I have it on ceedee. It is well-recorded and well-performed. And my copy is signed by YYM and DZ... :^)
Now back to your regularly-scheduled vinyl sessions... |
T_Bone, I have three performances, but not the Yo-Yo Ma. The performances I have are:
Bernstein/OrchNatFra, Rostropovich (EMI on a MHS reissue)
Mehta/Israel PO, Starker (Decca)
Ormandy/PhilO, L.Rose (Columbia)
All are very interestingly different. I'll check the library for the Ma recording since you recommend it. Thanks!
. |
Rushton,
I can recommend the Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra on the New York Album (an album put out when Yo-Yo Ma toured with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra). I don't know if it is out on vinyl. I would love to find a copy if it was... It was a decent tour too... |
Thanks for prompting me to pull out the Bloch Hebraic Suite and the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, T_Bone and Nick_sr. I haven't listened to these pieces for many years, and they are both lovely. I'll enjoy them later today.
. |
After four nights of packing and repacking boxes to send off and not getting any listening in, I have a day of respite and it has been a good day so far...
Tchaikovsky Sextet 'Souvenir de Florence', Melodiya (Russian label)
Mozart Complete Masonic Music, Edinburgh Festival Chorus & LSO (London, Japanese pressing by King)
Contemporary Music for the Viola (music by Shebalin, Svetlanov, Kryukov, Kirkor played by Mikhail Tolpygo), Melodiya
on now is...
Modern Jazz Quartet Concert in Tokyo, Volume 1
next up is one of my favorite pieces, the Hebraic Suite for Viola and Orchestra by Ernest Bloch, but a version I have just picked up and never heard before; one played by Andras von Toszeghi and the BBC Northen Symphony Orchestra. |
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater performed by the Czech Philharmonic Chorus. Dark, emotional and beautiful. The record is old, worn, and noisy and some spots are quite noisy but the music shines through. Goose bumps and tears guaranteed. |
Todd Rundgren: RUNT..........one of my all time favorites. |
Camino de Santiago - medieval music along the Pilgrims Route of St James, 13th Century Spain - Binkley/Studio der Fruhen Musik, Deutsch EMI 063-30108
Britten, "Cello Symphony" - Britten/English Chamber Orchestra with Rostropovich, cello - Decca SXL 6641
. |
Tried the Cowboy Junkies', Trinity Revisited on vinyl yet? A fantastic record! Sounds just like Margo is in the room signing and you can hear all of the reverberation of the Trinity Church, rich and organic. Wonderful! |
Hi, Zaikesman. Yes, I really enjoy this record and especially the title cut, "Undercurrent." I've listed this one before in its Music Matters reincarnation on 45rpm. It's one of the best sounding records from this superb reissue series that I have on my shelves. |
Love "Undercurrent" Rushton, undeservedly overlooked minor gem, I think I listed it in this space when I discovered it a couple years back (older CD issue though, could've stood remastering)...since then I've gotten a couple other more recent Drew releases on vinyl from his expat years, but that's special. |
Clifford Brown and Max Roach, "Study in Brown" - EmArcy MG 36036 (Japanese reissue)
Mississippi Fred McDowell, "I do not play no rock 'n' roll" - Pure Pleasure reissue PPAN ST409
Johnny Cash, "American I" - American 5101-12792
Gershwin, "An American in Paris" - Vox, Reference Recordings Master Cut RM 1005 (one of the great Marc Aubort recordings)
Kenny Drew, "Undercurrent" - Blue Note ST 84059 -45 (Music Matters 45 rpm reissue)
. |
Catching up the vinyl stack while I can still lift it...
James Moody - "Moody's Workshop" [Prestige]
Eddie Harris - "Instant Death" [Atlantic]
Ray Bryant Trio - "Gotta Travel On" [Cadet]
Thelonius Monk Quintet - "5 By Monk By 5" [Riverside]
The Byrds - "The Notorius Byrd Brothers" [Columbia]
The Kinks - "Kinda Kinks" [Rhino reissue]
Chad Mitchell - "Love, A Feeling Of" [WB]
Sly & The Family Stone - "Dance To The Music" [Epic]
John Barry - "The Whisperers" Soundtrack [UA]
Neal Hefti & Orchestra - "The Leisurely Loveliness Of" [Movietone]
Constant: 14 Stations/Stockhausen: Zyklus - Sylvio Gualda, percussion [Erato]
Villa-Lobos: Little Train Of The Caipira - Goossens/LSO [Everest]
999 - "Concrete" [Albion]
Robyn Hitchcock - "Groovy Decay" [Albion]
The Chameleons - "What Does Anything Mean? Basically" [Statik]
The Fleshtones - "Blast Off With The Fleshtones" [Get Hip reissue]
Billy May - "Billy May's Big Fat Brass" [Capitol]
Bill Evans Trio - "Live" [Verve]
Donald Byrd - "Street Lady" [Blue Note]
The O'Jays - "Comin' Through" [Imperial]
Johnny Hodges - "Used To Be Duke" [Verve]
Johnny Hodges - "Perdido" [Verve]
Parliament - "Up For The Down Stroke" [Casablanca]
Ohio Players - "Mr. Mean" [Mercury]
The Main Ingredient - "Bitter Sweet" [RCA]
Les McCann LTD. - "But Not Really" [Limelight]
Emmy Lou Harris (sic) - "Gliding Bird" [Jubilee]
Miles Davis Quintet - "Workin'" [OJC/Prestige reissue]
Wizzard - "See My Baby Jive (Masters Of Rock Vol.11)" [Harvest]
Procul Harum - "A Salty Dog" [A&M]
Roy Harper - "One Of Those Days In England" [Chrysalis]
Ennio Morricone - "Les Meilleures Musiques de Films" [Sunset]
Ennio Morricone - "Once Upon A Time In The West" Soundtrack [RCA]
Prince - "Sign Of The Times" [Paisley Park]
Booker Ervin - "That's It!" [Barnaby reissue]
Red Garland - "Red Garland's Piano" [Prestige]
Ahmad Jamal - "Poinciana" [Argo]
Ray Charles - "Genius + Soul = Jazz" [Impulse!]
Gabor Szabo - "Spellbinder" [Impulse!]
Fleetwood Mac - "English Rose" [Epic]
That last one I was inspired to pull because it dawned on me, when listening to the Szabo LP, that Carlos Santana lifted his famous coda solo on their cover of Peter Green's "Black Magic Woman" nearly wholesale from Szabo's original composition "Gypsy Queen", something I'd never twigged before (Green however lifts Otis Rush instead in his own version). |
Bruce Springsteen- The Rising
I can never get enough of this LP. Not a bad track on it. Bruces' best IMHO. Inspired by 9-11. |
A Portrait of Patsy Cline, Decca 4508. Fresh Aire, Mannheim Steamroller American Gramaphone AG-355. Foghat debut lp, Foghat Bearsville 2077. Take it Home, B.B. King MCA-3151.
The Foghat lp brought back fond memories of when the lp was released in the early 70's. The band played a free concert at a park in Wisconsin. The weather was great, the sweet smell of cannabis floating through the air, and a buddy brought some Corrs back from Colorado, which wasn't shipped east of the Mississippi at that time.
The B.B. King lp sounds marvelous, excellent recording. |
Norah Jones- Come Away With Me
I have so many copies of this on various formats! I love this LP. I can not wait for the single sided 45 RPM pressings!!!
Also listening to:
Dire Straits: Making Movies ($2.99 @ ZIA)
Dire Straits: Comunique ($2.99 @ ZIA)
Pat Benetar: Crimes of Passion ($2.99 @ ZIA)
All good copies! WooHoo! |
KINGS OF LEON - ONLY BY THE KNIGHT
ANTHONY WILSON TRIO - OUR GANG
ERIC CLAPTON & STEVE WINWOOD/LIVE FROM MADISON SQUARE |
The Who - Quadraphenia
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Billie Holliday Story
Sade - Promise |
20th century music by British composers last night, a sampler evening with some friends:
Hamilton Harty, "A John Field Suite"
George Butterworth, "The Banks of Green Willow"
- Dilkes/EngSinfonia, EMI CSD 3696
Malcolm Arnold, "Second Set of English Dances" - Arnold/LPO, Lyrita SRCS 109
Malcolm Arnold, "Oboe Sonatina, op28" and other chamber pieces - Nash Ensemble, Hyperion A66172
E.J. Moeran, "Concerto for Violin & Orchestra" - Handley/LPO, Georgiades -vn, Lyrita SRCS 105
Elizabeth Maconchy, "Symphony for Double String Orchestra" - Handley/LPO, Lyrita SRCS 116
Harrison Birtwhisle, "Tragoedia" - Melos Ensemble, Argo ZRG 759
Britten, "Sonata for Cello and Piano" - Rostropovich -vc, Britten -pf, Decca SXL 2298 (Speakers Corner reissue)
. |
Tonight is going to a solid session of heavy Rock and nothing but.
My mood is for Pink Floyd's superb Meddle Lp, U.K. pressing.
Next in line the live box set of Floyd's Pulse ,U.K.
After this, who know's. |
Further researching my little CTI RVG jag here, I dug out Thomas Conrad's overview in Stereophile of five Epic/Legacy-CTI remastered CD reissues from the July '02 issue, all recorded by Van Gelder in the early to mid 70's (but not remastered by him). His average rating for sonics was a measely 2 1/2 stars, with the exception of the above mentioned "Moon Germs", to which he gave 3 (and at that rate I sure hope it sounds one helluva lot better than my original LP). Farrell's was also one of only two out of the five albums Conrad actually gave high marks to the music on, about which I am mostly in agreement regarding CTI generally (not that I share that critic's tastes when it comes to such things as his fixation with all things white, European and non-swinging, along with their ECM-infested sonics).
However the article did remind me of two other RVG CTIs, Kenny Burrell's excellent "God Bless The Child" which I have on original vinyl (and which was the other disk of the bunch that Conrad rated highly for music), and Stanley Turrentine's "Sugar", which I don't have on vinyl but is the only Epic/Legacy-CTI reissue on CD that I own (Conrad didn't review this one). These both being from '71, and each sounding considerably better and fuller than the '72 and onward RVG CTIs I played on vinyl the other day, if still somewhat constrained, stuffy and studio-artificial in absolute terms.
So this mini-survey, while hardly comprehensive, would lead me to believe that something bad happened in the RVG/CTI chain around '72, and if "Moon Germs" really does sound acceptably decent on remastered CD, then whatever that bad thing was (new solid-state gear?) may well have afflicted both the recording and mastering processes, the latter of which I assume RVG probably had no hand in at the time (CTI LPs, as with essentially any vintage LPs, not listing who mastered them).
And now I've had way more than enough electric piano for one week... |
Holst - Savitri; Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda - Argo
Allegri - Misere Re - Tallis Scholars - CFP
Ravel - Rapsodie Espagnol - Reiner - RCA (45 reissue)
Cannonball Adderly - Know What I Mean? - Riverside (45 reissue)
Lee Morgan - Tomcat - Blue Note (45 reissue)
Bach - Suites for Solo Cello - Starker - Mercury (original and Speakers Corner reissue, the Speakers Corner had better sonics) |
Rush - Permanent Waves (MOFI)
The Who - Quadraphenia
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Please, Please Me
INXS - Shabooh Shabahh
Harry Connick - Your Songs
Journey - Escape
Michael Jackson - Thriller
The Amazing Nina Simone |
Okay, so maybe Milt Jackson's "Olinga" ('74), awful as it sounds, wasn't an exceptionally bad-sounding RVG record of the period after all...I pulled out two other CTI RVGs for comparison: Soprano saxophonist Joe Farrell's "Moon Germs" ('72), with Herbie Hancock electric piano, Stanley Clarke bass and Jack DeJohnette drums, sounds if anything even worse, truly cramped and zero extension in either direction; and the Soul Flutes "Trust In Me" ('68), not really a jazz record but mood music featuring Hancock, Eric Gale, Bucky Pizzarelli, Ron Carter, Grady Tate and Ray Barretto among others, however significantly bigger- and better-sounding (must be tubes), if still fairly turgid overall...I guess demonstrating that the sainted Mr. van G is best appreciated earlier, and on other labels. |
Concrete Blonde Mexican Heartbeat- concert album picked it up to on a whim and am really liking what they do on it. |
Bob Brookmeyer/Jim Hall/Jimmy Raney - "The Street Swingers" [World Pacific] Two-guitar lineup features Brookmeyer switching off between piano and the valve trombone he made his name on. (He also penned the conspicuously wordy liners.) With Bill Crow bass and Osie Johnson drums.
Anthony & The Imperials - "Reflections" [Veep] No more 'Little', but just as much Randazzo.
Yusef Lateef - "Jazz 'Round The World" [Impulse!]
Love - "Four Sail" [Elektra] The last good one.
The Impressions - "The Young Mods' Forgotten Story" [Curtom]
Gordon Lightfoot - "Lightfoot!" [UA]
Gordon Lightfoot - "The Way I Feel" [UA]
Gordon Lightfoot - "Did She Mention My Name?" [UA]
Chet Atkins - "Caribbean Guitar" [RCA]
Chet Atkins - "A Session With Chet Atkins" [RCA]
Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam - (same) [Chess]
Max Roach - "Award Winning Drummer" [Time] With an unusual lineup of Booker Little trumpet, George Coleman tenor sax, Ray Draper tuba, and Art Davis bass (no piano), I'm guessing from about 1960. Contrary to the title this is in no way a drumcentric record.
The Jazz Crusaders - "Give Peace A Chance" [Pacific Jazz/Liberty] Side two is worthwhile originals.
Ramsey Lewis Trio - "Stretching Out" [Argo]
Woody Herman & The Thundering Herd - "Concerto For Herd" [Verve] At the Monterrey Jazz Festival.
Oscar Peterson - "Soul Espanol" [Limelight]
Art Farmer Quartet - "Perception" [Argo]
Quincy Jones & His Orchestra - "The Quintessence" [Impulse!]
Ralph Marterie & His Marlboro Men - "Music For A Private Eye" [Mercury Wing] Superlative big band arrangements of cloak'n'dagger TV themes of the day, again circa 1960. If the Jones record channels the Duke (without actually containing any of his compositions), then this powerhouse calls to mind the Count.
Milt Jackson - "Olinga" [CTI] Could this 1974 session be the worst sounding record RVG ever made? I don't know when he switched his studio over to solid-state (before this, I would think, so presumably he should've already been practiced in it), however this suffocating report from the inside of a non-kingsize pillow sounds like a collateral casualty. With Cedar Walton, Ron Carter, Micky Roker and Jimmy Heath, so the band's not the problem. The liners quote Milt in a not so veiled brushoff of ex-MJQ leader/bandmate John Lewis: "...[I'm playing] my own kind of music - plain, straight, swingin' jazz or bebop or whatever you want to call it. No more hangups with conductors and symphony orchestras. That was never my thing, just a gig." Then Creed Taylor goes and overdubs Bob James 12-piece string arrangements on two of the cuts. |
Toto- Hydra
Great album, every track IMHO. Sounds great too. |
Terry Riley "Descending Moonshine Dervishes"!!! |
Sunday morning listening
Bartok "Concerto for Orchestra" Dorati/Minneapolis SO (Mercury MG 50033)
Beethoven "Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131" Julliard String Quartet (RCA LM-2626) |
|
U2 - War
Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits
Billie Holiday - The Billie Holiday Story
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Depeche Mode - Violator
Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
Mississippi John Hurt - Best of... - Vanguard VSD 19/20
Mississippi John Hurt - Today! - Vanguard VSD 79220 Pure Pleasure
Ry Cooder, V.M. Bhatt - A Meeting by the River - WaterLily APW029-45 Analog Productions
Papa John Creach - s/t - Grunt Records FTR 1003
Crosby, Stills & Nash - s/t - Atlantic SD 8229-45 Classic Records
. |
pilot-morin heights cliff richard-green light john cale-slow dazzle |
Ruby Braff And Scott Hamilton -- "A First" -- Concord CJ-274
Kenny Burrell --"Midnight Blue" --Blue Note ST-84123 Reissue 45RPM |
Coldplay-A Rush Of Blood To The Head
I love all their LP's |
Fattburger, "Good News", Intima records, Direct Metal Mastering. 1986-1987.
Dave Brubeck Quartet, 25th Anniversary Reunion, A&M SP-714 from 1977. Got this near mint from an antique store, found the recording was rather bad. |
Love:
Love
Da Capo
Forever Changes (all Elektra)
Last night saw Johnny Echols, original Love lead guitarist, with Baby Lemonade touring as Love in memorium to late leader/singer/chief songwriter the legendary Arthur Lee.
This tour has had epic bad luck; originally begun as a package scheduled for larger clubs also featuring The Electric Prunes and Sky Saxon of The Seeds, it had to be cancelled mid-tour when Saxon suddenly followed Lee to that Sunset Strip in the sky. Then it was rebooked for smaller venues without the Prunes (who I've seen a couple of times in the past few years and are worth catching) but with Jerry Miller of Moby Grape added. But he apparently didn't work out so well and wound up splitting after a couple weeks.
However in the end that's OK with me; I got Love and just Love, what I really wanted to see again one last time (after catching Arthur Lee on two ocassions with Baby Lemonade, once including Echols), in a more intimate (and cheaper) setting. The singer for the versatile band mostly handles Lee's and Bryan McLean's lead vocal parts, but Echols contributed a fantastic vocal turn on a hushed "Signed DC" and was also gratifyingly more assertive on guitar than last time around.
I understand that some of the crowds have been small and the promoter (who happens to be local and was only doing this for love of the music in the first place) is losing money, but I thought turnout here was good for no longer having Lee, and would recommend all Love fans see this show if it's coming your way 'cuz it most likely ain't never gonna happen again...
"What is happening and how have you been?
Gotta go but I'll see you again
And oh the music is so loud
And then I fade into the...
Crowds of people standing everywhere
'Cross the street I'm at this laugh affair
And here they always play my songs
And me I wonder if it's...
Wrong or right they come here just the same
Telling everyone about their games
And if you think it obsolete
Then you go back across the street
Yeah, street
When I leave now don't you weep for me
I'll be back, just save a seat for me
But if you just can't make the room
Look up and see me on the...
Moon's a common scene around my town
Here where everyone is painted brown
And if we feel that's not the way
Let's go paint everybody gray
Yeah, gray"
--Arthur Lee, "Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale" |
This is my favorite post ever on here. It should have it's own website!! I love to read what everyone is listening to, it gives me a lot of goof ideas.
Tonight:
Led Zeppelin - "Mothership" it's the mother-load of Led Zep recordings.
Steely Dan "Aja" - again, and again.... |
Ghosthouse-
Thanks. It's been fun watching and posting. I agree. I have gotten some really great new music from all the wonderful contributions here.
today:
Crosby, Stills & Nash "Crosby Stills & Nash" (Atlantic SD-8228)
Sibelius "Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63" von Karajan/Berliner (DG 138 974) |
By the way, Slipknot - Thanks for starting a great thread. It's been fun skimning through here to get ideas for new music to check out. |
(last night)
Robert Cray's "Bad Influence" & "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark". |
Brings new meaning to the expression, "get wood".. |
08-14-09: Srwooten
Richie Havens was preparing to mount the stage
That is truthfuly more Woodstock than I can handle.... lol |
Richie Havens was preparing to mount the stage That is truthfuly more Woodstock than I can handle.... |
Forty years ago this afternoon, Richie Havens was preparing to mount the stage to kick off the music at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
In honor of that: "Woodstock: Music From the original Soundtrack" (Cotillion SD 3-500) |
lol, don't know how that happened? Sorry. |
Maddactejas
Maybe you sould post that a few more times:-) |
Another thread made me think of the Beatles, it's theme night now:
The Beatles
Please Please Me
A Hard Day's Night
Rubber Soul
Help
Sgt Peppers
The White Album
Let It Be
Abbey Road |
Another thread made me think of the Beatles, it's theme night now:
The Beatles
Please Please Me
A Hard Day's Night
Rubber Soul
Help
Sgt Peppers
The White Album
Let It Be
Abbey Road |
Freddie Hubbard - "Backlash" (Atlantic Jazzlore)
Barney Kessel & Friends - "Barney Plays Kessel" (Concord Jazz)
Jimmy Giuffre 3 - "Trav'lin' Light" (Atlantic)
The Pentagon (Clifford Jordan, Cedar Walton, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins, Ray Mantilla) - S/T (East Wind)
Randy Weston - "Little Niles" (Blue Note)
Earl Hooker - "Sweet Black Angel" (Blue Thumb)
Prince Far I & The Arabs - "Cry Tuff Dub Encounter Ch.IV" (Trojan)
Al Green - "Explores Your Mind" (Hi)
Al Kooper - "You Never Know Who Your Friends Are" (Columbia)
Dave Brubeck/Gerry Mulligan - "Compadres" (Columbia)
Michel Legrand - "The Young Girls Of Rochefort" Soundtrack (Philips)
Dionne Warwick - "The Original Soul Of" (Charly)
Brian Hyland - S/T (Uni)
The Move - "Split Ends" (UA)
Art Blakey - "3 Blind Mice" (Solid State)
Terry Black - "The Black Plague" (Arc)
The Jacksons - "Destiny" (Epic)
The Dramatics - "Watcha See Is Watcha Get" (Volt)
Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - "Hop On The Skyliner!!" (Decca) |
