What Are You Listening To?

[latorius]

Re Nina Simone,

I would suggest a listen to the Albums Forbidden Fruit and Live at the Carnagie Hall, now available on one CD. In particular two outstanding tracks:-

Just say I love him - very unique as Slackmans guitar delicately weaves arround her voice in a gutrenching emotional tale of lost love. Only Judy Collins with "the first boy I loved", from the "who knows where the time goes" has done anything similar.

Trouble in Mind - a blues tour de force with just a trio, but she stamps loud and hard on it. I believe her contribution to the British Blues invasion in largely unacknowledged. Only Alan Price (ex Animals) has acknowledged her influence.

[Iota]

Nina Simone - Sinnerman

[Tiggi]

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - The Complete Studio Recorded Duets



A 2-disc compilation that includes both the Ella & Louis, & Ella & Louis Again albums, plus all the other studio vocal duets from these 2 Jazz titans.

Great stuff, but did they really only collaborate on this small number of songs ??

[Iota]

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - The Complete Studio

Great stuff, but did they really only collaborate on this small number of songs ??

Thats all they've recorded on the Verve label.

[Music Head]

from my library



Tony was never one of my favorite crooners, but you gotta give him kudos for maintaining street cred and staying active in the biz for going on 60 years now. The first hit on this compilation was recorded in 1951 and it only goes through 1972. The guy is still making albums and doing gigs. Saw him on Jools Holland just last week. No wheel chair, no oxygen tank, and still sounding fine. No question of my fav here, the defining San Francisco, and unbelievably it was not his highest charting song. Go figure. Go Tony!

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - For Once In My Life

Best Track - I Left My Heart In San Francisco


The loveliness of Paris
Seems somehow sadly gay
The glory that was Rome
Is of another day
I've been terribly alone
And forgotten in Manhattan
I'm going home to my city by the bay. I left my heart in San Francisco
High on a hill, it calls to me.
To be where little cable cars
Climb halfway to the stars!
The morning fog may chill the air
I don't care!
My love waits there in San Francisco
Above the blue and windy sea
When I come home to you, San Francisco,
Your golden sun will shine for me!


1) Because Of You - ** - live
YouTube - Because of you - Tony Bennett
2) Rags To Riches - * - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO_XnBm4PfE
3) Stranger In Paradise - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzA8gwfJr9I
4) Sing You Sinners - ** - live
YouTube - Sing you sinner - Tony Bennett
5) Just In Time - *** - live
YouTube - Just in time - Tony Bennett
6) The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - * - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAW-BUtTmyc
7) Love Look Away - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-W0HGiNEw
8) Firefly - * - live
YouTube - Tony Bennett sings Firefly
9) Put On A Happy Face - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEOmND0n-BY
10) I Left My Heart In San Francisco - *** - audio
YouTube - SV - Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
11) I Wanna Be Around - *** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MXZCecet-s
12) This Is All I Ask - **
13) Who Can I Turn To - *** - audio
YouTube - Who can i turn to - Tony Bennett
14) The Shadow Of Your Smile - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clKLwaT__kI
15) Smile - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6MOnNm3u2Y
16) A Time For Love - *
17) For Once In My Life - * - live
YouTube - Tony Bennett - For Once In My Life (Mar. 1968)
18) Something - * - live
YouTube - Something - Tony Bennett
19) (Where Do I Begin) Love Story - ** - audio
YouTube - Tony Bennett "Where Do I Begin" ( Love Story )
20) Maybe This Time - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j2sz2h76BQ

3's - 4
2's - 10
1's - 6

Rating - 1.9

[Tiggi]

Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else



Another of those all-star get-togethers that seem to have happened routinely and frequently back in those days.

Fab record with great playing from all...

[Tiggi]

Juniour Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues



Wells on Harmonica, & Buddy Guy on Guitar with a fine band, make for a great mid-'60s Blues album.

[Beach]

Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else



Another of those all-star get-togethers that seem to have happened routinely and frequently back in those days.

Fab record with great playing from all...

I have a feeling that this was actually the Miles Davis Quintet at the time (1958). It is certainly listed as part of Miles' discography rather than Cannon's.
Apparently this particular album is a re-release with one additional track (Alison's Uncle) which was left off the original release from what I read about it and you've definitely got a great album there Tigger!

[Tiggi]

I have a feeling that this was actually the Miles Davis Quintet at the time (1958). It is certainly listed as part of Miles' discography rather than Cannon's.
Apparently this particular album is a re-release with one additional track (Alison's Uncle) which was left off the original release from what I read about it and you've definitely got a great album there Tigger!

Mmmm. Interesting...

The CD cover has Adderley's name in a different colour on the front, and it's listed as Adderley on the spine.

The text in the booklet talks about him being the band leader, and states that this was recorded "nearly a month before the saxophonist made his first studio session under Davis's leadership".

It seems his previous recording had been "made with the Davis Sextet minus its' leader".

Don't know how these things worked, but there is also discussion of Adderley's considerable debts at the time, & I wonder if Miles gave him the credits to help him out financially.

[Beach]

Mmmm. Interesting...

The CD cover has Adderley's name in a different colour on the front, and it's listed as Adderley on the spine.

The text in the booklet talks about him being the band leader, and states that this was recorded "nearly a month before the saxophonist made his first studio session under Davis's leadership".

It seems his previous recording had been "made with the Davis Sextet minus its' leader".

Don't know how these things worked, but there is also discussion of Adderley's considerable debts at the time, & I wonder if Miles gave him the credits to help him out financially.

It is strange, indeed!
On his Wikipedia Discography page he is listed as a leader and not as a sideman but, the album is shown as with Miles Davis and it comes between Cannonball's Sharpshooters and Portrait of Cannonball.

Prior to joining the Miles Davis band, Adderley formed his own group with his brother Nat after signing onto the Savoy jazz label in 1957. He was noticed by Miles Davis, and it was because of his blues-rooted alto saxophone that Davis asked him to play with his group.
Adderley joined the Miles Davis sextet in October 1957, three months prior to John Coltrane's return to the group. Adderley played on the seminal Davis records Milestones and Kind of Blue. This period also overlapped with pianist Bill Evans's time with the sextet, an association that led to recording Portrait of Cannonball and Know What I Mean?.