Nina Simone - Anthology ('03) Mark Murphy - September Ballads Detroit Cobras - Mink Rat or Rabbit Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears Jimmy (Smith) & Wes (Montgomery) - The Dynamoc Duo
Mulgrew Miller- Live at Yoshi's Vol.II Jessica Williams- Live at Yoshi's Vol.II Branford Marsalis- Eternal Marian McPartland- 85 Candles Art Pepper- Friday Night at the Village Vanguard
...Geoff Smith - "Fifteen Wild Decembers" - Contemporary, cool-blooded, piano-driven minimalism with Nicola Walker Smith's soaring vocals filtered through some nineteenth century-ish existentialism. Think Shelly, Bronte, Keats, Dickenson, etc. Lovely and smart music in all respects. Rewards repeated listening.
...Lila Downs - "La Sandunga" - The epitome of modern Mexicana vocal art. At once classically traditional and jazzily fresh. Feminine, worldly and delicately commanding. A breathtaking beauty. An unknown star.
...Mark-Almond - "Night Music" - These guys are more adaptable to the times than Hall and Oates. Lush, electrified, pro-ambient, discretely soulful, gentle jazz with an edge. A brilliantly crafted studio disc of non-ironic pop romance for grown ups.
...Prazak Quartet - Janacek's String Quartet #1 (" Kreutzer Sonata") - These Bohemians have been together since students in 1975. It shows. Loving and masterfully instructive in the music and the form. It is a wonder to see them live. Formal and immensely engaging.
...Tony Joe White - "Lake Placid Blues" - ...Of "Poke-Salad Annie" and "In The Ghetto" fame. This man is crafty. You've never heard of any of these songs but every single one coulda/shoulda been a hit. Artful, richly common stories of life on the road and in the swamp. J.J. Cale's smart, twin brother separated at birth. Love and regret abounds but tomorrow is a new day.
Bonus. Black Diamond Heavies - "You Damn Right" - The Doors on meth meet Robert Johnson on heroin. Heavyweights in more than name alone. This poor, white trash Blues trio is full of naive courage and a sweaty, consumptive hunger. They cast a mist of fun afloatin' in the heat rising off the thighs of nineteen year virgins. Quirky, dark, sexy, punkish first tier blues. Organ-driven, "slides"ville. Best played real loud.
Horowitz - "Live and Unedited; Carnegie Hall, 1965" Ben Harper - "Fight for Your Mind" Jordi Savall - Soundtrack to "Tous Les Matins du Monde" R.U.B. - "Are You Be" Miles Davis - "Seven Steps to Heaven"
...and Alice in Chains "Unplugged" when I'm just not sure what to put on. The quality of that recording is extraordinary.
Chet Baker and Russ Freeman ( Mosaic Collection) Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan (Mosaic Collection) Tori Amos - Boys for Pele Ry Cooder - Paradise and Lunch Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (reissue/remaster)
Grant Green: Green Street Elliot Smith: Elliot Smith Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane: Cannonball and Coltrane Franz Schubert: The Last Four Quartets Donald Byrd: At the Half Note Cafe
I will second one of tvad's selections, Dire Straits On Every Street, also Alice in Chains Unplugged, perhaps the best in digital playback. Richard Thompsons Two Letter Words, and I have the Vinyl which is incredible, but the digital copy of Allison Krauss & Union Station, So Long, So Wrong. Sounds very good for a CD.
Joe Henderson - Big Band (Verve) Horace Silver - Songs My Father,or Styling of Silver (Verve) Jon Fadis - Remembrances (Chesky) Diana Krall - When I Look in Your Eyes Fred Hirsch - Dancing in the Dark (Chesky)
All have great sonics. But, first two have much to offer sonically, but not perfect. All musically in highest of leagues.
Nils Lofgren-Acoustic Live Wynton Marsalis-Live at the Village Vanguard Tori Amos-Under the Pink Tord Gustavsen Trio-The Ground Porcupine Tree-Voyage 34
1) dave brubeck and jimmy rushing 2) i heard it on npr- shake these blues 3) tom waits- blue valentine 4) ben harper- fight for your mind 5) miles davis- walkin'
KOLN CONCERT, Keith Jarret IVA BITTOVA, IVA BITTOVA MY FAVORITE THINGS, John Coltrane MIDNIGHT SUGAR, Yamamoto Tsuyoshi trio HYMNS OF THE 49th PARALELL, K.D. Lang
Lately my "permanent" rotation - in no order. I'm not sure how to choose among the couple of hundred that are really part of my permanent rotation
Ornette Coleman - "The Shape of Jazz to Come" Atlantic Fred Anderson - "The Missing Link" Nessa John Coltrane & Don Cherry - "The Avant-Garde" Atlantic Mel Brown - "Neck Bones and Caviar" Electro-Fi Johnny Winter - "Johnny Winter" Columbia
In not particular order: -Buddy Rich "Bid Swing Face" -Dave Matthews Band "Under the Table and Dreaming" -Ray Charles "Genius Likes Company" -Michael W. Smith "Freedom" -Louie Bellson "Louie Bellson's Big Band Explosion"
The current line up, I think... Car: Jack Johnson "On & On"; "Thicker Than Water" Radiohead "The Bends" U2 "Rattle'n'Hum"; "The Joushua Tree"; "Achtung Baby" Work: Mozart "Sonatas for Violin and Piano K. 304, 454, 526" Vivaldi "Concertos for Authentic Instruments" Sibelius "Violin Concerto" Home: Bebel & Cigala "Llagrimas Negras" Putumayo "Nuevo Latino" Brahms "Piano Concerto #2" Indigo Girls "Retrospective" Gidion Kremer "Tango Ballet" this list will surely change next week
1 - Dave Alvin - Out in California (saw him last week in Houston - great show) 2 - Allman Bros - Fillmore East 3 - Rodney Crowell - The Houston Kid (ok i'm biased) 4 - Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 5 - Any of the live annual compilation volumes put out by KGSR in Austin. Hard to pick just one. If you can get this station on the web via streaming audio check it out.
Funny how my "permanent" rotation changes between car, work, and home.
1: AKUS - Now that Ive found you. Anything Allison Krauss is fine with me.
2: John Lennon - Imagine. I cant explain "Oh Yoko" but it puts me in a great mood, its so jammin.. prat I think. Much more to explore with these guys as a group and solo for me.
3: Aimee Mann - Bachelor No.2. I love Aimee. Unique sense of rythem that always grabs me.
4: CCR - Pendulum. Actually there is always something from Creedence in rotation here except Mardi Gras. Special thanks to Analogue Productions, Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray for giving us Creedence as good as it will ever be.
5: James Taylor - Greatist Hits. Warner Bros 1976 but you wouldnt know it from the sonics. I even doubt the dates on the label. A fine CD of this type if ever one existed.
1) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Brubeck and Rushing 2) Grant Green Feelin' the Spirit 3) Steely Dan Aja 4) Tom Waits Blue Valentine 5) Blind Boys of Alabama - Spirit Of the Century
Dave Grusin; "Homage to the Duke" & "The Gerswhin Connection" Susan Werner; "Last of the Good Straight Girls" John Mayall & Friends; "Along for the Ride" Willie Nelson; "Across the Borderline"
1. Deep Dead Blue - Elvis Costello and Bill Frissell 2. La Folia - Jordi Savall SACD 3. Handel Arias - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - SACD 4. Get yer Ya Ya's out - The Rolling Stones SACD 5. The Trinity Sessions - Cowboy Junkies
Mancini's 'Breakfast at Tiffani's', Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Jorma Kaukonen 'Blue Country Heart', Allison Krauss & Union Station Live, and The Beatles Yellow Submarine- the later one with the compilation, not the soundtrack.
All great stuff and very well recorded. The Ella and Louis and Allison K are sacd
1) Dick Hyman "From the Age of Swing" 2) Livingston Taylor "Ink" 3) Jeannie Bryson "Some Cats Know" 4) Oscar Peterson "Quiet Now" 5) Ali Akbar Khan "Journey"
Plus there always seems to be a Shirley Horn, Strunz & Farrah, Andre Previn or Stephane Grapelli close by.
This is gonna date me like the other entries have done to most everyone else, but...
1) Santana - "Caravanseria" 2) Santana - "Welcome" 3) McLaughlin/Santana - "Love, Devotion, and Surrender" 4) Miles Davis - "Miles Smiles" 5) Bob Dylan - "Nashville Skyline"
Just found those remastered Santana CDs and anyone who has only heard his music of the last 3-4 yrs, check these out. Of course, you gotta get his first three albums and also "Borboletta" which doesn't appear to have been remastered yet.
A few weeks ago the list would have been mostly chamber music.
Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms" Japanese JVC XRCD Chesky "ultimate demonstration disk" Rebecca Pigeon "Spanish Harlem" especially Pink Floyd "The Wall" Eagles "Hotel California" Eric Clapton "Unplugged"
Masada: Masada 8, Live in Sevilla Kings of Leon: Youth and Young Manhood Cafe Tecuba: Cuatros Caminos Ahmad Jamal: In Search of Momentum Prince: Musicology
Grown Backwards - David Byrne True Love - Toots and The Maytals with special guest artists Vivaldi's Concert for the Prince of Poland - The Academy of Ancient Music Obrigado Brazil Live in Concert - Yo Yo Ma LIVE AT HARVEST FEST - The Twisters An awesome blues band with a phenomenal blues harp player from Vancouver, Canada
Sacd if available. This my jazz week. Pat Metheny's solo acoustic baratone guitar is incredible. Other weeks would be David Grey's White Ladder, Rosanne Cash's Rules of Travel, Neil Young's Silver and Gold... and classical. John Dean
It's not reasonable to limit 'permanent' rotation to five, or even ten titles, but here are five of my favorites (though if I think about it another minute I will come up with a dozen other titles I enjoy as much):
King Curtis - Night Train Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio Phineas Newborn - Harlem Blues (or We Three...) Bill Frisell - Gone Like a Train (or Good Dog, Happy Man...) Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive(or Kiko...)
Rosanne Cash - Rules of Travel Joan Osborne - Relish Neil Young - Silver & Gold Emmylou Harris - Cowgirl's Prayer Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris - Western Wall
The Stereophonics "You gotta go there to come back" Daniel Lanois "Shine" The Killers "Hot Fuss" Ryan Adams "Love is Hell" Full Release Cooper Temple Clause "Kick up the Fire, and let the Flames Break Loose"
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