What are you listening to Part the Third

[mikeymad]

Holidays Around the World
Pentatonix
2022

https://album.link/i/1645380889

Example:

I thought that they ran out of Christmas albums. I was wrong, and I am happy about it. Not all a cappella songs.

[mikeymad]

50yo

Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
1972

https://album.link/i/1048472205

Example:

This is a killer set of Curtis cuts for your cool Christmas.

[swt61]

Excellent!

In a similar lane...

[Torpedo]

If you like jazz, you enjoy Ella Fitzgerald and want to have some fun, this is a must:

Just let her warm up. It's a pity the recording sound quality is not stellar.

[robm321]

vinyl

[mikeymad]

^ I cannot read that label very well. But I may have a version on Tidal to follow-along with. 

Conductor and Orchestra?

[jose]

It almost sounds ridiculous nowadays but in my neighborhood, these guys and Michael Jackson were the "hottest"

[robm321]

4 hours ago, mikeymad said:

^ I cannot read that label very well. But I may have a version on Tidal to follow-along with. 

Conductor and Orchestra?

The label is Westminster mono.

link to more info https://www.popsike.com/MOZART-PIANO-CONCERTO-K466K488-PAUL-BADURASKODA-WESTMINSTER-XWN-18225-MEX/122977170864.html

[mikeymad]

50yo

Young, Gifted and Black
Aretha Franklin
1972

https://album.link/i/934216863

Example:

Just a good album.

[jose]

[Torpedo]

This is one of those things that some people say that is jazz, or nu.jazz... whatever. I had to listen to it despite I didn't like their previous output, for it receiving accolades and making many "best of" lists.

The Comet is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam

 

If you like Ornette Coleman and such you might enjoy it.

[mikeymad]

^^ enjoyed.

50yo

Paul Simon
Paul Simon
1972

https://album.link/i/380588824

Example:

Well, not a great album. I really like Example track or course, but pretty thin beyond that. It does not seem that he found his solo voice until later on.

 

Edited December 28, 2022 by mikeymad

[Torpedo]

Vadim Neselovskyi - Odesa

Another jazz album that made the top 2022 lists and that I hadn't listened to. To me a lot more enjoyable than TCIC's one. This one is not classic jazz by any means, it's rather lyrical and has very interesting moments. The pianist is virtuosoborderline.

[robm321]

Not a fan of TCIC after listening to Hyper...

It just sounds like techno. I guess because they sample a sax, that makes it jazz? 

 

[mikeymad]

A Southern Gothic
Adia Victoria
2021

https://album.link/i/1578879750

Example:

Really enjoyed this album from Adia (new to me). Very well recorded and her signing techniques are top notch. I will have to listen again for content, and check out her other works.

 

[mikeymad]

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn
2014

https://album.link/i/1440952694

Example:

Lovely blend of clawhammer and bluegrass styles, along with Abigail's singing.

[mikeymad]

The Secret Piano
Alexis Ffrench
2009

https://album.link/i/342515423

Example:

Relaxing piano works for the end of the day. Man I listened to a lot of albums today. Many I didn't post because they were not worthy. But I liked Alexis' album, and also listened to his most recent stuff as well. This is a mood thing for me, and I was in the mood.

[Torpedo]

10 hours ago, robm321 said:

Not a fan of TCIC after listening to Hyper...

It just sounds like techno. I guess because they sample a sax, that makes it jazz? 

 

Well, I think it's not just because it's sampling a sax, but the sax is played fiercely and dissonantly  

[Torpedo]

IMHO and for my taste, this is a more interesting evolution of jazz

 

[Dusty Chalk]

8 hours ago, Torpedo said:

Well, I think it's not just because it's sampling a sax, but the sax is played fiercely and dissonantly  

[jose]

20 hours ago, Torpedo said:

Vadim Neselovskyi - Odesa

Another jazz album that made the top 2022 lists and that I hadn't listened to. To me a lot more enjoyable than TCIC's one. This one is not classic jazz by any means, it's rather lyrical and has very interesting moments. The pianist is virtuosoborderline.

^this^

[mikeymad]

8 hours ago, Torpedo said:

IMHO and for my taste, this is a more interesting evolution of jazz

 

^^ This was good. 

Now:

Carte Blanche
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
2021

https://album.link/i/1578540196

Example:

24 tracks in an hour 20! Lots of playing. Example is one of the fast works. I really appreciated the collection of pieces that I didn't know that well. Some I will explore a bit more. Good recording and performance. Don't know if I have heard Jean-Yves before or not but will check out catalog.

 

Edit:

Oh yeah, I remember looking like this (1990)

What's up with everyone getting older? Glad I don't 

Edited December 29, 2022 by mikeymad

[robm321]

23 hours ago, Torpedo said:

Vadim Neselovskyi - Odesa

Another jazz album that made the top 2022 lists and that I hadn't listened to. To me a lot more enjoyable than TCIC's one. This one is not classic jazz by any means, it's rather lyrical and has very interesting moments. The pianist is virtuosoborderline.

This too. Serious talent and very expressive. 

[mikeymad]

Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live (1994)

Apparently it's that time a year again when I have to watch this concert... Always breaths life into me. 

 

[Dusty Chalk]

As He Do