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  3. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    57 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

    To be honest I haven't really noticed either way, my expectations are never too high with ESP. I need to relisten

    Listening to the Base now @Pim. It sounds pretty good I have to say

    12 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

    At the Shabaka Big Ears concert, my preferred seating at the Bijou Theater (a balcony above the right side of the stage) was blocked off and reserved for some "VIPs." So I went to the Balcony on the other side. I assume it was for Andre 3000 and his entourage, who also was performing at the Festival. The theater was kept very dark throughout the concert, so you could not see who it was, and at the end of the concert when the lights came up, the VIPs had been safely escorted away (whew!).

    I have tickets for Shabaka in London in a few weeks but the Barbican venue doesn't have boxes so Andre 3000 will have to slum it with the rest of us in the unlikelihood he turns up 😀

  5. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

    Isn't Shabaka on the Andre album too?

    I don't know but it would make sense. Evidently, according to Shabaka yesterday talking to GP, we're calling all this stuff Ambient Jazz. If it means the death of Spiritual Jazz as a catch all label I'm on board

    5 hours ago, Pim said:

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    Hooray I own an original pressing. I think this one of Noah’s more accessible works. It’s one my favorites anyway. 

    Very nice, originals don't come cheap. I envy you as a Base owner...love Ric Colbeck on that

  9. Now reading...

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Brad said:

    Amazing book. 

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    This is a reimagining of the Huckleberry Finn story as told by Jim the slave, but with significant differences. It’s a terrifically good book. To those who are not all that familiar with how enslaved people were treated this will be an eye opener. 

    That's been getting a lot of coverage here in the UK too. Some interesting interviews with Everett. Definitely on my 'to read' list

  13. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    From @dougcrates too, who I noticed posted it.

    What's your view? Strong? Weak? Interesting? Go back to tenor please? Team Andre3000? 

    I've only had one listen myself and thought it had depth, deserving of more listens, but possibly not quite the full deal. Perhaps too in love with the calming potentialities of the flute. Maybe it gradually opens though. I like Hutchings a lot and this is an interesting facet to him.

    That's pretty much my take too. First and only listen for me too. Somehow I tend to like the ideas behind his music more than their execution and this is the same. I like the premise of ditching the saxophone soo definitely to take on a new direction. 

    This has more immediacy than the Andre 3000 album(s) I think, more complete in conception and execution. It suffers a little from having too many different players which means it doesn't quite sit together as a whole though. An album of the Moran quarter would have been very 8nteresting. I like the vocal input more than I thought I would

    That said it's very listenable and I think will merit return listens. But I will still go to Yamamoto when I want to hear shakuhachi.

  17. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    Primary

    Kayhan Kalhor And Toumani Diabaté - The Sky Is The Same Colour Everywhere [RealWorld, UK 2023]

    Stunning

    followed by first listen to

    Primary

    Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace [Impulse, 2024]

    1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

    Yeah, I have that one too. Gaslini was an utterly fascinating musician and composer, kind of reminds me of an Italian George Russell. That being said, not all of his records -- or at least those that I have -- blow me away but I'm usually quite interested in what he put out there, regardless of the end result.

    I love 'Nuovi Sentimenti', and others I have always have enough interest to them to survive successive collection culls.  The discography is such that I never can get an overview of it though, a real grasp.

  18. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

    I just pre-ordered this LP from Dusty Groove:

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    I've wanted to have a physical copy of this for years.  :) 

    I first heard it after downloading the music from the Magic Purple Sunshine blog.  Remember that?!? . . .  Along with this Eddy Louiss LP, that blog provided me with my first discovery of Martial Solal's music (and many others as well).  Before streaming and before Discogs, downloading from blogs was pretty much the only way one could hear the majority of the MPS catalog (particularly if you lived outside of Europe).  Aside from a few titles issued on PAUSA or Verve, it was almost entirely unavailable.

     

    Nice one, such a good album and such a good feeling when you snag a long sought after

  20. Robert Glasper

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by mjazzg

    Glasper's a fine Jazz musician on the evidence of the few times I've seen him live.

    His music has always been informed by contemporary R&B and Hip Hop since his earlier albums and he has moved more into those areas on recent releases.

    He's widely acknowledged, not sure he's often called a genius, by a younger audience for creating music and facilitating others to do so in a contemporary take on an R&B/Hip Hop/Jazz crossover.

    I"d be surprised if his music is widely appreciated on this board, a place that doesn't really embrace, with a few exceptions, contemporary music where Jazz is influenced by Hip Hop and contemporary R&B.

    So, not a genius but an important musician in my view.

  21. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    That 70s thing where the group feels it wants to make a statement but maybe doesn't have that much to say.

    Or perhaps the message doesn't resonate 50 years on as it might have then?

    Gaslini wasn't afraid of a statement or two. I have one album recorded for a student movement record label of a 70s university concert. Not sure if it was during a sit in but it certainly has that feel.

  22. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    26 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    Bought in a moment of high spirits whilst on holiday in Italy last week. I'm going to listen a few more times but not that wow-ed by it to tell the truth.

    The danger of holiday high spirits...many have done a lot worse I'd suggest

    Playing here:

    Ahmed Abdullah Quartet - Liquid Magic [Silk heart, 1987]

    Forgotten how joyous this is, Brackeen, Favors, Fielder with the leader.

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