What are you listening to? May 2019

[axolotl]

Jamshied Sharifi ~A Prayer for the Soul of Layla (1997)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Dave Holland octet - Pathways (2010)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Earth Wind & Fire - The Need Of Love (1969)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Kool and the Gang - Kool and the Gang (1970)

All instrumentals. A transition album, taking them from their Jazz roots to their Funk-Pop hits, but closer to the former end of the spectrum. Would fit right into the soundtrack of a lost Poitier/Cosby movie.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Bar-Kays - Flying High On Your Love (1977)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Miguel Zenón - Jibaro (2005)

 

[axolotl]

Stephen Bacchus ~ Ambient Origins: Collected Early Works 1983-1987 (1998)



Ambient, (Old) New Age

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Eyelids - Maybe More (2018)



Reminds me of Game Theory (the legendary power pop band).

 

[JazzyRandy]

Eric Harland - Voyager Live By Night (2010)

It is a joy to hear a talent like Julian Lage in a true Jazz setting, aligned with top-shelf musicians. This is an embarrassment of riches. And the sound quality is pin-point perfect.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

No. 2 - No Memory (1999)

 

[axolotl]

Eric Harland - Voyager Live By Night (2010)

It is a joy to hear a talent like Julian Lage in a true Jazz setting, aligned with top-shelf musicians. This is an embarrassment of riches. And the sound quality is pin-point perfect.

Just purchased this. Thanks, Randy.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Jay Hoggard - Mystic Winds, Tropic Breezes (India Navigation 1982)

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Vinyl Rip Of The Day.

AMG sez:

Pianist Anthony Davis (who contributed one of the four originals), co-stars with inventive vibraphonist Jay Hoggard on this adventurous set. Dwight Andrews is heard from on bass clarinet, the great Cecil McBee is on bass, and the remainder of the group includes drummer Billy Hart, percussionist Don Moye and Wilson Moorman III on tympani. The lengthy interpretations (ranging from 8½ to 13½ minutes) are episodic and contain more than their share of surprises and atmospheric moments.

on the Sam-O-Meter.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Dudu Pukwana - In The Townships (1974)

This one is unbelievably good.

AMG sez:

This glorious, ferocious recording is one of the pinnacles of the music created by the South African expatriates who settled in England in the '60s and melded with the free jazz community therein. Leader and alto saxophonist Dudu Pukwana and trumpeter Mongezi Feza were twin fountainheads of this movement and are in rare form here, both instrumentally and as composers. The pieces here are largely riff-based, but what incredibly infectious and funky riffs these are. South African music emphasized the importance of various thematic materials by how often it was repeated in a song, and these guys iterate the melodies with a vengeance. Happily, these melodies are so utterly catchy that one can wallow in them for hours, listening with giddy enjoyment as these musicians overlay and embroider them with uproarious playing, not to mention the frequent vocal exhortations and cries.

Originally released on Caroline, Earthworks reissued it on CD so it is easy to find today. Not on Spotify though.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Mountain Goats - In League With Dragons (2019)



Edit: easy listening. Not for me.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Tacocat - This Mess Is A Place (2019)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Filthy Friends - Emerald Valley (2019)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Eyelids - 854 (2014)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery (2019)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Eric Harland - Vipassana (2015)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Shelly Man & His Men - At The Black Hawk: Vol 1 (1960)

Su-weeeeeet