What Are You Listening To? April 2024
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Jason Palmer - Sweet Love: Jason Palmer Plays Anita Baker (2019)
Palmer has recorded some great Jazz albums honoring wonderful Soul singers/musicians from the past 50 years. He's covered Minnie Riperton, Janelle Monae and now Anita Baker. Each album was exquisite. Actually, every album I have by him is great.
This especially hit my sweet spot. I couldn't get enough of "Rapture", Baker's breakout album, which I wore out on cassette tape. Then "Giving You The Best That I Got" got hundreds of listens on new first-ever CD player. By the time "Compositions" was released, I had the luck to have a turntable and won the record album (and several others) in a local radio contest. I wasn't buying albums at the time because I needed my music to be mobile oriented. But with this album being one of the few contemporary albums in my slight collection, it also received a ton of play.
Listening to music so fundamentally a part of me. I can easily pick up on each hint and nod of a song or phrase. For that, and not because Palmer doesn't perform incredibly on the other two cover albums, this one is my favorite.
Palmer has recorded some great Jazz albums honoring wonderful Soul singers/musicians from the past 50 years. He's covered Minnie Riperton, Janelle Monae and now Anita Baker. Each album was exquisite. Actually, every album I have by him is great.
This especially hit my sweet spot. I couldn't get enough of "Rapture", Baker's breakout album, which I wore out on cassette tape. Then "Giving You The Best That I Got" got hundreds of listens on new first-ever CD player. By the time "Compositions" was released, I had the luck to have a turntable and won the record album (and several others) in a local radio contest. I wasn't buying albums at the time because I needed my music to be mobile oriented. But with this album being one of the few contemporary albums in my slight collection, it also received a ton of play.
Listening to music so fundamentally a part of me. I can easily pick up on each hint and nod of a song or phrase. For that, and not because Palmer doesn't perform incredibly on the other two cover albums, this one is my favorite.
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Anita Baker - Giving You The Best That I Got (1988)
As Mr Smith said: Listening to this next was "inevitable".
As Mr Smith said: Listening to this next was "inevitable".
Miguel Zenón - Awake (2008)
Zeeba Neighba
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Ah yes it's playlist Thursday - today songs of 1964
Beatles, Four Seasons, Stones, Sam Cooke, Supremes, Them, Dionne Warwick, Roy Orbison, and many, many more
Beatles, Four Seasons, Stones, Sam Cooke, Supremes, Them, Dionne Warwick, Roy Orbison, and many, many more
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy (1967)
SFJazz Collective - Live 2009: The Works of McCoy Tyner (2010) discs 1 & 2
Zeeba Neighba
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The Clash - The Clash (1977) and Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978)
Mary Halvorson - Cloudward (2024)
Kurt Rosenwinkel - Undercover: Live at the Village Vanguard (2023)
Sometimes when he hasn't released an album in a while, I resort to buying other musician's albums just to hear Rosenwinkel playing. I was glad to get this recent release by him a few months ago.
Sometimes when he hasn't released an album in a while, I resort to buying other musician's albums just to hear Rosenwinkel playing. I was glad to get this recent release by him a few months ago.
Ojai Sam
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Neil Diamond - The Feel Of Neil Diamond (1966)
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
The song selection for Neil's first album includes 7 songs written by Neil and 5 covers. For a person of pallor, he turns in very respectable versions of "La Bamba" and "New Orleans". His tongue-in-cheek send up of "Hanky Panky" makes sense when you realize that it was written by his producers, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. You gotta love that "follow the bouncing ball" stereo mix.
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
The song selection for Neil's first album includes 7 songs written by Neil and 5 covers. For a person of pallor, he turns in very respectable versions of "La Bamba" and "New Orleans". His tongue-in-cheek send up of "Hanky Panky" makes sense when you realize that it was written by his producers, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. You gotta love that "follow the bouncing ball" stereo mix.
Freddie Hubbard - High Blues Pressure (1968)
One of my favorite albums by Hubbard. Whenever I decide to listen to Hubbard, it's not difficult to end up listening to one of my favorite albums by him, because about 22 or 24 of his albums are in the category of being among "my favorite by him."
One of my favorite albums by Hubbard. Whenever I decide to listen to Hubbard, it's not difficult to end up listening to one of my favorite albums by him, because about 22 or 24 of his albums are in the category of being among "my favorite by him."
Ojai Sam
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The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
Another album that I foolishly traded at the dawn of the digital era. Fortunately, it's easy to find a clean copy of the first pressing of their debut. The classic Byrds lineup never sounded better. Unlike many of their peers, they recorded for a major label with the budget and know how to record, mix, master and press a first class product. Roger McGuinn's 12 string and the group harmonies still have the power to move me deeply six decades later. Now if I could just find a time machine that would take me back to Ciro's....
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
Another album that I foolishly traded at the dawn of the digital era. Fortunately, it's easy to find a clean copy of the first pressing of their debut. The classic Byrds lineup never sounded better. Unlike many of their peers, they recorded for a major label with the budget and know how to record, mix, master and press a first class product. Roger McGuinn's 12 string and the group harmonies still have the power to move me deeply six decades later. Now if I could just find a time machine that would take me back to Ciro's....
Wayne Escoffery - The Humble Warrior (2020)
A whole lotta Jazz excellence going on here!
A whole lotta Jazz excellence going on here!
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