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

Just Finished.....

Fred Simon - Remember The River

Fred Simon (piano), Paul McCandless (English horn, oboe, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, penny whistle), and Steve Rodby (acoustic bass).

A beautiful Album - Streaming from NAS

A review with All About Jazz can be found here.

The mighty 2nd recorded in 1958 with NYP/Bernstein!

Now Playing......

Jacob Young - Evening Falls

Jacob Young (guitars), Mathias Eick (trumpet), Vidar Johansen (bass clarinet, tenor saxophone), Mats Eilertsen (double-bass), and Jon Christensen (drums).

Continued exploration of the ECM catalogue...... Streaming from TIDAL.

Review of album can be found at All About Jazz here.

Smooth jazz vocals from Stacey with great backing - it's not orchestral in the full sense. On vinyl (2 x LPs), with excellent repro. 

Bizarrely, a well-known on-line site has the vinyl listed at ~£38 but 'Other Sellers' have it at ~£15 (the single CD is only £8).  I'm convinced there is only one version of the vinyl issuance. I reported this disparity a week or so back but nothing's changed.

At ~£15, I think this is a steal - of course YMMV.

Katie Melua - Call Off The Search - CD

Following on from Oi Va Voi and KT Tunstall, Katie Melua. One of our favourites.

Phil 

Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:

Gian,

You have got all the essential elements here, what else do you need?

Have a happy Italian Thanksgiving.

H

Last one for the day before taking a flight east. I never bring music on board. I rather listen to passengers yammering about sports or praising the humongous legroom that airlines are providing these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mskURYO7DiA

A heavily overcast, showery and windy day needs something bright and energetic. I know - Gazeuse by Gong.

I heard the Havanaise from this LP on BBC Radio 3 Breakfast programme this morning, and thinking that I might have it on vinyl, thought I'd give it a spin. It's in immaculate condition as I didn't much take to it when I originally bought it. Sounds wonderful!

(2011)

A super debut album and a great way to start, I'll be playing their latest album (released last month) later. Feint shades of Simon & Garfunkel on some tracks, gentle Americana and touches of world music. 

Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - CD

Following on from Katie Melua, another singer who plays acoustic guitar. Pretty good debut album from 27 December 1967. RIP 2017.

Phil

The laconic ‘Ship of Fools’ fitting my mood after the funeral of a friend who left too young.

G

On CD:-

Fink - Hard Believer

On CD:-

Billy Cobham - B.C.

joerand posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

John Willmott posted:

This is probably one of the richest threads here on the forum.  However, if you fall behind in accessing it (I was away for 5 months this summer and couldn't access it regularly) then it becomes somewhat onerous to plod through.  It would be wonderful if, when making one's post, you could designate  the genre of music you were listening to along with the actual album .. that way you could cull the albums you were interested in .. thoughts ?

You have a point however, I am just taking it as it is. And I also realize myself that publishing as such is an effort so that it sometimes is a bit too much at the moment to provide a lot of background. I am sometimes just reminded or motivated by seeing the picture to try out. Or just triggered to research by the pure fact that multiple people are posting it. A long personal review with background is a bonus.

I always make a point of posting the artist, album title, original year released, as well as the particular format I'm listening to and it's year of release. Beyond that, the genre can become ambiguous. The bulk of my listening would broadly fit into the 'rock' genre which would certainly delineate it from classical music, but within rock there's classical, alternative, blues, progressive, psychedelic, grunge, and possibly even folk, so it becomes difficult to assign a genre. I have no idea where to draw the line between alternative and grunge. Where would you loosely classify an artist like Beck? Popular?

Genre is an absolute mine field .. I fully agree .. and my thoughts were that the designation would be made at a high level .. Blues, Classical, folk, Rock .. and I also fully realize that that list in itself would be contentious.  But this discussion is moot really without the ability within the forum to actually mark the album you are submitting by its genre .. ie., a searchable item.  

Randy:  At the risk of creating an uproar I probably would put Beck in Popular .. Question is, where would the Smiths go ?

John Willmott posted:

joerand posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

John Willmott posted:

This is probably one of the richest threads here on the forum.  However, if you fall behind in accessing it (I was away for 5 months this summer and couldn't access it regularly) then it becomes somewhat onerous to plod through.  It would be wonderful if, when making one's post, you could designate  the genre of music you were listening to along with the actual album .. that way you could cull the albums you were interested in .. thoughts ?

You have a point however, I am just taking it as it is. And I also realize myself that publishing as such is an effort so that it sometimes is a bit too much at the moment to provide a lot of background. I am sometimes just reminded or motivated by seeing the picture to try out. Or just triggered to research by the pure fact that multiple people are posting it. A long personal review with background is a bonus.

I always make a point of posting the artist, album title, original year released, as well as the particular format I'm listening to and it's year of release. Beyond that, the genre can become ambiguous. The bulk of my listening would broadly fit into the 'rock' genre which would certainly delineate it from classical music, but within rock there's classical, alternative, blues, progressive, psychedelic, grunge, and possibly even folk, so it becomes difficult to assign a genre. I have no idea where to draw the line between alternative and grunge. Where would you loosely classify an artist like Beck? Popular?

Genre is an absolute mine field .. I fully agree .. and my thoughts were that the designation would be made at a high level .. Blues, Classical, folk, Rock .. and I also fully realize that that list in itself would be contentious.  But this discussion is moot really without the ability within the forum to actually mark the album you are submitting by its genre .. ie., a searchable item.  

Randy:  At the risk of creating an uproar I probably would put Beck in Popular .. Question is, where would the Smiths go ?

Is there a genre called 'Trash'?

1995 - Vinyl - UK first pressing...

Tricky - Maxinquaye

A new remastering of Lenny's Vienna Beethoven cycle. There is a hint of more transparency and foundation in what were already good (live) recordings. This remains, for me, THE Beethoven symphony cycle, and it's cool to have it in the best possible sound.

Cheers

EJ

Cannonball Adderley - Know what I mean?

From allmusic.com:

What's better than a Bill Evans Trio album? How about a Bill Evans trio album on which the bassist is Percy Heath, the drummer is Connie Kay, and the leader is not Evans but alto sax god Cannonball Adderley, making the group actually a quartet? It's a different sort of ensemble, to be sure, and the musical results are marvelous. Adderley's playing on "Waltz for Debby" is both muscular and sensitive, as it is on the other Evans composition here, a modal ballad called "Know What I Mean?" Other treats include the sprightly "Toy" and two takes of the Gershwin classic "Who Cares?" The focus here is, of course, on Adderley's excellent post-bop stylings, but it's also interesting to hear Evans playing with a rhythm section as staid and conservative as Kay and Heath (both charter members of the Modern Jazz Quartet). It's hard to imagine any fan of mainstream jazz not finding much to love on this very fine recording.

Timmo1341 posted:

John Willmott posted:

joerand posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

John Willmott posted:

This is probably one of the richest threads here on the forum.  However, if you fall behind in accessing it (I was away for 5 months this summer and couldn't access it regularly) then it becomes somewhat onerous to plod through.  It would be wonderful if, when making one's post, you could designate  the genre of music you were listening to along with the actual album .. that way you could cull the albums you were interested in .. thoughts ?

You have a point however, I am just taking it as it is. And I also realize myself that publishing as such is an effort so that it sometimes is a bit too much at the moment to provide a lot of background. I am sometimes just reminded or motivated by seeing the picture to try out. Or just triggered to research by the pure fact that multiple people are posting it. A long personal review with background is a bonus.

I always make a point of posting the artist, album title, original year released, as well as the particular format I'm listening to and it's year of release. Beyond that, the genre can become ambiguous. The bulk of my listening would broadly fit into the 'rock' genre which would certainly delineate it from classical music, but within rock there's classical, alternative, blues, progressive, psychedelic, grunge, and possibly even folk, so it becomes difficult to assign a genre. I have no idea where to draw the line between alternative and grunge. Where would you loosely classify an artist like Beck? Popular?

Genre is an absolute mine field .. I fully agree .. and my thoughts were that the designation would be made at a high level .. Blues, Classical, folk, Rock .. and I also fully realize that that list in itself would be contentious.  But this discussion is moot really without the ability within the forum to actually mark the album you are submitting by its genre .. ie., a searchable item.  

Randy:  At the risk of creating an uproar I probably would put Beck in Popular .. Question is, where would the Smiths go ?

Is there a genre called 'Trash'?

Well, there's a band called Garbage, which I happen to like.

Because I haven't had a blast from this for a while.........and loud!