So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[kinuta]

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, kinuta said:

Easily one of the 10 best Southern Soul albums ever .... and the bonus track enriched Kent CD release received truly superb remastering ....

[kinuta]

Easily one of the 10 best Southern Soul albums ever .... and the bonus track enriched Kent CD release received truly superb remastering ....

 

What do you think the other nine are ?

Now

[BillF]

[aparxa]

 Abdullah Ibrahim ‎– Water From An Ancient Well

 Zélia Barbosa ‎– Brésil (Sertão & Favelas)

RIP Zélia.

 

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, kinuta said:

Easily one of the 10 best Southern Soul albums ever .... and the bonus track enriched Kent CD release received truly superb remastering ....

 

What do you think the other nine are ?

Dear "kinuta", usually I would answer

and eight others  .... these both are head and shoulders above everything else in Southern Soul album format - still after all these years its stunning to me that there is virtually not a single weak track  ..... but furthermore these platters (IMO) should be eligible (in no particular order):

And on the brink .... :

Left out Aretha Franklin`s 60`s/early 70`s Atlantic euvre (only partially Southern Soul) and artists with superb individual 45`s but inconsistent albums (Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave etc) .....

What are your favorite Southern Soul LP`s ?

Edited November 18, 2017 by soulpope

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[aparxa]

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[Niko]

glimpses of Rene Thomas, first in half of the tracks here

Relaxez-vous avec Jack Dieval and son quartette

and then as an unlikely "lead-guitarist" behind a spanish singer-songwriter here

 

 

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[paul secor]

Coleman Hawkins: Bean Stalkin'

[soulpope]

[ghost of miles]

[JohnS]

[Berthold]

Count Basie The Clef & Verve Records 1

[sidewinder]

That viewpoint looks suspiciously like Seal Beach.

Edited November 18, 2017 by sidewinder

[soulpope]

[jazzbo]

This time I'm listening to the Blu-Spec CD2. Miles Davis, "E.S.P." Some of my favorite music, period.

[JSngry]

Just another "modern" piano trio album, this time produced for the Japanese market. I't not at all bad, it's just not what I'd want to hear from this group of people, more standards more often, yuck.

People need to stop liking this type of shit unless it's truly awesome, which it very seldom is. This is basically whore jazz, doing it for the paying customer whether or not you really feel it. And I don't use "whore" because these are women, most of these type records are made by men, and they too are whores. Whores gotta eat, so it's not them I blame. It's the people who put the money in a place where you gotta be a whore to go get it. That's you, audience.

I really like Francesca Tanksley and I can get into Cindy Blackman too, but this is, like, Anonymously Competent Chicks Playing Standards For Japanese Businesspeople, just not a healthy impetus, definitely not a healthy outcome. I mean, yeah, everything thing is "good", but is that the point?

Maybe everybody involved figured, hey, it's Japan, what happens in Japan stays in Japan, but OOOOOPS, apparently not!!

People, both Japanese and not, I beg of you, stop feeding this beast. This one is, like, 20+ years old, yet the beast is stronger than ever. It's because you feed it, so stop. Just stop.

 

[duaneiac]

[alankin]

King Crimson – Pforzheim Germany – Jahnhalle, 31 Mar 1974 [from the Starless box] (Discipline Global Mobile)
— David Cross, Robert Fripp, John Wetton, Bill Bruford

[Peter Friedman]

Disc 2