What are you listening to? October 2021

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Bobby Watson - Gumbo (1983)

By coincidence, I'm currently reading the nonfiction "The Hairstons: An American Epic in Black and White" wherein a visit to Mississippi results in a visit with the Bluiett family, some of whose members are mentioned as being musically talented and that a Jazz fanatic was in town at the same time trying to meet some of them. Hamiet, a baritone saxophonist who plays on this album, is not mentioned and was born in Illinois (just outside of St Louis), but now I'm curious if this Bluiett family is his Bluiett family. It would certainly make sense if his parents left Mississippi in the 30s during the Great Migration and ended up in Illinois.
 
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Carole King - Carnegie Hall Concert: June 18, 1971 (rel. 1996)

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Wiki says this was Carole's first show before a live audience. :oops:

You'd sure never have guessed, considering her seemingly effortless rapport with the audience. James Taylor even drops by for a few songs.

:5.0: on the Sam-O-Meter. So as not to kill the buzz, we won't mention that this show took place over 50 years ago. :lala:
 
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Artur Rodzinski, cond.) - Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite (1956)

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Music drawn from Kodaly's folk opera that depicts the heroic tall tales of an Austrian peasant soldier who claims to have wooed the Empress Marie Louise and then defeated her husband, Napoleon, on the battlefield. The opera may be obscure but the music is quite exciting, bubbling over with folk melodies.
 
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Artur Rodzinski, cond.) - Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite (1956)

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Music drawn from Kodaly's folk opera that depicts the heroic tall tales of an Austrian peasant soldier who claims to have wooed the Empress Marie Louise and then defeated her husband, Napoleon, on the battlefield. The opera may be obscure but the music is quite exciting, bubbling over with folk melodies.
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Maybe, but I still have trouble saying the name of the suite without snickering like a schoolboy.
 
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Ernest Ale ~ As Dreamers Do (1995)



Nothing about this CD package, including its subtitle, Lullabies and Love Songs for Classical Guitar, could alert one to how good it actually is.

In listening to it this afternoon while working, I had the urge to go to RYM and give it :4.5: . I was gratified that the one person who had rated it before actually gave it that rating, only to find out it was me, back in February of 2019.

Why has it been so long? I clearly have too many CDs. :heart:
 
Sergio and Odair Assad ~ Play Rameau, Scarlatti, Couperin, Bach (1993)



This is a fairly good classical guitar CD, as well. Not quite as consistent as the Ernest Ale, but it still holds its own. Better than me, in fact.

The worst thing about it is the lettering on the back cover. Imagine a dark burnished gold over an all-black background. It's unreadable unless I tip the jewel case backwards toward the light. Try reading the small lettering on the front cover in the image above, and that is with backlighting.
 
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