Spyro Gyra - Breakout (1986)
What are you listening to? May 2019
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75 Dollar Bill - Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock (2016)
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Chet Atkins ~ The RCA Years, 1947-1981 (1992) [Discs One / Two]
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The RCA Years, 1947-1981 by Chet Atkins released in 1992. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Tamikrest - Chatma (2013)
This is excellent. Maybe the best Tishoumaren I've heard.
This is excellent. Maybe the best Tishoumaren I've heard.
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Eyelids - Or (2017)
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Steve Lehman - Mise en Abîme (2014)
Christian Scott - Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (2010)
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This. Again.Ben Neill ~ Triptycal (1996)
Nu Jazz, Illbient, Drum and Bass
This did not fare well in RYM ratings. Too many non-Jazz fans rated it, and it's jazzier than run-of-the-mill D&B.
Joe Sample - Old Places, Old Faces (1996)
In the mid-90s when I was really trying (and mostly failing) to get into Jazz more deeply, I kept running into deadends. As Nick mentioned in the other thread, A Love Supreme didn't do it. Miles didn't do it. Very few albums resonated with me. There was Joshua Redman, who I'd discovered a year or so earlier. And there was Roy Hargrove and Christian McBride, who I'd both found through Redman. And there were some (a rare few) classics that I connected with enough to listen to more than once. But finding stuff that moved me wasn't the easiest thing in the world. And this was pre-streaming, so each test cost me real money that I didn't have to waste on "tests". Not wanting to waste my money kept me from buying more Jazz CDs because I knew I could buy the latest Prince or Tupac or Sting and like it. No wasting going on there. But I might buy a new Jazz album and hardly listen to it again. That was troublesome.
You may ask, "Then why try?" I tried because when a Jazz song/album connected with me, it.really.connected. It was like the early days of HipHop for me - Like discovering Grandmaster Flash, the Sugarhill Gang, then Kurtis Blow, finding Run-DMC, then hearing Whodini, then Kool Moe Dee, then Public Enemy, and so on. Coltrane's Sound hit me hard. MoodSwing hit me hard. Habana hit me hard. I wanted that feeling again. It was like a drug.
Then I heard this. I can't say it ever got as potent as those three albums, but it was a Jazz album I liked immediately. It has easy melodies. It has rhythms that aren't tricky. It has fun. I listened to it a lot. And I remember thinking, "This isn't hard to like, and I like it." I also remember thinking, "If there is more Jazz like this, I'm not making a mistake."
Old Spaces, Old Faces didn't save me from quitting Jazz, but it certainly made the journey easier to continue. It wasn't a walkoff grandslam. It was more like a solid double error-ed into a triple by a kicked ball in the outfield in the seventh inning.
EDIT: I just realized something ironic. For a man who still doesn't get excited about piano trios, the album that kept my faith in "getting into" Jazz was mostly a piano trio album.
In the mid-90s when I was really trying (and mostly failing) to get into Jazz more deeply, I kept running into deadends. As Nick mentioned in the other thread, A Love Supreme didn't do it. Miles didn't do it. Very few albums resonated with me. There was Joshua Redman, who I'd discovered a year or so earlier. And there was Roy Hargrove and Christian McBride, who I'd both found through Redman. And there were some (a rare few) classics that I connected with enough to listen to more than once. But finding stuff that moved me wasn't the easiest thing in the world. And this was pre-streaming, so each test cost me real money that I didn't have to waste on "tests". Not wanting to waste my money kept me from buying more Jazz CDs because I knew I could buy the latest Prince or Tupac or Sting and like it. No wasting going on there. But I might buy a new Jazz album and hardly listen to it again. That was troublesome.
You may ask, "Then why try?" I tried because when a Jazz song/album connected with me, it.really.connected. It was like the early days of HipHop for me - Like discovering Grandmaster Flash, the Sugarhill Gang, then Kurtis Blow, finding Run-DMC, then hearing Whodini, then Kool Moe Dee, then Public Enemy, and so on. Coltrane's Sound hit me hard. MoodSwing hit me hard. Habana hit me hard. I wanted that feeling again. It was like a drug.
Then I heard this. I can't say it ever got as potent as those three albums, but it was a Jazz album I liked immediately. It has easy melodies. It has rhythms that aren't tricky. It has fun. I listened to it a lot. And I remember thinking, "This isn't hard to like, and I like it." I also remember thinking, "If there is more Jazz like this, I'm not making a mistake."
Old Spaces, Old Faces didn't save me from quitting Jazz, but it certainly made the journey easier to continue. It wasn't a walkoff grandslam. It was more like a solid double error-ed into a triple by a kicked ball in the outfield in the seventh inning.
EDIT: I just realized something ironic. For a man who still doesn't get excited about piano trios, the album that kept my faith in "getting into" Jazz was mostly a piano trio album.
Then I went and picked up "Did You Feel That" by Sample from a couple years earlier, and unsurprisingly, I liked that soul-infused Crusaders-like effort even more.
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Brian Blade Fellowship - Brian Blade Fellowship (1998)
Booker Ervin - The Blues Book (1964)
Lafayette Gilchrist - Towards The Shining Path (2005)
Zeeba Neighba
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After some Linda Ronstadt this AM, decided to go in a different direction
6 months ago, in response to my son listening to more hip hop, despite to put together a History of Hip Hop playlist choosing seminal singles from 1979 ("King Tim II (Personality Jock)" - actually released months before "Rapper's Delight") all the way to the present. Never one at paring down, the playlist wound up including 344 rap singles and was too daunting to get through at the time.
And I still don't know if I'm gonna commit to it, but have been playing it all morning - fun because many of the early hip hop singles are more dance-oriented influenced by disco as well as urban music.
So not a bad little list if I must say so myself
- far from complete obviously (and I bypassed early influences). Still fun stuff
Here's the first tracks:
1) King Tim III (Personality Jock)" by The Fatback Band
2) "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang
3) "Christmas Rappin'" by Kurtis Blow
4) "The New Rap Language" by Spoonie Gee & The Trecherous Three
5) "The Breaks" by Kurtis Blow
6) "Rapture" by Blondie
7) "Zulu Nation Throw Down" by Afrika Bambaataa, Zulu Nation & Cosmic Force
8) "That's The Joint" by Funky 4 +1
9) "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" by Grandmaster Flash
10) "Jazzy Sensation (Bronx Version)" by Afrika Bambaataa & The Jazzy 5
11) "Apache" by The Sugarhill Gang
12) "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
13) "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force
14) "Punk Rock Rap" by Cold Crush Brothers
15) "It's Like That" by Run-DMC
16) "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
17) "Rockit" by Herbie Hancock
18) "Sucker MC's (Krush Groove 1)" by Run-DMC
19) "Hip Hop Bee Bop (Don't Stop)" by Man Parrish
20) "Roxanne, Roxanne" by UTFO
21) "Roxanne's Revenge" by Roxanne Shante
22) "Rock Box" by Run-DMC
23) "It's Yours" by T La Rock
24) "Five Minutes of Funk" by Whodini
25) "Fresh Wild Fly & Bold" by Cold Crush Brothers
Takes me from 1979-84. Includes some artists like Blondie and Herbie Hancock who branched out into the fascinating new genre and had crossover success - did you know 10cc's Godley & Creme did the video of Hancock's "Rockin" which got play on MTV).
Great thing is suitable for work. Also helluv fun - man, I haven't heard "Apache" in years
6 months ago, in response to my son listening to more hip hop, despite to put together a History of Hip Hop playlist choosing seminal singles from 1979 ("King Tim II (Personality Jock)" - actually released months before "Rapper's Delight") all the way to the present. Never one at paring down, the playlist wound up including 344 rap singles and was too daunting to get through at the time.
And I still don't know if I'm gonna commit to it, but have been playing it all morning - fun because many of the early hip hop singles are more dance-oriented influenced by disco as well as urban music.
So not a bad little list if I must say so myself
- far from complete obviously (and I bypassed early influences). Still fun stuffHere's the first tracks:
1) King Tim III (Personality Jock)" by The Fatback Band
2) "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang
3) "Christmas Rappin'" by Kurtis Blow
4) "The New Rap Language" by Spoonie Gee & The Trecherous Three
5) "The Breaks" by Kurtis Blow
6) "Rapture" by Blondie
7) "Zulu Nation Throw Down" by Afrika Bambaataa, Zulu Nation & Cosmic Force
8) "That's The Joint" by Funky 4 +1
9) "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" by Grandmaster Flash
10) "Jazzy Sensation (Bronx Version)" by Afrika Bambaataa & The Jazzy 5
11) "Apache" by The Sugarhill Gang
12) "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
13) "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force
14) "Punk Rock Rap" by Cold Crush Brothers
15) "It's Like That" by Run-DMC
16) "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
17) "Rockit" by Herbie Hancock
18) "Sucker MC's (Krush Groove 1)" by Run-DMC
19) "Hip Hop Bee Bop (Don't Stop)" by Man Parrish
20) "Roxanne, Roxanne" by UTFO
21) "Roxanne's Revenge" by Roxanne Shante
22) "Rock Box" by Run-DMC
23) "It's Yours" by T La Rock
24) "Five Minutes of Funk" by Whodini
25) "Fresh Wild Fly & Bold" by Cold Crush Brothers
Takes me from 1979-84. Includes some artists like Blondie and Herbie Hancock who branched out into the fascinating new genre and had crossover success - did you know 10cc's Godley & Creme did the video of Hancock's "Rockin" which got play on MTV).
Great thing is suitable for work. Also helluv fun - man, I haven't heard "Apache" in years
Dave Brubeck - Jazz Impressions of New York (1964)
WHOOOOAAAAAAA! That's a lot of good listenin' there. I was thinking of The Funky 4+1 and some others just this morning.After some Linda Ronstadt this AM, decided to go in a different direction
6 months ago, in response to my son listening to more hip hop, despite to put together a History of Hip Hop playlist choosing seminal singles from 1979 ("King Tim II (Personality Jock)" - actually released months before "Rapper's Delight") all the way to the present. Never one at paring down, the playlist wound up including 344 rap singles and was too daunting to get through at the time.
And I still don't know if I'm gonna commit to it, but have been playing it all morning - fun because many of the early hip hop singles are more dance-oriented influenced by disco as well as urban music.
So not a bad little list if I must say so myself
Here's the first tracks:
1) King Tim III (Personality Jock)" by The Fatback Band
2) "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang
3) "Christmas Rappin'" by Kurtis Blow
4) "The New Rap Language" by Spoonie Gee & The Trecherous Three
5) "The Breaks" by Kurtis Blow
6) "Rapture" by Blondie
7) "Zulu Nation Throw Down" by Afrika Bambaataa, Zulu Nation & Cosmic Force
8) "That's The Joint" by Funky 4 +1
9) "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" by Grandmaster Flash
10) "Jazzy Sensation (Bronx Version)" by Afrika Bambaataa & The Jazzy 5
11) "Apache" by The Sugarhill Gang
12) "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
13) "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force
14) "Punk Rock Rap" by Cold Crush Brothers
15) "It's Like That" by Run-DMC
16) "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
17) "Rockit" by Herbie Hancock
18) "Sucker MC's (Krush Groove 1)" by Run-DMC
19) "Hip Hop Bee Bop (Don't Stop)" by Man Parrish
20) "Roxanne, Roxanne" by UTFO
21) "Roxanne's Revenge" by Roxanne Shante
22) "Rock Box" by Run-DMC
23) "It's Yours" by T La Rock
24) "Five Minutes of Funk" by Whodini
25) "Fresh Wild Fly & Bold" by Cold Crush Brothers
Takes me from 1979-84. Includes some artists like Blondie and Herbie Hancock who branched out into the fascinating new genre and had crossover success - did you know 10cc's Godley & Creme did the video of Hancock's "Rockin" which got play on MTV).
Great thing is suitable for work. Also helluv fun - man, I haven't heard "Apache" in years
I can distinctly remember the feeling when each of the earliest was released in NC. The first one was a brand new thing. The next few were incredible followers of the unimaginable first effort. Each subsequent Hip Hop release, months after the previous, or weeks if we were lucky, was like an unexpected gift from your mother, but way better. And at some point around the second or third year, we kind of accepted that this great new creation might actually be allowed to survive and grow. It was a beautiful time to be listening to music!
Thanks for the trip back!
Three years ago I gave this out to five or six of my friends as xmas gifts. It chooses a song of the year for every year from 1979 through 2014, and includes a lot of extra info. And every year includes a "Rebuttal" which includes another reviewer's choice of song of that year. I knew it was something they would all love, but none would ever buy. They all loved it. It's great fun. Quite a few of the songs you chose made the list.
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Zeeba Neighba
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Cool - if I post subsequent installments of the playlist, you'll have to keep me on my toes and see if any essentials are missing
Cool - if I post subsequent installments of the playlist, you'll have to keep me on my toes and see if any essentials are missing
Brother, as complete as your music journeys are, I'll probably use your list to fill in the gaps in my collection.^
Cool - if I post subsequent installments of the playlist, you'll have to keep me on my toes and see if any essentials are missing
Nickyboy
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"Eight million stories" needs to be in there.^
Cool - if I post subsequent installments of the playlist, you'll have to keep me on my toes and see if any essentials are missing
Eric Alexander - Alexander The Great (1998)
I like this CD and I like "Let's Stay Together", but the cover of it here is my least favorite part of this album. That cheesy song needs passion, and there's none here. Which is really weird, because that cover follows the opening tune, "Burner's Waltz" which is on fire, and is followed by a cover of "God Bless The Child" which is well done. And that's too bad, because I really like "Let's Stay Together" and would love to hear a great Jazz cover of it.
Don't take that as a reason to skip this album. It's good. Moreso if you like organ jazz.
I like this CD and I like "Let's Stay Together", but the cover of it here is my least favorite part of this album. That cheesy song needs passion, and there's none here. Which is really weird, because that cover follows the opening tune, "Burner's Waltz" which is on fire, and is followed by a cover of "God Bless The Child" which is well done. And that's too bad, because I really like "Let's Stay Together" and would love to hear a great Jazz cover of it.
Don't take that as a reason to skip this album. It's good. Moreso if you like organ jazz.
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