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Bob Dylan, Gaslight Tapes, 3 LP set |
A night of Neil Young. The Official Release Series Disc 1-4. |
Holst, "The Planets," Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra (1973), Bishop/Parker Producer/Engineer (Toshiba/EMI-Angel ALF-99002-3, Japanese pressing on four sides).
Happy holidays to all!
-- Al |
Mozart, La Clemenza di Tito, Davis/RoyalOperaH Covent Garden, Baker, Minton, Burrows, Von Stade, Popp - Philips 6703 079
Walton, Viola Concerto, Walton/NPO, Menuhin/vn - EMI ASD 2542
Shostakovich String Quartets on deck!
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The nutcracker, The National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge. London ffrr. It is Christmas eve! I should be going to bed before Santa shows up, he will probably prefer to sit and listen than distribute gifts! |
Le Chansonnier Cordiforme, The Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley, L'Oiseau-Lyre
Bill Evans, Portrait in Jazz, Riverside 1162-45 (Analogue Productions 45rpm reissue)
Wagner, Die Walkure Act III, Solti/VPO/Birgit Nilsson, London OSA 1509
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Picked up several LPs today, spinning them all tonight:
Count Basie / Count Basie At Newport
McCoy Tyner / Echoes of a Friend, Tender Moments
Bud Powell / Bud Powell's Moods
John Coltrane / Bye Bye Blackbird |
Art Blakey / Moanin'
Bob Dylan / Nashville Skyline
Putting some time on its my new speed controller - good times. |
Nutcracker! OSR/Ansermet (crackin' nuts with Ernie) |
Foo Fighters- Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace- Man this sounds good on vinyl! I ordered all the newly released (remastered perhaps) vinyl. I cant wait to hear it! Great band! I'm especialy excited for The Colour and the Shape. |
Janelle Monae- The Archandroid. Outward looking and smart enough to not have to rely on usual young adult stuff for subject matter. An incredible voice adaptable to a wide variety of genres. The styles used in this album are all over the place and she sounds wonderful in all of them. My 1st listen through this album although i've heard tracks on KCRW which got me interested in her music. Great recording. I'm just thoroughly impressed. |
Live Rust...maybe some Roy Buchanan later. |
Tonight's next selection will be Necrophonie's "1996-2006" 10" disc on the Japanese label Dogma Chase. Imagine...one inch of breathtaking musical highlights per year. |
Ravel, Bolero & La Valse, Dukas, Sorcerer's Apprentice on Decca 180 gram. First play, very nice.
Thelonious Alone in San Francisco, solo piano |
Nirvana - Nevermind – Deluxe Edition 4LPS – 180g Virgin Vinyl |
Ahhhhh..., simply marvelous to be listening to such a sinfully, delightfully delicious LP: the 45rpm reissue of the Falla Three Cornered Hat from ORG's London/Decca reissue series. Just incredibly GOOD!
THIS is why we spend so much energy, time and money getting our audio systems set up and tuned well.
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Hendrix. West Coast Seattle Boy. Fans of Jimi would do quite well to score this lp box. It can be had for less than $70 online. The sonics are killer. |
Norah Jones- Coma Away With Me, on Clarity 45RPM. Yummy!
Foo Fighter Greatest Hits- another winner. I wish I had purchased The Colour and the Shape when I had the chance!!!
Billy Squire- Don't Say No, remaster, Friday Music. Well done IMO. |
Girls - Father, Son and Holy Ghost - average pressing on white and black vinyl; band from SF bay area. Impossible to describe - every song transcends the next. Best LP of music of the year so far. Don't shy away from the pressing, it won't get better than this for bands in 2011.
Lamb - Lamb - Debut record on Fontana by trip hop drum and bass duo from England. Great if you can find the vinyl -hard as heck to find from 1996.
Dead Can Dance - Spiritchaser - Mofi reissue. Great pressing, great recording, great music. |
The Judds first release: "The Judds", a mini LP from 1984. The band is superb, the gals wonderful (ymmv). The sonics superb +. I'm taken by the guitar sounds on this and their first 3 albums, some really outstanding arrangements and musicianship. Very well recorded. |
Gee, whadya think God talking to Noah sounds like over a good hi-fi?
I myself am partial to Nichols & May, and Derek & Clive (for the uninitiated, Dudley Moore and Peter Cook, being very naughty indeed). |
I think I'll bring out my old Bob Newhart Button Down Mind album and Bill Cosby albums after seeing these recent posts. |
Last night during our otherwise serious listening sesson we stopped to play old material by Bob And Ray.
All of these make me laugh out loud,
Two Faces West
Komodo Dragon
Slow Talkers Of America
Just Plain Fancy Dan
Spelling Bee |
My favorite LP by Firesign Theaer is "We're All Bozo's on This Bus" The routine about the future fair gets me every time. "A fair for all, and no fair to anybody".
Those guys were brilliant. The Three Stooges for the thinking man (or woman). |
Don't crush that dwarf! Hand me the pliars. |
OK it's not music but last night I listened to both sides of Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All".
I was laughing out loud to tears without any medication and/or false drugs (thank you Pastor Rod Flash).
Some of us are doomed to eternal adolescence. |
Willie Nelson - Red Haired Stranger, Columbia
Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson/Jessi Colter - The Outlaws, RCA
Debussy - Preludes, Bk 1 - Michelangeli, DGG
Boccherini - La Musica Notturna delle strade di Madrid
Sammartini - Sinfonia in F
... - Stuttgart Chm Orch, Tacet L74
Dvorak - Cello Concerto - Munch/BSO/Piatigorsky, RCA |
"Windfalls" - Carl Weingarten & Gale Ormiston
"I Advance Masked" - Andy Summers & Robet Fripp |
Pink Floyd's - The Final Cut
World Party's - Private Revolution |
Tonight: Oregon Out of the Woods
Last night: Brahms Piano Concerto no. 1 Weissenberg/Muti
Night before: Yes The Yes Album
Good music is good music.
Steve O. |
its a Brian Eno night. when i lived in Seattle i bought all his albums from someone "getting out" of vinyl. i bet he's sorry now! |
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta |
Norman Connors - "Love From The Sun" [Buddah LP '73] With Herbie Hancock, Hubert Laws, Eddie Henderson, Gary Bartz, Buster Williams, Carlos Garnett, DeeDee Bridgewater, in a celestial set from before the drummer/leader switched to pop-soul crossover mode
Phil Upchurch - "Lovin' Feeling" [Blue Thumb promo LP '73] The bluesy jazz guitarist better known as a sideman (Carmen McRea, Chess records house band) and for his "You Can't Sit Down" instro pop hit of the early 60's, delivers a funky pop-jazz set somewhere between Grant Green and George Benson
Lonnie Smith - "Drives" [Blue Note LP '70] Hot organ quintet set by Benson's one-time Hammond man (not to be confused with better-known keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith)
Sergio Mendes - "The Beat Of Brazil" [Atlantic LP '67] Arranged by Antonio Carlos Jobim, recorded by Philips in Rio de Janeiro with Brazilian sextet. Bossa nova of course, but with very credible straight modern jazz aspects as well, more so than on Jobim's own stuff. Quoth Sergio: "I've never heard an American drummer who can play Brazilian rhythm correctly...When you hear the sound in Brazil, there is no basic rhythmic pattern - no straight tempo - it's loose - there are shifts...It reflects the same kind of feeling that American drummers have when they play jazz. But for some reason, when they attempt Brazilian rhythm, it just sounds like a 'nice' beat." |
Albeniz, Suite Espanola, De Burgos/NewPhilO, London CS 6581-45 (ORG 45rpm reissue - simply delightful. Bravo) Rush- I'm delighted to hear that you like this reissue. I am also impressed. Enough so, that I have subscribed to the entire series of Blueback reissues from ORG |
Mozart, Exsultate Jubilate, Hogwood/AAM, Emma Kirkby, L'Oiseau Lyre 411 832 (just a gorgeous performance with the remarkable Ms. Kirkby)
Marais, Pieces for 2 Viols, Savall/Coin/Koopman, Astree AS39
Albeniz, Suite Espanola, De Burgos/NewPhilO, London CS 6581-45 (ORG 45rpm reissue - simply delightful. Bravo)
Neil Young, Sugar mountain, Live at Canterbury Hourse 1968, Reprise 51263-1
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Marshall Crenshaw
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
Van Halen II
Billy Squire - Don't Say No
Fleetwood Mac
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Couldn't STand the Weather |
Cat Stevens, Mona Bone Jakon
Joni Mitchell, Live things run fast
Art Pepper, Smack Up
Larry Young, Unity |
Humble Pie, Rockin' The Fillmore
up next
New Order, Blue Monday |
Tinariwen Tassili +10:1
I keep thinking this band is repetitive from album to album - it all sort of sounds the same (like some folks think jazz just sounds like noise) but the more I listen, the more addictive it gets, and you start picking up on how different these tunes that sounded "all the same" really are. |
On the TT tonight is the new pressing of Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman on Chad Kassem's new label... Analogue Productions...Quality Pressings.
BIG disappointment for this much praised pressing....Something went seriously wrong with this LP, IMHO..:0( |
Nancy Wilson/yesterdays love songs, todays blues---red garland trio/ a garland of red---frank sinatra/ where are you tonight---rolling stones/sticky fingers(m.f.s.l.1/2sp.master). |
The Originals - "Baby I'm For Real" [Soul LP '69]
Luther Ingram - "If Loving You Is Wrong I Don't Want To Be Right" [Koko LP '72]
Moments - "Moments With You" [Stang LP '76] |
1. procol harum--exotic birds and fruit. post-trower; generally ignored, but actually quite excellent--less arty, more concise than their earlier stuff. "the idol" and "new lamps for old" are among the best songs they ever recorded.
2. thin white rope--exploring the axis. the great lost guitar band of the 80s--brilliant, hooky, twisted psychy stuff in the same general ballpark as meat puppets and television, but entirely unique. the leader, guy kyser, is a genius.
3. sex clark five--strum and drum. really melodic, rem-ish one-minute pop tunes with clever, if incomprehensible, lyrics. 25 years after first hearing this, i still remember these songs. |
Listened again tonight with a fellow wanting to audition the Allnic, short session but the following got spun before shutting down.
Massive Attack, "Heligoland"
Eric Clapton, "Layla"
Hampton Hawes, "Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes"
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Brubeck Desmond"
Daniel Lanois, "Acadie" |
Welcome back Albert! (In lesser news, misspelling "suavest" not exactly a suave move on my part -- certainly not deserving of Joe Williams' hounds-tooth & pipe ;^)
Barney Kessel - "Plays Carmen" [Contemporary mono LP '59] Subtitled "Modern Jazz Performances From Bizet's Opera". Group includes Buddy Collette, Andre Previn, Shelly Manne, Herb Geller and Victor Feldman, adapted and arranged by Kessel, who is in fine form on guitar. Warm and intimate, quite dynamic and very clean, reasonably extended sound by Roy DuNann
The Paul Winter Sextet - "Jazz Meets The Bossa Nova" [Columbia stereo LP '62] Redundantly-titled, percussion-crazy swell set, capable of generating a spread of sound seemingly greater than the width of the room far in excess of the speaker positions, without the help of added reverb either |
My Tuesday night music meeting:
Johnny Hartman, "The Voice That Is"
Massive Attack, "Heligoland"
Rickie Lee Jones, "Traffic From Paradise"
Porcupine Tree, "Fear of A Blank Planet"
Porcupine Tree, "Stupid Dreams"
Ike Quebec, "Soul Samba"
Beach House, "Teen Dream" |
The Incredible String Band - "Wee Tam" [Elektra LP '69]
Roy Loney & The Phantom Movers - "Contents Under Pressure" [War Bride LP '81]
Ahmad Jamal - "The Piano Scene Of Ahmad Jamal" [Epic mono LP '59]
Joe Williams - "The Exciting Joe Williams" [RCA Victor stereo LP '65] Like the title sez! Huge punchy sound with of course the voice and performances to match (except for the last track on side 1, not a song worthy of the rest of the album), plus one of the absolute sauvest cover shots ever
Dizzy Gillespie + 21 - "Perceptions" [Verve mono LP '61] Composed and arranged by J.J. Johnson, conducted by Gunther Schuller
Antonio Carlos Jobim - "The Composer Of Desafinado, Plays" [Verve mono LP '63]
The Walter Wanderly Trio - "Cheganca" [Verve stereo LP '66] Supercharged, space-age Hammond organ bossanova, in sound so tubey-luscious, it's like a coffee caramel that melts in your ear |
Frank Sinatra Live at the Sands (MFSL)
Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
Billy Squire - Don't Say No
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Sanatan - Abraxas (MFSL)
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe (MFSL) |
Mumford and Sons- Sigh No More |
