So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

New Sony budget reissue 2 cd set that features 2014 DSD remastering. Sound is very good.

 

Edited June 28, 2017 by jazzbo

[erwbol]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

New Sony budget reissue 2 cd set that features 2014 DSD remastering. Sound is very good.

 

[jazzbo]

The new SHM-CD from Warner Japan. Boy is this beautiful music. . . and well remastered.

[rostasi]

Reliving my childhood in 8 CDs...

[Cyril]

 

[Brad]

[rostasi]

Now listening to a shuffle of 1735 Bandcamp tunes on a new Sonos speaker.

NP: Guy Buttery - Fox Hill Lane

[Kate]

I'm a woman, I know my stuff
I'm a woman, I ain't never had enough
I'm going down yonder, behind the sun
I'm gonna do something for you, that ain't never been done
I'm gonna hold back the lightning, with the palm of my hand
Shake hands with the devil, make him crawl in the sand
 

As a tie-dyed-in-the-wool Deadhead it shakes me to the core to confess that, in a house fire, I'd grab my nascent electric blues collection before even considering 5/9, 2/14, 5/15, or anything Spring 72 (though I'll risk 3rd degree burns to grab the '69 Fillmore West material).  Why the hell doesn't anyone talk about this stuff?  Oh yeah, on order from Amazon...

Jr.K:  Sad Days; God Knows; Most Things; Better Run....Junior is like the VU & Meat Puppets:  never heard anything like 'em (I like the critical description of "surreal and otherworldly")

Hound Dog:  Boogie, Genuine, Beware

Anyone else anticipating, or already received, the first release of Bear's Sonic Journals, the Doc & Merle Watson box?  Should arrive here tomorrow!  WOOT!

 

 

 

Edited June 29, 2017 by Kate

[EKE BBB]

Rex Stewart - Rendezvous With Rex (Felsted, 1958)

from the Complete Felsted Mainstream Collection on Solar Records.

[BillF]

[EKE BBB]

Dicky Wells - Bones For The King (Felsted, 1958)

Edited June 29, 2017 by EKE BBB

[EKE BBB]

Dicky Wells - Trombone Four-In-Hand (Felsted, 1959)

[paul secor]

6 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Rex Stewart - Rendezvous With Rex (Felsted, 1958)

from the Complete Felsted Mainstream Collection on Solar Records.

 

5 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Dicky Wells - Bones For The King (Felsted, 1958)

 

4 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Dicky Wells - Trombone Four-In-Hand (Felsted, 1959)

[EKE BBB]

1 hour ago, paul secor said:

 

 

Six more to come, for a total of 9 Felsted mainstream albums from 1958-59. Very enjoyable stuff!!!

[Cyril]

2 CD

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BillF]

[JohnS]

[jlhoots]

2 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Six more to come, for a total of 9 Felsted mainstream albums from 1958-59. Very enjoyable stuff!!!

My favorite of those is The High & Mighty Hawk!!

[HutchFan]

Abdullah Ibrahim Orchestra - African Space Program (Enja)
Adbullah Ibrahim [Dollar Brand] (p); Carlos Ward (as, fl); Sonny Fortune (as, fl); John Stubblefield (ts); Roland Alexander (ts, harmonium); Hamiet Bluiett (bs); Cecil Bridgewater (tr); Charles Sullivan (tr); Enrico Rava (tr); Kiane Zawadi (tb); Cecil McBee (b); Roy Brooks (d, perc) / Recorded 1973

Brilliant!!!  (I only wish the quality of the recorded sound were better.)

 

The original LP cover is more evocative than the reissue:

Edited June 29, 2017 by HutchFan

[EKE BBB]

The Earl Hines Quartet  / The Cozy Cole Septet ‎– Earl's Backroom / Cozy's Caravan (Felsted, 1958)

[alankin]

Santana – Moonflower (Columbia/Legacy)

Personnel:
Greg Walker – vocals; Carlos Santana – guitar, vocals, percussion; Tom Coster – keyboards; Pablo Tellez – bass, vocals (live tracks); David Margen – bass (studio tracks); Graham Lear – drums; Raul Rekow – percussion; José "Chepito" Areas – percussion (live tracks); Pete Escovedo – percussion (studio tracks).

A mixture of live tracks from their Dec. 1976 tour in Europe and 1977 studio tracks.  Originally a 2-LP set; the CD issue has 3 bonus singles versions.
 

Edited June 29, 2017 by alankin

[EKE BBB]

2 hours ago, jlhoots said:

My favorite of those is The High & Mighty Hawk!!

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Tineke Postma - The Traveller (T2 Entertainment, 2009).  Tineke Postma - alto, soprano sax; Geri Allen - piano; Scott Colley - bass; Terri Lyne Carrington - drums; Anne Chris - vocals (1,5,9). 

[Kate]

Given that I'm partial to physical media, I've an old $15 iTunes gift card that's been moulding in a desk drawer's dark corner; however, while trawling through blues' selections I discovered this apparent digital exclusive (as I couldn't find a cd counterpart at the regular spots).  At $12, it's a pretty impressive 130 song collection, including multiple recordings from Lead Belly, Miss.John Williams, Robert J., Blind Willie, Lemon, et al.

 

Early on I encountered "Canned Heat Blues" (I just realized the songs are organized alphabetically) and thought, 'couldn't be', but sure enough a quick check of wiki revealed the namesource of my beloved blues rockers:  "Canned Heat is an American rock band formed in L.A. in 1965. The group has been noted for its interpretations of blues material and for its efforts to promote interest in this type of music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 'Canned Heat Blues', a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called 'canned heat'".

This reminds me of a story told by my grandfather regarding his time in boot camp ages ago when the more desperate alcoholics, facing a period of militarily enforced prohibition, turned to drinking aftershave.  Oi! 

[John Tapscott]