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

Excellent performances of some Mendelssohn String Symphonies by Concerto Köln, capturing his youthful joie de vivre, lovely listening.

Old No. 1 by Guy Clark, WAV Rip from a bargain compilation of his first 2 albums. SQ is good, Clark was a master songwriter, this is ‘70s country, well,played, well sung with luminaries such as Emmmylou and Rodney Crowell on backing vocals, the songs are beautiful vignettes of American life.

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Bill Evans Trio - Moon Beams

Bill Evans (piano), Chuck Israels (bass), and Paul Motian (drums)

Streaming from NAS.........  Recent purchase and giving a listen for the first time.  Just pure joy listening to the first two tracks on this album, looking forward to the rest of the tracks.

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Christoph Oeding Trio - Northwest

A mention by SJUST above and I placed this in the TIDAL queue for a future play.  Now is the time.......

I did a search and tried to find information regarding Christoph and this album but to nothing popped up. On the third track and enjoying the album.

Off to the ballet in 2 weeks time, so doing some homework...

Rather looking forward to it now.

Steve Earle pays tribute to his friend and mentor Townes Van Zandt. Earle does good versions of the lovely Townes songs, it never quite soars as I’d hoped it would, but I do play it a few times a year, and always enjoy it.

Stevee_S posted:

(1995)

Speaking of which, this one will possibly be my last for tonight.

Thanks Stevee_s. Will check it out as I’ve not heard any of this yet.

Utterly brilliant synth pop, they never equalled this album:

For whatever reason I still find many of the synth sounds on this album quite unique.

Appreciate many in less tolerant times might have regarded the duo as a bit of a joke, and many may still do so, but I don't think there's a poor song on the original album (tracks 1-10) - great pop and the lyrics in several songs have nuances that only make sense to me in later years.

My favourites here are the funky/jazzy Seedy Films and Sex Dwarf simply as it's off the wall and bizarre.

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Guy Clark - Old No. 1

A mention from EOINK above had me place this in the TIDAL queue to play after running some Saturday afternoon errands.....

First two tracks sound mighty sweet......

Two LPs recorded in 1960 & 1961.

Entirely self-taught, unfazed by blindness and brittle bone disease, Chicagoborn Chris Anderson (1926-2008) remains a legendary figure among jazz pianists and an acknowledged influence on Herbie Hancock, who studied with him in 1960. Hancock was quick to spread the word among musicians. His teacher, he said, had "a whole other facet of tools of expression and harmonies that I hadnt heard in Bill Evans," adding that "Chris Anderson is a master of harmony and sensitivity."

Charlie Haden, who made the superb "None But The Lonely Heart" with him for Naim in 1997, said at the time, a propos Anderson's brittle bone disease: "Chris is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such reverence for beauty, he plays like an angel." That says it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BJSuwRpkxk

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

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Asleep At The Wheel - A Tribute to Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys

An album from 1993 and if  you like Texas Swing it is a lot of fun. Great to see live if ever given the opportunity. Asleep At The Wheel as been around since the early 70's and released another Bob Wills Tribute album with 22 tracks in 2015 so they are still alive and well and going strong.

Streaming from NAS.......

In honor of missing, yet again, Dead and Friends this past week

GD-American Beauty

sucks being old with a job

Four 14-Horace Grigsby

local guys but you can find them on Tidal. Widespread Panic influenced for sure. Also friends of The Marcus King Band. 

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Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, & Joe Lovano - I Have The Room Above Her

Paul Motian (drums), Bill Frisell (guitar), & Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone)

Streaming from TIDAL........ and just ordered it online.

Love this album, played it the other day and needed to come back to it, love the spacing between the drums, guitar, and saxophone between these three musicians. At times a single note hangs in the air, then another replaces it, the timing and interplay between these three musicians is quite enjoyable.

Review in all about jazz can be found here.

This one section of the review really sums up this album for me. "It is uncanny how every project Bill Frisell plays in, seems to turn into Bill Frisell music. Maybe even more so on I Have the Room Above Her. The lack of a bass and the openness of Paul Motian's drumming provide a full view of his contrapuntal craftiness and excellent intonation. Disharmonic half step intervals sound just as matter-of-factly as the campfire harmonies he is often fond of using. Through his sometimes endless delay effects, he pushes the lower range of his guitar into a somewhat foggy background. His harmonisations, therefore, acquire a depth suggestive of a huge ensemble. Frisell completely exceeds the acknowledged boundaries of his instrument."

(2001)

Eoink posted:

A fairly recent discovery for me courtesy of Stevee_S. A very pleasing blend of early ‘70s influences, Led Zep, Jethro Tull, Traffic... Not just a pastiche, they have their own sound, although the influences shine through on this album, having seen Percy a week ago a few wails sounded familiar. Really enjoyable music.

Sounds interesting. who plays ? And What  ?

Jeroen20 posted:

Art Pepper - Today

Allmusic.com:

Altoist Art Pepper, in the midst of a successful comeback, recorded this excellent set for Galaxy. With pianist Stanley Cowell, bassist Cecil McBee, and drummer Roy Haynes, Pepper performs a definitive version of his intense ballad "Patricia." Other highlights include "Miss Who," "Lover Come Back to Me" and "Chris' Blues."

I remember McBee and Haynes playing a splendid rhythm section for Chico Freeman, in the late eighties (Spirit Sensitive still being played by me, now and then), so will give this a try. Thanks for the hint !

seakayaker posted:

Now Playing.......

Christoph Oeding Trio - Northwest

A mention by SJUST above and I placed this in the TIDAL queue for a future play.  Now is the time.......

I did a search and tried to find information regarding Christoph and this album but to nothing popped up. On the third track and enjoying the album.

Same happened to me - discovered them, did some research (was astonished that they are well covered in qobuz, Tidal, itunes, ...) but not much more to be found. Now, you have two possible ways to react: stand back, forget about all possible comparisons (Pat Metheny, Ralph Towner or Wolfgang Muthsoiel spring to mind) , and enjoy or: not like it, because the name behind is not “big enough”. Glad we both decided right  

Love jazz, love Bob? This is for you. All three cds by this group are worth hearing.

Elton John. Honky Chateau (1972). On MFSL gold CD from 1990. One of Reg's better albums. The original vinyl may have the lone advantage of tighter bass, but the resolution, clarity, space, separation of instruments, and inky-blackness on this CD is notably more impressive.

Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship. Collection. On CD from 2000. I love the Jefferson Airplane, start to loose interest with the Jefferson Starship, and give up on the Starship's big-hair, commercial sound. Nonetheless, Grace Slick's indomitable voice makes this worth the listen.

Maria Joao Pires - Chopin: Nocturnes

seakayaker posted:

Now Playing.......

Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, & Joe Lovano - I Have The Room Above Her

Love this album, played it the other day and needed to come back to it

This one section of the review <in all about jazz> really sums up this album for me. "It is uncanny how every project Bill Frisell plays in, seems to turn into Bill Frisell music ."

Hi seakayaker-

Nice, enjoying your ECM tour and mirroring some but not all via Tidal. This was a big part of my college-era pleasure, not all understood or understandable, but the craft of soundscapes was good for my head. 

Years later, starting a year-long sabbatical and in that high-learning early phase, Blues Dream (not ECM...) recaptured and built on those old memories. 

Years later again, just a couple four years ago now, I had the huge pleasure of sitting at the front of a small Ottawa atelier performance of the as-yet-unreleased “Guitar in the Space Age”, Frisell’s self-proclaimed “music I got started with” romp. Truly outstanding stuff, with only wispy or imagined links to the single-note-hanging stuff. Worth a look to see him reinvent the stuff that inspired him, Seakayaker. 

Thanks for sharing your journey with us. 

Regards alan

ps - if you haven’t spent time with the Frisell plays Lennon set, do so now; apparently launched impromptu when he arrived to play a set and - maybe because it was a Lennon anniversary of some sort? - was asked if they could do some covers instead of what they had planned... Studio version came out two years or so later

pps - East / West (and, I think still on Tidal, Further East / Further West really shows what he can do live with a looping pedal... I always like Shanendoa and Grapevine)

ppps - thinking about turning others’ into Frisell projects, check out the two awesome Dylan covers on the recent Bonnie Raitt album, which he grabs hold of with both hands and bends into something that she wouldn’t have imagined yet still sounds like her...