What are you listening to? October 2022

[Unsomnambulist]

Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ (2022)

 

[axolotl]

^ That's not your usual style. How do you like it?

 

[Unsomnambulist]

^ That's not your usual style. How do you like it?

It's very nice.

 

[axolotl]

It's very nice.

Then, I shall listen to it.

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Mick Rossi ~ Songs from the Broken Land (2009)



Solo Piano (with 22 songs, six of which are variations on "My Old Kentucky Home")

 

[Ojai Sam]

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Vernon Handley, cond.) - Arnold: Symphony Nos. 1 & 5 (1996)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook (rec. 1958, rel. 2022)

Zeeb posted this one back in June but I'm a bit slow on the uptake.

Universal Music keeps mining the Verve vault and coming up with treasures like this one. Ella took her Irving Berlin Songbook album to the Hollywood Bowl the year it was released with a full orchestra led by Paul Weston, who also did the arrangements for the studio album. There are not enough superlatives to describe this perfect union of singer and songwriter. Moreover, as Will Friedwald's insightful liner notes point out, not only was it rare for Ella to appear with an orchestra, but it was unheard of for any artist to fill an entire show with a single album. A remarkable evening captured in excellent sound quality for us to enjoy after 64 years.

on the Sam-O-Meter.

 

[axolotl]

Grant Green ~ Idle Moments (1963)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Major Parkinson - Valesa - Chapter 1: Velvet Prison (2022)

 

[Ojai Sam]

BBC Symphony Orchestra/London Symphony Orchestra (Colin Davis, cond.) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 2/Overture "Leonore" (1976)

Exquisite recording quality showcases Davis' sophisticated treatment of these vivacious early Beethoven works.

 

[axolotl]

Kenny Burrell ~ Blues: The Common Ground (1968)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway (2010)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (1975)

A protest listen of sorts - though Bruce will be represented with four albums in the Mojo book, oddly they're bypassing what almost everyone considers his best album. I know I'm biased but c'mon!

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (1980)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Robert Schumann - Kinderszenen/Kreisleriana (Martha Argerich)

 

[axolotl]

Miles Davis ~ Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (2007, 1958)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Linda Keene - One More For The Road (2022)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Paul Nicholson, The Brandenburg Consort (Roy Goodman, cond.) - Handel: Organ Concertos (comp. 1735-51, rec. 1997)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Bobby Lees - Bellevue (2022)


This is brilliant.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return Of The Dream Canteen (2022)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Bedrich Smetana - Ma Vlast (Czech Philharmonic/Jiri Belohlavek)