What Are You Listening To? November 2020

[axolotl]

Marco Pignataro (featuring Eddie Gomez) ~ Sofia's Heart (2011)



From the liner notes, by Kenny Werner:

There's no doubt that Marco had an overriding motivation for this CD and that is not to just touch on emotion, but to live in it for a while and explore it's different colors. After the fanfare it evolves into a straight-eighth groove that supports it's modal harmonies. Think "Maiden Voyage" but darker, slower and mysterious.

Sofia's Heart

Sofia's Heart by Marco Pignataro - CD (2011) for $15.70 from OLDIES.com Jazz - Order by Phone 1-800-336-4627

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[Unsomnambulist]

TV Freaks - People (2020)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

King Hannah - Tell Me Your Mind And I'll Tell You Mine (2020)

 

[axolotl]

Junip ~ Junip (2013)



Indie Folk, Folktronica

 

[axolotl]

^ Never intending to surprise Sam's sensibilities with my selections, I decided to listen to something less shocking....

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers ~ Just Coolin' (2020)



The real reason is, it arrived in the mail today.

 

[axolotl]

At Swim Two Birds ~ Before You Left (2009)



This is gorgeous. A slowcore gem.

 

[axolotl]

Gonzalo Rubalcaba ~ The Blessing (1991)



Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette

Post-Bop, Modal Jazz, Hard Bop

 

[axolotl]

Benoit Pioulard ~ Précis (2006)



Dream Pop, Ambient, Contemporary Folk

 

[axolotl]

Leo Kottke ~ One Guitar, No Vocals (1999)



American Primitivism

I find that it's very appropriate for Thanksgiving.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Guided By Voices - Zeppelin Over China (2019)

 

[axolotl]

Joe Henderson - Multiple (1973)

Very groovy, my man. You will dig it. Joe doesn't cover "Moanin'" on this album, but he moans on the opening track.


It's unanimous. Everyone loves it!

This, now. IAITM.

Spoiler

It arrived in the mail.

 

[axolotl]

Grant Green ~ The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark (1997) [2 CDs, Disc Two]

 

[axolotl]

Peace Harbor ~ Not Yet Fire (2002)

Not Yet Fire - Peace Harbor | Album | AllMusic

Not Yet Fire by Peace Harbor released in 2003. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

www.allmusic.com

This again. So much like.

 

[axolotl]

La Rondinella ~ A Song of David: Music of the Sephardim and Renaissance Spain (2007)



P. S. Puts me in mind of michaelben. I wonder how he's doing.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Neil Diamond - The Bang Years 1966-1968

I may be in the minority, but I always felt that Neil jumped the shark very early in his long career. For me, these are the only recordings he made that I expect to be pulling off the shelf at least once a year for the next 50 years (I'm planning a long life ).

This 2014 comp finally gives his first efforts for Bang Records their due. The LP's back in the day presented alternate takes, odd remixes and s-u-p-e-r w-i-d-e stereo, subsequent releases tinkered but these songs still sound best here in mono.

on the Sam-O-Meter.

 

[axolotl]

I may be in the minority, but I always felt that Neil jumped the shark very early in his long career. For me, these are the only recordings he made that I expect to be pulling off the shelf at least once a year for the next 50 years (I'm planning a long life ).

I doubt that you are in the minority here, as I too consider that Neil jumped the shark rather early. I suppose that it's a better end than going out like a shooting star.

Ima gunna be around for the next five decades myself, and I prefer not to use parentheses.

For my money, the only time the MG should be kept in the garage is when you have to send off to Britain for more Bosch electrical replacement parts.

 

[Worm]

Johnny Mathis - Merry Christmas (1958)​

 

[axolotl]

Intonarumori ~ Intonarumori (1999)



Drone, Ambient

 

[axolotl]

Rachel's ~ Systems/Layers (2003)



Chamber Music, Field Recordings, Modern Classical, Minimalism

 

[Nickyboy]

Neil Diamond - The Bang Years 1966-1968

I may be in the minority, but I always felt that Neil jumped the shark very early in his long career. For me, these are the only recordings he made that I expect to be pulling off the shelf at least once a year for the next 50 years (I'm planning a long life ).

This 2014 comp finally gives his first efforts for Bang Records their due. The LP's back in the day presented alternate takes, odd remixes and s-u-p-e-r w-i-d-e stereo, subsequent releases tinkered but these songs still sound best here in mono.

on the Sam-O-Meter.

Little known fact: Bang Records is based in Fucking, Austria. Sorry, meant Fugging.