Unsomnambulist
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The Green Pajamas - This Floating World Is A Dream (2023)
What are you listening to? June 2023
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This is very good and I think @axolotl might like it, even if it's not in his wheelhouse.
Zeeba Neighba
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Wes Montgomery - Down Here on the Ground (1968)
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Ramones - It's Alive (1979)
Zeeba Neighba
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J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding - Israel (1968)
This early CTI release isn't going to appear on any jazz best-of lists (and is forgotten by most - only 16 ratings on RYM), but these two are such talented jazz trombonists that all of their collaborations, I feel, have something to check out. Of course it depends if you enjoy the CTI production style - strings sometimes don't fit here), but I still dig it. Herbie Hancock and bassist Ron Carter on are on this as well
An aside: I had the usual limited college jazz "collection" in college (maybe 10 of the usual suspects) but really started to dive deeper in med school - enough for an active debate with a fellow jazz-loving neuro resident with me a few years later. This increased my listening more, though I was always surprised he had such strong feelings against the sound of jazz trombone (he also didn't enjoy vibes, another less common instrument I really enjoy). Jazz trombone for me has such a warm, expressive sound and its roots harken back to NOLA jazz.
Great album cover too btw
This early CTI release isn't going to appear on any jazz best-of lists (and is forgotten by most - only 16 ratings on RYM), but these two are such talented jazz trombonists that all of their collaborations, I feel, have something to check out. Of course it depends if you enjoy the CTI production style - strings sometimes don't fit here), but I still dig it. Herbie Hancock and bassist Ron Carter on are on this as well
An aside: I had the usual limited college jazz "collection" in college (maybe 10 of the usual suspects) but really started to dive deeper in med school - enough for an active debate with a fellow jazz-loving neuro resident with me a few years later. This increased my listening more, though I was always surprised he had such strong feelings against the sound of jazz trombone (he also didn't enjoy vibes, another less common instrument I really enjoy). Jazz trombone for me has such a warm, expressive sound and its roots harken back to NOLA jazz.
Great album cover too btw
Zeeba Neighba
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Avett Brothers - I and Love and You (2009)
One of the albums I was introduced to when I first joined the ol' MG in 2009 - and now it's 14 years later. Jeez!
One of the albums I was introduced to when I first joined the ol' MG in 2009 - and now it's 14 years later. Jeez!
Unsomnambulist
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Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert (2023)
Zeeba Neighba
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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Leonard Bernstein/Berliner Philharmoniker)
axolotl
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The Boy Bathing ~ A Fire to Make Preparations (2008)
Welp, I have kept this CD in my collection for more than ten years, and I cannot figure out why. I have only listened to it about a dozen times, and every time I say it goes, I put it back into the collection.
It's very singsong-y, very campfire-ish to me. I think I will just send it to someone at random.
Btw, I do not rate anything under
Welp, I have kept this CD in my collection for more than ten years, and I cannot figure out why. I have only listened to it about a dozen times, and every time I say it goes, I put it back into the collection.
It's very singsong-y, very campfire-ish to me. I think I will just send it to someone at random.
Btw, I do not rate anything under
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers ~ Buhaina's Delight (1963, Blue Note ST-84104)
"The music on these sides represents the jubilant spirit of the combo in both title and music. Buhaina, of course, is Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, alias Art Blakey. One of the first jazzmen to have been attracted to the tenets of Islam, he does not use the name professionally." From the album notes by Leonard Feather
This LP is from the John Campagnolo Memorial Vinyl Collection.
"The music on these sides represents the jubilant spirit of the combo in both title and music. Buhaina, of course, is Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, alias Art Blakey. One of the first jazzmen to have been attracted to the tenets of Islam, he does not use the name professionally." From the album notes by Leonard Feather
This LP is from the John Campagnolo Memorial Vinyl Collection.
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
Roland Kirk ~ Volunteered Slavery (1969)
"The first time I ever saw Roland Kirk he was playing with John Coltrane. I don't think this fact has been reflected in the record keeping. Anyway, this was before Roland began to receive the kind of respect he not only deserves but demands. There were attempts to place him in the 'sideshow- playing-for-nickels-and-dimes' category, but John sensed the man's true potential." From the album notes by Ed Williams "Maiden Voyage" WLIB/FM-NYC
Yup, this one, too.
"The first time I ever saw Roland Kirk he was playing with John Coltrane. I don't think this fact has been reflected in the record keeping. Anyway, this was before Roland began to receive the kind of respect he not only deserves but demands. There were attempts to place him in the 'sideshow- playing-for-nickels-and-dimes' category, but John sensed the man's true potential." From the album notes by Ed Williams "Maiden Voyage" WLIB/FM-NYC
Yup, this one, too.
Nickyboy
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Screamin' Joe was his first cousin.
Unsomnambulist
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Witch - Zango (2023)
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Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Discombobulated (2004)
axolotl
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I would think you mean Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
Do you know who his second cousin was?
I don't. I'm just using you as an encyclopedic repository of facts.
Ojai Sam
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Dean Martin - Dino: The Golden Years (rec. 1962-73, Charly comp. 1996)
Dean Martin owned his Reprise recordings and for some reason, didn't authorize their release on CD during his lifetime. Charly Records came out with this comprehensive 4 disc package the year after he died without any of those pesky "licensed by" notices. Eventually Collectors Choice released the albums on twofers and Bear Family topped the bill with a complete 6 CD box. But Dino: The Golden Years, which gathers the songs thematically and includes a well illustrated booklet, still stands as a fine tribute to the Italian crooner's peak hitmaking years.
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Dean Martin owned his Reprise recordings and for some reason, didn't authorize their release on CD during his lifetime. Charly Records came out with this comprehensive 4 disc package the year after he died without any of those pesky "licensed by" notices. Eventually Collectors Choice released the albums on twofers and Bear Family topped the bill with a complete 6 CD box. But Dino: The Golden Years, which gathers the songs thematically and includes a well illustrated booklet, still stands as a fine tribute to the Italian crooner's peak hitmaking years.
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