What are you listening to (II)
 

Dedicated to Jeff Scott, without whom this saga would have never reached this stage.

For my part, my vinyl jazz collection is presently in storage, so I won’t burden you with the details of those.

Also applicable to “listening to” is “on your mind” which at this time for me is “Heartless” by Heart as posted previously in the 1976 footage from part 1.

Charles Mingus [and friends]: Blues & Roots
Atlantic 1305, from February 4, 1959/ released 1960

I think all in all 1959 was a year of crisis for horn based American jazz - here, in 6* original composition/arrangements by Mingus, melodic elegance takes a back seat to raw emotion & expression. While all this cacophony was going on, the cool jazz guitarists elsewhere were honing their craft to take jazz into a new (and solidifying) classic direction and purpose. This Mingus album I’ve found is a difficult but ultimately cathartic experience.

*6 on vinyl/ 10 on reissue compilation

Sabaton (European power metal). Great conceptional album on WWI.

Love the sound of an alphorn? Sure, we all do! What could be better? Well . . .

how about a hundred of 'em?

Bob

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also Fireflight, Evans Blue, Sent by Ravens, Pillar, Ashes Remain, Plumb

PS. Fantastic vocalist/keyboardist/recorder player Peter Jones is blind.
Guitarist/flautist Andy Latimer has polycythemia vera which progressed to myelofibrosis. He was near death until he went through a rather harrowing bone marrow transplant in 2007 that reduced him to a skeleton. He has made substantial steps towards recovery since but still lives with restrictions.


It was a real treat for them to sell out Royal Albert Hall last year. I pre-ordered this BluRay earlier this year and am waiting for it to arrive.



Bob

The new Billy Strings album.

Nice voice, great band and a mighty fine picker!

I've been listening to what the robots send me purposely staying away from old favorites or what I know. I've tuned it with some like and dislike and go to the Apple Music "New Music" mix. If I like something I add it to a specific playlist and then go pursue similar but must be unknown stuff.

Please get my humor in the context of another thread. Okay boomer? (I am a boomer).

My exceptions to it must be new are a list on my Apple Watch ideal for running tempo, stuff the family plays, and old Jamaican greats fueled by planning some excursions to spots in Jamaica most tourists probably do not visit.

What's funny about the kids into some old stuff and the OK Boomer theme is I keep realizing how bad a lot of people's good old days were.

Grant Green: Grant’s First Stand (from January 28,1961)
Grant Green: Green Street (from April 1,1961)
Bill Evans Trio: Sunday at the Village Vanguard (from June 25,1961)

1961 was a hot year for jazz/ all of the above before the Beatles broke through and the end of music (humor)

Also have been listening to:

Wes Montgomery: Boss Guitar (from April 22,1963)

All these recordings are in the jazz trio idiom, which should be recognized in a class of its own for inventive melody and counterpoint, and maximum room for the soloist in a group setting.

As I am planning to go to the Celtic Colours International Festival in October on Cape Breton, I am going through their past performances.

Here is one of the more "zen" offerings. Beautifully played, sung, filmed and recorded.

https://youtu.be/KX99KT6qHhM

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...82,268_AL_.jpg

The worlds most hated band. :D

Bob

Right now:

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (from 1959)

The 2015 Sony/Columbia reissue on vinyl - stereo, very clean signal, low noise ratio, marvellous hi fidelity

Scofield.
Country for Old Men, and Hudson.

Right now, Heidevolk, a folk metal band from the Netherlands. I don't understand the words but the music is great.

Now:

Thelonious Monk Quartet: Misterioso

Thelonious Monk, piano
Johnny Griffin, tenor sax
Ahmed Abdul Malik, bass
Roy Haynes, drums

from: Five Spot Cafe, New York City, August 1958

The past few days , ive been going threw a '70's thing - listening to Neil young
never realized how easy it is to work his early stuff out -simple songs that were catchy with driving beats - stuff like Cinnamon Girl

also put his greatest hits on my mp3 player
and got the book for that CD -very interesting

Mandolin Orange's Blindfaller is on heavy rotation right now. "Wildfire" is my go-to track from that record.



Austin

That’s classic - I’ll be looking for hard copies on vinyl of their latest two or three releases -

Evans Blue, Jenn Johnson, and a little Led Zeppelin.

That should be a Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin :)

Fire updates - TV while I still have power and battery powered radio as back-up.

I thought that was Nickelback...? (maybe that's just a Canadian thing)

Having just bought a harp guitar, I've been listening to a LOT of harp guitarists lately. Alex Anderson is one of my favourites:



Phil

I’ve been smiling ear to ear with this post, Phil. Enjoy that fantastic instrument -

Most of my listening is through Pandora lately. I have a bunch of different “stations”.
I recently found out that you could alter each station with a “discover” mode that adds in folks in the same general style that you may have never heard of.
Interesting...

But a couple of days ago I turned on my “John Stewart” channel and found a real nostalgia trip. Stewart of course was a superb songwriter, and added in were Lightfoot, Dylan, CSN, PPM, Croce, many more.
On the way to work this morning, they played Stewart’s “Mother Country” which is still a powerful tune.

Here's another one you might enjoy, Jaden. Not a harp but a 7-string Furch, tune written and played by Adrian Bellue:



Makes me want one of those 7-string Emerald fan-frets...

Phil