What are you listening to? March 2022

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axolotl said:
Joost Swart, TETRA ~ Garnwerd Suite (Live in Garnwerd) (2006)



European Jazz, Classical, Tango

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This is quite a remarkable album. Thanks to the Spotify player, I was able to listen to this while I took Sophia Bella for her evening walk.

Over the past year I’ve listened to quite a bit of tango music for reasons that are not clear, even to me. While enjoyable, it tends to be formulaic, with an inescapably unsubtle beat for dancing. This album, on the other hand, strikes me as designed strictly for listening. Swart employs dance idioms for listening rather than dancing. Great pick, Axo!
 
Jack Edward Smith ~ Sanctuary (1996)



While it is described as Flamenco Nuevo on RYM, this is more layered and complex than the standard FN fare, by a lot. In fact, I would describe it as Latin Jazz.

 
Roberto Szidon - Plays Scriabin (1971, DG comp. 1991)

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Part of the superb DG "20th Century Classics" series.

HT: Zeeba for cluing me into Roberto Szidon. :cheer:
 
Bernard Herrmann - The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Vol. 2 (2011)

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MCA dangled a serious budget in front of Hitch in order to lure him to the small screen. The results were readily apparent, not just from the quality of the guest stars but also from the music. Bernard Herrmann won his first Oscar in 1941 (for "The Devil and Daniel Webster") and was Hitchcock's composer of choice, working with the master director on Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. This limited edition 3 CD set presents the soundtracks from 9 episodes made between 1963 and 1965, stitched together into highly listenable suites. The compositions, arrangements and performances are uniformly breathtaking, with enough eerie vibraphone chords, creepy harp glissandi and ominous string passages to fill several cardiac wards with erstwhile listeners. :eek:
 
Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Anthology: America's Favorite Entertainers (rec. 1902-24, Archeophone comp. 2021)

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Archeophone sez:

"Before Phil and Don Everly, before Simon and Garfunkel, long before Hall and Oates . . . the most popular recording duo over the first quarter of the 20th century was the team of Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan. Dubbed 'America’s Favorite Entertainers' as they crisscrossed America in the late 1910s and early 1920s promoting Edison’s superior talking machines, Collins and Harlan came face to face with the thousands of ordinary people who bought the records that became the comical soundtrack of a generation. "
 
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