What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested?

ewemon · October 28, 2019, 6:46am

Shame he isn’t more well known. Some great albums.

Polarbear · October 28, 2019, 8:45am

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Christopher_M · October 28, 2019, 10:07am

Start The Week on R4. Englishness (or possibly more accurately, London Englishness) through the eyes of painters Hogarth, Freud and Humphrey Ocean. Introduced by Andrew Marr. A very enjoyable stretch.

anon4489532 · October 28, 2019, 10:07am

Such joyful music, brilliantly performed.

Clive · October 28, 2019, 10:14am

Eric Dolphy - Last Date

Recorded just four weeks before his death for VARA radio station, Hilversum, on 2 June 1964 with Misja Mengelberg’s quartet; Dolphy changed places with the regular alto player, Piet Noordijk.
Dolphy - Flute, bass clarinet, alto saxophone
Mengelberg - Piano
Jacques Schols - Bass
Han Bennink - Drums

This is an astonishing album. Dolphy’s flute solo in ‘You Don’t Know What Love Is’ is truly sublime. The sound is excellent.

markah · October 28, 2019, 11:15am

Neil Cowley Trio - Spacebound Apes

Nigel_66 · October 28, 2019, 11:20am

Have been listening to this Bille Eilish CD for the last couple of weeks (not exclusively!) and have grown to really appreciate it. For someone so young (just 17) she is very talented.

Nigel_66 · October 28, 2019, 11:22am

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ToddHarris · October 28, 2019, 12:36pm

Arranged for String Quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853)
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markah · October 28, 2019, 12:47pm

Probably my favourite Simply Red album, not least because it takes me back to 1989 which was a great year for me on so many fronts. I remember going to see them that year at The Ritz in New York when the sound system failed. While it was being fixed he burst into a spontaneous rendition of Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay on his own without a microphone and it was quite wonderful.

Redkev · October 28, 2019, 12:56pm

Ezra Furman - Day Of The Dog

seakayaker · October 28, 2019, 12:58pm

Now playing…

Skipinnish - The Seventh Wave

Streaming on TIDAL… kicking off Monday morning with Skipinnish’s ‘The Seventh Wave.’ The band was mentioned a few days ago and I had place a couple of albums in the TIDAL queue and now taking one out for a spin. The opening track ‘Alive’ which has the beat and the lyrics which seems appropriate for this dark cold morning to get my arse in gear. Sounding mighty fine this morning

Clive · October 28, 2019, 1:02pm

Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff

Fancied some ear stretching music over lunch and this certainly meets the expectations. But it’s also exceptionally well recorded, with all instruments sounding like real instruments.