King Crimson--Starless and Bible Black
Beaux Arts Trio--Eric Korngold Piano Trio (CD)
Captain Beefheart--Trout Mask Replica
Beatles--Anthology II, disc 2 (CD)
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What else for today but:
Grateful Dead (Live): St. Stephen
Elvis Costello and the Chieftains: St. Stephen's Day Murders
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On the TT tonight: Joan Baez, "Noel" and The Kingston Trio "The Last Month of the Year." Time traveling. Joan sounds fresh, at least. I'm surprised Vanguard would have thought this was a commercially viable release. I think it was ahead of its time, whereas the Kingston Trio sound exactly right for their time but not so much for today. YMMV.
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Thanks for that in-depth analysis--I love Levon's playing (and Richard Manuel was no slouch on the kit himself). And I enjoy when drummers stray from the obvious--Ringo on Ticket to Ride or Tomorrow Never Knows, for instance. One of my favorite drum parts is by Bill Bruford on King Crimson's The Great Deceiver--I can never quite follow it but I love it.
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Interesting comments about drumming, bdp24. I'm not a drummer but I think I know what you mean. BTW, do you mean 1968? B.S. broke up in '68 so would not have been playing in '69. They toured with The Beach Boys and Strawberry Alarm Clock in the first half of '68 and I think those were their last shows.
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Guarneri Quartet--Schubert, string quartet #15, RCA Red Seal
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Julliard Quartet--Bartok #2, 60's recording on Columbia |
I find the Budapest SQ to have an almost indescribable quality--not the best technically, perhaps, but so alive and unpredictable. There's a feeling that anything can and will happen. I think they're great. I especially like their Rasumovxky #3, last movement. |
Not to be a downer, but lately I've been finally losing my taste for a lot of the psychedlic era stuff, and the title track for that Chambers Bros. LP is a prime example.
Night before last I listened to "The World is on Fire" by the Strawberry Alarm Clock, a band that impressed me in my teens.
Man, it sounded so weak and lame to me now.
Maybe I'm officially an old coot. |
Bill Evans, "Alone." Robert Gordon w/Link Wray & Jordanaires. Julliard Quartet, Bartok #1. Modern Jazz Quartet, some kind of "best of" 2-LP set on Atlantic. |
Thanks, Schu--and FWIW, that is one really fine-sounding recording. I need to check the engineering and producing credits. |
Bartok SQ #2, Julliard; VSOP Qunitet, side 3. Mahavishnu Orch, Apocalypse, side 1. |
Zavato, is that UA or Capitol/Apple version? |
