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Ramones - It's Alive (1979)
What are you listening to? October 2021
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Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors (1971)
Greg Osby - Public (2002)
Terrace Martin - Velvet Portraits (2016)
Somewhere in the 5-way intersection that crosses Jazz and NeoSoul is this album. It's in a row of cars parked near a bodega on a busy street, parked behind Robert Glasper and in front of José James, talking to Anderson Paak, Kamasi Washington and Herbie Hancock about what kind of music George Duke might be making if he was still alive.
Somewhere in the 5-way intersection that crosses Jazz and NeoSoul is this album. It's in a row of cars parked near a bodega on a busy street, parked behind Robert Glasper and in front of José James, talking to Anderson Paak, Kamasi Washington and Herbie Hancock about what kind of music George Duke might be making if he was still alive.
Anthony Hamilton - What I'm Feelin' (2016)
Freddie Hubbard - Liquid Love (1975)
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Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 (1972)
Bobby Previte & Bump - Just Add Water (2001)
Previte (in general) and this album/group (specifically) are sometimes lumped in the "avant garde" category. I get it. This (and Previte in general) has a wandering quality to his work that doesn't always fit neatly into a 4-minute song or a 12-minute song. His songs include instruments bleating out notes, or wah-wahhing out of step with the other instruments.
But two things that separate this (specifically) and Previte (in general) is drummer Previte always has a steady sense of rhythm in all his work, from his forays into metal, to swing, to rock beats, to the turntable scratching on his Empty Suits album - and despite the sometimes random odds and ends of his songs, Previte usually always works with a melody, his works always have a hum-able melody and rock solid rhythm to be adorned with all the wild add-ons.
This is less avant-garde in the usual NY scene sense or the Art Ensemble of Chicago way, and more of an after hours no-holds barred Jazz party with a wicked drummer.
Previte (in general) and this album/group (specifically) are sometimes lumped in the "avant garde" category. I get it. This (and Previte in general) has a wandering quality to his work that doesn't always fit neatly into a 4-minute song or a 12-minute song. His songs include instruments bleating out notes, or wah-wahhing out of step with the other instruments.
But two things that separate this (specifically) and Previte (in general) is drummer Previte always has a steady sense of rhythm in all his work, from his forays into metal, to swing, to rock beats, to the turntable scratching on his Empty Suits album - and despite the sometimes random odds and ends of his songs, Previte usually always works with a melody, his works always have a hum-able melody and rock solid rhythm to be adorned with all the wild add-ons.
This is less avant-garde in the usual NY scene sense or the Art Ensemble of Chicago way, and more of an after hours no-holds barred Jazz party with a wicked drummer.
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Joshua Rifkin - Piano Rags by Scott Joplin (1970)
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The Very Best of Chicago
Heading to Chicago this weekend with my son (who is looking at colleges) - so got a hankering to hear some Chicago
Heading to Chicago this weekend with my son (who is looking at colleges) - so got a hankering to hear some Chicago
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The Very Best of Chicago
Heading to Chicago this weekend with my son (who is looking at colleges) - so got a hankering to hear some Chicago
Northwestern, DePaul, Loyola?
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University of Chicago and Northwestern
Not sure he'll end up there - looking at D.C, Duke, some Northeast schools too
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Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (Paavo Jarvi, cond.) - Schmidt: Symphony No. 4 ("Requiem For My Daughter") (2020)
On Monday Gramophone named this package "Orchestral Recording Of The Year" so I decided to give it a Spotify spin. Franz Schmidt was an Austrian cellist and composer who had the misfortune of living through WWI and the German takeover of Austria. As a result, like many other non-Jewish artists, he had an ambiguous relationship with the Nazis. I'm currently reading a scarifying bio of conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler which showed how hard Hitler and Goebbels worked to coopt the musical community in service of the Third Reich.
Schmidt was a fine composer, perhaps a bit like Mahler in his use of dense orchestral textures. This symphony is as dark as the title suggests, but it just goes to show that the tragic death of his daughter at age 30 could produce a beautiful and moving tribute. Schmidt himself would die of a heart ailment at age 64, just months before the formal beginning of WWII.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
On Monday Gramophone named this package "Orchestral Recording Of The Year" so I decided to give it a Spotify spin. Franz Schmidt was an Austrian cellist and composer who had the misfortune of living through WWI and the German takeover of Austria. As a result, like many other non-Jewish artists, he had an ambiguous relationship with the Nazis. I'm currently reading a scarifying bio of conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler which showed how hard Hitler and Goebbels worked to coopt the musical community in service of the Third Reich.
Schmidt was a fine composer, perhaps a bit like Mahler in his use of dense orchestral textures. This symphony is as dark as the title suggests, but it just goes to show that the tragic death of his daughter at age 30 could produce a beautiful and moving tribute. Schmidt himself would die of a heart ailment at age 64, just months before the formal beginning of WWII.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
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Taraka - Welcome To Paradise Lost (2021)
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Reinhold Gliere ~ Symphony #3 "Ilya Muromets" [BBC Philharmonic; Sir Edward Downes] (1991)
I have not heard this piece of work for 45 years, so when I saw it again, along with such a vivid cover, I had to pick it up. The only difference between the cover art is that mine is not on Chandos, but rather on Musical Heritage Society.
Having now re-listened, I remember why I was captivated that first time out of the gate.
I have not heard this piece of work for 45 years, so when I saw it again, along with such a vivid cover, I had to pick it up. The only difference between the cover art is that mine is not on Chandos, but rather on Musical Heritage Society.
Having now re-listened, I remember why I was captivated that first time out of the gate.
Prince - For You (1978)
Finally got to the P's in my little journey and I decided what better way to celebrate it than with afro Prince. It took 36 years of relaxed Prince to get afro Prince back with 2014's Art Official Age album, so maybe I'll hit that one next.
Finally got to the P's in my little journey and I decided what better way to celebrate it than with afro Prince. It took 36 years of relaxed Prince to get afro Prince back with 2014's Art Official Age album, so maybe I'll hit that one next.
José James - No Beginning No End (2013)
On my way to more afro Prince I got sidetracked through a couple of back alleys and ended up here. Blue Note soul Jazz (Jazz in the sense that Sinatra/Krall are, with tasteful perfect instumentation replacing magnificent improvisation) with a mellow baritone voice that fits alongside the music perfectly. I could have happily taken 6 more albums just like this one, but Mr James is a chameleon, switching sounds instead of colors from album to album, including tributes to Billie Holliday and Bill Withers. Always good stuff. Now, to convince him to get out a tribute to the Rat Pack.
Trivia: One of my best friends saw his marriage fall into the irreparably-damaged state at a José James show at a small intimate venue. They arrived early for good seats at the open-seating venue, and were present during the set-up and preshow. Movie-style misunderstandings led to a controlled and restrained, but ceaseless, argument which led to the husband storming out before even a fifth of the audience had arrived, much less the show had begun. In another situation, it would have been hilarious - I admit I laughed when he told me about it and I continue to chuckle when it crosses my mind even now. Thankfully, both are happier today, divorced and fated to never again be in the same room together.
On my way to more afro Prince I got sidetracked through a couple of back alleys and ended up here. Blue Note soul Jazz (Jazz in the sense that Sinatra/Krall are, with tasteful perfect instumentation replacing magnificent improvisation) with a mellow baritone voice that fits alongside the music perfectly. I could have happily taken 6 more albums just like this one, but Mr James is a chameleon, switching sounds instead of colors from album to album, including tributes to Billie Holliday and Bill Withers. Always good stuff. Now, to convince him to get out a tribute to the Rat Pack.
Trivia: One of my best friends saw his marriage fall into the irreparably-damaged state at a José James show at a small intimate venue. They arrived early for good seats at the open-seating venue, and were present during the set-up and preshow. Movie-style misunderstandings led to a controlled and restrained, but ceaseless, argument which led to the husband storming out before even a fifth of the audience had arrived, much less the show had begun. In another situation, it would have been hilarious - I admit I laughed when he told me about it and I continue to chuckle when it crosses my mind even now. Thankfully, both are happier today, divorced and fated to never again be in the same room together.
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