What are you listening to? May 2019

[JazzyRandy]

Grover Washington Jr - Mister Magic (1975)

 

[JazzyRandy]

James Carter - Present Tense (2008)

 

[axolotl]

Add N to (X) ~Loud Like Nature (2002)




The Beta Band ~ The Three E.P.'s (1998)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Steve Coleman - Synovial Joints (2013)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Jimmy Greene - Beautiful Life (2014)

Two years after the death of his six-year-old daughter, Ana Grace Marquez-Greene, in the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, saxophonist Jimmy Greene returns with 2014's Beautiful Life. Both a direct response to Ana's death and a celebration of her life, Beautiful Life is a gorgeous, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting album

 

[JazzyRandy]

Jim Snidero - MD66 (2016)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Woody Shaw - Rosewood (1978)

 

[Nickyboy]

transglobal underground- Psychic Karaoke (1996)



downtempo, psych, international

 

[axolotl]

transglobal underground- Psychic Karaoke (1996)



downtempo, psych, international

What luck! A copy with full artwork was available on a CD swapping site.

So, sight unseen sound unheard, I have ordered it.

 

[axolotl]

Jimmy Greene - Beautiful Life (2014)

I need to give this a fairer shot. I listened to a portion of it once, and it did not immediately catch my fancy, and so I stopped.

I have his Brand New World album on CD, which I did not realize was his first, and have considered it good if a bit uneven.

Perhaps if I can overcome my like/hate relationship with Kurt Elling.

 

[Nickyboy]

What luck! A copy with full artwork was available on a CD swapping site.

So, sight unseen sound unheard, I have ordered it.

I hope you like it!

 

[axolotl]

I hope you like it!

Thank you very much!

Yeah, well... I hope you like this....

Ulrich Schnauss ~Missing Deadlines: Selected Remixes (2010)



It's on Spotify.

It's received mixed reviews, but I think it's gorgeous.

Ulrich Schnauss: Missing Deadlines: Selected Remixes

A dreamy haze runs across this shoegaze-minded producer's remix collection, for better or worse.

pitchfork.com

 

[JazzyRandy]

I need to give this a fairer shot. I listened to a portion of it once, and it did not immediately catch my fancy, and so I stopped.

I have his Brand New World album on CD, which I did not realize was his first, and have considered it good if a bit uneven.

Perhaps if I can overcome my like/hate relationship with Kurt Elling.

It is good, though I think its history makes me like it even more than I would otherwise.

Is it good enough to overcome a personal vendetta against Mr Elling? Probably not, but getting to a place of peace with the omnipotent Kurt is probably better for your life.

 

[JazzyRandy]

David Gilmore - Transitions (2016)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Ancestral Recall (2019)
f l i s t e.n
I have a hard time describing this. I have a hard time deciding how much I like it versus how much I appreciate his intentions. I have a hard time deciding that most dangerous question ... "Is this Jazz?"

Based in jazz but encompassing a variety of stylistic touchstones from literate, Bowie-esque post-rock ("I Own the Night") to ambient improvisation ("Diviner [Devan]") and downtempo soundscapes ("Overcomer"), Ancestral Recall is one of the trumpeter's most difficult-to-classify albums, which doesn't mean it's difficult to enjoy.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Michael Blanco - Spirit Foward (2016)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Mike Moreno - Another Way (2012)

 

[Nickyboy]

Abba- Waterloo (1974)

 

[Nickyboy]

Rammstein- s/t (2019)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Florida Man - Tropical Depression (2019)