So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[duaneiac]

[kinuta]

The recent flurry of interest prompted me to play these two.

[jlhoots]

Anne Mette Iversen: Round Trip

[duaneiac]

2 hours ago, kinuta said:

The recent flurry of interest prompted me to play these two.

Now playing:

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, rostasi said:

Shipped to me today!!

[duaneiac]

Disc 1 of 3

[paul secor]

Mississippi Blues Vol. 2 (1926 - 1935)

[Peter Friedman]

[jlhoots]

Anne Mette Iversen: Ternion Quartet

[paul secor]

Jimmy Raney: A

[jeffcrom]

The Radiators - Wild & Free (Radz). I love this New Orleans rock band, but I just said to a friend that there's not one album by them that's great all the way through - one that would convince the nonbeliever. On listening to disc one of this 1978-2008 compilation of rarities, I have to say that Wild & Free comes pretty close, with a few caveats. Some of the tracks are low-fi live recordings, and there are still a couple of weaker songs, but there is much weird, funky, swampy goodness. Among other pleasures here is the only issued version of their song cycle (I don't know what else to call it - a suite, maybe) "Songs From the Ancient Furnace" - which ironically is not the album of that name.

 

[kh1958]

Buddy Guy, I'll Play the Blues for You... Live (Klondike)

[sidewinder]

11 hours ago, Hot Ptah said:

I have heard Watson play the title track live. He has introduced it by saying, "this song is called The Inventor. It is dedicated to my father who is a great inventor. I am one of his greatest inventions."

I saw Horizon on a couple of occasions around the time that that album and 'Post Motown Bop' were released. They played 'The Inventor' and I remember him saying something about his father.

[soulpope]

11 hours ago, kinuta said:

 

Great cover art ....

[Niko]

John Tirabasso Quartet - Live Jazz At Dino's

part of an extended Frank Strazzeri listening program (but Gary Foster doesn't disappoint either)

[soulpope]

New Orleans based "Goddess Of Soul" with some of her best - Muscle Shoals powered - recordings ....

[soulpope]

A dead ringer for James Brown on the uptempo stuff - but definitely more soulful on the ballad side .... the japanese P-Vine CD reissue adds some worthy unreleased tracks to the original content feat on the "Jealous" Tri-Us vinyl from 1972 ....

Edited August 12, 2017 by soulpope

[sidewinder]

CD3 - Zeitgeist

CD3 - Zeitgeist

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

CD3 - Zeitgeist

Terrific .... a very precious Mosaic Select set indeed ....

[sidewinder]

Yep, this one gets very frequent plays and all 3 CDs are brilliant. One of the best in the whole Mosaic Select series IMO.

[AllenLowe]

On 8/10/2017 at 1:54 PM, Larry Kart said:

 

A wonderful player, but FWIW Christlieb testified circa 1954 as a "friendly witness" before the House Un-American Activities Committee and named 33 musicians, as well as Norman Granz, as former members of the Musicians' Branch of the Los Angeles-area Communist Party (to which Christlieb himself had belonged). One can imagine the pressures Christlieb himself might have been under from HUAC and the Feds at the time, but his testimony brought down much grief upon the heads of those he named (loss of jobs in the film studio world, etc.), and a good many in the LA musical community never forgave him for what he did.

From Tad Hershorn's Granz biography:
 

'Granz never forgot about these incidents and never forgave those whose testimony against former party members often destroyed their professional lives….

'Almost twenty years later Granz took a moment to stick it to his onetime accuser, Donald Christlieb. His son, the tenor saxophonist Pete Christlieb, was part of a big band led by Louis Bellson being recorded in the mid-1970s for Pablo Records. Greanz inquired about the status of the elder Christlieb.

 

 '“He’s retired,” Christlieb replied.

 

'“Tell him Norman Granz said hello,” Granz said.

 

'“I never heard back on that,” he said.'

for my money, unforgivable, the scum of the earth. Many people resisted. He now resides on my shi# list alongside Elia Kazan.

On Phil Woods I am with Larry, for my own reasons. Later Woods is like a bebop machine and his sound is studio redux. (I also can't stand Rhiannon Giddens, who is the darling of the NPR liberals who think listening to her - and the Chocolate Drops - shows their progressiveness.)

Edited August 12, 2017 by AllenLowe

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

Regarded by some as a minor singer (compared to the Southern Soul top acts in the early 70`s), this Wardell Quezergue produced King Floyd album
from 1971 oozes soul ....

Edited August 12, 2017 by soulpope

[soulpope]

[soulpope]