What Are You Listening To?
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PaulyT said:
1. Bad To The Bone 4:56 $0.99
2. Move It On Over 4:18 Album Only
3. I'm A Steady Rollin' Man 3:45 $0.99
4. You Talk Too Much 4:35 $0.99
5. Who Do You Love? 4:20 Album Only
6. Gear Jammer 4:35 $0.99
7. I Drink Alone 4:32 $0.99
8. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer 8:27 Album Only
9. If You Don't Start Drinkin' (I'm Gonna Leave) 4:12 $0.99
10. Treat Her Right 3:31 $0.99
11. Long Gone 4:32 $0.99
12. Louie To Frisco
Rope
Scott Hamilton, Live at Nefertiti:
Awhile back someone here recommended a Concord Jazz SACD Sampler Vol II CD to me, I picked it up and listened a few times. There was a tenor saxophonist, Scott Hamilton, who really sounded good to me, I picked a couple of his disks up and I now have a new favorite tenor player. He has a lot of breath in his tone, not so much as Stan Getz, and he plays what I'd call "smoky" jazz, not so intense that you can't read, boink, or do something else while listening. Trane, Shorter, Osby, and some of the others I really like, but you pretty much have to listen to those guys. His Nocturnes and Serenades is my favorite of the three so far, I played it 4 or 5 times this past weekend.
This live disk was actually two disks, including a DVD of the concert; I'm watching that right now and loving it. I'll definitely be picking up more of this guy's stuff! :music-listening: :music-listening: :music-listening:
Awhile back someone here recommended a Concord Jazz SACD Sampler Vol II CD to me, I picked it up and listened a few times. There was a tenor saxophonist, Scott Hamilton, who really sounded good to me, I picked a couple of his disks up and I now have a new favorite tenor player. He has a lot of breath in his tone, not so much as Stan Getz, and he plays what I'd call "smoky" jazz, not so intense that you can't read, boink, or do something else while listening. Trane, Shorter, Osby, and some of the others I really like, but you pretty much have to listen to those guys. His Nocturnes and Serenades is my favorite of the three so far, I played it 4 or 5 times this past weekend.
This live disk was actually two disks, including a DVD of the concert; I'm watching that right now and loving it. I'll definitely be picking up more of this guy's stuff! :music-listening: :music-listening: :music-listening:
Interesting... haven't heard of this gent, but poked around a little and listened to some samples on amazon after reading your post, and decided to try something a little more up-tempo - his Back in New York album. I look forward to it!
Dennie
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Shakedown Street -- CD
Grateful Dead
1978/1990 Arista Records
Grateful Feat or is it Little Dead, March 26, 2007
By Jerkat1 "Jerkat1" (San Diego)
As a newly appointed 'Deadhead' I have to say that this album was a pleasant suprise. As you can tell from the reviews this is not one of the Dead's most likable albums. Maybe it's the purists that are still praising the material from the 60's and early 70's needlessly maligning this album, but for what ever reason just give it a chance.
This album was produced by Lowell George of Little Feat, and his presence is certainly noted here. It has that funky Little Feat feel to it. If your a fan of island/funk/reggae/rock this is the album for you, even if you don't expect it to come from the Grateful dead....
1. "Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark, Arthur Resnick) – 4:51
2. "France" (Mickey Hart, Robert Hunter, Bob Weir) – 4:03
3. "Shakedown Street" (Jerry Garcia, Hunter) – 4:59
4. "Serengetti" (Hart, Bill Kreutzmann) – 1:59
5. "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter) – 3:46
6. "I Need a Miracle" (John Perry Barlow, Weir) – 3:36
7. "From the Heart of Me" (Donna Jean Godchaux) – 3:23
8. "Stagger Lee" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:25
9. "All New Minglewood Blues" (Traditional) – 4:12
10. "If I Had the World to Give" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:50
Dennie
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The World Is A Ghetto -- CD
War
1972/1992 Avenue Records
Amazon.com essential recording
Best known for its distinctive fusion of Latin-flavored jazz, funk, rock, and soul, War was unquestionably one of the most successful fusion bands to emerge in the early '70s. Initially working with Eric Burdon, former lead singer with the British '60s band the Animals, the seven-member team enjoyed a commercial breakthrough with 1971's "All Day Music." The follow-up, The World Is a Ghetto took War mainstream thanks to the crossover success of the title track, a top 10 pop and R&B smash as 1972 became 1973. Cuts like the 13-minute-plus jazz-flavored adventure known as "City, Country, City" alongside the witty "Where Was You At" and the eerie "Four Cornered Room" were standouts on the six-track album. But it was the immediacy of the No. 2 pop single "The Cisco Kid," with its catchy hook that helped give the band a chart-topping No. 1 gold-selling album in 1973, arguably the best representation of its work as groove pioneers of the day. --David Nathan
Side one
1. "The Cisco Kid" – 4:35
2. "Where Was You At" – 3:25
3. "City, Country, City" – 13:18
Side two
1. "Four Cornered Room" – 8:30
2. "The World Is a Ghetto" – 10:10
3. "Beetles in the Bog" – 3:51
Dennie
Well-Known Member
Christmas Songs -- CD
Mel Torme
1992 Telarc Jazz :eusa-clap:
Amazon.com essential recording
Mel Torme is so famous for writing "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," it's surprising that he never recorded a full Christmas album before 1992's Christmas Songs. Besides that standard, Torme's own compositions here include the heartfelt "The Christmas Feeling" and "Christmas Was Made for Children." He also sings Johnny Mercer's Christmas lyrics for "Glow Worm" as well as more traditional fare. Backed by both orchestra and big band, Torme is alternately swinging and sentimental on this instant classic. --David Horiuchi
1. Christmas Medley: "Jingle Bells"/"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (Felix Bernard, J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie, James Pierpont, Ted Shapiro) - 4:16
2. "Sleigh Ride" (Leroy Anderson) - 2:30
3. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells) - 3:18
4. "The Glow Worm" (Paul Lincke, Johnny Mercer, Lilla C. Robinson) - 3:24
5. "The Christmas Feeling" (Tormé) - 5:12
6. "It Happened in Sun Valley" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 2:58
7. "Christmastime Is Here" {From A Charlie Brown Christmas} (Vince Guaraldi, Lee Mendelson) - 3:49
8. "Good King Wenceslas" (John Mason Neale) - 4:11
9. "What Child Is This?" (William Chatterton Dix), (Traditional) - 3:39
10. "Silver Bells" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) - 5:21
11. "Christmas Was Made for Children" (Tormé) - 3:48
12. "The Christmas Waltz" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 5:03
13. Medley: "Just Look Around"/"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Tormé)/(Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) - 3:51
14. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Traditional) - 1:39
15. Medley: "Happy Holiday"/"Let's Start the New Year Right"/"What Are You Doing On New Years Eve?" (Irving Berlin), (Frank Loesser) - 3:25
16. "White Christmas" (Berlin) - 3:58
Dennie
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Botch said:Chase, Pure Music:
Don't know if you guys know this band, hard-rocking fusion band with four lead trumpets. I can only listen to them for about 30 minutes at a time, very intense; very sexist lyrics, but a killer, killer fusion unit. :bow-blue:
Never heard of them, but I don't get out much. :shhh:
I'll see if I can find some samples. But, it seems the older I get, the less "Hard Rocking Fusion" is played. It still gets played, but not nearly as often as it used to.
I've also noted "Scott Hamilton" and have let my "used music dealer" know that I am looking. I'll also tell him about "CHASE, Pure Music".
Thanks Botch,
Dennie
Even in the heyday of Fusion, these guys weren't all that popular; as I said it's VERY intense music. But, there's never been another band like them, before or since.Dennie said:Botch said:Chase, Pure Music:
Don't know if you guys know this band, hard-rocking fusion band with four lead trumpets. I can only listen to them for about 30 minutes at a time, very intense; very sexist lyrics, but a killer, killer fusion unit. :bow-blue:
Never heard of them, but I don't get out much. :shhh:
I'll see if I can find some samples. But, it seems the older I get, the less "Hard Rocking Fusion" is played. It still gets played, but not nearly as often as it used to.
I've also noted "Scott Hamilton" and have let my "used music dealer" know that I am looking. I'll also tell him about "CHASE, Pure Music".
Thanks Botch,
Dennie
Bill Chase got his start with the EDIT: Woodie Herman Band, and then built this fusion unit and recorded three albums. Most of them were killed in a plane crash not much later. If any of you were in marching band in high school, and remember a tune called "Get it On", that was a Chase tune.
Holy Crap! I just checked Youtube and found a whole mess of Chase videos, and dammit I gotta go to work tomorrow! I checked years ago and there wasn't much of anything on the web about them. You need to skip almost to the middle of this video to hear "Get it On", but the trumpeting is pretty great before that:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ODTINxIzQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ODTINxIzQ[/youtube]
Dennie
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Don't forget to look at the FULL MOON on this Winter Solstice. Won't happen again for hundreds of years.
This seemed appropriate......
A Winter's Solstice IV -- CD
Various Windham Hill Artists
1993 Windham Hill Records
Amazon.com
In 1993, Windham Hill Records released its fourth album of seasonal music recorded by the label's artists and unavailable in any other collection. Only a few of the tracks on A Winter's Solstice IV lend credence to the label's unfair stereotype as the home for new age background music. Many of the musicians come from such respected jazz bands as Oregon and the Freddie Hubbard Quartet, and from such respected folk bands as the David Grisman Quartet. Several tackle such classical pieces as Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze" (the Modern Mandolin Quartet), Purcell's "Trumpet Tune" (solo guitarist Alex de Grassi) and Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" (the Turtle Island String Quartet). From Liz Story's "Carol of the Bells" to Nightnoise's "Wexford Carol," this is rigorous instrumental music for the most part, no matter how quiet and pretty it may seem at first listen. --Geoffrey Himes
1. Carol of the Bells - Liz Story/Andy Narell/Paul McCandless/Barbara Higbie/Turtle Island String Quartet/Philip Aaberg/Michael Manring
2. Silent Night - Steve Erquiaga
3. Crystal Palace - Oystein Sevåg
4. Winter Bourne - Paul McCandless
5. Dona Nobis Pacem - Michael Manring
6. Wexford Carol - Nightnoise
7. Just Before Dawn - Will Ackerman/William Ackerman
8. We Three Kings - Barbara Higbie
9. Angels We Have Heard on High - Darol Anger/Mike Marshall
10. Sheep May Safely Graze - The Modern Mandolin Quartet
11. Trumpet Tune - Alex de Grassi
12. Three Candles - Richard Schönerz/Scott/Schönerz & Scott
13. Rain, The - Turtle Island String Quartet (from "The Four Seasons")
14. Christmas Hymn - Billy Childs
15. Asleep the Snow Came Flying - Tim Story
This seemed appropriate......
A Winter's Solstice IV -- CD
Various Windham Hill Artists
1993 Windham Hill Records
Amazon.com
In 1993, Windham Hill Records released its fourth album of seasonal music recorded by the label's artists and unavailable in any other collection. Only a few of the tracks on A Winter's Solstice IV lend credence to the label's unfair stereotype as the home for new age background music. Many of the musicians come from such respected jazz bands as Oregon and the Freddie Hubbard Quartet, and from such respected folk bands as the David Grisman Quartet. Several tackle such classical pieces as Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze" (the Modern Mandolin Quartet), Purcell's "Trumpet Tune" (solo guitarist Alex de Grassi) and Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" (the Turtle Island String Quartet). From Liz Story's "Carol of the Bells" to Nightnoise's "Wexford Carol," this is rigorous instrumental music for the most part, no matter how quiet and pretty it may seem at first listen. --Geoffrey Himes
1. Carol of the Bells - Liz Story/Andy Narell/Paul McCandless/Barbara Higbie/Turtle Island String Quartet/Philip Aaberg/Michael Manring
2. Silent Night - Steve Erquiaga
3. Crystal Palace - Oystein Sevåg
4. Winter Bourne - Paul McCandless
5. Dona Nobis Pacem - Michael Manring
6. Wexford Carol - Nightnoise
7. Just Before Dawn - Will Ackerman/William Ackerman
8. We Three Kings - Barbara Higbie
9. Angels We Have Heard on High - Darol Anger/Mike Marshall
10. Sheep May Safely Graze - The Modern Mandolin Quartet
11. Trumpet Tune - Alex de Grassi
12. Three Candles - Richard Schönerz/Scott/Schönerz & Scott
13. Rain, The - Turtle Island String Quartet (from "The Four Seasons")
14. Christmas Hymn - Billy Childs
15. Asleep the Snow Came Flying - Tim Story
Dennie
Well-Known Member
Come Darkness, Come Light - Twelve Songs of Christmas -- CD
Mary Chapin Carpenter
2008 Zoe Records
Product Description
Finally, a Christmas album worth listening to all year long. When Mary Chapin Carpenter set out to create Come Darkness, Come Light, she took a far different approach to recording a holiday album than most artists do. Rather than simply lending her voice to time-worn Christmas standards, Mary Chapin wrote her own set of heartfelt songs which explore the many meanings and emotions that Christmas evokes in each of us. These songs, mixed with a few hand-picked gems from other writers and rarely heard traditional tunes, will speak directly to the hearts of all Mary Chapin Carpenter fans. These are not merely holiday songs, they are simply great Mary Chapin Carpenter songs, both warm and intimate. And while they artfully capture the spirit of the season, this is a rare Christmas album that doesn't feel like it needs to be kept on the shelf between New Year's and Thanksgiving. With stellar support from longtime musical partners Jon Carroll (piano) and co-producer John Jennings (guitars), Mary Chapin's voice goes down as warmly as hot cider on a cold winter's night.
1. "Once in Royal David's City" Cecil Frances Alexander, Henry John Gauntlett 3:24
2. "Hot Buttered Rum" Tommy Thompson 3:29
3. "Still, Still, Still" Traditional 3:28
4. "On a Quiet Christmas Morn" Robin and Linda Williams 3:52
5. "Come Darkness, Come Light" Mary Chapin Carpenter 4:01
6. "Christmas Time in the City" Carpenter, John Jennings 3:23
7. "Candlelight Carol" John Rutter 4:00
8. "The Longest Night of the Year" Carpenter 3:34
9. "Thanksgiving Song" Carpenter 2:52
10. "Bells Are Ringing" Carpenter, Jennings 3:34
11. "Christmas Carol" Carpenter 5:11
12. "Children, Go Where I Send Thee" Traditional 8:07
Dennie
Well-Known Member
Today's work truck music....
Endlessly -- CD
Duffy
2010 Mercury/Polydor UK
The young Welsh song belter who calls herself Duffy is certainly bored with being compared to her damaged stylistic older sister, Amy Winehouse, and her spitting-image spiritual mom, Dusty Springfield. So here’s a new one: Johnny Mathis. Like romantic pop’s velvet balladeer, Duffy has a vocal tone like meringue, delicious to some and cloying to others. And like Mathis, she’s an individualist hiding within a musical subgenre that favors convention.
On “Endlessly,” her follow-up to her worldwide hit debut “Rockferry,” Duffy tries several different ways to celebrate her unique talents without abandoning the vintage settings that won her such acclaim. She parted with her retro-soul guru, the 40-year-old post-punk Bernard Butler, to collaborate with the 66-year-old veteran producer Albert Hammond, who had most of his hits (huge ones, like the Hollies’ “The Air That I Breathe”) in the 1970s.
True to that era’s freewheeling attitude, Hammond gives Duffy room to experiment, and the results are, not surprisingly, mixed. The lead single, “Well Well Well,” is a reggae-tinged rocker with the Roots laying down the groove; it could easily fit on Neneh Cherry’s 1989 classic “Raw Like Sushi.” Other tracks invoke Kylie Minogue — the Aussie goddess might be tempted to cover the dance-pop show tune “Lovestruck.” Duffy also returns to "Rockferry’s" Northern soul on the epic tearjerker “Too Hurt Tto Dance,” which joins the honor roll of songs about how listening to music can make things worse.
Despite these high points, though, “Endlessly” has some problems. Duffy has said she wrote the songs in a mere three weeks, and it shows. There’s nothing wrong with a well-deployed cliché, but on some songs here Duffy either just doesn’t do much with the language (her lover’s taking her breath away, neat!) or bungles it (“You hit me like lightning through the eyes”? Ouch!). And though it must have been fun to rewrite Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach,” it hardly fulfilled a burning cultural need.
These pitfalls, along with some of the more artistically successful risks Duffy and Hammond take, mean that “Endlessly” will likely not achieve the massive success of “Rockferry.” That’s OK — to summon a cliché Duffy could use as the basis for a winning song, it’s a growing process. She did her obvious predecessors proud on “Rockferry”; now she’s working toward doing the same for herself.
— Ann Powers
1. "My Boy" 3:27
2. "Too Hurt to Dance" 3:15
3. "Keeping My Baby" 2:49
4. "Well, Well, Well" 2:45
5. "Don't Forsake Me" 4:01
6. "Endlessly" 2:59
7. "Breath Away" 4:12
8. "Lovestruck" 2:52
9. "Girl" 2:26
10. "Hard for the Heart" 4:57
Endlessly -- CD
Duffy
2010 Mercury/Polydor UK
The young Welsh song belter who calls herself Duffy is certainly bored with being compared to her damaged stylistic older sister, Amy Winehouse, and her spitting-image spiritual mom, Dusty Springfield. So here’s a new one: Johnny Mathis. Like romantic pop’s velvet balladeer, Duffy has a vocal tone like meringue, delicious to some and cloying to others. And like Mathis, she’s an individualist hiding within a musical subgenre that favors convention.
On “Endlessly,” her follow-up to her worldwide hit debut “Rockferry,” Duffy tries several different ways to celebrate her unique talents without abandoning the vintage settings that won her such acclaim. She parted with her retro-soul guru, the 40-year-old post-punk Bernard Butler, to collaborate with the 66-year-old veteran producer Albert Hammond, who had most of his hits (huge ones, like the Hollies’ “The Air That I Breathe”) in the 1970s.
True to that era’s freewheeling attitude, Hammond gives Duffy room to experiment, and the results are, not surprisingly, mixed. The lead single, “Well Well Well,” is a reggae-tinged rocker with the Roots laying down the groove; it could easily fit on Neneh Cherry’s 1989 classic “Raw Like Sushi.” Other tracks invoke Kylie Minogue — the Aussie goddess might be tempted to cover the dance-pop show tune “Lovestruck.” Duffy also returns to "Rockferry’s" Northern soul on the epic tearjerker “Too Hurt Tto Dance,” which joins the honor roll of songs about how listening to music can make things worse.
Despite these high points, though, “Endlessly” has some problems. Duffy has said she wrote the songs in a mere three weeks, and it shows. There’s nothing wrong with a well-deployed cliché, but on some songs here Duffy either just doesn’t do much with the language (her lover’s taking her breath away, neat!) or bungles it (“You hit me like lightning through the eyes”? Ouch!). And though it must have been fun to rewrite Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach,” it hardly fulfilled a burning cultural need.
These pitfalls, along with some of the more artistically successful risks Duffy and Hammond take, mean that “Endlessly” will likely not achieve the massive success of “Rockferry.” That’s OK — to summon a cliché Duffy could use as the basis for a winning song, it’s a growing process. She did her obvious predecessors proud on “Rockferry”; now she’s working toward doing the same for herself.
— Ann Powers
1. "My Boy" 3:27
2. "Too Hurt to Dance" 3:15
3. "Keeping My Baby" 2:49
4. "Well, Well, Well" 2:45
5. "Don't Forsake Me" 4:01
6. "Endlessly" 2:59
7. "Breath Away" 4:12
8. "Lovestruck" 2:52
9. "Girl" 2:26
10. "Hard for the Heart" 4:57
Dennie
Well-Known Member
Old Ways -- 24k Gold OMR CD
Neil Young
1985 Geffen/MoFi
Amazon.com
Neil Young's most dependable route has always been to head for the back roads. Country-flavored releases Harvest (1972), Comes a Time ('78), Harvest Moon ('92), and Silver & Gold ('00) are among the most commercially popular titles in a fitful career, which makes Old Ways something of a anomaly. Released in 1985 as the mid-title in a misbegotten five-LP stint with Geffen, it failed to exhibit the kind of roughhewn muscle of its more robust country cousins. With Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson making vocal contributions and a mix of longtime Young sidemen and Nashville cats laying down a bed of fiddles, steel guitar, and banjo, it would seem to be cruising right up Music City's main drag of the mid-'80s. But Young being Young, he goes around the bend with "Misfits," which summons an indelible image of space-station astronauts watching reruns of Muhammad Ali fights. It happens to be the most memorable number on Old Ways, which perhaps explains why those new fans never showed up and the old ones found other things to do for awhile. --Steven Stolder
Side one
1. "The Wayward Wind" – (Herb Newman, Stanley Lebowsky) 3:12
2. "Get Back to the Country" – 2:50
3. "Are There Any More Real Cowboys?" – 3:03
4. "Once an Angel" – 3:55
5. "Misfits" – 5:07
Side two
1. "California Sunset" – 2:56
2. "Old Ways" – 3:08
3. "My Boy" – 3:37
4. "Bound for Glory" – 5:48
5. "Where Is the Highway Tonight?" – 3:02