Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy)
Island 1974
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Freedy Johnston "Back on the Road to You"
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@slaw good call on the eyelids--in a parallel universe they’d be bigger than the beatles)
@bslon ever notice how good the only ones’ guitarist is?
today’s picks:
corey hanson, pale horse rider--a bit more restrained than my usual, but he’s a vg singer and will occasionally let his freak flag show
hoodoo gurus, magna cum louder--i’ve come around to thinking that this is actually their best record--less idiosyncratic and more radio-polished than their earlier, but the songs are consistently great
come, don’t ask don’t tell--this is just as good as better-remembered contemporaries like pavement and sonic youth. noisy, but they can play their instruments.
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Jules and the Polar Bears / Got No Breeding
1978 Columbia
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City Boy / S-T
1976 Mercury
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Neil Merryweather / Space Rangers
1974 Mercury
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The White Stripes / Elephant
2003 Third Man Records
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David Frizzell & Shelly West-In Session Side 1
Rose Hardaway-It's Time For Rose Hardaway Side B
Joanne Bracken-AFT Side B SQ Audiophile
Son Seals-Chicago Fire Side B
The Marshall Tucker Band-Long Hard Ride(Barcode) Side 2
Neil Diamond-September Morn Side 1 SQ*
Luther Vandross-Busy Body Side B SQ*
Gordon Lightfoot-Don Quixote Side 1
Only unplayed album tonight was Marshall Tucker which also had the worst SQ. Probably due to being a later pressing. Luther and Neil had near Audiophile SQ but after switching around all cables its a tougher call, by Friday I will lock in my best SQ. Quixote could be Gord's best. David/Shelly a dollar bin gem.
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from last night
Ronnie Laws "Pressure Sensitive" Blue Note BN-LA452-G
Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges "Side By Side" Verve MG V-8345 and then "Back To Back" Verve MG V-8317
finale: The Astronauts (hometown band) "Astronauts Orbit Kampus" A-O-K" RCA LSP 2903
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John Lee Hooker / The Healer
2020 Craft Recordings RE, orig. 1989
Fabulous reissue by Craft Recordings
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Terry Allen And The Panhandle Mystery Band / Just Like Moby Dick
2020 Paradise Of Bachelors
More great music and sonics.
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Gregg Allman / Southern Blood
2017 Rounder
Great music going on here, SQ too.
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Wife's birthday so we are listening to Molly Hatchet, Traffic, & Bread.
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The Cleveland Quartet with Yo-Yo Ma
Schubert - Quintet, Op. 163, D, 956g
CBS Masterworks 1984
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The Budapest String Quartet
- Ravel - Quartet in F Major
- Debussy - Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
Columbia reissue, early 60’s, originally 1958
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Juilliard String Quartet
- Ives - String Quartet No. 1 & No. 2
CBS Records Masterworks reissue 1985, originally 1967
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And finally, I listened to, Arti e Mestieri - Tilt.
This is a near brilliant piece of 70’s Italian prog! This one kind of straddles the line between prog and fusion. With terrifying chops by all members.
For anyone unfamiliar, in the 70’s (and still to this day), Italy produced some of the best prog ever. Many of the best bands (PFM, Banco, Le Orme, Museo Rosenbach, Area, Il Balleto di Bronzo), made prog as good as most of the big British bands (Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, etc), but with their own Italian spin on it. This one is maybe just a tiny bit out of the 1st tier of Italian prog, but not by much.
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After the above mentioned Chamber Concerto, I listened to one of the great, lesser known ECM recordings.
From 1976, Art Lande - Rubisa Patrol. With the great, Mark Isham on trumpet.
Lande has some great feel on piano, but loads of chops too.
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This was from last night’s listening session. As with almost all of my listening sessions, they are a combination of vinyl and digital.
Charles Wourinen (one of my top 5 composers)- Chamber Concerto for Cello and 10 Players, and Ringing Changes for Percussion Ensemble
I tend to listen mostly to the Cello Chamber Concerto more than the percussion piece, but if anyone really wants to evaluate the soundstage and imaging of their system, it would be hard to find a better piece than Ringing Changes. It produces a well defined soundstage, with extremely well defined musicians within it. Very natural sounding.
Musically, it’s pretty angular, thorny sounding, so YMMV.
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The B-52’s / S-T
1979 Warner Bros.
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Polyrock / Changing Hearts
1981 RCA
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The Only Ones / Baby’s Got A Gun
1980 Epic
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Ultravox / The Collection
1985 Chrysalis
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Martinů - Flute Chamber Music
- Sonata For Flute And Piano
- Madrigalsonate For Flute, Violin And Piano: Poco Allegro
- Madrigalsonate (Forts. V. Seite 1): Moderate
- Sonata For Flute, Violin And Piano.
Alexandre Magnin, flute / Ralf Gothóni, piano / Philipp Naegele, violin
Magnin, Da Camera Magna 1977, German release
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Jean-Claude Pennetier, piano / Régis Pasquier, violin / Roland Pidoux, cello :
Ernest Chausson
- Trio Pour Piano, Violon Et Violoncelle, Op. 3
- En Sol Mineur
- Pièce Pour Violoncelle Et Piano, Op. 39 En Do Majeur.
Harmonia Mundi 1984
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Ernest Chausson
- Concerto In D Major, Op. 21 for Piano, Violin and String
- String Quartet ’Unfinished’ Op. 35
The Muir String Quartet
Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
Augustin Dumay, violin
His Masters Voice 1987
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Ignaz Moscheles : Michael Ponti, piano
- Piano Concerto In G Minor, Opus 58 with Philharmonia Hungarica, Othmar F. M. Mága conducting
- Etudes, Opus 70
- Characteristic Etudes, Opus 95
Candide 1969
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Fritz Reiner conducts Schumann
- Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op. 54
Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Van Cliburn, piano
RCA Victor Red Seal ‘Living Stereo’, shaded dog 1960
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Klaviermusik Zu Vier Händen
Edvard Grieg
- Symphonische Tänze Über Norwegische Motive Op. 64
- Walzer-Capricen Op. 37
- Symphonische Stücke Op. 14
Hans-Dieter Bauer & Siegfried Schubert-Weber, piano
RBM Records, 1983. German release
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Leonard Bernstein conducts Rachmaninoff
- Concerto No. 2 In C Minor For Piano And Orchestra, Op. 18
- Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op. 43
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Gary Graffman, piano
Columbia Masterworks 1964
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Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, and Itzhak Perlman - Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary (birthday) Celebration.
Zubin Mehta conducting The New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Recorded live at The Lincoln Center.
- Bach - Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins And Orchestra, BWV 1043
- Vivaldi - Concerto In F Major For Three Violins, F. 1, No. 34
- Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante In E-Flat Major For Violin, Viola And Orchestra, K. 364
CBS Masterworks 1981
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Slayer ,Reigning Blood and Ministry , Filth Pig
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@jdougs
The Three: Joe Sample, Ray Brown and Shelly Manne
Great LP 👍🏼
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@slaw Did you ever get some Holly G?
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I got home late. Started the evening off with…
The Three: Joe Sample, Ray Brown and Shelly Manne
Following it up with…
A Night at the Vangard: The Kenny Burrell Trio
Not sure where it’ll go from there! 🙂
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Sure wish there was a “Like” option here. I see some great music being played tonight! 👍🏼
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Reiner conducts Tchaikovsky
- Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Jascha Heifetz
RCA Victor Red Seal reissue 1976, originally 1957
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Tom Waits And Crystal Gayle – One From The Heart - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Of Francis Coppola's Movie (CBS 1982)
Recommend.
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Les Paul & Mary Ford – Hits Of Les And Mary (Capitol 1960)
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The Heifetz & Piatigorsky Concerts
- Spohr - Double String Quartette In D Minor, Op. 65
Jascha Heifetz, 1st violin
Pierre Amoyal, 1st violin
Israel Baker, 2nd violin
Paul Rosenthal, 2nd violin
Milton Thomas, viola
Allan Harshman, viola
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
Laurence Lesser, cello
- Dvořák - Piano Trio In E Minor, Op. 90 ("Dumky")
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
Jacob Lateiner, piano
RCA Red Seal, The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts Series, 1969
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Ytre Suløens Jass-Ensemble, Barbara Ann Shorts – A Stone For Bessie Smith (Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1987)
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Pepper Adams – Julian (Inner City 1979)
Superb music and recording. Recommended.
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Klemperer conducts Mozart
Horn Concertos
- Concerto No. 2 In E Flat Major, K.417
- Concerto No. 3 In E Flat Major, K.447
- Concerto No. 4 In E Flat Major, K.495
- Concerto No. 1 In D Major, K.412
- Serenade No. 12 in C Minor, K. 388
Philharmonia Orchestra with Alvin Civil, solo French Horn
EMI/Angel reissue 1985, originally 1961
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Jean Martinon conducts
- Saint-Saëns - Morceau De Concert Pour Harpe Avec Accompagnement D'Orchestre, Op. 154
- Tailleferre - Concertino Pour Harpe Et Orchestre
- Ginastera - Concierto Para Arpa Y Orquesta
Orchestre ORTF, Paris
Nicanor Zabaleta, harp
Deutsche Grammophon 1970, German release
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