What Are You Listening To? February 2023

[Zeeba Neighba]

Bruce Springsteen - Winterland, San Francisco 12/16/1978

The Winterland Ballroom as many here know started out as an ice rink and auditorium in 1928 surviving the Great Depression soon after. Promotor Bill Graham used it more and more for concerts starting in the late 1960s until it was it was converted in 1971 to exclusively be an entertainment venue.
Concerts continued until New Years 1978/79 with the final month apparently filled with fantastic concerts/artists including Dec 15 and 16 concerts by Bruce. The Dec 15 concert was radio-simulcasted on KSAN-FM. Here is the next night's concert. Great stuff from the Darkness Tour era.

 

[axolotl]

L'altra ~ Different Days (2005)



Dream Pop, Slowcore, Shoegaze

 

[axolotl]

Lopside ~ 37 (2003)




Daphni ~ Jiaolong (2012)

 

[axolotl]

Caribou ~ Andorra (2007)



Psychedelic Pop, Indietronica

 

[JazzyRandy]

David Binney - Tomorrow's Journey (2022)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Malcolm Strachan - Point of No Return (2023)

Two words can ultimately describe the new album by Scottish jazz trumpeter Malcolm Strachan, “ridiculously good!” Those two words would honestly make our job much easier in telling you that “Point Of No Return” is a must have in your vinyl collection especially for all you Jazz lovers out there.
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this one is more reminiscent of the jazz fusion albums that Malcolms’s jazz trumpet hero Freddie Hubbard recorded for the legendary CTI Records label in the early-mid 1970s.

Yep, I'm loving every minute of this Flisten. This one is going to get a lot of play in the JazzyHome this year.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Halina Czerny-Stefanska - Chopin: Mazurkas & Ballads (1957)

Wiki tells us that Halina was a true specialist:

"Her repertoire was restricted to few composers other than Frédéric Chopin and even her Chopin repertoire was not large. For example, she did not play the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor live until 1951, and she never played the F minor concerto at all, as she did not like it."

She was also at the center of a controversial misattribution:

"She was proven to be the real pianist in a recording of the E minor concerto that was misattributed to Dinu Lipatti. The recording was released in 1966 by EMI, and on the 1971 British release was a note to the effect that, although the name of the conductor and orchestra were not known, there was no doubt the soloist was Lipatti. The BBC broadcast the recording in 1981, and a listener wrote in, noting the similarities between it and a Supraphon recording from the early 1950s with Czerny-Stefańska under Václav Smetáček. Tests revealed these were one and the same recording. The so-called Lipatti recording was withdrawn."

Halina's interpretations of these Chopin solo pieces are gorgeous.

 

[axolotl]

"Her repertoire was restricted to few composers other than Frédéric Chopin and even her Chopin repertoire was not large. For example, she did not play the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor live until 1951, and she never played the F minor concerto at all, as she did not like it."

Well, then... Who can dispute that?

I am also a specialist. My work has never been mistaken for Dinu Lipatti, tho'.

I had a college friend of Polish ancestry who used to call a Chopin's Polonaise as "Polish Mayonnaise."

We have not spoken in 30 years, and it has nothing to do with anything like that.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Well, then... Who can dispute that?

I am also a specialist. My work has never been mistaken for Dinu Lipatti, tho'.

I had a college friend of Polish ancestry who used to call a Chopin's Polonaise as "Polish Mayonnaise."

We have not spoken in 30 years, and it has nothing to do with anything like that.

 

[axolotl]

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Did you go Chopin for that? Did they have it in Bialystok?

 

[JazzyRandy]

Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales (1993)

 

[axolotl]

[This, here] (1996)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Omnific - Escapades (2021)

 

[axolotl]

Ovidiu Marinescu / Kenneth Boulton ~ Fiesta Latina (1998)

Kronos Quartet ~ Henryk Gorecki: Already It Is Dusk (String Quartet No. 1 Op. 62) / Quasi una Fantasia (String Quartet No. 2 Op. 64) (1993)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Lakecia Benjamin - Phoenix (2023)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Franz Schubert - Schwanengesang (Andre Schuen, Daniel Heide)

And for the “I learned a new (German) Word Today”Thread, Schwanengesang means “Swan song”

 

[JazzyRandy]

Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)

 

[JazzyRandy]

War - War (1971)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Grover Washington Jr - All The King's Men (1972)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Quicksand - Slip (1993)