What are you listening to right now?

[tmazz]

Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Blvd.

  CD

[tmazz]

The Very Best of the Spinners

[AcidJazz]

5 albums that has been in constant rotation in the changer the past couple weeks...



A unique experience as far as free improvisation goes...Butch Morris stands alone with his method of "Conduction" in the moment. To catch him doing this live is something else, this is the next best thing.
http://www.amazon.com/Nublu-Orchestra-Conducted-Butch-Morris/dp/B000LPR50M

...The Nublu Orchestra is assembled from the multifaceted range of musicians that call Nublu home. Band-members from Brazilian Girls, Wax Poetic, Kudu, Forro in the Dark, I Led Three Lives, and Love Trio and regular Nublu guests Graham Haynes and Eddie Henderson all sit under the baton of Butch Morris, the inventor of Conduction�.

Conduction is Morris� vocabulary of ideographic signs and gestures activated to modify or construct a real-time musical arrangement or composition. An outstretched hand with an upward facing palm is a command to sustain. Fast, forward strikes of the baton are directives to make staccato sounds. There are a number of signals in his conductive language, and each one can be used to instigate or manipulate musicians� harmonies, melodies, rhythms, articulations, phrasings or forms that make up the spontaneous compositions....http://www.nublu.net/artists.php?artist=orchestra&page=bio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap0KSWMxqPQ

Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris

"Migration is an odyssey through a world imagined by Jean Felix Mailloux. By researching on ancient, Persian, Indian and Armenian music, and modal and improvised music, Jean Felix was able to absorb it to create this universe somewhere in between tradition and modernity, improvisation and written music.

For this project, the string trio Cordame is supported by Remi Giguere guitars and percussion by Ziya Tabassian and Pierre Tanguay."-Malasartes

http://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=12585

Cordame, migration



http://www.amazon.com/Saint-Saens-C-Concertos-Allegro-Appassionato/dp/B002VW3QGU/ref=tmm_msc_title_0

Saint-Saens, C.: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 And 2 / Suite In D Minor / Allegro Appassionato / The Swan




http://www.amazon.com/Dim-Sum/dp/B0019EF4A2
The Ying Quartet, dim sum



Fee disc included with BBC Music Magazine...
http://www.allmusic.com/album/debussy-ravel-piano-masterpieces-w262028

Debussy & Ravel piano masterpieces. Artur Pizarro, piano.

[tmazz]

Jane Monheit: In the Sun

  CD

[tmazz]

Jane Monheit: The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me

  CD

Jane Monheit: Surrender

  CD

I am posting these two albums together because they both leave me with the same feeling. Both are pushing Jane away from the Jazz world and more towards pop music. This surprises me because both were done for Concord records a label that has its roots firmly in the jazz world. the vocals are nice and the SQ is decent and if I had not heard her previous albums I might even have liked these more than I do. But this is just not the world that I think Monheit should be playing in.She has such great talent as a jazz singer, it seems a waste to have her singing elevator music (strings and all).

[tmazz]

Jane Monheit: Home

  CD

It's kind of funny, I worte the last post before going to amazon to get the pic for this one and finding the following quotes:

From the Artist:

"I wanted to return "Home" to doing what I love best," says Jane, "Getting back to my roots. For me, there's nothing like singing a jazz standard and giving it new life through one's own interpretation; bringing it to a new audience in a whole new and different light."

Product Description:

Los Angeles, California. "Home," Jane Monheit's eagerly anticipated new CD, is set for release by Emarcy/Universal Records on September 21st, 2010. An ode to the golden age of the jazz standard - the genre which Jane identifies with most - "Home" celebrates the treasured tracks of songwriters and lyricists past and present whom Monheit greatly admires including Rodgers and Hart and Schwartz & Dietz. A sumptuously sung passionate song cycle of 12 tunes self-produced by the modern-day jazz diva, "Home" is Monheit's tenth CD and will be accompanied by a world tour beginning in the Fall. Accompanying Monheit on "Home" are long-time Monheit band-members Michael Kanan (piano), Neal Miner on bass and Rick Montalbano on drums, who were joined on the CD by guest artists John Pizzarelli (vocals and guitar), Peter Eldridge (vocals), Frank Vignola (guitar), Joe Magnarelli (trumpet and flugelhorn), Mark O'Connor (violin) and Larry Goldings (piano).

It looks like I was not the only one who felt the pop world wasn't really the place for her. This album, her first for Emarcy Records plants both her feet squarely back in the jazz world where she belongs. Just some real kick-@ss small combo jazz. I think it is her best effort to date.

And you gotta love the Nassau library system. Among all the member libraries they have every one of her albums.  

[richidoo]

She's a great singer.

[Barry (NJ)]

"Comfort Eagle" Cake | Format: Audio CD

[richidoo]

on LP. I think this is my favorite Miles album.

[lonewolfny42]

Shawn Lee and Clutchy Hopkins - "Fascinating Fingers"     

[etcarroll]

That is CORRECT SIR! - Ed McMahon

on LP. I think this is my favorite Miles album.

[etcarroll]

The Cry of Love [Original recording]
Jimi Hendrix | Format: Vinyl

Lets see, new phono pre - check
aligned catridge and leveled table - check
inert MDF table by Eleazar for TT, and no rez under it - check
Mullards in pre amp - check
new ICs from phono pre to pre and pre to amp - check
LS6s on loan - check

shit eating grin in place - check

D - you may have to shoot me to get these speakers back.

[Barry (NJ)]

"10,000 Days" Tool | Format: Audio CD

[Barry (NJ)]

"The Essential Johnny Cash" [Limited Edition, Original Recording Remastered] Johnny Cash | Format: Audio CD

[Barry (NJ)]

"Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits" Frank Sinatra | Format: Audio CD