ On. Stanley Turrentine is featured on both. The Jazz Messengers rhythm section (Bobby Timmons, Jymie Merritt and Art Blakey) is on the first, while the trio of Duke Jordan, Sam Jones and Al Harewood plus the added tenor of Musa Kaleem are on the second. What is so striking about these dates beyond the level of the playing is Reece’s compositions which are delightfully melodic and attractive but also very unusual and challenging. His Blue Note sessions are a high point in this underrated artist’s long career."

(1969)

I've had some of those Santana rhythms and sounds in my head all afternoon so on with this 2004 Sony Legacy Edition which has three bonus tracks tacked on, two recorded live from Woodstock.

Ella Fitzgerald - Get Happy.

Triggered by the earlier post...

Now listening to the great Monk...

Iron Maiden - Live after Death.

Obviously very loud, drowning out the fireworks.

Fourth spin. Music & musicians are very good though the sound is very disappointing. I am willing to bet that the guy who re-masterd this album is a long time scuba-diver incapable of equalizing his ears anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMj-vBVqm2g

Haim Ronen posted:

Fourth spin. Music & musicians are very good though the sound is very disappointing. I am willing to bet that the guy who re-masterd this album is a long time scuba-diver incapable of equalizing his ears anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMj-vBVqm2g

 

Isn't it a requirement of re-mastering? downvote me to hell, but regretably all too often does it fail to impress.

(1970 | 2016 Remaster)

One more from Santana album while thinking about what to make for dinner....

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Ferenc Snetberger - Titok

Ferenc Snetberger (guitar), Anders Jormin (double bass), and Joey Baron (drums)

I do enjoy this album quite a bit......

Notes from the ECM web site: Hungarian guitarist Ferenc Snétberger made a lot of new friends with his ECM solo debut In Concert (“a beautiful, assured performance” – All About Jazz) and will make many more with Titok, which features his trio with Swedish bassist Anders Jormin and US drummer Joey Baron.  Recorded at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in May 2015 and produced by Manfred Eicher, it’s a warm and involving album, with an emphasis on intensely melodic improvisation and interaction which draws the listener gently into its sound-world.  The rapport between Snétberger and Jormin is evident from the outset, as both guitar and bass explore the contours of Ference’s compositions. Throughout, Joey Baron’s drums and cymbals provide shading and texture with restraint and subtlety.

(2008)

A change of tack to one of Scotland's finest bands, 'post - rock' is their category but they are so much more than that IMHO.

Sampled this one, not my type of music, to broad...

LP - Ruf Records 2011 : )

Kim Simmonds guitar, vocals on track 5
Joe Whiting saxophone, vocals 
Pat DeSalvo bass 
Garnet Grimm drum 
additional musicians 
Andy Rudy keyboards 
Ron Keck percussion 

Basic tracks recorded at White Cottage Studios, December 2010

Madeleine Peyroux - Seculair Hymns

If you like blues / country music in a small setting (bass, two guitars and voice) than I can highly recommend this one.

It's beautiful recorded to.

A band and album I discovered from the Naim label site.  Unusually for me, this a high-def download that I play through the nDAC from a USB (a gentle dip of my toe into modern replay )  

Jeroen20 posted:

Madeleine Peyroux - Seculair Hymns

If you like blues / country music in a small setting (bass, two guitars and voice) than I can highly recommend this one.

It's beautiful recorded to.

Sounds like my sort of album (and i like Madeleine Peyroux). Just ordered it