What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

The Allman Brothers Band - Hittin' The Note



This '03 release is a fine Blues/Rock album.

No Dickie, but still plenty of top guitaring.

I think two guitarists, two drummers, and a percussionist is just showing off...

[Tiggi]

Arne Domnerus & Gustaf Sjokvist - Antiphone Blues



Domnerus is a leading Swedish Jazzer, and I've no idea who Sjokvist is...

Domnerus plays Sax, whilst Sjokvist plays a Swedish Church organ. The Music consists of several excerpts from Ellington's Sacred Concerts, some Spirituals, & a Hymn or two, all played in a stately manner.

Lovely chill-out Jazz...

[JonG]

Jon Hassell - Time and Place from Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street [ECM Records, 2009]

...Hassell may not be as well-known, say, as Miles Davis, but amongst a broadening group of musicians and listeners, it's become clear that his influence may well be no less pervasive—just, perhaps, more understated and subversive. While Hassell has continued to release albums periodically over the past decade—notably the sublime, uncharacteristically acoustic Fascinoma (Waterlily Acoustics, 1999) and sultry Maarifa Street: Magic Realism, Vol. 2 (Nyen, 2005)—Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street is the trumpeter's first album for ECM since 1985's Power Spot and, with the label's greater international reach and a major North American tour on the horizon, it may well be the album that introduces the innovative artist to a larger listening public and clarifies just how significant he has been and continues to be.

It's no hyperbole to suggest that without Jon Hassell there'd be no annual Punkt Festival, nor would artists like Arve Henriksen, Nils Petter Molvaer and David Sylvian (amongst others) be quite the same. Hassell's innovations in the areas of live sampling, real-time soundscaping and a musical confluence that he refers to as "The North and South of You"—meaning the cerebral/intellectual versus the physical/sensual—have inspired so many artists since his early collaborations with legendary producer/ambient music forefather Brian Eno that, while his name may not be as well-known as it should, it's an undeniable truth that the entire musical world would be a very different place without him...

- allaboutjazz.com

[latorius]

Have just been turned on to Woody Hermans Big Band 1971 LP "Brand New", also available on CD. In particular I would like to point out "Hitchhike on the possum trot line", it features my personal favourite guitarist Mike Bloomfield.

My assesment is one word "SUBLIME"

[Music Head]

from my library



The Legend. Passed on in 1967 at the age of 40 of liver cancer. Although he had been around for a bit, his association with Miles Davis brought him to the forefront of the jazz scene. Miles fired him because of his heroin addiction, but later hired him back. Also a member of Thelonious Monks band. This album is rather short track wise with 5 cuts, but they are lengthy. There are also 2 alternate takes which are indistinguishable from the original to me, but I'm sure the Coltrane enthusiasts can spot the difference. Did not grade those. This has been my heavy rotation album for the week, as it is on my mp3, and I put the earbuds in as I'm going to sleep. Nothing like some good sax before you nod off.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Locomotion

Best Track - I'm Old Fashioned

1) Blue Train - *** - audio
YouTube - John Coltrane - Blue train
2) Moments Notice - ** - audio
YouTube - John Coltrane - Moment's Notice
3) Locomotion - * - audio
YouTube - John Coltrane - Locomotion
4) I'm Old Fashioned - *** - audio
YouTube - John Coltrane - I'm Old Fashioned
5) Lazy Bird - * - audio
YouTube - John Coltrane - Lazy Bird
6) Blue Train - alternate take
7) Lazy Bird - alternate take

Average Rating - 2.0

[Fretup]

Don't listen much jazz as such, but I like this number by Vinnie Colaiuta & Allan Holdsworth - TSUNAMI.

[Tiggi]

Fleetwood Mac - Live in Boston Volume 2



Some more live Mac, from '70.

They must have been quite a band to see live back then...

[Music Head]

from my library



Bummer. This could have been a great album. The music that is there is great. It's just the lack of it. First off it is a very short album, clocking in at around 30 minutes. 12 tracks most at around 2:30 minutes. Editing is terrible, with fade outs on most tracks, some in the middle of a verse. Then the mix is one of those where vocals are on one side and music on the other. I prefer to listen under headphones, but couldn't do that with this one. I have this right ear problem, pretty much gone, which prohibits that pleasure. Putting all that aside, these are good songs. What's not to like about traditional blues?

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Run On

Best Track - I'll Know Tonight

1) No Shoes - ** - audio
YouTube - 'No Shoes' -John Lee Hooker
2) I Wanna Walk - **
3) Canal Street Blues - *
4) Run On - * - audio
YouTube - John Lee Hooker -run on
5) I'm A Stranger - **
6) Whiskey And Wimmen - *** - audio
YouTube - Whiskey + Women
7) Solid Sender - ***
8) Sunny Land - ***
9) Goin' To California - *
10) I Can't Believe - *
11) I'll Know Tonight - ***
12) Dusty Road - **

Rating - 2.1

[faaipdeoaid]

Have I mentioned the stunning Parov Stelar

new album out soon I believe

YouTube - Parov Stelar - Good Bye Emily

[sky diamond]

check out freddie doin an awesome `boogie funk` on a dvd of the old grey whistle test vol 3. seminal 70s and 80s british rock music prog.