On Vinyl
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CD - Universal Music France 2000 : )
Stéphane Grappelli - violin
Oscar Peterson - piano
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - double bass
Kenny Clarke - drums
Recorded in Paris on 22nd and 23rd February 1973
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Splendid heart warming music on a wet dreary Sunday afternoon!
Grappelli is my artist of birthday regard today, he was involved in so many excellent collaborations it’s difficult to choose an album to play but here he is in fine form with good company. I’m looking forward to hearing more of his violin when my Django Reinhardt 2CD set arrives here tomorrow : )
Stephane Grappelli was born on this day in 1908
Stéphane Grappelli 1908-1997
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Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
Streaming on TIDAL… taking Donald out for a Sunday morning spin and he sounding mighty fine!
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Forsaking my usual Japanese vinyl copy of this for the edition that came out in A New Career In A New Town.
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Fink - Hard Believer
Streaming on NAS… continuing on this morning with this double CD set of Fink’s Hard Believer, it has not been out for a spin recently and it is sounding mighty fine!
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Gretchen Peters - The Secret Of Life
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As I’m working my way through the four Bowie boxes, playing the first album from each, it is with some trepidation that I approach Loving The Alien. Let’s Dance, the Dame’s most commercially successful album is far better than the records which followed it, but nowhere near as good as his 1970s work (and I include Pin Ups in that). The 1980s production has dated badly, and many of the songs – “Modern Love”, the title track, are just naff – but TBF “China Girl” and “Cat People” are both minor classics.
What makes Let’s Dance so hard to listen to now is hindsight, the knowledge that it was a foreshadowing of more than a decade of artistic bankruptcy. Of all the '60s/70s artists who fell from grace in the 1980s, Bowie fell furthest.
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Jack DeJohnnette & Bill Frisell - The elephant sleeps but still remembers
Jack DeJohnnette (drums, piano) and Bill Frisell (guitar, banjo).
Streaming on NAS… World class and drummer and guitarist get together and cut an album, maybe not everyone’s cup of tea but works for me, love them both and one sweet album!
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