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

CD.  Johannes Brahms - The Violin Sonatas - Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt

  Royal Blood - Royal Blood.

  Ending the evening with something soothing .................. erm, .......................LOUD!  

MDS posted:

MDS posted:

Filipe posted:

Melody Gardot - My One and Only Thrill - UnitiServe SSD

My introduction. Her second studio album. Impressed.

Phil 

A terrific album IMO.

BTW, there's a UK 2CD special version with the second CD containing five songs from her performing live in Paris. It's rather nice, if you can find it.

Thank you [@mention:12970396060785205]. Live in Europe is available on the river to preorder for February 2018. Did you mean that one or Live at the Olympia Paris?

Alison Krauss & Union Station - So Long So Wrong - UnitiServe SSD

Liked Raising Sand with Robert Plant, which just happened to be in Oxfam recently. Really like this one as well. Just past It Doesn’t Matter. Really mood raising bluegrass music.

Phil

Filipe posted:

MDS posted:

MDS posted:

Filipe posted:

Melody Gardot - My One and Only Thrill - UnitiServe SSD

My introduction. Her second studio album. Impressed.

Phil 

A terrific album IMO.

BTW, there's a UK 2CD special version with the second CD containing five songs from her performing live in Paris. It's rather nice, if you can find it.

Thank you [@mention:12970396060785205]. Live in Europe is available on the river to preorder for February 2018. Did you mean that one or Live at the Olympia Paris?

It's live in Paris, Filipe. 

Still issues with Imgur - so what will be the next solution....

AS WE ARE NOW means minus 9 degrees C and snow outside, slowly thawing inside to the sound  of the piano trio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9965Z1lMhR4

Now Playing........

Tord Gustavsen Ensemble - Restored, Returned

Tord Gustavsen (piano), Tore Brunborg (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone), Kristin Asbjørnse (vocals), Mats Eilertsen (double-bass),  Jarle Vespestad (drums).

Streaming on TIDAL.........  Following up wit another one of Tord's albums......do not think I will get to see him live unless he makes it to Seattle, Portland, Oregon or perhaps, Vancouver or Victoria BC.  I am sure he would not disappoint live at all

Note on ECM Records here:

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.

Haim Ronen posted:

AS WE ARE NOW means minus 9 degrees C and snow outside, slowly thawing inside to the sound  of the piano trio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9965Z1lMhR4

I hope to never see or feel minus 9 degrees C again, early 90's was the last time I experienced that type of cold and do not miss it.  Give me the wet, misty, gray winters of Seattle where the snow for the most part stays in the mountains. (note: We did receive snow on Christmas Day and it was all gone by the day after, my idea of a white Christmas.)

Good luck with the freezing weather and be safe and smart when out and about.

A+3  24/96     The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers...

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.......  Enjoying Tord and continuing on with another selection of his music.

Note on ECM Records here:

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”).

Very special music from a very special artist

Now Playing......

Charlie Haden & John Taylor - Night Falls

Charlie Haden (double-bass) and  John Taylor (piano).

Streaming on NAS............   A wonderful album and works well on a relaxing Friday evening......

Review by John Kelman on All About Jazz found here:

Bassist Charlie Haden is in the enviable position of being able to play with pretty much anyone he wants. From his own Quartet West to duet recordings with Kenny Barron, Egberto Gismonti, and Pat Metheny to collaborations with Paul Bley, Joe Henderson, and Paul Motian, his spare yet deeply emotional approach has also made him a highly in demand session player. When the audiophile Naim gave him the chance to produce another in a series of duet recordings, his choice this time was British pianist John Taylor. The result, Nightfall , will be no surprise for Haden fans; but it does reveal a different side to Taylor’s playing.

Taylor who, aside from his own projects, is a regular member of projects by trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and reedman John Surman, has a style that is typified by an impressionistic and harmonically dense style. A sensitive player, and never one to waste a note, he tends to create rich clusters of sound, leaning towards abstraction while remaining deeply lyrical. On this outing, however, driven more by Haden’s choice of material and contributing but two compositions of his own, he displays a more stripped down sound; the harmonies are as abstruse as always, but are more spacious, less close.

That’s not to say the compositions don't provide challenge, but Haden's compositions tend to be simpler vehicles for improvisation. "Chairman Mao" revolves around a straightforward ascending and descending pattern; "Nightfall" is a simple but moving eight-bar melody; and the oft-recorded "Silence," with its two chords to the bar, is deceptively straightforward until one hears what Taylor does to move through its compelling structure. Even Haden's choice of cover material is characteristically spare, from Don Sebesky's "Bittersweet" to William Walton's "Touch Her Soft Lips."

Taylo's two compositions, however, take a more oblique view. Both "Au Contraire" and "Windfall" demonstrate a richer sense of harmony, but under Haden's direction the approach is more economical than one might expect had this been Taylor's session.

Taylor's touch is deft as always. On "Windfall," the most outgoing piece on the album, he displays a musical perspicacity, empathically finding the common ground between his impressionistic complexity and Haden's almost folk-like simplicity. Haden's sound is characteristically visceral, resonating deep in the body. Spartan yet strangely elegant, one can almost feel him choose the absolutely right note for the moment.

On this introspective programme, Haden and Taylor create moments of unadulterated beauty. The almost painful poignancy of "Touch Her Soft Lips" is a benchmark for the rest of the recording, as is the melancholy "My Love and I." Impeccably recorded, live with no editing, Nightfall puts two players with different approaches together; the result is both hauntingly beautiful and a lesson in simplicity.

Now playing........

Tord Gustavsen Ensemble - Restored, Returned

Tord Gustavsen (piano), Tore Brunborg (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone), Kristin Asbjørnse (vocals), Mats Eilertsen (double-bass),  Jarle Vespestad (drums).

Streaming on TIDAL.........   A repeat play from earlier, I enjoyed the music and Kristin's singing drew me back in for a repeat listen to this album.

The Cars. Eponymous debut album (1978) on HDCD from 2001. As much as I prefer my original LP version, always fun to drop this silver disc into my CD5X and enjoy the HDCD aspects. Well mastered and a very close second to the vinyl with subtle qualities to be gleaned.

Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries

Released 1984

Audio Fidelity SACD  

Blood From Stars.

seakayaker posted:

Now Playing......

Charlie Haden & John Taylor - Night Falls

Charlie Haden (double-bass) and  John Taylor (piano).

 

Superb album. Maybe the finest on the Naim label?

Currently playing the version on Tidal.

I decided to listen to the album after seeing this video the other day:

There's some wicked deep bass on the album and the album's very eclectic.

Rinaldo Alessandrini - Vivaldi: Gloria @& Magnificat

On CD:-

Family - Anyway

Start of the day and it seems Imgur works again. And ambitious jazz album, let’s see how I like it...

  John Lee Hooker - The Definitive Collection.

  For anyone who hasn't really heard much of John Lee, this "sampler" is as good an introduction as any, though there's much more to

  his music than the "greatest hits" contained here.

  John Lee Hooker, the king of laid back trance blues, and a true giant of the wider blues genre, IMHO. 

dav301 posted:

On CD:-

Family - Anyway

Funnily enough I was going through some HDD's and played some of their albums last night.