A haphazard bit of catching up and some belated greetings... @tuzarupa - welcome. Saw your post (posts?) mentioning Tommy Flanagan. I love his economical and elegant style. Truly a "less is more" player. Underrated compared to his more "flash" contemporaries. @justmetoo - welcome. Noted the comment about "classic" jazz in your Coltrane/Blue Train post. Sounds much like my own reaction and persistence with the genre. Thumbs up for Brecker’s Tales from the Hudson. I like his first half a dozen recordings where he’s group leader including the self-titled, Don’t Try This At Home, Now You See It, Two Blocks from the Edge, Time Is Of The Essence. @jafant - Yeah...Neil’s Zuma. Might well be the favorite album by him. @artemus_5 - GRAND FUNK RAILROAD. Don’t care what the critics thought about ’em or about the current stiffs that won’t vote them into the RRHofShame. Maybe that’s a badge of honor. Inside Looking Out, Heartbreaker, Mean Mistreater, Closer to Home...50 years old and still sounding good. Okay, so it ain’t Lerner and Loewe. (Let’s not talk about where they went later on with that string of forgettable radio hits but bills to pay and gotta eat, I guess). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klPsjR6Y53U@nutty - as ever, glad to see all you posted. |
Thanks for that rundown on Phoenix, @artemus_5 . I hear what you are saying about the progression of a band's sound and music even though I, personally, did not care for their change in style. |
Neil Cowley Trio - Loud Louder Stop
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Hello @jafant -
Always happy to discuss the music. For the Neil Cowley Trio I can tell you what I have.
BUT go to YouTube (or search Spotify or Tidal) and give ’em a listen to decide for yourself.
The discs I bought are:
Displaced
Loud, Louder, Stop
Radio Silence
Spacebound Apes
All 4 are solid and bear repeated listening. Spacebound Apes is the newest of the 4. A concept album. Beautiful. As a place to start, however, it isn't exactly "typical" of NCT's style and sound. Loud, Louder, Stop might be more representative of their work.
Hope you find some NCT that you enjoy.
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Hey @artemus_5
Thanks for sharing about the NGDB release but are you commenting about the music and sound on vinyl or CD? or both??
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Magnus Ostrom - Searching for Jupiter |
Michael Brecker - Now You See It, Now You Don't.... Track 5, Peep, with some very nice piano work by Joey Calderazzo and some way-in-the- background guitar strumming (on this track, anyway) by yet another Fagen/Becker indentured guitarist, Jon Herrington. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfD7Q14p6Iw |
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Thanks, Nutty. I’ll have to check that specific JST live track later this evening. I know I’ve sampled her live stuff in the past...just didn’t click for me the way some of her studio albums do. But I’ll give her live another shot.
Welcome, Speakermaster. How did you end up with digitized gramophone recordings? DIY??
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Nutty - okay! I can hear what you like in that track. Great energy. GREAT playing. No shrinking violet she. Love her soloing when she stretches out. Definitely sounds like someone worth seeing/hearing live. BUT at the same time I quickly remembered what I did not like about that recording during past listening attempts. Gosh, it sounds like a bootleg somebody made with a handheld mike towards the back of the hall. Kinda muddy, distorted and flat/compressed (not to put too fine a point on it). The drums are buried in muck (which is real sad since I think her drummer is good! Given how great sounding live recordings can be it annoys the heck out of me that "recording professionals" think it’s okay to put out shlock like that. She deserves better. No offense to you intended. I did continue listening and enjoyed her playing throughout...creative and fresh; held my interest on later tracks like Diamonds in the Dirt, Kiss The Ground and Just Another Word. The album’s a good "ambassador" for her live show but yeesh people - fix the sound! |
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@jafant
You’ve probably done more than anyone to keep this thread alive! But dude, I mean, yeah, Donovan...good choice for the hour but yeesh, 3AM! Don’t you ever sleep? or maybe it’s shiftwork??
Do enjoy seeing what you listen to although DeBarge the other day did give me pause ;-) |
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Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking |
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@nutty
Thanks for posting that new track featuring Joanne Shaw Taylor. CDP playback or not, I always intended this thread for "the non-vinyl half", i.e., digital listeners regardless of source. "What’s in your CDP tonight?" was just a convenient play off Slipknot’s "What’s on your turntable tonight?" |
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Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning |
McCoy Tyner - Illuminations
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
WS - Night Dreamer
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Thanks @jafant
I'm so ignorant about most of the standard jazz catalog and I'm a slow "reader". Takes me a long time to "get" some of it...well, what doesn't bore me and that, I'm finding, often means quintets. So, that's how we arrived at these three. Though a good quartet is okay too!
Probably be spending more time with one or more of them again tonight.
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I guess you knew that's Lee playing trumpet on Night Dreamer. But don't forget Freddie (on Speak No Evil). He always seems to make me sit up and pay attention. |
Night Dreamer followed by Juju. Wayne Shorter again.
Juju (new to me) is impressive. |
@jafant
Thanks for the Lee Morgan suggestion.
@georgehifi
Not a huge EJ fan either, but Madman is a favorite album: the title track, exceptional and powerful 50 years later; the lesser known "All The Nasties" with that crescendo-ing outro has some real magic. |
Full House (live) - Wes Montgomery with the Wynton Kelly trio + Johnny Griffin.
From 1962. Sounding very "spry" at 60. |
Spiral - (Dr.) Lonnie Smith
2010 recording. Excellent organ trio work (guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg kinda steels the show at times). Spectacular sonics. |
Hate typos. Make that, "Jonathan Kreisberg kinda steals the show".
Sorry, Tweak. No clue about locking an Oppo onto a DVD. |
Continuing Wayne Shorter investigations.
Tonight it is Juju...Wayne and McCoy + bass and drums.
Rudy Van Gelder remaster version that, despite much negative commentary about the series, does not sound all that bad (a little thin but not ear bleed bright). Did fiddle a little with Lokius tone settings mainly to try and bring up the piano in the mix. At times sounding like it was placed at the back of a big room with the mic positioned too far away from it.
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Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning
(courtesy of Tidal)
Just 11 months shy of 50, jafant.
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Have a fire extinguisher at hand for this one...
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express Live in Los Angeles.
Alex Ligertwood's voice ain't my favorite thing but beyond that this is a very solid and enjoyable 2 CD listen. Sadly out of print but available at BandCamp for download.
Two great tracks from the album on YouTube...
Straight Ahead
Bumpin' on Sunset
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Tony Williams - Civilization
Great compositions and musicianship.
The whole thing is consistently superb.
Track 4 - Soweto Nights
(Please pardon and skip the ads!)
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