What are you listening to? September 2023

[axolotl]

Sh'mantra ~ ...A System of Moments (2005)



Psychedelic Rock, Space Rock

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Roy Eldridge & Dizzy Gillespie - Roy and Diz (1954)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Dinah Washington - Dinah Jams (1955)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever (1989)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Nas - Magic (2021)

Like most musical acts, Hip-Hop artists approaching middle age usually release less and less frequently until they fade away into irrelevancy. Nas, who turned 50 a couple of weeks ago, is not only ignoring the age cliff in music and refusing to fall off, he's continuing to produce quality albums. Who does Nas think he is? Prince?

"Illmatic", his first album had ten carefully chosen, great tracks, created primarily with a single producer. In the last six years, he has released 7 albums that mostly follow that blueprint. I haven't heard them all, but the ones I have heard are very good. This one is too.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Jay-Z - 4:44 (2017)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1954)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Chet Baker Sings (1954)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Then:

Johnny Maestro - Maestro Music Please (Cat King Cole comp. 2010)

Now:

Arthur Rubinstein - Beethoven Piano Sonatas (rec. 1962-3, RCA comp, 2006)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Alfred Newman - The Egyptian (soundtrack 1954)

Recently I received a pristine copy of this album as a bonus from a kind seller on Discogs. I love epic soundtracks and this one did not disappoint.

 

[axolotl]

Alfred Newman - The Egyptian (soundtrack 1954)

Recently I received a pristine copy of this album as a bonus from a kind seller on Discogs. I love epic soundtracks and this one did not disappoint.

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Well before the whole debacle known as the "alpha male" hypothesis, MAD Magazine would pit references of Victor Mature vis-à-vis Orson Bean.

I never knew what that was about. I still don't.

 

[axolotl]

Monty Alexander Quartet ~ Fridaynight (1987)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Well before the whole debacle known as the "alpha male" hypothesis, MAD Magazine would pit references of Victor Mature vis-à-vis Orson Bean.

I never knew what that was about. I still don't.

Mature told Life magazine in 1941, ''I can act, but what I've got that the others don't have is this,'' as he pointed to his body. The same article described him as ''proportioned like a frappe glass''.

 

[axolotl]

''proportioned like a frappe glass''

Long or short-stemmed?

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Been going through a playlist of Acclaimed Music’s top songs from the 1920s

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Been going through a playlist of Acclaimed Music’s top songs from the 1920s

@Ojai Sam will be delighted to know they've been digitizing the wax cylinders.

 

[axolotl]

@Ojai Sam will be delighted to know they've been digitizing the wax cylinders.

I knew somebody could use a good shellacking.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Blonde Redhead - Sit Down For Dinner (2023)

 

[Ojai Sam]

I knew somebody could use a good shellacking.

Yeah, cylinders were gone by 1920 except for Edison.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Been going through a playlist of Acclaimed Music’s top songs from the 1920s

So who is included? Whiteman, Jolson, ? Inquiring minds want to know.