Richard and Linda Thompson - Pour Down Like Silver
CD.
Having Night comes in and Jet plane in a rocking chair as adjacent tracks is so sublime. Great album.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream.
One of the first albums I bought, in the first ten anyway.
Still stands up er… 40 something years on.
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Lou Reed - American Poet another release from the Transformer tour. This one from Boxing Day 1972.
(The recent release on Record Store Day is from 27th Jan 1973 at the Alice Tully Hall NY)
Lou returns to the city with a massive hit album and he’s never sounded so happy. Sound quality like the Alice Tully Hall recording is outstanding.
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No list of great female jazz singers would be complete without the divine Ms Lincoln, and this lovely Craft Recordings vinyl reissue:
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War - The World Is A Ghetto (Tidal Master)
Hey @TheKevster , I recall your getting the vinyl box set a while back, what’s it like pressing/SQ wise? Cheers
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Everybody Digs Bill Evans
I can’t help thinking of Erik Satie every time I hear Peace Piece.
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A bit of a Nathaniel Rateliff fest this afternoon -
Falling Faster Than I Can Run
Followed by
And It’s Still All Right
And to finish off after the solo offerings the rather excellent new release with the Night Sweats
The Future
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Camille O’Sullivan - Changeling
Blistering versions of Gillian Welch’s Time (The Revelator) and Bowie’s Lady Grinning Soul.
My favourite is her version of Nick Cave’s Brompton Oratory.
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LP - Atlantic 1976 reissue : )
Charles Mingus – bass
John Handy – alto saxophone
Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
Booker Ervin – tenor saxophone
Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Willie Dennis – trombone
Dannie Richmond – drums
Horace Parlan – piano, except for on “E’s Flat Ah’s Flat Too”
Mal Waldron – piano on “E’s Flat Ah’s Flat Too”
Recordings from Atlantic Studios, New York City. 1960
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Charles Mingus died on this day in 1979
By the mid-1970s, Mingus was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). His once formidable bass technique declined until he could no longer play the instrument. He continued composing, however, and supervised a number of recordings before his death. At the time of his death, he was working with Joni Mitchell on an album eventually titled ‘Mingus’, which included lyrics added by Mitchell to his compositions, including “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”. The album featured the talents of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and another influential bassist and composer, Jaco Pastorius.
Mingus died on January 5, 1979, aged 56, in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he had traveled for treatment and convalescence. His ashes were scattered in the Ganges River.
Charles Mingus Jr. 1922-1979
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Stumbled upon this on Qobuz last night.
It’s well beyond my usual listening, but the stripped down, ambient piano left me spellbound.
Another positive step in my rather belated music education.
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Thanks Kev, I’m just looking at hitting the pay now on one at Juno
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