What are you listening to at the moment? One Post Per hour

[arco35]

Zoot Sims For Lady Day [1978] (Pablo, CD, 1991)



It is strange that this album was not released until the CD came out in 1990, for tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims and pianist Jimmy Rowles' tribute to Billie Holiday is melodic, tasteful, and largely memorable. Together with bassist George Mraz and drummer Jackie Williams back in 1978, they perform 11 songs associated with Holiday, including quite a few that would have been lost in obscurity if Lady Day had not uplifted them with her recordings. Highlights include "Easy Living," "Some Other Spring," "I Cried for You," "Body and Soul," and "You're My Thrill." A lyrical and heartfelt tribute. (AllMusic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh_y7OfQSyI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apAj5MNPr2w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJOKE6v2ke8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdXU9iP-bOA

[taffy2]

I can't stop playing this at the moment

Glassjaw – Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence, 2000, Hardcore, Roadrunner Records FLAC



http://youtu.be/Pa1FImQakRw Siberian Kiss + Full Album Embedded In Video

[arco35]

Yosuke Yamashita Sakura (Antilles, CD, 1990)



Yosuke Yamashita is one of the rare Japanese jazz musicians who is a household name in his native land. Despite his uncompromisingly avant-garde style, he is also one of the few to establish himself as a well-respected jazz pianist in Europe and the United States.

After riding the crest of the 1970s' free jazz movement, Yamashita has performed all over the world, releasing nearly 50 recordings and playing on countless others. Not content with Tokyo, he went to New York in the '80s and quickly became recognized for his powerful keyboard attack and innovative musical ideas.

Since then, he has toured and recorded in Europe, the United States and Japan, and shows no signs of letting up.

Yamashita's playing style is highly distinctive. At times, he plays the piano like a percussion instrument -- banging the keys with his forearms and hammering out fistfuls of passionate noise. In addition to free jazz, Yamashita -- who often plays with musicians who were not even born when he first gained attention -- is one of the few jazz musicians to incorporate Japanese elements into his music, with a deep feeling for improvising while respecting the original forms.

From the release of 1990's "Sakura," a wonderful modern jazz take on traditional Japanese melodies, to this year's "Ken-Kon" DVD with taiko drum master Eitetsu Hayashi, the blending of cross-cultural elements has been an important theme in his work.

If he is proud of all this, it doesn't show. Dressed in his trademark white shirt and brightly colored vest, Yamashita has a disarmingly humble manner. He was happy to chat away after sinking into the chair of a coffee shop in Shibuya's Cerulean Tower complex, downstairs from jazz club JZ Brat, where he would be performing that evening with a group of twentysomething musicians. (Japan Times)

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnFLOwGoc0

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qQFuHoOICo

[taffy2]

Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us, 2011, Metal, Seasons Of Mist FLAC



http://youtu.be/BEEyru3_u5Y Soulcarvers

http://youtu.be/81mliZ2rIRA Grain

http://youtu.be/u1MKBXGpsQ4 Breakwater

http://youtu.be/CmeEwMGcbt8 Torn

http://youtu.be/8ZlTIA6Ghz8 In The Woods

[arco35]

Albinoni 12 Concertos, Op.9 [Academy of Ancient Music, Hogwood] (DECCA, 2CD, 1999)



For consistently amiable, if undemanding entertainment, Albinoni's concertos, with or without oboe, or oboes, are hard to beat. Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music here perform the 12 concertos contained in the collection published in 1722 as the composer's Op. 9. Neither the formal content nor the musical style differs significantly from Albinoni's earlier collection, Op. 7(1715); each set includes four concertos for strings, four for strings with oboe and four for strings with two oboes. In the Op. 9 set, though, greater emphasis is placed on solo violin in the allstring pieces.

I seem never to tire of these endlessly charming works and it is this set that perhaps contains Albinoni's crowning achievement in the concerto sphere, a lyrical Adagio for solo oboe with a simple string arpeggio accompaniment belonging to the Second Concerto. Its wistful, undulating melody lingers forever in the memory, outclassing in every conceivable respect the spurious 0 minor Adagio, which persists like a virus, but upon which, paradoxically, Albinoni's reputation during the second half of the twentieth century has largely been established. There are many delightful slow movements in this set, but also some irresistibly sprightly ones. These belong mainly to the pieces for two oboes, the Third and Sixth Concertos of the set providing spirited examples.

None of this is lost either on the three accomplished soloists Andrew Manze, Frank de Bruine and Alfredo Bernardini - or the strings of the Academy of Ancient Music which provide lively and sensitive support. In short, the set affords uninterrupted pleasure from start to finish. (Gramophone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n54RwxZick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KoWIpuPoyE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muxu-Ul6SNU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaH0oR7YAgc

[taffy2]

Gentlemans Pistols - At Her Majesty's Pleasure, 2011 HARD ROCK, Rise Above Records FLAC



All the tracks on the album:-

http://youtu.be/UsMNv279BBQ Living In Sin Again

http://youtu.be/lCp7okb9JXE Comfortably Crazy

http://youtu.be/f4fl2RNjuUs Midnight Crawler

http://youtu.be/zESX_FES3ZY Some Girls Don't Know

http://youtu.be/0yVuBIwQh-M Your Majesty

http://youtu.be/24ud-olC8UM Into The Haze

http://youtu.be/6P3Ve84Tr1c I Wouldn't Let You

http://youtu.be/iXJyZpiy_2Y The Ravisher

http://youtu.be/qQodAk4FH7w Sherman Tank

http://youtu.be/GRcJtOWUX8E Peeping Tom (Live)

http://youtu.be/Y7VWbpmedQw Feed Me To The Lions (Live)

http://youtu.be/mPPeVturckE Lethal Woman

[Jason-X]

Arch / Matheos ~ Sympathetic Resonance (2011 Metal Blade Records)

Cheers!
Jason

[tonil]

Oscar Peterson - Wave
From the 1974 live album The Good Life,
with Joe Pass and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen.

[krixxx]

a box of 11 LPs with all 32 piano sonatas written by Beethoven.
Played by Friedrich Gulda. Still my favorite recording, and I know quite a few.

Tonight I treat myself to Sonata no. 21 in C, op. 53, "Waldstein".






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3nnYGPZlp0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90QxX-ciajE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPm8JRqoSUA

[Decadence]

Paul Butterfield Blues Band





1965 self-titled debut LP.



RIP Paul Butterfield (1942-1987)