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

Another interesting adventure of her...

Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life

From allmusic.com:

Recorded between trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's better-known classics Red Clay and First Light, Straight Life is actually arguably Hubbard's greatest recording. Joined by an all-star group that includes tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, keyboardist Herbie Hancock, guitarist George Benson, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Jack DeJohnette, Hubbard is frequently astounding on "Straight Life" (check out that introduction) and "Mr. Clean," constructing classic solos. The very memorable set is rounded off by the trumpeter's duet with Benson on a lyrical version of the ballad "Here's That Rainy Day."

New 96/24 download. First play

New from Bibio ...Phantom Brickworks . Double lp.

Ambient, relaxing, thoughtful,  mysterious, 

Bob F

A Trace of Grace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHEB4k_0d54

Deram first press rip in WAV. Magnificent!

G

Bert Schurink posted:

Iconoclast posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

Right now listening to this, quite good... from bandcamp...

 

Looks interesting. If I knew what it is I'd definitely check it out.

Apologies -

 

A Rare Thunderstorm in Spring is the self-funded debut album of Perihelion Ship, an extreme progressive metal band, co-founded by Andreas Hammer and Jani Konttinen in Finland, 2013. In addition to the commonly used techniques of the genre, the album also features a use of Hammond organ in the vein of classic 70's rock acts, combined with a use of Mellotron inspired by classic progressive acts such as Anekdoten and Änglagård.

Thought this was very good Bert. Bought.

I even forgave them the odd slip into Cookie Monster vocals

Angela Hewitt - Rameau: keyboard suites

Very nice music! This is the only recording I know of where Rameau's keyboard suites are played on a piano. It works out very well.

Before...

Meditative - Great Music.....

Jeroen20 posted:

Angela Hewitt - Rameau: keyboard suites

Very nice music! This is the only recording I know of where Rameau's keyboard suites are played on a piano. It works out very well.

 

Jeroen,

You could compare Hewitt to Tharaud playing Rameau:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYFJPXr1YzA

Or the exquisite Marcelle Meyer:

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

Haim

Jeroen20 posted:

Angela Hewitt - Rameau: keyboard suites

Very nice music! This is the only recording I know of where Rameau's keyboard suites are played on a piano. It works out very well.

 

There are other recordings as well. From Alexandre Tharraud and Marcelle Meyer...

Jacob Young - Evenings falls

Allaboutjazz.com

While guitarist Jacob Young has been on the Norwegian circuit for ten years, releasing three albums under his own name as well as a beautiful duet record with singer Karin Krog, Evening Falls is his first to receive widespread exposure. And that's a good thing as Young, in those ten years, has developed, much like piano counterpart Tord Gustavsen, into a singular artist who manages to blend a more ethnic Scandinavian approach with a clear respect for the American tradition. But whereas Gustavsen's sound owes much to New Orleans and the gospel tradition, Young comes from the more subdued and restrained approach of Jim Hall, with whom which he studied at New York's New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. 

Young manages to blend an understanding of playing changes with an almost naive folk song-like simplicity. "Blue," which opens the album, is based around a simple chorus that sounds how Pat Metheny might have, had he grown up in Norway instead of the American Midwest. Young's choice of acoustic guitar for this and nearly half the programme of nine originals, lends to the ethnic leaning of the record, although his harmonic choices are often blended with more advanced harmonic ideas. And his solos, whether on acoustic or electric, are clearly informed by ideas he developed in study with artists including John Abercrombie, Richie Beirach and Kenny Werner. His playing is defined by a strong lyricism and understanding of the importance of space, two characteristics that are common denominators with all his educators. But by melding these qualities with a certain Norwegian roots element, he has created a sound that, again like Gustavsen, sounds refreshingly new while, at the same time, oddly familiar. 

Evening Falls is also notable as the first ECM recording featuring drummer Jon Christensen since the '99 sessions that resulted in Bobo Stenson's Serenity . While Young's approach is less free, motivating Christensen to work more within a defined yet still elastic rhythmic framework, his playing is as subtle as ever. His playing on the rubato tone poem "Minor Peace" is filled with implication, but never resolves into the obvious. 

The other members of Young's quintet, which has been together for two years, are bass clarinetist Vidar Johansen, trumpeter Mathias Eick, whose melancholy melodicism harkens to Kenny Wheeler while displaying a charming simplicity, and bassist Mats Eilertsen, known to ECM fans as the bassist for saxophonist Iain Ballamy's Anglo-Norwegian free group, Food. Johansen shines, even as his style places him more in a support role, through the intuitive counterpoint he provides to both Young's and Eick's more overt explorations. Eilertsen proves himself to be a strong player with a tender side that he examines on the subtle tango rhythm of "Sky." 

Like Gustavsen's Changing Places , Evening Falls heralds the international arrival of an artist who, with a number of years behind him, has already developed a mature and personal approach. As a player, composer and bandleader he will clearly be someone to watch.

Bert Schurink posted:

Jeroen20 posted:

Angela Hewitt - Rameau: keyboard suites

Very nice music! This is the only recording I know of where Rameau's keyboard suites are played on a piano. It works out very well.

 

There are other recordings as well. From Alexandre Tharraud and Marcelle Meyer...

 

Thanks Bert, I'll check those out. Regards, Jeroen.

Gary Shaw posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

Iconoclast posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

Right now listening to this, quite good... from bandcamp...

 

Looks interesting. If I knew what it is I'd definitely check it out.

Apologies -

 

A Rare Thunderstorm in Spring is the self-funded debut album of Perihelion Ship, an extreme progressive metal band, co-founded by Andreas Hammer and Jani Konttinen in Finland, 2013. In addition to the commonly used techniques of the genre, the album also features a use of Hammond organ in the vein of classic 70's rock acts, combined with a use of Mellotron inspired by classic progressive acts such as Anekdoten and Änglagård.

Thought this was very good Bert. Bought.

I even forgave them the odd slip into Cookie Monster vocals

For the next few weeks, while I'm packing my belongings, preparing to evacuate my flat, I will be using the Cookie Monster vocals to retaliate against my neighbor's industrial level cigarette & hookah smoking.

Paul Berner Band   'This Bird Has Flown'    DSD from Sound Liaison,   just released,  recorded live in DXD.

Superb band playing Beatles classic melodies with there own style of soft mellow re-e-e-laxin' jazz. (no vocals)

NB:  the metadata has PND embedded album art, in my NAS it does not show it. I've mailed them to report it & it might be corrected already,   but its an easy to do change,  I used dBpoweramp ..... open 3 dots & save as .jpg to file & its changed.

Years from now, music scholars will still be trying to decode every metaphor, allusion, and rhyme on Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. There are few active lyricists today who demand such intense analysis as Lamar. His words are dense, they're funny, they're powerful. In a world where ideas are lost into the noise, Lamar forces you to stick around to listen—then listen again and eventually understand. DAMN is a triumph of writing first and foremost, a composition that just happens to be spoken over a collection of some of the greatest beats constructed in years.

Sad that I have only managed to post album covers so easily. Even with drink.

On Vinyl

Ragna Schirmer playing Brahms:

Rhapsody Op. 79/2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...ms22vwjcrlufvelrzo04