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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #525 on: June 21, 2010, 01:09:35 AM »
Superlative live recording...really! and a delightful and unusual performance. Jane birkin "Arabesque" on capitol. Even if Jane birkin or french isn't your thing. BIG sound. Wish they all sounded this way.

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #526 on: June 21, 2010, 02:29:17 AM »
Tom, that Broadbent side looks hot. He is a hell of a player, and a really nice guy too, been around forever but always records with younger guys at their peak.

I have the Julia Fischer disc, she is always great. Her Brahms Concerto is big and powerful.

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #527 on: June 21, 2010, 05:38:05 PM »
Tom, that Broadbent side looks hot. He is a hell of a player, and a really nice guy too, been around forever but always records with younger guys at their peak.

The Broadbent disc is first class. I didn't realize that he has been around for so long, but is makes sense considering how tight he has the trio playing. Age and experience combine with raw young talent. Makes a nice combination
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #528 on: June 21, 2010, 05:42:50 PM »
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe




Why does any group of names that ends with Howe make me think of The Three Stooges? (Remember the door signs for the law firm of Dewey, Cheatum and Howe?)  :lmc:
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #529 on: June 21, 2010, 07:38:46 PM »
Mazz, Yes is one of my absolute favorites, although I can't listen to anything they did after 1984 without cringing.  Any of the incarnations: ABWH, Squire and White with the Russian dudes, the eleven member combined effort of "Union" and anything else they've done in the last 25 years (!) has left me completely flat. 

Only Bruford's recent work had done anything for me.  His band Earthworks explores jazz from a prog rock angle, without going through the painful machinations of the "Canterbury Sound" (ie National Health, Hatfield and the North, Gong, Egg, and, later, Brand X) Check out Bruford performing with his eponymous band in this video of "Footloose"  http://www.billbruford.com/Video/footlooseinnyc.wmv

The Yes Album, Fragile and Close to the Edge are masterpieces that still spin on my table and CD player on a regular basis.


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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #530 on: June 21, 2010, 08:59:29 PM »
Mazz, Yes is one of my absolute favorites,

Going to see the Yes/Peter Frampton show at Jones Beach this coming Sat. If you are in the NY Metro area there are still plenty of seats left. (They were selling them for $10 a piece at the Jethro Tull show two weeks ago.  :thumb: )
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #531 on: June 22, 2010, 08:38:41 PM »
Peter Paul & Mary: 10 Years Together



Another thrift shop find - Imported German Teldec pressing LP for 69 cents.  :thumb:
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #532 on: June 22, 2010, 08:40:42 PM »
Alan Broadbent: You and the Night and the Music

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #533 on: June 23, 2010, 05:52:19 AM »
I got that one... nice side   :thumb:

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #534 on: June 24, 2010, 08:26:10 PM »
Ella Fitzgerald/Oscar Peterson: Ella and Oscar

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #535 on: June 24, 2010, 08:28:34 PM »
Marian McPartland Trio: Personal Choice

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #536 on: June 24, 2010, 10:00:25 PM »
Brett Milano: Vinyl Junkies



Another book - This one more about people who collect records.

If we all read carefully I am sure we can find someone we know (or at least someone who behaves just like someone we know.  :lol: )
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #537 on: June 26, 2010, 10:17:39 PM »
A Decade of Steely Dan

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #538 on: June 27, 2010, 11:55:07 AM »
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass: The Brass is Back



Rob McConnell's Big Band Jazz on Umbrella records has been a long time audiophile standard, but this one left me cold. The horns were very shrill and in your face.  :(
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #539 on: June 27, 2010, 08:48:01 PM »
Bob James: Three



Bob James on CTI Records - before Columbia got their hands on him and "improved" his sound.
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