I just gave all three a listen ... and liked them all, a lot. I know Stardust, Future, and Adventure are a different kind of peak ... but I still very much enjoy everything they've put out. Even...
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I just gave all three a listen ... and liked them all, a lot. I know Stardust, Future, and Adventure are a different kind of peak ... but I still very much enjoy everything they've put out. Even...
People who think that "overrated" and "underrated" are words that actually mean something.
I was stuck on a long drive a few weeks ago, and the only thing in the car was disc two of Desolation Rose ... listened to it maybe 5 times. I think it's outstanding. Hardly a "bonus disc" at all, it...
So, I'm on a Wayne Shorter binge. Just listening to everything from the blue note stuff to his newest, Without a Net, which is amazing and started the whole binge.
http://rd.io/x/QWjoYyJ5D5Q/
I agree with you completely, and think Black Codes and Jmood are unbelievably good. There's a moment on the first track of Jmood where something happens and the world just opens up, 0 to 60, I'm...
Just as an exercise in understanding how good the writing is (as opposed to the particular performance) NDV's Rewiring Genesis really makes for good listening. I still prefer the original, but...
I'm having kind of a private renaissance with PT. My son bought Octane Twisted for me and that rekindled the flame. I've relistened to everything and I'm amazed at how strong of a vision exists...
I love their approach to covers -- Hogweed still a favorite -- but the choice of songs for this disc are a disappointment. Love "And You And I" and White Satin and Indiscipline ... but don't care...
Having a bop morning this A.M. -- Sonny Stitt best of set. Sometimes bop just hits it right. It's like the baroque period for jazz.
Odean Pope was great in Max Roach's quartet. If you can find Chatahoochee Red, seek it out.
I love that set. I could put it on shuffle for a whole week at a time and be happy. And that doesn't answer your question, but I don't actually have an answer to your question. I stopped looking...
Which Meldau box? THe Art of the Trio?
Yes, but also because we were discovering this stuff for the first time. When I was eleven my sister got Duke, didn't like it, and passed it on to me.
Thank you, sir!
Crumhorns? Why not Sackbuts? My CD has a bombarde.
I'm hoping my longstanding membership in PE will earn me your forebearance.
I've released a new CD. Rural French accordion music. I'm quite proud of it. Though it's off the PE path (though...
My wife bought me a subscription to the Rdio streaming service as a gift, and the first thing I did was check out Mehldau ... just tons of stuff, including his two "soundtracky" records "Largo" and...
Oh, if only ... but then you went on and on.
Hm, I was just looking at Robin Williamson's work on the ECM label, interpreting the work of Dylan Thomas, et al. Anyone heard it?
I agree, and cop to the hyperbole. It isn't quantitative, but qualitative. You are there. In that moment. And you feel, "This is the most beautiful moment ever." Maybe it doesn't hold up later. ...
Responding to a coupla posts:
That Travis Reuter is pretty wonderful. Never heard him before. Reminds me of some of my favorite fun Braxton compositions from the mid 1970s. His "pulse track"...
I very much enjoy "The Road Back Home." As a compilation it may feel "why bother?" but it definitely makes a case for programming, because the experience of listening to the whole set unfolding in...
This thread has been great. I find that my listening has really focused for this fortnight. For a while Brad Mehldau dominated my world -- I had first heard of him here on PE. Now I find that I'm...
This actually is my favorite of Hackett's archive releases, and I like it even more than the recent Genesis Rev disc. His brother's flute opening to Firth of Fifth just kills me.
This talk of the great Muhal makes me want to interject that everyone should read George Lewis's book about the AACM:
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I don't know if it is. The cycle of expiration at the old PE was formidable. It would be great to see it again. Possibly do a group reading (aloud), and set it to music.
The reason Ken's review is remembered so fondly -- and I told him this as I was disagreeing with him -- was that is was just such great writing. It stopped you in your tracks, and then it led to...
Very sad. RIP, buddy.
Not limiting myself to one per artist:
Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch
John Coltrane: Coltrane
John Coltrane: Ole Coltrane
Archie Shepp: Fire Music (killer "Girl From Impanema")
Miles Davis: ...
Because of this thread, I went and revisited some Brad Meldhau, and then just fell in. Three days so far of nothing but the man and his trio. It's like a revelation. I've enjoyed his stuff a lot...
http://rd.io/x/QWjoYyJ-oZo
A tribute to Thomas Chapin.
Someone above mentioned Thomas Chapin. His passing was a real loss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlz7wnDVTqQ
I agree, but better on the live three set. As for "Lifeline," I do enjoy, more than the new one, but nothing has topped ? .
The ultimate energy blast. John Zorn and Tim Berne's "Spy vs. Spy." First time I saw this, David Sanborn was along for the ride.
http://youtu.be/JIFOg-wcGog
I just saw Roy Nathanson's Sotto Voce group up here in Maine. Roy and the Jazz Passengers were a favorite from my days in the NYC (the early 1990s). Still, amazing,
http://youtu.be/nNsIoFSWUuw
Energy music question: David Ware and Charles Gayle are great suggestions. Can't remember if you mentioned Albert Ayler ... the reigning saint of the form. Sonny Sharrock, of course.
Marilyn...
Tom Waits
Rush
Transatlantic
Flower Kings (and associated)
Shoulder pads from HELL.
TNG, Voyager, and DS9 are all available in their entirety on NetFlix streaming, worth the $7.99 price of admission, if you ask me.
One of the things my wife and I share is a love for things Trek. Our fav is DS9 ... I don't see how anyone who gives it a chance can't fall for it. Then TNG and Voyager. The original series was a...
Best to you and Kay, Buddy.
This has happened to me before with other performers. I was invited to a David Murray performance at the Vanguard twenty years ago, and was in no state to be receptive to the marvelousness of his...
If you asked me, I would have said Relayer or Close to the Edge. I've got excellent reasons for believing those to be the best Yes records, but I realized this morning that I've been reaching for...
I agree. I like them better than all the others. Best albums: Village Green, Muswell Hillbillies, Lola, Low Budget.
Firth is one of the few songs that I collect versions of. Every time it shows up in a Steve Hackett archive, I find it interesting. On Tokyo, I believe, Hackett's brother does the intro on flute. ...
That made me laugh. ;)
There's no way to express how important this album was to the development of my aesthetic values. Love every note ... and I still feel a frisson* of anticipation when I...
Also, Django Bates big band:
http://www.rdio.com/artist/Django_Bates/album/Like_Life/
Free stream
Mike Formanek (best record of 2012, exquisite, beautiful), Drew Gress, Tim Berne (Snakeoil), Craig Taborn.
Roots music is so authentic.
They are great. I saw a video of their's on VH1's New Sounds in 1989, and that was the beginning of my love affair with jazz.
One of My Turns - PF
Black Herman -- 8 Bold Souls
We Have Heavan -- Yes
The Outlandish Knight -- Spiers and Boden
67 Degrees- Echolyn
Bin Kingsley, without a doubt.
Aside from Gandhi (great!), he did Twelfth Night, Elegy, House of Sand and Fog, Sexy Beast ... and very much more. Even lousy roles, he makes great.
Pseudo Silk Kimono
Train Song - tom Waits
Romeo is Bleeding - Tom Waits
Honey I'm a Big Boy Now -- Billy Bragg
Bunch of Thyme -- Eliza Carthy