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[james]

i have been loving these two albums...one new and one old:

Ben Goldberg & Michael Coleman - Practitioner (BAG)





edit: also Brotzman/Leigh - Sex Tape. i'd given it a superficial listen but on the big stereo at home with proper attention, that album kills me

[Steve Minkin]

Big Star -- #1 Record / Radio City




David Tudor -- Rainforest #1 & #4




Henry Threadgill -- Too Much Sugar for a Dime




The Okeh Ellington




Rudens Turku -- Sweet Remembrance (Brahms, Mussorgsky, Paganini, etc.)




Radiohead -- OK Computer




Johnny Ace Memorial Album

[Steve Minkin]

Bernado/Rinaudo/Mayot -- Ikui Doki (Wonderful chamber jazz! Bassoon, harp, sax, clarinet . . .)




Andy Statman -- Superstring Theory




Big Star -- Third (Sister Lover)






Beethoven -- Eroica/ Egmont (von Karajan)/ Complete Overtures (Masur)/ Dances (Marriner)/ Razumovsy Quartets (Budapest)




Dinah Washington -- Dinah Jams




Johnny Burnette -- Dreamin'

[Steve Minkin]

Rachid Taha -- Diwan





Beethoven -- String Quartets 10 & 11 (Tokyo)/ Late String Quartets (Emerson)




Keith Tippett -- Dartington Concert




Rob Burger -- Lost Photograph




v/a -- Rough Guide To Sufi Music




Doris Day -- Golden Girl (Columbia recordings)

[Wombatz]

Beethoven -- String Quartets 10 & 11 (Tokyo)/ Late String Quartets (Emerson)

i see what they did there (groan):

[Steve Minkin]

i see what they did there (groan):

In what world is the Grosse Fuge an old chestnut? I didn't get the picture until you got it, and now that I got it I don't get it.




Osvaldo Golijov -- La Pasion Segun San Marcos (Fascinating, at least first time through! Looking forward to watching the DVD that comes with it.)




Nancy Wilson/ Cannonball Adderley (R.I.P., Nancy)





The Subdudes - Miracle Mule





Beethoven -- Bagatelles And Dances, Vol. 1 & 3 (Jando)




Alkan/ Boely/ Brahms/ Liszt/ Schumann -- Piano Pedalier (Latry)




The Essential Perry Como

[Steve Minkin]

Bach -- Christmas Oratorio




v/a -- A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector




Osvaldo Golijov -- The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (Kronos 4tet)




The Treniers




The Best of Patience and Prudence




Ramblin' Jack Elliott - I Stand Alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOece0HtDXk

[Steve Minkin]

v/a -- Friends of Old Time Music: The Folk Arrival 1961 - 1965




Esa Pekka Salonen -- Wing on Wing (Finnish)






Astor Piazzolla -- Songs From A Heavy Heart/ Libertango/ Summit (with Mulligan)




Carlos Gardel -- 100 Anos

[negative potential]

Here's a neat little obscurity; CD reissue of an LP originally issued on the East German "Eterna" label. Roswitha Trexler and John Tilbury doing Second Viennese School Lieder. Tilbury is on piano for the Berg and Schoenberg pieces, Rolf-Dieter Arens is on the Webern ones:

[Steve Minkin]

Jon Hassell - Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)




Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia




Little Willie John -- Fever: The Best of . . . (King)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BG5iieikQI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-qksQ-VKa0

[Steve Minkin]

Vashti Bunyan -- Just Another Diamond Day






Simon Nabatov -- Monk 'n' More/ perpetuum immobile/ Nature Morte




Berne/ Ducret/ Rainey -- Big Satan




Brooks & Dunn -- Greatest Hits

[Steve Minkin]

Trapist -- Highway My Friend




Howlin' Wolf -- His Best




Oliver Lake -- All Decks




Gato Barbieri -- In Search Of The Mystery




William Walton -- Henry V (Marriner/ Plummer)




Dylan -- Blood On The Tracks (slowly coming around to thinking that this is on a par with his best work in the 60s)




v/a -- NOW #69




Quicksilver Messenger Service -- The Best of . . . (Only Country Joe and the Fish opened more shows at the Fillmore and Avalon back in the day.)

Pride of Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBDL4NTO_Qg

[Steve Minkin]

Sun Ra -- God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be (first CD release last year, most conventional instrumentation of any of Sonny's albums, piano+bass+drums)




Anouar Brahem -- Blue Maqams




Kacey Musgraves -- Golden Houre

Velvet Elvis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsOe_K3UR0M




Kaleidoscope -- Beacon From Mars and Other Psychedelic Side Trips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WylDLoL_lzI




Michel Godard -- Castel Del Monte




Buddy Emmons -- Steel Guitar




Best of The Blind Boys




Santana -- Supernatural

[joseghast]

Going back to Free Jazz over here:

[Steve Minkin]

Golijov -- Yiddishbbuk (Stronger reading of The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind than the Kronos 4tet disc, screaming clarinet)




Keith Tippett -- Mujician I & II




Greg Kelley / Olivia Block -- Resolution





Liszt -- Piano Concertos (Arrau)/ Hungarian Dances (Cziffra)





Chico Trujillo -- Chico de Oro/ Gran Pecador

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZwINJCISus

[Steve Minkin]

Áine O'Dwyer/ Graham Lambkin ‎–- Green Ways (Unique!)




Paolo Angeli -- Sale Quanto Basta




Brothers Osborne -- Pawn Shop




Rowe/ Unami -- erstlive006




Anonymous -- 1000: A Mass For The End Of Time (Anonymous 4)




v/a -- Nashville Steel Guitar: 20 Greatest (too much Wiggins, not enough Leon, but some gems)






Mozart: Piano Sonatas (Horowitz)/ Clarinet Concerto/ Quintet (Thea King)

[Steve Minkin]

talk talk -- Natural History





Dave Burrell -- Windward Passages/ Expansion




Bob Moses -- Times Stood Still




The Don Shirley Trio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJb3HZsK7lg





George Enescu -- Romanian Rhapsody #1/ Suites #2&3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhcpN0l4s_s

[joseghast]

[james]

Playlist from work today and yesterday. Looking through iTunes for music i could concentrate over. Somehow ended up with mostly music from a period of my life 10 or so years ago.

Kemialliset Ystävät - Kellari Juniversumi


Kevin Drumm - The Gas Bill EP


Zaimph - Sexual Infinity


Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton - Black Vomit


Graveyards - Endings Five

Six Organs of Admittance - Days of Blood


Sun City Girls - Folk Songs Of The Rich & Evil


Leslie Keffer + Rodger Stella - Live @ No Fun Fest 2007

Harry Pussy - Ride a Dove


Daniel Higgs - Hymnprovisations for Banjo

[Steve Minkin]

Everly Brothers -- Songs Our Daddy Taught Us/ Roots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqCf4Ua4O5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLGlvwU-sVY




Toshimaru Nakamura/Sachiko M -- do




Kate Bush -- The Whole Story




Handel -- Overtures (Pinnock)




Ornette -- The Shape of Jazz To Come

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh8RrSUvLgU




Ralph Stanley -- Early Recordings




Stevie Ray Vaughan -- Very Best of . . .




v/a -- One Hit Wonders: Here Come The Guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXKUNa8Nuac