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;
Now Playing......
Fink Meets The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO)
Continuing on with the FINK theme of the day........ Streaming from TIDAL
sjust posted:On of the best life experiences at the time.
Stefan,
I had to look up Wolfgang Dauner and Charlie Mariano, never heard of them before.
1988 ? I didn't know that you were that old..
John Hicks showing his softer side befitting the late hour, the last one for the night.
Erich posted:Mike-B posted:I play this every once in a while, I need to be in the right mood, open minded relaxed & receptive, volume must be cranked up then just lie back for an assault on both sonic & emotional senses. Its a challenging listen but its one of those albums that must be listened to. It's written in the aftermath of a long time relationship break up & much of it tells that story, it melancholy, brooding & emotionally moving but its not morose in the slightest, absolutely brilliant.
24/192kHz WAV
Mike, could you help me with artist & album names? TYVM.
The artist is Björk, the album is Vulnicura (from 2015).
Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:
nice one Gianluigi, this always gives me goosebumps ...for both the music & the memories...
Pogorelich/Abbado/LSO: Tchikovsky PC1 - '85 rec.
Well, this is certainly different not at all I expected out of Pogorelich!
He turned the concerto into a personal commentary or blog sort of. Abbado takes somewhat of strolling tempo and laid back view, Pogorelich equally taking a gingerly more contemplated approach rather than typical fearsome stormy style.
A complete opposite from passionate high energy Horowitz/Toscanini set I love so much, but I am amused at a creative liberty they are taking here. I think it gives a fresh angle to this old war horse program. Self indulgence? maybe but I am enjoying the ride.
Haim Ronen posted:sjust posted:On of the best life experiences at the time.
Stefan,
I had to look up Wolfgang Dauner and Charlie Mariano, never heard of them before.
1988 ? I didn't know that you were that old..
Thanks for the link, Haim. That's exactly how I remember them (they filled the big Auditorium of the University of Saarbrücken). Outch for not being exposed to Dauner and Mariano, earlier. They both were members of the "United Jazz and Rock Ensemble", also featuring the likes of Albert Mangelsdorff, Volker Kriegel, Eberhard Weber, Ack van Royen, Kenny Wheeler, and others - who made their contribution to Jazz history. Shocking to see how many of them passed away, already...
kuma posted:
Pogorelich/Abbado/LSO: Tchikovsky PC1 - '85 rec.
Well, this is certainly different not at all I expected out of Pogorelich!
He turned the concerto into a personal commentary or blog sort of. Abbado takes somewhat of strolling tempo and laid back view, Pogorelich equally taking a gingerly more contemplated approach rather than typical fearsome stormy style.
A complete opposite from passionate high energy Horowitz/Toscanini set I love so much, but I am amused at a creative liberty they are taking here. I think it gives a fresh angle to this old war horse program. Self indulgence? maybe but I am enjoying the ride.
Oh, another one I saw in the eighties - where Pogorelich was playing Solo Chopin, and warmed my heart in the grim winterly atmosphere of the small and acoustically horrible venue (Fruchthalle Kaiserlautern). That was the time, when a small number of CD's were still kept under the table in record stores, and I was the proud owner of a gen-2 Phillips player.
Clive B posted:
Lots of noise from the audience on this album, but maybe that's understandable given how this really cooks!
Some of the tracks were recorded in the studio with audience noise added.
My favourite Christmas album:
PaulM160 posted:Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:
nice one Gianluigi, this always gives me goosebumps ...for both the music & the memories...
Thank you! I made the mistake to sell some of these records about 20 years ago so i'm buyin' them again! They're hard to beat....... Sometimes i think about what was in the charts and in radios in those days and what comes out today.....impossible to compare i believe....
Now Playing........
Anouar Brahem - Thimar
Anouar Brahem (composer, Oud), John Surman (clarinet, composer, soprano saxophone), and David Holland (double bass)
Streaming from NAS.......
Note from ECM Records website found here:
A strikingly attractive 'transcultural' project initiated by Tunisian oud virtuoso Anouar Brahem, who is both an innovator and a traditionalist in the deepest sense (he has been credited with 'restoring the sovereignty of the oud' in Tunisian music). There is no glib fusion of traditions on Thimar but rather a coming together of three very distinctive musicians who sacrifice none of their individuality in the search for common ground. Arab classical music and jazz are the reference points here, but Anouar Brahem, John Surman and Dave Holland meet as improvisors not limited by genre definition.
Now Playing......
Avishai Cohen - Into The Silence
Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Jonathan Avishai (piano), Bill McHenry (tenor saxophone), Eric Revis (double bass), and Nasheet Waits (drums)
Continued exploration of the ECM Records catalogue...... Streaming from TIDAL
Into the second track and this is one beautiful album.
Notes from the ECM Catalogue here:
“Cohen is a multicultural jazz musician, among whose ancestors is Miles Davis. Like Davis, he can make the trumpet a vehicle for uttering the most poignant human cries.”
– Jazz Times
Avishai Cohen impressed a lot of listeners with his soulful contributions to Mark Turner’s Lathe of Heaven album in 2014. Now the charismatic Tel Aviv-born trumpeter has his ECM leader debut in a programme of expansive and impressionistic compositions for jazz quartet (trumpet, piano, bass, drums), augmented by tenor saxophone on a few pieces. Into The Silence is dedicated to the memory of Avishai’s father David, reflecting upon the last days of his life with grace and restraint. Avishai’s tender muted trumpet sets the emotional tone of the music in the album’s opening moments and his gifted cast of musicians explore its implications. Israeli pianist Yonathan Avishai has played with Cohen in many settings and solos creatively inside the trumpeter’s haunting compositions, sometimes illuminating them with the phraseology of the blues. Cohen and drummer Nasheet Waits have a hypersensitive understanding and their interaction can, from moment to moment, recall the heyday of Miles Davis and Tony Williams or Don Cherry and Billy Higgins. Yet this music, while acknowledging inspirational sources, is very much of our time. Bassist Eric Revis, a cornerstone of the Branford Marsalis quartet for two decades, provides elegant support throughout. And saxophonist Bill McHenry, a subtle modernist who has worked with Paul Motian and Andrew Cyrille, shadows Cohen’s lines with feeling. Into The Silence was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in the South of France in July 2015 and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Masaaki Suzuki plays Bach Organ Works on the Garnier Organ of Kobe Shoin, Volume 2
(2002)
On CD:-
Eurythmics - Touch
Admittedly a bit of pre christmas kitsch, but hey, it's St. Nikolaus, today. And who can argue with a wonderful voice like that of José Carreras...
(1986)
Just fancied something from the Sylvian one.
1985 - vinyl - UK pressing...
From the ashes of Bauhaus...
Duke Jordan - Flight to Denmark. 1994 CD-rip. Soothing!
