What Are You Listening To?

[Thraak]

[video=youtube;QooCN5JbOkU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QooCN5JbOkU[/video]

Amazing, beautiful, breathtaking, relaxing, timeless or instrumental. Words simply cannot describe this song.
It's truly incredible what one man, namely Peter Green, and his guitar can do to a listener.

[JazzyRandy]

Got in two Jazz albums this morning:
Myron Walden Countryfied 2010 and Christian Scott Yesterday You Said Tomorrow 2010

Since its release earlier this year, the latter has received effusive praise from Jazz reviewers. I don't hear it yet, but I hear enough good things to keep listening. It's just that the songs that don't get me going really turn me off. This is distinctly post-bop and not as peppy as Blue Note 60s jazz, lacking a certain melodic glue that keeps less sophisticated listeners (like me) engaged. Sometimes, I think any jazz with a guitar included induces some Jazz reviewers to increase their ratings. But I digress...

Countryfied is simply a good time listen. This one grabbed me right away and kept up the getting. Walden says this is his tribute to the sound of the south of his youth, and it sounds like it. Think groovy jazz with hints of James Brown, rockabilly/country, and good times; the liner notes refer to "roots music". Very enjoyable and very likely to get played a lot around my ears.

[JazzyRandy]

Nathan Eklund Trip To The Casbah 2009

Houston, we have found the sweet spot. This is very good stuff, a pianoless quintet with trumpet/sax/guitar leading the way. While Eklund is not the most explosive blower or electric soloist, he once again proves that crafting creative & engaging compositions more than makes up for those deficits ("deficits" isn't really the correct term, because Eklund is a more than capable blower.) It's very easy to listen to his albums. And very easy to like them.

[Tiggi]

2-disc comp from vocal-harmony revivalists.

Not all of this material is Jazz, but there is a Jazz thread running through most of it. They also manage some Doo-Wop, and a few more contemporary songs.

The harmonies are tight, and this album is never less than classy.

[Thraak]

[video=youtube;nMb6_cC4G0o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMb6_cC4G0o[/video]

Great 80s track from this achingly brilliant, unsung master of the guitar that is the late Rory Gallagher.

Just found this on youtube. Apparantley German cover band of Gallagher playing the same song. Only reason I posted this is because of the distinct similarity that the lead singer/guitarist has in terms of looks AND voice! It's uncanny!

[video=youtube;2KQfAkdsiQ0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KQfAkdsiQ0[/video]

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



This is probably the guy that turned me onto blues. Not that I didn't appreciate the art, just that before him I thought of it as a boat I had missed with nothing new to offer. Then I picked up Johnny's second album, Progressive Blues Experiment. It blew me away. This is his first, which is almost as good. Johnny just took it to another level. Not traditional blues as the purists would point out, although he could certainly do that. Rock 'n Blues I would call it. He could make that axe talk. Just watch track #2. Also an excellent live clip with Dr. John on #4. Never did get to ask Beach how he felt about Johnny. Sure hope he appreciated him as much as me. Johnny would never make it to the mainstream. To his credit I'm sure.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - When You Got A Good Friend

Best Track - I'm Yours And I'm Hers

I'm yours and I'm hers
You know I'm yours and I'm hers
Somebody else's too, oh yeah
You know I'm yours and I'm hers
Somebody else's too

You know I'm two-times seven mamas, ah
Do just what I wanna do
Let me, baby, let me squeeze her
Well man, I'm lost uptown
Let me, let me squeeze her

Well man, I'm lost uptown
(I wanna squeeze my baby)
'Cause you know I'm a stranger
I wanna know what's going down
Want to take you with me

Want you-all to understand
Ah, this mama, gonna tell ya, mama
Want you-all to understand
You know I can love you, mama
Better than your steady man

1) I'm Yours And I'm Hers - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30mpfUlYO0A
2) Be Careful With A Fool - ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tyg5SJDpiQ
3) Dallas - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjcOSmmTTiE
4) Mean Mistreater - **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB3sBNdFuGk
5) Leland Mississippi Blues - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT2XLcGlars
6) Good Morning Little School Girl - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anud7Su_yYs
7) When You Got A Good Friend - **
8) I'll Drown In My Own Tears - **
9) Back Door Friend - **

3's - 4
2's - 5
1's - 0

Grade - 2.4

[Tiggi]

^ I haven't heard any JW apart from Frankenstein, but can recommend the Muddy Waters studio album Hard Again, which Winter organised, produced, and played on. Messy, but wonderful Blues.

[Tiggi]

The King of Big-Band Swing.

All of these tunes were recorded under the shadow of WWII, so optimism is the key. Romantic songs, or good-time dance tunes make up the vast majority, and when the emphasis turns to the Army Air Force Band, with GM becoming part of the US war machine, even more so.

The standard of these recordings is remarkable, given that they are all at least 65 years old...

[Music Head]

^ I haven't heard any JW apart from Frankenstein, but can recommend the Muddy Waters studio album Hard Again, which Winter organised, produced, and played on. Messy, but wonderful Blues.

You're confusing Johnny with his brother Edgar, who was behind Frankenstein.
Even though Edgar appears on some of Johnny's albums, haven't known of the reverse.
Their styles are quite different.

[Tiggi]

You're confusing Johnny with his brother Edgar, who was behind Frankenstein.
Even though Edgar appears on some of Johnny's albums, haven't known of the reverse.
Their styles are quite different.

Silly me !!

For some reason I didn't even consider that it was Edgar behind Frankenstein. It's definitely Johnny with Muddy Waters.