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;
Vinyl, because funky Latin music is just the thing on a cold grey Sunday. Great music, though the record is mastered incredibly quietly...
On CD:-
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Needed some 'Mama', with plenty of volume. It's like finding a long lost friend as I haven't played this for ages. On vinyl from many years back.
The repro is very good too.
kevin J Carden posted:nigelb posted:Bill Withers' - Greates Hits
I normally avoid 'Greatest Hits' albums but I have had this for donkeys years and thought I would give it a whirl.
Absolutely brilliant!! Wow I am enjoying this. The 555 DR I am trialling transforms this album.
Trialling Nigel? Really? Sounds like a ‘prising from fingers of my dead body’ situation to me...
Still in negotiations. Not with the dealer but with my darling wife. Actually she asked what the empty Naim box was doing on the floor. Bless her, she hadn't noticed the 555 in the Fraim as it is identical to the SuperCap and the 250 below it and she never made a count of the black boxes in play. So I summoned the courage from somewhere and broached the dreaded subject of a 'possible' acquisition. She said if we ever get divorced, the HiFi (or rather what I spend on it) would be the cause. I laughed nervously. As they say in Brussels, the talks continue…...
Chet Baker - Somewhere over the rainbow
Allmusic.com:
Taken from Chet Is Back!, recorded in Italy in 1962, Somewhere Over the Rainbow features Baker at his finest, and is an excellent introduction to the musician's non-vocal work. As is the case with most Baker albums, Somewhere Over the Rainbow feels like a quickly put-together session recording. The material is all standard jazz repertoire, played in a no-frills format, without specific arrangements or endings. It is the musicianship here that is the main attraction. Baker has rarely sounded better; his technique is in top shape, and his solos are textbook examples of lyrical bop playing. Baker, as was not always the case throughout his career, surrounds himself on Somewhere Over the Rainbow with strong and supportive sidemen. Guitarist Rene Thomas, underrecorded throughout his career, becomes one of the highlights of the session, and makes the album a must-have for bop guitar enthusiasts. Tune selection is surprisingly upbeat for a Baker recording.
Recorded in 2003. We saw Lewis perform the same works ten years later in Chicago and we were left with the impression that he had consumed a bottle of vitamin pills and had done hundred push-ups just before the concert, his style becoming so much more powerful and bold. I like the old Lewis better, at least when it comes to Franz Schubert's music.
1987 - vinyl - UK pressing....
Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:
Thanks for the inspiration Gianluigi - this will start the afternoon off nicely.
James
Well, this seems to be the weekend in which I re-discover records I didn't know I had. After Ms Bush yesterday, this is another one I'd forgotten about - I must have bought it second-hand when I was still at school, circa 1980; and again it must have been mis-filed and forgotten about.
Anyway, this is a lovely copy (a bit battered) on Brain Records (I'm guessing it must be a first pressing) which I've just slapped on, and it's really rather good. Not a huge follower of Mr Schultze, but this is one of his better albums, which is why I must have bought it all those years ago...
When I've got a spare week, I really must start filing my record collection properly again! 
Bach: Violin and Voice
Hilary Harn | Matthias Goerne | Christine Schaefer
Michele Campanella - Liszt: Hungarian rhapsodies
I Like her album 'The Storm', this version of one of the album tracks with Fantastic Negrito is marvellous.
More Sting. Following The Dream of the Blue Turtles with this album.
Sting - The Last Ship
Frost is still on the grass so yard work will have to wait, time for another disc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H3IA_ZdTqk
Next up on the Melco is an album that i've not listened to in years. Still good.
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Eric Bibb - Bookers Guitar. So silent that you can hear the snow flakes falling between the notes..
The new 2017 remaster on vinyl. Beautifully silent, flat, heavyweight vinyl. I'm not sure the remaster adds anything to what I remember of the original, but it's nice to hear this one again.
Now Playing.....
Damien Rice - O
Starting off this Sunday morning with something 'Delicate'.......
born on this day in 1883...
I’ve only previously listened to Blue Alert which features Leonard Cohen’s music which is excellent. I am also enjoying this, a nice collection of jazzy pop songs beautifully sung.
Light and friendly
