What are you listening to? June 2021

[Zeeba Neighba]

Hey! Guess what! I'm listening to Sunflower

Milt Jackson - Sunflower (1973)

Perhaps my favorite jazz album of the era - as much a showcase for trumpeter Freddie Hubbard as it is for vibraphonist Milt Jackson
No idea why the ostriches on the cover when the album is called Sunflower but it's a fantastic album cover

 

[axolotl]

Hey! Guess what! I'm listening to Sunflower

Milt Jackson - Sunflower (1973)

Perhaps my favorite jazz album of the era - as much a showcase for trumpeter Freddie Hubbard as it is for vibraphonist Milt Jackson
No idea why the ostriches on the cover when the album is called Sunflower but it's a fantastic album cover

This is top of the page stuff! Highly recommended!

 

[axolotl]

Elton John ~ Tumbleweed Connection (1970)



To my feeble mind, perhaps the best thing Reggie Dwight has ever done.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Poison Gardner - Noisen With Poison (rec. 1945-50, Jasmine comp. 2021)

 

[axolotl]

^ Is this the one with C. C. Deville and Brett Michaels, or is this Monsanto's first vinyl record?

 

[JazzyRandy]

James Francies - Purest Form (2021)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Doug Carn - Spirit Of The New Land (1972)


Doug Carn employs his wife Jean to create w/vocals versions of Lee Morgan's "Search for the New Land" and Miles' "Blue In Green", and composes an album of songs in a Jazz Fusion vein, most with vocals if not fully with lyrics. The label, Black Jazz was active in the late 60s-70s, and had a stable of artists. It looks like their catalogue was reissued by Real Gone Music in 2020 and I'm just now getting in on the game. I picked up a couple of albums and of course this was the first I had to listen to. I mean c'mon, Search For The New Land with vocals???? I couldn't resist.

 

[JazzyRandy]

The Roots - Game Theory (2006)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Wayne Escoffery - The Humble Warrior (2020)


Brit Escoffery recruits an combination of some of musicians I like a lot but don't think I've heard play together and creates a fantastic modern Jazz album, including the recently deceased Ralph Peterson. Roughly half of this album is a tribute to British composer Benjamin Britt, whom I had not heard of before this album. Everything here is great.

 

[axolotl]

Wayne Escoffery - The Humble Warrior (2020)


Brit Escoffery recruits an combination of some of musicians I like a lot but don't think I've heard play together and creates a fantastic modern Jazz album, including the recently deceased Ralph Peterson. Roughly half of this album is a tribute to British composer Benjamin Britt, whom I had not heard of before this album. Everything here is great.

I wanna hear this. Any tribute to Benjamin Britten, one of the great British composers of the 20th Century, is going to be on my B-list.

I did not know Ralph Peterson had passed. Upon looking it up, I found this article: https://news.yahoo.com/review-ralph-peterson-jr-farewell-183300228.html

Have you heard his final album Raise Up Off Me yet, JR?

 

[axolotl]

Vanessa Van Basten ~ Closer to the Small/Dark/Door (2010)




Post-Rock, Atmospheric Sludge Metal

@Unsomnambulist might like this, if he knows what's good for him

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd at Monterey (1966)

Seems like a jazzy day from some of the posts above. Some great Keith Jarrett playing for @axolotl

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Neil Young - Tonight's the Night (1975)

 

[axolotl]

Phillip Glass and Foday Musa Suso ~ Music from the Screens (1992)



Modern Classical, Minimalism

 

[axolotl]

Canhoto da Paraíba ~Pisando em Brasa (1993)



Choro (a/k/a Chorinho)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold (Daniel Barenboim/Beyreuth Festival Orchestra)

 

[axolotl]

Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold (Daniel Barenboim/Beyreuth Festival Orchestra)

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It has been at least three hours. Is it over yet?

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

It has been at least three hours. Is it over yet?

Ha! As the Ring Cycle “prelude” it clocks in at a tight 2.5 hours. Sadly I do not have currently 4 hours to keep this party going to Die Walkure (which as we all know translates to “Die, Walker!”)

 

[axolotl]

Ha! As the Ring Cycle “prelude” it clocks in at a tight 2.5 hours. Sadly I do not have currently 4 hours to keep this party going to Die Walkure (which as we all know translates to “Die, Walker!”)

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Then, you cannot cross over.

Do not move past "Go" and you must not, under any circumstances, "Kill da Wabbit."

 

[JazzyRandy]

I wanna hear this. Any tribute to Benjamin Britten, one of the great British composers of the 20th Century, is going to be on my B-list.

I did not know Ralph Peterson had passed. Upon looking it up, I found this article: https://news.yahoo.com/review-ralph-peterson-jr-farewell-183300228.html

Have you heard his final album Raise Up Off Me yet, JR?

I have not. My most recent RP album was The Duality Perspective from 2012. Might be time to pick up another ...