Best track you heard all week

[JSngry]

And yes that is Milt Jackson, right?

Did not know this album, soon to be remedied.

[kinuta]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

And yes that is Milt Jackson, right?

Did not know this album, soon to be remedied.

Yes, it's Milt Jackson.

The backing is very '90-ish but the vocals are just majestic. I hadn't heard it until yesterday and thought it was a great album. They mess with the arrangements making the most hackneyed standards into something special.

[JSngry]

On ‎6‎/‎19‎/‎2017 at 8:00 PM, kinuta said:

 

The backing is very '90-ish but the vocals are just majestic. I hadn't heard it until yesterday and thought it was a great album. They mess with the arrangements making the most hackneyed standards into something special.

Listening to this album now...pretty radical, defiant music in the approach they take to the songs, revising the melodies and changes to fit their ethos. When everybody else was/is making "Great American songbook" retro-crap albums, the Temptations take the same type songs and make a Temptations album, period. As for the production, like him or not, Richard Perry is a master of doing what he does.

It's definitely a "For Lovers" record, but lord, nobody makes "for lovers" records like this anymore, nobody wants to have the patience for love, if you know what I mean. Everybody wants to just straight to the sweat and the bang and then call all that drama "love". This is music for people who know what "take your time" really means. Y'all are still out there, aren't you?

Special indeed!

[Brad]

Milt is great on this one, enjoyed this track.  However, for me "the" version is by Sinatra.  Can't think of this song without thinking of Frank. 

Edited June 21, 2017 by Brad

[JSngry]

All vocal arrangements by The Temptations.

Ok, I'm a sucker for this song damn near every time, melody, harmony, lyrics, but this is basically a magnificently enveloping transcendence of earthy bounds. Temptations doing it, layers upon layers, no matter where you listen, there is something going on, top, bottom, middle, everywhere. Hell yeah, Richard Perry and OH heel yeah, Temptations.

Gracias MUCH beaucoup to kinuta for spotlighting this record. Count me in, dude!

[jazzbo]

This week it's "Spanish Mary" from "Lost on the River: the New Basement Tapes"

[soulpope]

 

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[Cyril]

 

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Featuring the fantastic Charles Beverly ....

Edited July 28, 2017 by soulpope

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[HutchFan]

Ray Barretto's "Lucretia the Cat" from The Other Road (Fania, 1973)

Edited August 4, 2017 by HutchFan

[jeffcrom]

I'm going to cheat and list two, because I can't decide:

Louis Armstrong - I Double Dare You. Recorded in a period (1938) that's not supposed to be Armstrong's best - between his youthful triumphs and later superstardom. The casual brilliance of Armstrong's trumpet solo slays me every time - he doesn't sound like he's straining at all, but constructs a perfect 32 bars of spontaneous melody. And J.C. Higginbotham represents Social Circle, Georgia pretty well, too.

Miles Davis - Round Midnight, from In Person at the Blackhawk Complete.This track didn't even make the cut for the original albums, but of the scores of recordings Miles made of "Round Midnight," this might be my favorite - abstract, yet grounded, and seemingly deeply felt.

[Balladeer]

William Bolcom - The Graceful Ghost Rag
(played by Spencer Myer on William Bolcom: Piano Rags, Steinway & Sons)

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Edited August 14, 2017 by soulpope

[paul secor]

4 hours ago, soulpope said:

 

Nice one! Thanks for posting it.

[soulpope]

John „Rootman“ Henry "Who Am I" (Brownstown/Dig 7071) 1972 ..... excellent gritty singer, (IMO) bettering this (earlier) version :

 

[soulpope]

Jimmy Bo Horne „The Road Of Love (Dig D-905/Alston 4606) 1971

 

Edited August 15, 2017 by soulpope

[soulpope]

The Vibrations "Who`s Gonna Help Me Now" (Neptune N-19)         1969

Edited August 15, 2017 by soulpope

[soulpope]

Mel & Tim „That’s The Way I Want to Live My Life“ (Stax STN-0224) .... Prince Phillip Mitchell written track and Muscle Shoals Studios magic anno 1973 .....