What are you listening to? April 2019

[Ojai Sam]

Norah Jones - Begin Again (2019)

I like Norah but this is pretty hit or miss. Granted, the allmusic review noted this is a gathering of experimental tracks. So given that, has she really attained that position where she can gather up any pile of tracks, release it and we'll buy it? She's a good singer, but she's no Linda Ronstadt.

I listened to one track on my Spotify Release Radar. That was my sense too.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Elvis Costello - Get Happy!! (1980)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Blankenberge - More (2019)



@axolotl.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Cocaine Piss - Passionate And Tragic (2019)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Frank Sinatra - Live At The Meadowlands (rec. 1986, rel. 2009)

AMG doesn't care much for this one, but they're full of shaving cream.

This is pretty damn good autumnal Sinatra playing all the biggies for the home folks in front of a full orchestra. Lots of dialogue and sparkling sound enhance the whole immersive experience.

 

[axolotl]

Café Tacvba ~ Re (1994)



The tail-end of a run-on sentence in praise of this album:

...if this album has to be compared to something else, it should be London Calling, for its great diversity of sound, from the Norteña/Ranchera anthem of love spite of La Ingrata, to the drum beating of El Borrego, the funniest track on the album, boleros with Esa Noche or the cumbia from El Puñal y El Corazon, just to name a few examples of songs that don't have much in common, however, somehow, it is all kept on the same context, something that could just be accomplished throughout its long running time and twenty songs.

@Unsomnambulist & @Ojai Sam, among others

 

[axolotl]

The Wilderness of Manitoba ~ When You Left the Fire (2010)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Stanley Turrentine - Sugar (1972)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Ben Wendel - The Seasons (2018)

When I listen to this, I love what I'm hearing so much I often look at the lineup, or simply remind myself. When I look at the lineup (Wendel, Hekselman, Parks, Harland, and Brewer) I feel like I'm attending a great fun party with exceptionally cool people that not many people know.

I love it when an album makes me feel like that.

 

[Nickyboy]

The Horseflies- Human Fly (1988)



Progressive folk. Highly recommended to @Ojai Sam , @axolotl , and @Old Uncle Toe .

 

[axolotl]

The Horseflies- Human Fly (1988)



Progressive folk. Highly recommended to @Ojai Sam , @axolotl , and @Old Uncle Toe .

Methinks I will listen to Until the Ocean, their 2008 release.

Also, acquire Human Fly, post-haste.

ETA: I just bought Human Fly via Amazon. Because this CD is rare and OOP, it cost more than a few bucks, but less that one might expect.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Billy Harper - Soul Of An Angel (2000)

Every Billy Harper album has a feel, a sound shared by each. Usually even on albums where he is a supporting player.

There are a couple of blogs I visit where the host interviews a Jazz musician, plays random obscure songs, and asks the guest to guess the artist. I'm surprised by how often the musicians get it right on songs they say they have never heard before. They'll say something like, "That sounds like Clark Terry ... no wait, that's Roy Hargrove in his early years," and get it right! The host will play 3 or 5 songs, and the guests will get most right.

After all my years of listening to Jazz, it is rare I can hear a song I've never heard before and guess the performer. Harper is one of the few for me, and I love his sound for that if nothing else. Fortunately, there are other reasons to like his playing.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Methinks I will listen to Until the Ocean, their 2008 release.

Also, acquire Human Fly, post-haste.

ETA: I just bought Human Fly via Amazon. Because this CD is rare and OOP, it cost more than a few bucks, but less that one might expect.

Axo, If it's not too late to cancel you can buy it for $10 + $3 s&h from:

https://www.thehorseflies.com/store

I just did.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Café Tacvba ~ Re (1994)



The tail-end of a run-on sentence in praise of this album:


@Unsomnambulist & @Ojai Sam, among others

If you name check me, I'll check you out. That's my guarantee to you.

Thanks a lot, Axo. I really like this one. The reviewer is right: they cover a lot of the territory south of the border and do it very well. Great reco!

 

[axolotl]

Axo, If it's not too late to cancel you can buy it for $10 + $3 s&h from:

https://www.thehorseflies.com/store

I just did.

I don't feel too bad. I only paid $10 and the usual $3.99 for shipping.

...as long as that remains as the worst thing that happens to me, today.

 

[axolotl]

Blankenberge - More (2019)



@axolotl.

This. Now. Yes.

ETA:

 

[JazzyRandy]

Joshua Redman - Come What May (2019)

 

[JazzyRandy]

David Binney - Bastion of Sanity (2005)

 

[axolotl]

Ben Schwendener and Uwe Steinmetz ~ Apfelschaun: New Episode

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This, again.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Laughing Eye - s/t (2019)