What Are You Listening to? November 2021

[JazzyRandy]

The Fatback Band - Let's Do It Again (1972)

A whole lotta mostly instrumental soul jazz funk stuff going on.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Average White Band - Warmer Communications (1978)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Roots - Phrenology (2002)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Lester Bangs And The Delinquents - Jook Savages On The Brazos (1981)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Neil Young - Trans (1983)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Webbed Wing - What's So Fucking Funny? (2021)

 

[axolotl]

Webbed Wing - What's So Fucking Funny? (2021)

Who brought a clown to a knife fight?

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Count Basie - April in Paris (1957)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight (1957)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Miles Davis + 19 - Miles Ahead (1957)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1957)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

The Weavers at Carnegie Hall (1957)

 

[axolotl]

The Weavers at Carnegie Hall (1957)

I've never heard this Miles Davis collaboration.

 

[axolotl]

Erroll Garner ~ "Concert by the Sea" (CD 1986, 1956)



Stride, Bebop, Jazz, Swing

The Radical Legacy of Erroll Garner - Page 2 of 3 - JazzTimes

As we enter the pianist's centennial year, a new reissue series—and the history behind it—sheds new light on the legacy of Erroll Garner.

jazztimes.com

Midway through the piece, Jennings conveys to Garner a remark from percussionist Harold Farberman, whose compositions Max Roach recorded a few months after the article appeared. “He can’t write music,” Farberman said of the pianist. “But he uses all the classical techniques—diminution, augmentation, wide key ranges, polytonality and rhythmic variations.” In response to that encomium, Jennings reported, “Garner’s big eyes rolled around like dice in a cup. ‘Man, that’s too angular Saxon for me. But if I read you right this cat likes me.’” For Jennings, this signifying riposte was “a typical Garner malapropism.”

Reading that makes Robin Kelley bridle. “Garner took a word that’s associated with musical analysis, snipped, and then used it in a pun—and everyone knows puns are the highest form of humor,” he says. “The writer does not even get it! You cannot have a low IQ, or be slow and naive, and say that. Garner’s sense of humor was somewhat similar to Monk, in that he liked to put you on. His job was to make some music, and he loved making music, which got translated into being called absent-minded or not really caring. The Black press, on the other hand, portrayed Garner as dignified, militant, race-conscious, intelligent. This is the Erroll Garner we don’t know.”

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair!

 

[Ojai Sam]

Wanda Landowska - Scarlatti: Sonatas (1939-40)



Vinyl Rip Of The Day.

 

[axolotl]

Boy Eats Drum Machine ~ Two Ghosts (2007)



Indie Rock, Electronic

The jury (in my cranium) is still out on this one. I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt for the moment.

ETA: The singer sounds like a cross between Mike Doughty and Rob Thomas, mixed in a blender on the Puree setting.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Amadeus Quartet - Mozart (who else?): String Quartet No. 16 "Haydn" + String Quartet No. 17 "Hunt" (1951)


The very first recordings by the revered ensemble, which played together with no changes of personnel for over 40 years.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Yo-Yo Ma - The Cello Suites: Inspired By Bach (1997)

Wiki tells us:

"Inspired by Bach, a part of Sony Classical Celebrates Bach, presented the contemporary cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing the six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, in a series of six films, each showing a collaboration with artists from different disciplines."

Forget the films, the music stands alone as superlative. Bach hardly needs help from contemporary film makers.

 

[axolotl]

Steve Roach & Loren Nerell ~ Terraform (2006)



Space Ambient, Dark Ambient, Drone, Nature Recordings