Neil Cowley Trio - Loud Louder Stop
What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report
I enjoy vinyl and digital (lately, with recent changes, vinyl actually sounds better than digital to me), BUT given what seems an overall preference for analog/vinyl on A'gon, I'm curious what the non-vinyl "1/2" is listening to. I tried to see if this was a previously posted question. Did not seem so.
This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".
This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".
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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. |
http://https//www.thejazzmann.com/reviews/review/neil-cowley-trio-radio-silence A review of Radio Silence (full recording). Listened to this one tonight. |
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 |
More Michael Brecker... http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl6vMdJFAz8 Track 4, El Nino, from his "Two Blocks From The Edge". |
World Party - Egyptology Track 2, Beautiful Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFmqSRyM2M8 Thank you Karl. |
Alboran Trio - Near Gale Great contemporary jazz (compositions, musicianship and sonics) from Italy. Track 7, Invariable Geometries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztni9r24Clc |
World Party - Egyptology (again) Track 5, She's The One.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Ta6KTqu18 |
Acoustic Tales - Field Rotation (aka Christoph Berg) Acoustic Tale 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtB-OI6DeLY&list=OLAK5uy_kCdEp51yd7pFz0R-BHs1YESbseJbc5vIQ |
World Party - Dumbing Up Track 6, I Thought You Were A Spy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh6kFK15ZJ0 "...nothing I can say Can change the way I feel Nothing's in the way So come on let's make a deal....". |
Puts "fresh" back into classic jazz. "Classic" given the date of the original sessions: Nov 1969. Over 50 years ago! Not released until Oct 2003 (as per Wikipedia). Andrew Hill - Passing Ships; Track 6, Cascade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETGGEYVA2Q8&list=PLEyxWPyoryRKh7uJWexso-JADvtpJ3Ioj&index=6 |
Andrew Hill's "Passing Ships". Recorded way back in 1969 but only released in 2003. A "nonet"! The title track here. It ain't sweet sounding soprano sax or oboe stating the melody but rather English Horn in the hands of Joe Farrell (given name: Joseph Carl Firrantello as per Tom Jurek/All Music Guide). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAtdXUzaW2M&list=PLEyxWPyoryRKh7uJWexso-JADvtpJ3Ioj&index=2 |
Yellowjackets - A Rise In The Road Track 3, Can't We Elope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Q_MYvin0Q |
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?? |
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! |
The Temptations - With A Lot O' Soul Can't believe it's taken over 50 years to realize how good this is. Of course, can't say enough about The Funk Bros. special sauce. Session musicians. Saints of the recording industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmvXGOLJQHg&list=OLAK5uy_kUPhKVCF3-4IYJLh7fKxJEgjE6mJuz60M&i... |
Espen Eriksen Trio - Never Ending January Track 5, Brian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_XBL6m2Xi0 |
For @slaw , @nutty , & @pokey The Lord Dog Bird. A LoFi masterpiece. Something about it reminds me of Hiss Golden Messenger - but further out there. Persevere (maybe) through tracks 1-3. It gets "easier". Track 5, Song for Woodthrush https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIdbyifKRHg&list=OLAK5uy_l1GKpvNJzO8ie72LptzrDSUnH58U2AwoY&i... |
Animal Logic I & II Love Deborah Holland's voice. Stewart Copeland and Stanley Clarke, not too bad either! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHvJhj7DeM4 |
@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?" |
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. |
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. |
@jafant Rory’s Deuce is GOOD! Had’t listened to it in a while. Here’s track 6, In Your Town.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF6P_Ox4-Jg&list=PLdgFk-dTMiRidQ38MoTWYHspnhJmBVeeB&index=6 And track 8, There's A Light... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1CGxSnN7S0&list=PLdgFk-dTMiRidQ38MoTWYHspnhJmBVeeB&index=8 |
Mike Mainieri - Northern Lights Track 1 - Nature Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5CYTKi8ZzY Massive Attack - 100th Window Track 3 - Everywhen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMGF9_aSdC8 |
Genesis Revisited - Steve Hackett torchbearer extraordinaire Afterglow... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmh55YXApPA |
School of Seven Bells SVIIB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYOIrIDAOT8&list=OLAK5uy_lDn-ACHaQy6EXbOBsZGgsUn4NF-vMxhAo
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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... |
The Meadows - eponymous (Track 1: Been So Long) The first track from the best album you never heard. Just put it on repeat.
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