What are you listening to right now?

lonewolfny42 · « **Reply #6500 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 05:19 am »

Sara K. and Chris Jones - "Are We There Yet ?" (Live)....Cd.....Samples....

DeanSheen · « **Reply #6501 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 05:31 am »

Organum

'Sphyx' CD

mjosef · « **Reply #6502 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 05:38 am »

Remastered (24bit I think) from the original tapes...excellent sound.

One of my long ago fav. jazz albums, sounds as good as I can remember on this reissued Impulse Originals series.

ecramer · « **Reply #6503 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 06:06 am »

Orf · « **Reply #6504 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 06:31 am »

The Kinks - Arthur

Terry Reid - River

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #6505 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 07:03 am »

The Individualism of Gil Evans (Verve). One of the added tracks to this fairly old re-release is Willie Dixon's Spoonful. Evan's piano and Chamber's bass might be a little prominent in the mix (altho Richard Davis' bass is just right), check out Phil Woods and Thad Jones solos in the context of their respective horn sections. Perfectly recorded. Also, The Gold Collection (Fine Tune- one of em, I think there were several, from his estate). Evans liked to play Hendrix songs. "Little Wing" is on this. For those of you who don't know, this man was a one of a kind arranger. David Sanborn, out of the context of appealing to a larger audience, plays passionately on Drizzling Rain. The best I've heard him. Salude, MJ.

mjosef · « **Reply #6506 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 08:04 am »

Gil loved Hendrix's music...I spent many a night listening to him here in the the City when he was the regular Monday night band(his Orchestra) at Sweet Basil...he would do a Hendrix night of music...was quite a blast. Hiram Bullock was the guitarist most of those times.
Good listening there..

lonewolfny42 · « **Reply #6507 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 08:13 am »

Quote from: mjosef on 1 Feb 2008, 08:04 am

Gil loved Hendrix's music...I spent many a night listening to him here in the the City when he was the regular Monday night band(his Orchestra) at Sweet Basil...he would do a Hendrix night of music...was quite a blast. Hiram Bullock was the guitarist most of those times.
Good listening there..

A little Voodoo.......

mjosef · « **Reply #6508 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 08:19 am »

There yah go...a whole album of Hendrix themed tunes

lonewolfny42 · « **Reply #6509 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 08:28 am »

Quote from: mjosef on 1 Feb 2008, 08:04 am

I spent many a night listening to him here in the the City when he was the regular Monday night band(his Orchestra) at Sweet Basil...

I hear you clapping....here...and....here......

mjosef · « **Reply #6510 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 08:32 am »

Damn...you got me...I used to drink screwdrivers in those days...so pardon the overclap...I might have been there that night, if George Adams was blowing the sax.

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #6511 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 10:04 am »

Live at Sweet Basil's, Vol 1. Done. So what if I got Little Wing already. It weren't in New York. Lucky I got a bidness account cause my squeeze, who makes more money than me, wouldn't believe this shit. I know how you must treasure those visits, MJ. George Adams . . oh, hell yeah! I can't imagine a better screwdriver. Thanks, Wolfster. You're bloody vicious, you know that?

ecramer · « **Reply #6512 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 02:32 pm »

A very old friend that i never get tired of listening too. A Lot of good times associated with listening to this album

ipy · « **Reply #6513 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 07:29 pm »

electricbear · « **Reply #6514 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 11:16 pm »

Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Pictures At An Exhibition.
Before that it was Tomita. Pictures At .....
Before that was Mussorgsky. Pictures At .......

I guess I'm at the art gallery today

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #6515 on:** 1 Feb 2008, 11:49 pm »

Oh Lord. There it is . . in my mailbox. With great anticipation, I opened the new Coltrane set from his Impulse years (I own most of those albums). I put on Spiritual cause I have it on his Vanguard CD series and have listened to it recently. The guys responsible for this remaster have given Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison their due. Garrison can be heard note for note on this and there was always something funny going on with EJ’s drum mikes. Like one of his mikes wasn’t working until ¾ of the way thru the set or so it sounds. I don’t know how these guys fixed this but they have. There is more fullness and presence here than in the Vanguard series except for Dolphy, who they left alone. Then I put on Out Of This World from the days of cough syrup haze. I literally haven’t listened to this in years but know it well. I nudged up the volume (you should, too). There’s tons of air on this and Elvin Jones is thrashing around back there perfectly clear and present. And then enters the winged lion to carry you away.

I don’t have words to describe Coltrane on this. It’s totally profound, I can say that, and this recording serves it beautifully. That sound he could get from his tenor and those notes he played are heavily on display. It’s fourteen minutes of torture and bliss. No thinkin Chasin The Trane. It ain’t like that. It’s beautifully constructed and very melodic. It positively slays me. It’s followed by a ballad, appropriately (Soul Eyes). Today, if you listen to McCoy Tyner, he’s effortlessly fluent, but in those days, he was economical and there was a longing to his sound. He was only 24 when he joined the group, after all, and in the company of a man possessed by his art.

There is not a word in the box about how this is accomplished but this is the box to have. Bloody well done, gents. A tribute to a genius and a jazz player for all time. If you like Trane, get this. You're in for something special.

mjosef · « **Reply #6516 on:** 2 Feb 2008, 12:54 am »

Oh yeah...this is where its at...acid jazz, funky, bluesy, spacey shit.

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The Floratone sound is, in the words of Townsend, “futuristic roots music,” at turns jazz-vibed, swamp-funky, intensely rocking, ambiently grooved. The music drips with grit, lopes with a sweet lyricism, bursts with surprising turns, sinks in with FX’d beauty

Info and link at bottom for the Floratone site :http://www.acidplanet.com/floratone

Gordy · « **Reply #6517 on:** 2 Feb 2008, 03:22 am »

Zydeco - The Essential Collection

amazon info

Cap'n Jeff, are those crawfish available to go?

Brad · « **Reply #6518 on:** 2 Feb 2008, 03:37 am »

Jim,

Can you provide a link to that particular Coltrane box set?

There are a bunch of them with the Impulse stuff

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #6519 on:** 2 Feb 2008, 04:18 am »

Hey Brad. I'm not proficient at linking sites but I can tell you it's "John Coltrane, The Impulse! Albums, Vol 1" (Verve). I got it off Amazon. Somewhere I read, I think here, that it is said to have been remastered in Japan. It's great!! All that whooping and hollering by the brass players in Africa Brass will fill the entire end of the front of your room. It's five albums. The song I referred to, Out Of This World, is from the album Coltrane. His playing on this is the state of his art. Turn it up!