What Are You Listening To?

[heeman]

^ You're welcome!

Do I post this or not? Yea, WTF.............

http://www.theaudioannex.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=5057

Not sure why you bought it, and I am glad that you did because you said "It's not my style of music, however this is really good stuff (or something like that).

I am glad that you like it, these guys are masters of their craft.........

I really want to do the right thing here, well, maybe I should not have posted this............don't want to piss off the Senor Zing!

Sorry Bud!! :text-imsorry: :happy-smileygiantred:

 

[Dennie]

Yellow Moon -- CD

Neville Brothers

1989 A&M Records

Amazon.com essential recording

The Neville Brothers are a New Orleans institution. Their voices glide freely and harmonize into a rich texture. For Yellow Moon, they enlisted the help of producer Daniel Lanois to meld their voices and rhythms with his swampy dreamscapes. The percussion is subtle, the guitars melt into the background, and the voices puncture the placid night sky, as if providing the soundtrack to an old western. Two protest-era Dylan songs ("With God on Our Side" and "The Ballad of Hollis Brown") are recast as modern anthems for spiritual reconciliation. The Sam Cooke classic "A Change is Gonna Come" remains an envied promise, while the original material (the title track; "Sister Rosa," about Rosa Parks) is among their finest. Not a return to form, but rather a welcome break from tradition. --Rob O'Connor

"My Blood" (Darryl Johnson, Cyril Neville, Willie Green, Charles Moore) – 4:11
"Yellow Moon" (Aaron Neville) – 4:04
"Fire and Brimstone" (Link Wray) – 3:57
"A Change Is Gonna Come" (Sam Cooke) – 3:43
"Sister Rosa" (Darryl Johnson, Cyril Neville, Charles Moore) – 3:29
"With God on Our Side" (Bob Dylan) – 6:37
"Wake Up" (Cyril Neville, Brian Stoltz, Willie Green) – 3:21
"Voodoo" (Aaron Neville, Darryl Johnson, Cyril Neville, Brian Stoltz, Willie Green) – 4:26
"The Ballad of Hollis Brown" (Bob Dylan) – 5:45
"Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (A. P. Carter) – 5:16
"Healing Chant" (Aaron Neville, Austin Hall, Cyril Neville, Brian Stoltz, Willie Green) – 4:34
"Wild Injuns" (Aaron Neville, Austin Hall, Cyril Neville, Brian Stoltz, Willie Green) – 3:17

 

[Dennie]

Decisions -- CD

Wayman Tisdale

1998 Atlantic Records

When Wayman Tisdale was ten-years-old, he lay his hands for the first time on the two items which would eventually determine the dual nature of his life: a basketball and a six string guitar. Sports fans know where the first one led -- to a successful all-star career in the NBA where the 6'9" Tisdale totaled 5,000 rebounds and played for the Indiana Pacers, Sacramento Kings and Phoenix Suns. Smooth jazz enthusiasts who know nothing of his hoop life made his MoJazz albums Power Forward and In the Zone -- recorded during his off-seasons in 1995 and 1996 -- Top Ten hits on the Billboard chart. While those titles gave the impression of an athlete dabbling in a side career, his Atlantic debut Decisions -- recorded as he hung up his Air Jordans after 12 years on the court -- gets down to more serious business. Playing the bass isn't just a hobby anymore. If the guest list at Tisdale's coming out party is any indication, earning the respect of his peers can be crossed off the worry list. Keyboardist Brian Culbertson, for one, proves a melodic soulmate, matching his high ivory tones note for note with Tisdale's plucky, lower register melody on "Breakfast with Tiffany," a bouncy tune that shows Tisdale's remarkable smooth jazz radio savvy. On "Ain't No Lovin'," Tisdale takes the melodic lead with both bass and airy vocals over the subtle intertwining double keyboards of Culbertson (simulating the Rhodes) and Jerome Harmon (Hammond B-3). Tisdale also takes genre stars Gerald Albright, Norman Brown, Everette Harp, Marcus Miller and Marc Antoine downcourt for a little one on one. "The Wiz" does some stylish little double dribbling on a call and response with Albright's sax on "Bass Man" after Albright dances around Brown's crisp, Wesbound licks. Harp's soft soprano melody blends smoothly with Tisdale and Antoine's laid-back acoustic on "Fell in Love," and Antoine challenges the leader to pick up the steel string acoustic and play gingerbread man after the Frenchman's skittery nylon strings on the Latin-flavored "Mexicoco." ~ Jonathan Widran

Track listing

1. Breakfast with Tiffany
2. Bass Man
3. Ain't No Lovin'
4. Mexicoco
5. Fell in Love
6. Ready or Not
7. My Only
8. Sultry Summer
9. African Prince
10. Take the Lord Along with You
11. Louis
12. Miles Away

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music....

Goin' Back To New Orleans -- CD

Dr. John

1992/2008 Rhino Flashback

Amazon.com essential recording

Goin' Back traces a century of Crescent City musical history, starting in the mid-19th century with Louis Moreau Gottschalk, a classical composer influenced by the African chants and slave dances he witnessed in New Orleans' Congo Square. With support from some of the city's most prominent musical pioneers (including Danny Barker, Pete Fountain, and the Neville Brothers), Dr. John breathes new life into the work of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, James Booker, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, and Huey Piano Smith. From early jazz to junkie blues, Goin' Back covers it all, ranging from well-trod standards ("Basin Street Blues," "Careless Love") to otherwise forgotten jewels ("I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say," "How Come My Dog Don't Bark"). What's most remarkable is how utterly alive and timeless it sounds. --Keith Moerer

"Litenie des Saints" - 4:44
"Careless Love" - 4:10
"My Indian Red" - 4:47
"Milneburg Joys" - 2:39
"I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say" - 2:29
"Basin Street Blues" - 4:27
"Didn't He Ramble" - 3:28
"Do You Call That a Buddy?" - 3:54
"How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come Around)" - 4:09
"Goodnight Irene" - 4:11
"Fess Up" - 3:12
"Since I Fell for You" - 3:32
"You Rascal You" - 3:25
"Cabbage Head" - 3:59
"Goin' Home Tomorrow" - 3:01
"Blue Monday" - 3:01
"Scald Dog Medley/I Can't Go On" - 2:58
"Goin' Back to New Orleans" - 4:08

 

[No-L]

I got on the Annie Lennox bandwagon!

 

[Dennie]

I got on the Annie Lennox bandwagon!

Not a bad "bandwagon" to be on! :text-welcomewave:



Dennie

PS Did you get my Private Message?

 

[mzpro5]

Robin and Linda Williams "Turn Toward Tomorrow"


Here Robin and Linda have placed a group of mostly original songs in a slightly more contemporary setting. On this project they worked with John Jennings, long time guitar player/producer for Mary Chapin Carpenter, and several other members of their band. The result has received nothing but critical acclaim. The legendary bluegrass band The Seldom Scene immediately selected "The Other Sede of Town" for their next recording. As one reviewer put it.... "John Jennings let Robin and Linda do what they do best, which is sing. And they have never sounded better." This album marked 20 years togeter! What a celebration!

Their version of Matraca Berg's Lying to the Moon sends chills up my spine everytime I hear it.

 

[mzpro5]

Today's work truck music....

Goin' Back To New Orleans -- 08

Great album!! :text-bravo:

 

[Dennie]

Avalon -- Mini Lp - CD

Roxy Music

1982 Virgin Records

Progressive rock savants Roxy Music reinvented themselves as the avatars of caviar dreams and champagne wishes on this smooth-as-$1,000-cognac 1982 disc. By this point in their jagged discography, Roxy had become little more than Bowie-esque lead singer Bryan Ferry's backup band, with his regal tone ensconced somewhere between the synth-fetish of Ultravox and a friskier Scott Walker. Seemingly gone were the band's herky-jerky days as a democratically run outfit--Avalon's syrupy, New Romantic tone is worlds away from the era when Brian Eno's unpredictable keyboard noodles or Phil Manzanera's rocket-fuel guitar defined the proceedings. The exquisite "More Than This" and the moody title cut give the decadence of Robin Leach's '80s a dignity that those times probably didn't deserve. But even if the Reagan years didn't sound to you like new wave for social climbers, as a soundtrack to upscale daydreaming, Avalon beats an episode of Dynasty hands down. --Don Harrison

1. "More Than This" – 4:30
2. "The Space Between" – 4:30
3. "Avalon" – 4:16
4. "India" – 1:44
5. "While My Heart Is Still Beating" (Ferry/Mackay) – 3:26
6. "The Main Thing" – 3:54
7. "Take a Chance with Me" (Ferry/Manzanera) – 4:42
8. "To Turn You On" – 4:16
9. "True to Life" – 4:25
10. "Tara" (Ferry/Mackay) – 1:43

 

[heeman]

Avalon -- Mini Lp - CD

Roxy Music

1982 Virgin Records

Progressive rock savants Roxy Music reinvented themselves as the avatars of caviar dreams and champagne wishes on this smooth-as-$1,000-cognac 1982 disc. By this point in their jagged discography, Roxy had become little more than Bowie-esque lead singer Bryan Ferry's backup band, with his regal tone ensconced somewhere between the synth-fetish of Ultravox and a friskier Scott Walker. Seemingly gone were the band's herky-jerky days as a democratically run outfit--Avalon's syrupy, New Romantic tone is worlds away from the era when Brian Eno's unpredictable keyboard noodles or Phil Manzanera's rocket-fuel guitar defined the proceedings. The exquisite "More Than This" and the moody title cut give the decadence of Robin Leach's '80s a dignity that those times probably didn't deserve. But even if the Reagan years didn't sound to you like new wave for social climbers, as a soundtrack to upscale daydreaming, Avalon beats an episode of Dynasty hands down. --Don Harrison

1. "More Than This" – 4:30
2. "The Space Between" – 4:30
3. "Avalon" – 4:16
4. "India" – 1:44
5. "While My Heart Is Still Beating" (Ferry/Mackay) – 3:26
6. "The Main Thing" – 3:54
7. "Take a Chance with Me" (Ferry/Manzanera) – 4:42
8. "To Turn You On" – 4:16
9. "True to Life" – 4:25
10. "Tara" (Ferry/Mackay) – 1:43

Now there is one thing that is meant to do when that album is on....................

 

[Dennie]

Spiral -- SACD

Hiromi

2005 Telarc Jazz

Very nice fresh new music, January 24, 2006
By Jonathan Guarriello (Rutherfordton NC) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Spiral (Audio CD)

I just recently picked up a copy of Hiromi's Spiral and I am hooked! For one thing it is awesome to see young players like Hiromi and her bassist and drummer playing all original music. All the songs on spiral are penned by the pianist. I like the way the songs are very composed but don't get robotic sounding. I think she has toned down her chops and focused more on the songs,but this doesn't mean that she doesn't rip on this one. My favorite tracks are spiral the first track,and #3 Edge. I really like The Return of the Kung Fu Champion,which is the only track on this album where she uses electronic keyboards. I like her use of the synths. I don't think its fair to her to compare her synth sounds with 70's fusion. As much as I love Chick Corea I think most of the synth sounds he used on mid 70's RTFE albums like Where Have I known you before, No Mystery and Romantic Warrior where really chessey. This album has definite cross over appeal because the tunes are catchy and they blend classical,jazz and funk fusion. Tony Grey the bassist on this is the man. I think he's headed for bass great status. The drummer Martin Valihora is killer nuff said buy this record you won't be disappointed!

1. Spiral 10:04
2. Music for Three-Piece Orchestra: Open Door - Tuning - Prologue 10:16
3. Music for Three-Piece Orchestra: Déjà vu 7:45
4. Music for Three-Piece Orchestra: Reverse 5:09
5. Music for Three-Piece Orchestra: Edge 5:19
6. Old Castle, by the river, in the middle of a forest 8:20
7. Love and Laughter 9:03
8. Return of Kung-Fu World Champion 9:39

 

[Dennie]

Avalon -- Mini Lp - CD

Roxy Music

1982 Virgin Records

Progressive rock savants Roxy Music reinvented themselves as the avatars of caviar dreams and champagne wishes on this smooth-as-$1,000-cognac 1982 disc. By this point in their jagged discography, Roxy had become little more than Bowie-esque lead singer Bryan Ferry's backup band, with his regal tone ensconced somewhere between the synth-fetish of Ultravox and a friskier Scott Walker. Seemingly gone were the band's herky-jerky days as a democratically run outfit--Avalon's syrupy, New Romantic tone is worlds away from the era when Brian Eno's unpredictable keyboard noodles or Phil Manzanera's rocket-fuel guitar defined the proceedings. The exquisite "More Than This" and the moody title cut give the decadence of Robin Leach's '80s a dignity that those times probably didn't deserve. But even if the Reagan years didn't sound to you like new wave for social climbers, as a soundtrack to upscale daydreaming, Avalon beats an episode of Dynasty hands down. --Don Harrison

1. "More Than This" – 4:30
2. "The Space Between" – 4:30
3. "Avalon" – 4:16
4. "India" – 1:44
5. "While My Heart Is Still Beating" (Ferry/Mackay) – 3:26
6. "The Main Thing" – 3:54
7. "Take a Chance with Me" (Ferry/Manzanera) – 4:42
8. "To Turn You On" – 4:16
9. "True to Life" – 4:25
10. "Tara" (Ferry/Mackay) – 1:43

Now there is one thing that is meant to do when that album is on....................

Dam Keith, you scared me. I thought I left the "webcam" on (again)!!! :shock:

Yes, a little afternoon Delight!! :handgestures-thumbup:



Dennie bscene-drinkingcheers:

 

[Dennie]

Antonio Carlos Jobim Live at Minas -- CD

Antonio Carlos Jobim

2004 DRG Records (Import Brazil)

Antonio Carlos Jobim, his friends called him Tom June 16, 2007
By C. CRADDOCK VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD

This import is Antonio Carlos Jobim playing piano and singing his songs. It says it is by Tom Jobim, but that is actually what his friends called him. He has a lot of family and friends in Brazil, and they all were inspired by his example. Lots of his children are still making music. You might think Tom Jobim was a son or a cousin, but that is just what they called him. Antonio Carlos Jobim sounds very musical, but it is very long, so Tom for short.

This has a lot of his best songs on it: Água de beber, Desafinado, Samba de uma nota só, Chega de saudade, Dindi, Corcovado, Águas de março, and of course, Garota de Ipanema. There 18 tracks. It is recorded live at a concert in Brazil. He speaks in Portugese between songs, and their is no attempt at translation, so I am thinking that this is a very intimate concert for friends and family, and other Brazilians. He feels very comfortable, even making a few mistakes, but they don't concern him, as if he is playing in front of friends.

This is a very nice recording, if you can find it.

Track Listing
1. Desafinado (Off Key)
2. Samba de uma Nota Só (One Note Samba)
3. Por Causa de Vocé (Because of You)
4. Estrada do Sol (Sun Road)
5. Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Vocé (If All Were Just Like You)
6. Agua de Beber (Dinking Water)
7. Eu Nao Existo Sem Você (Do Not Exist Without You)
8. Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar
9. Modinha
10. Chega de Saudade (I've Had Enough of Missing You)
11. Dindi
12. Eu Preciso de Você (I Need You)
13. Retrato em Branco e Pretto (Portrait in Black and White)
14. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
15. Ligia
16. Falando de Amor (Speaking of Love)
17. Aguas de Março
18. Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)

Personnel: Antonio Carlos Jobim (vocals, piano).

 

[Botch]

Avalon -- Mini Lp - CD

Roxy Music

1982 Virgin Records

Progressive rock savants Roxy Music reinvented themselves as the avatars of caviar dreams and champagne wishes on this smooth-as-$1,000-cognac 1982 disc. By this point in their jagged discography, Roxy had become little more than Bowie-esque lead singer Bryan Ferry's backup band, with his regal tone ensconced somewhere between the synth-fetish of Ultravox and a friskier Scott Walker. Seemingly gone were the band's herky-jerky days as a democratically run outfit--Avalon's syrupy, New Romantic tone is worlds away from the era when Brian Eno's unpredictable keyboard noodles or Phil Manzanera's rocket-fuel guitar defined the proceedings. The exquisite "More Than This" and the moody title cut give the decadence of Robin Leach's '80s a dignity that those times probably didn't deserve. But even if the Reagan years didn't sound to you like new wave for social climbers, as a soundtrack to upscale daydreaming, Avalon beats an episode of Dynasty hands down. --Don Harrison

1. "More Than This" – 4:30
2. "The Space Between" – 4:30
3. "Avalon" – 4:16
4. "India" – 1:44
5. "While My Heart Is Still Beating" (Ferry/Mackay) – 3:26
6. "The Main Thing" – 3:54
7. "Take a Chance with Me" (Ferry/Manzanera) – 4:42
8. "To Turn You On" – 4:16
9. "True to Life" – 4:25
10. "Tara" (Ferry/Mackay) – 1:43

Now there is one thing that is meant to do when that album is on....................

Dam Keith, you scared me. I thought I left the "webcam" on (again)!!! :shock:

Yes, a little afternoon Delight!! :handgestures-thumbup:



Dennie bscene-drinkingcheers:

Philistines!
As much as I love someone humming into my microphone, This Album deserves nothing less than lights out, shades drawn, phone disconnected, and total attention with no maternal chromosomes within earshot. :angry-tappingfoot:

 

[Dennie]

Philistines!
As much as I love someone humming into my microphone, This Album deserves nothing less than lights out, shades drawn, phone disconnected, and total attention with no maternal chromosomes within earshot. :angry-tappingfoot:

Oops! :shifty:



Dennie

 

[Rope]

Rope

 

[Dennie]

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music....

Never Die Young -- CD

James Taylor

1988 Columbia Records

Another Number One Album For Old "JT"!, August 25, 2000
By Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews
(TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Never Die Young (Audio CD)

James Taylor has given us so many wonderful albums over the last couple of decades (Gee, is it thirty years already?) that it is truly surprising to see him come up with yet another blockbuster of a song as "Never Die Young" along with a wonderful song cycle as he's produced here. From the opening bars of "Never Die Young", a wry but dreamy recollection of a couple destined to rise above the level of the ordinary humdrum of small town mentality to the thoughtful and well-arranged "T-Bone" to the reflective "Baby Boom Baby" to the rollicking "Sweet Potato Pie", there isn't a pooch in the passel. As always, this is an eclectic mixture of folk ballads like "Never Die Young" and the pensive and soulful "First Of May", which is my personal favorite here. What we have here, folks, is a guarantee of an entertaining, superbly rendered, and always memorable music by one of the old masters of popular folk-rock. After all, "JT" has now successfully negotiated the fifty-year mark, and like the rest of us boomers, shows no sign of slowing down or repeating himself. Enjoy!

All songs were written by James Taylor, except where noted.

"Never Die Young" – 4:24
"T-Bone" (Bill Payne, Taylor) – 3:47
"Baby Boom Baby" (Taylor, Zachary Wiesner) – 4:59
"Runaway Boy" – 4:18
"Valentine's Day" – 2:35
"Sun on the Moon" – 4:09
"Sweet Potato Pie" – 3:30
"Home by Another Way" (Timothy Mayer, Taylor) – 3:50
"Letter in the Mail" – 4:41
"First of May" – 4:01

 

[heeman]

Track Listings
1. Newborn
2. Karma
3. Don t Start Lying To Me Now
4. Last One To Know
5. Drive All Night
6. Cry Myself to Sleep
7. Somehow
8. Landlord
9. Boat Yard
10. Take Good Care

 

[Zing]

What album is this? :think: