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

And ending the evening with a shameful gap in my collection....

...which I plan to close..., can’t miss out on such a great artist in my collection...

Now Playing.....

Randy Crowell - Ain't Living Long Like This

Streaming on TIDAL......  Exploring another Rodney Crowell album......recommended by EWEMON.......

seakayaker posted:

Now Playing.....

Randy Crowell - Ain't Living Long Like This

Streaming on TIDAL......  Exploring another Rodney Crowell album......recommended by EWEMON.......

Hope you enjoy it.

Now Playing.......

Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet - Way Out East

Streaming on NAS.......  Quite enjoyable, I have seen these four play together on a few occasions and always wonderful!

From Wayne Horvitz website here:

Wayne Horvitz (piano), Ron Miles (trumpet), Peggy Lee (cello), and Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon)

The Gravitas Quartet occupies a conceptual no man’s land somewhere between nostalgia and the future, where pensive, minor-key piano excursions are joined by stately cello, regal bassoon, ghostly trumpet and burbling electronics. Way Out Eastperfectly assimilates Horvitz’s bittersweet melodies and sci-fi futurism into a synchronous sound world all his own.
Troy Collins, All About Jazz

Now Playing......

Tears for Fears - Elemental

Streaming on NAS..........  A random pick of an album I have not heard in awhile, something from the early 90's, the first track 'Elemental' was familiar, fun, ........ memories of starting new job working two weeks a month in San Francisco and two weeks a month in Boston.

Another great thing about music is the memories it prompts for time periods in our lives.

ChangesBowie. On CD from 1990. Being a fan of Bowie's earlier music this is an excellent compendium for my interests. As redbook CD listening goes the mastering is outstanding; consistent SQ and high DR from beginning to end.

Always nice to relax

Yesterday I listed a trio of Miles Davis albums from my collection by his second great quintet (with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams). Today I've been continuing that theme. I think I'm continuing in chronological sequence. So far I've played 'Nefertiti' and 'Miles in the Sky'. Next up 'Filles de Kilimanjaro'. It's all gorgeous, of course, but Herbie Hancock's playing on 'Sorcerer' is just sublime.

Continued the journey with another fine album..

Then got to more Woody Shaw, really a shame I missed out on him so far...

Never been so far into Paul Motian, too much a music painting for me ..... at least quite often, however can appreciate this album...

A warm big band sound - with a strange cover...

Angela Hewitt - The Art of Fugue

From a second hand haul in Freebird Records before Christmas. 

Still sounding remarkably fresh (but that could have more to do with me being a fifty-something). 

.sjb

Post festive mellowness washing over us.

G

Amazing how these guys still rock..

Classy.

G

It's played somewhere or everywhere in most HiFi shows and it was used when I was listening prior to buying my new power amp. I finally succumbed and bought the album, which was delivered this morning. Nils Lofgren, Acoustic Live. 

Now Playing......

Carla Bley - Andando el Tiempo

Carla Bley (piano), Andy Sheppard (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone), and Steve Swallow (bass)

Streaming on NAS.......   Something soothing on this Thursday morning.

Note from ECM Records here:

Andando el Tiempo features new music of wide emotional compass by Carla Bley, and underlines her originality and resourcefulness as a jazz composer. “Saints Alive!” sets up animated conversations between the participants with striking statements from Steve Swallow’s bass guitar and Andy Sheppard’s soprano sax. The stately “Naked Bridges/Diving Brides” draws inspiration from Mendelssohn and the poetry of Paul Haines. And the powerful three part title composition – which addresses the trials and tribulations of recovery from addiction - moves through sorrow to hopefulness and joy. The trio with Sheppard and Swallow has been an ideal vehicle for Carla’s writing for more than 20 years and also provides one of the best contexts for her unique piano playing.

Bert Schurink posted:

Then got to more Woody Shaw, really a shame I missed out on him so far...

 

Try this one !

Immersed in this.

G

Recently acquired from Santa, this is a great two-CD anthology from a really underrated '60s group. "Six Man Band" is one of my favourite things ever...

First play of one of Santa's presents... On CD