What Are You Listening To? December 2019

[JazzyRandy]

Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Sonny Clark - Dial "S" For Sonny (1957)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Bilal - In Another Life (2015)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Jim Snidero - MD66 (2016)

 

[JazzyRandy]

The Roots - The Tipping Point (2004)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (1973)

 

[axolotl]

Naxos Guitar Collection ~ Cancion de Cuna: Guitar Music from Cuba (Marco Tamayo, Guitar) (2004)

 

[axolotl]

Johnny Griffin ~ The Cat (1991)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Don Braden - ...Presents the Contemporary Standards Ensemble (2000)

Braden, who released a great jazz cover album of EWF + Stevie Wonder songs last year, dropped this at the turn of the millennium. It's a more wide-ranging group of covers of 70s songs, including Steely Dan, two Roberta Flack tunes, Stevie Wonder's "Overjoyed", a few covers of recent (at the time) Jazz songs by musicians, and some new compositions of his own.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Wale - Wow ... That's Crazy (2019)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Brainstorm - Funky Entertainment (1979)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Grover Washington Jr - A House Full Of Love (1986)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane - Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (1963)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Prince & the New Power Generation - Diamonds and Pearls (1991)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Alexander Turnquist - Flying Fantasy (2014)



@axolotl

Reminds me of Philip Glass.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

King Hobo - Mauga (2019)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Tool - Fear Inoculum (2019)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Flamin' Groovies - Flamingo (1970)

 

[axolotl]

Alexander Turnquist - Flying Fantasy (2014)



@axolotl

Reminds me of Philip Glass.

This. <-- me, slack-jawed (Pardon my jaundice.)

Yes, the music does remind of Glass, and also a handful of guitarists that I have been listening to over the years: John Fahey, Alex DeGrassi, and James Blackshaw, to name a few. It is post-minimalist and American-primitive at the same time, but incredibly detailed. I love the drone-y backgrounds.

Now, the only question that remains is, do I buy the LP or the CD? <-- rhetorical question alert (i.e., does not require an answer) <-- superfluous rhetorical explanation alert

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head (1971)