What are you listening to right now?

[Rob S.]

Sarah Vaughn- Vaughn with Voices  on vinyl, below average copy, but oh is her voice beautiful. 

Rob S.

[Barry (NJ)]

Everything But the Girl "Amplified Heart" CD

[Barry (NJ)]

Filter "Title of Record" CD

[Barry (NJ)]

Chevelle "Point #1" CD

[eleazar]

Bettie Serveert ~ Palomine

[richidoo]

[shadowlight]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

[shadowlight]

Blue Train - John Coltrane

[Barry (NJ)]

yello "the eye" CD

[eleazar]

Byran Ferry ~ The Bride Stripped Bare

  CD

[Barry (NJ)]

The Church "Gold Afternoon Fix" CD

[Barry (NJ)]

The Mission (UK) "Carved in Sand" CD

[Barry (NJ)]

Counting Crows "Across A Wire" CD

[Barry (NJ)]

Queens Of The Stone Age "Songs for the Deaf" CD

[allenzachary]

Grover Washington, Then & Now.

The only Grover album that is based in traditional jazz, rather than the soft quasi-jazz pablum that came to be known as smooth-jazz.  This album is smooth too, in that Grover Washington is an extraordinary saxophonist who has a true mastery over his instrument, but there is nothing pablum about it.  I believe this record was made for Grover himself and not for the commercial success that his records so often sought and achieved.  Helped by Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Tommy Flanagan and a crew of talented sidemen, Then & Now is warm and rich, melodic and dramatic and simply beautiful.  With the exception of electric bass, all of the instruments used are acoustic which helps create the traditional sound.  All around a beautiful record.  What a shame that it was the only one of its style that he recorded.

All time top ten favorite.