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

I promised myself a play of this having seen it posted on here, by Eoink I think, a few days ago.

I've gone for disc 3 which has some live performances of some of Jimi's classic like Little Wing, Purple Haze and Voodoo Child. Vibrant and very enjoyable. 

2000 - Tidal...

Another Music Room find getting its first outing. 

As the cover suggests, this is bonkers but strangely enjoyable...

Thundercat - Drunk

2007 - Tidal...

MDS posted:

I promised myself a play of this having seen it posted on here, by Eoink I think, a few days ago.

I've gone for disc 3 which has some live performances of some of Jimi's classic like Little Wing, Purple Haze and Voodoo Child. Vibrant and very enjoyable. 

And the definitive version of Johnny B Goode!

You simply cannot have too much Steve Hillage!

Triggered by a Dutch tv show - time for George..

Now taking this one, so well known....

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Tord Gustavsen - What Was Said

Tord Gustavsen (piano, electronics, synth bass), Simin Tander (voice), and Jarle Vespestad (drums)

Streaming from TIDAL......   Continuation with the ECM records catalogue exploration...... It is mighty fine!   I enjoyed Tord Gustavsen's 'The Ground' so selected the 'What was said' album as a follow up.  Both of them are quite enjoyable and will be listening to these again soon.

Notes on the ECM Records website found here:

What was said brings new colours to Tord Gustavsen’s musical palette. His latest trio project builds upon the subtle understanding of his long musical association with drummer Jarle Vespestad, introduces German-Afghan vocalist Simin Tander, and explores the tradition of Norwegian church music in untraditional ways: “For the repertoire of the new project, Simin and I have been working with Afghan poet B. Hamsaaya, translating and shaping a selection of hymns that I grew up with in Norway into Pashto,” Gustavsen explains. “This process has been challenging and really fruitful. We have gone quite far in interpreting the lyrics in a more ‘integral’ manner, reaching into a space where I feel that Sufism and Christianity actually meet.” Simin Tander also sings, in English, verse of Persian mystic Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73) and US proto-Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth (1905-82). As a pure play of sounds, too, the combination of Tander’s voice and Gustavsen’s piano and discreet electronics has an emotional persuasiveness of its own, outside the limits of language.

Sarabande:

Recorded in 1986.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyMGtDTE5X0

Tennyson. Uh.Oh.

Tidal.   Eva Cassidy  - Live At Blues Alley

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Tord Gustavsen Trio - Restored, Returned

Tord Gustavsen (piano), Tore Brunborg (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone), Kristin Ashørnsen (vocals), Mats Eilerten (double-bass), and Jarle Vespestad (drums)

Streaming from TIDAL....... Exploration of the ECM Records Catalogue continues with the third Tord Gustavsen album played today. I really enjoy his music, great for those days when you want to relax and have something smooth & soothing. 

A note from the ECM Records website: After a trilogy of highly successful trio albums (“Changing Places”, “The Ground”, “Being There”), Tord Gustavsen branches off in new directions. His new band adds two players familiar to ECM listeners – bassist Mats Eilertsen and saxophonist Tore Brunborg – and introduces the blues-inflected voice of Kristin Asbjørnsen on Tord’s settings of the poetry of W.H. Auden. Inside the ensemble, duo and trio interaction unfolds, taking off from the clear melodic language of Gustavsen’s songwriting.

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Tord Gustavsen Trio - Being There

Tord Gustavsen (piano), Harald Johnson (double-bass), Jarle Vespestad (drums)

Streaming on TIDAL...... Exploration of the ECM Records Catalogue continues with now, the fourth Tord Gustavsen album played today.  Wow! It has made for a very relaxing afternoon and evening, quite enjoyable, wonderful music.

Note on ECM Records and be found here:

Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen views “Being There” as the third instalment of a trilogy that began with “Changing Places” (recorded 2001 and 2002) and continued with “The Ground” (recorded 2004). On “Being There” the music’s priorities are maintained. The album’s title is borrowed from a tune on “The Ground”, intentionally stressing the continuity of the music, and also underlining its working concept, characterized by Gustavsen as “being acutely present, aware and focused in the fullness of the moment. The group has a definite direction or sound, but there are still many nuances to explore.” Gustavsen’s clearly-delineated melodies define a large part of the group’s sonic identity, but so does the manner in which the trio approaches them. Technical flamboyance has almost no role to play in Gustavsen’s sound-world: restraint is one of the music’s hallmarks. “On the one hand”, he notes, “this is a matter of discipline, but it’s a discipline inspired by a love of spaces, not by some anorectic minimalist ideology. It’s about ‘loving every note’ – to phrase it as a slogan – or about trying to play what you’d actually like to hear rather than what you think you ought to play.” This ‘holding back’ allows room for other musical developments to flower naturally, one of which has been the drifting of Jarle Vespestad’s drums towards the centre of the sound: the drums are, as Gustavsen says, a crucial component of the music. If this has been a tendency of performances in the live setting almost from the beginning, it is especially evident on “Being There”.

This will be playing after we turn the lights off and go to bed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pQsR8ZMesU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dY7Wa-_o1w

Nice to have him release new material, and very good it is.

Milt Jackson with Hubert Laws - Goodbye. 2017 CTI (Japan) CD re-issue. Mellow & lovely MJ!

Tis the season, and this is one of my favorites.

Now Playing.......

Tord Gustavsen - Changing Places

Tord Gustavsen (Piano), Harald Johnsen (double-bass), and Jarle Vespestad (drums)

Streaming on TIDAL......  Still exploring the ECM Records catalogue and have now worked my way through five of the seven Tord Gustavsen's albums released by ECM. It has been a very comfortable journey, smooth listening, just wonderful and working well on this cold and dark night.

Note on the ECM Records website: Introducing a new piano trio from Norway. Tord Gustavsen’s young group, already making waves in the Far North – where “Changing Places” has soared into the pop charts – is telling new stories within the framework of the jazz tradition. This is music that sings, at once gentle and robust. The songs Gustavsen writes sound like standards-in-the-making: lyrical, immediately memorable songs, songs of an appealing freshness, yet sophisticated in their involvement with the melodic line. And the trio improvises, with flair and originality, inside their structures.

Now Playing......

Tord Gustavsen Quartet - Extended Circle

Tord Gustavsen (piano), Tore Brunborg (tenor saxophone), Mats Eilertsen (double-bass), and Jarle Vespestad (drums)

Streaming on TIDAL......   Exploration of ECM records and Tord Gustavsen's catalogue continues with his sixth offering for ECM and also the sixth album of Tord's that I have played today. Still quite enjoyable and this will be the lights out album........

Note from the ECM records website: The sixth ECM album from Tord Gustavsen, recorded in Oslo in June 2013, quietly but most assuredly takes the Norwegian pianist’s music to the next stage of its development. Gustvasen’s quartet with Tore Brunborg, Mats Eilertsen and long-term associate Jarle Vespestad has matured into a group whose interactions draw strength from restraint, patiently building the music toward its climaxes. Here are new gospel-tinged pieces and ballads from Tord’s pen, gentle and luminescent group improvisations, and an ecstatic interpretation of the Norwegian traditional “Eg Veit I Himmerik Ei Borg” (“I Know A Castle In Heaven”).

Eric Clapton.  461 Ocean Boulevard (1974). On remastered CD from 1996. As CD remasters go this one is notable for superb SQ. The DR exceeds the original vinyl, which after all, digital ought to do. Granted, it was mastered at 20-bits, yet still exceeds the HDtracks 24/96 for DR. Just suggesting that someone wanting a quality digital source for this album might look at ripping said CD which is available for a pittance. It's the 1996 version barcode 7 31453 18212 7 mastered by Joseph Palmaccio. The album costs $18 on HDtracks, advantage being you can download it immediately.

ELO's Greatest Hits. On CD from 1986. Jeff Lynne and the band were very, very good in their time. Their music still plays very well today. Progressive and artistic with a unique and readily identifiable sound signature. Need to pad my ELO holdings.

Came across this on Tidal...

An interesting take on a classic album. Certainly worth a second listen.

Nice gift for his 75 birthday