George Russell septet - The Stratus Seekers (1962)
What are you listening to? May 2019
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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
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Atomic Simao - ECHO (2016)
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Rush - Feedback (2004)
Good EP of covers.
Good EP of covers.
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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Deluxe Edition (2002, 1965 original)
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Frank Sinatra - Nice 'n' Easy (1960)
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' (1958)
Joe Henderson - Power To The People (1970)
Donald Harrison & Terrance Blanchard - Black Pearl (1988)
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Jefferson Starship - Red Octopus (1975)
Best selling album of any of the Jefferson Airplane to Starship permutations of the group thanks to Marty Balin's "Miracles". It may be a bit cheesy AM-radio sounding song about gratifying a woman, but damn it, Marty sings the hell out it!
Not a great album, but pretty solid and one that few probably remember to break out when in a 70s mood
I actually own this on vinyl and only this moment have I noticed the octopus in the middle is a heart
Best selling album of any of the Jefferson Airplane to Starship permutations of the group thanks to Marty Balin's "Miracles". It may be a bit cheesy AM-radio sounding song about gratifying a woman, but damn it, Marty sings the hell out it!
Not a great album, but pretty solid and one that few probably remember to break out when in a 70s mood
I actually own this on vinyl and only this moment have I noticed the octopus in the middle is a heart
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Over the years people have given me boxes of old vinyl on three occasions. Red Octopus was in all three collections.Jefferson Starship - Red Octopus (1975)
Best selling album of any of the Jefferson Airplane to Starship permutations of the group thanks to Marty Balin's "Miracles". It may be a bit cheesy AM-radio sounding song about gratifying a woman, but damn it, Marty sings the hell out it!
Not a great album, but pretty solid and one that few probably remember to break out when in a 70s mood
I actually own this on vinyl and only this moment have I noticed the octopus in the middle is a heart
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Jerry Garcia/David Grisman/Tony Rice - The Pizza Tapes (2000)
Finally catching up with this album club pick
Finally catching up with this album club pick
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Pantaliemon ~ Trees Hold Time (2005)
Blue Note All-Stars - Our Point Of View (2017)
Seems the perfect compromise between 60's Blue Note output and contemporary Jazz ambitions. I really should pick up their follow-up to this.
EDIT: Discs 1 and 2. A rare feat for me with any 2-disc album.
Seems the perfect compromise between 60's Blue Note output and contemporary Jazz ambitions. I really should pick up their follow-up to this.
EDIT: Discs 1 and 2. A rare feat for me with any 2-disc album.
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Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Fegmania! (1985)
Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth (2018)
Geez, but this guy comes off as pretentious as Liberace or Elton or Kanye. Fortunately, he has the skills (for me, it's more his composition/leadership skills than his performing skills) to make it easy to overlook his pretensions.
This production here is again a little muddled to my ears, but the music is unabashedly a love letter to the art of making music. Washington once again lets it all loose, throws everything into the mix (Jazz musicians, musicians from popular forms of music, an orchestra, a choir, some borrowed vox from various sources, and probably more that I can't recall. And he doesn't wait to see if the listener is catching it all. He simply rolls from one idea to the next and keeps piling it on.
I appreciate and like the music, but what I like and appreciate more is his joy of the process and his joy in performing. I can hear his joy emanating from his compositions. It is infectious.
And I listened to both discs.
but not the hidden 3rd disc EP, sealed in a glued-in section of the packaging that requires you damage the packaging to retrieve.
Geez, but this guy comes off as pretentious as Liberace or Elton or Kanye. Fortunately, he has the skills (for me, it's more his composition/leadership skills than his performing skills) to make it easy to overlook his pretensions.
This production here is again a little muddled to my ears, but the music is unabashedly a love letter to the art of making music. Washington once again lets it all loose, throws everything into the mix (Jazz musicians, musicians from popular forms of music, an orchestra, a choir, some borrowed vox from various sources, and probably more that I can't recall. And he doesn't wait to see if the listener is catching it all. He simply rolls from one idea to the next and keeps piling it on.
I appreciate and like the music, but what I like and appreciate more is his joy of the process and his joy in performing. I can hear his joy emanating from his compositions. It is infectious.
And I listened to both discs.
but not the hidden 3rd disc EP, sealed in a glued-in section of the packaging that requires you damage the packaging to retrieve.I saw him in concert last year and he didn't really come off as pretentious. He seemed more like a music nerd, it was really cool to hear his speak and be so ... awkward and uncomfortable with speaking in public. But the multiple multi-disc albums, the assembling of dozens of performers for these albums and some songs, the titles of the albums, the album art/photography, all shout "PRETENTION!"
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Dave Holland - Overtime (2005)
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The Dream Syndicate - These Times (2019)
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