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Melanie De Biasio - A Stomach Is Burning
Melanie De Biasio (Vocals, Flute), Steve Houben (Flute, Saxophone), Alex Gilain (Double Bass), Pascal Moby (Piano), Pascal Paulus (Keyboards) and Teum Verbruggen (Drums).
Streaming on Qobuz (44.1/16)… kicking off this Monday morning with Melanie De Biasio and she with her talented sextet are sounding mighty sweet! One fine album…
So Honest Vinyl Vic is for real, thought ye was yankin’ me todger guvnor! 
First listen to this, more out of curiosity as it appears well reviewed.
Only a few tracks in, sounds a bit forced to me like their trying just a bit too hard to appear like their having a great time and swinging hard.
It was apparently recorded to punt to record companies, maybe that explains it.
Or is it just me?
Continuing with albums not played recently -Binker Golding’s hard bop stylee “Abstracts of Reality…” . Great compositions and playing - really good to hear Joe Armon-Jones on piano rather than his favoured Wurlitzer. Saw Binker play this set with Jessica Tandy in the beer tent at We Out Here in 2019 (he did explain the title but I forget) and later in a Sheffield club with a full band.
Nicholas Payton Nick@Night / 2000 Verve / US CD / 3145475982
CD rip
The best ‘free’ CD I own, oddly they were still issuing cassettes in 1996 as well for some reason.
Still, the magazine had changed a lot from its birth in 1983!
Every track on this album is solid gold.
Dave Mason’s guitar playing is wonderful then you have Leon Russell on piano plus the cream of session players.
If that isn’t enough Bonnie Bramlett, Rita Coolidge and Claudia Lennear provide backing vocals.
Dave Mason - Alone Together
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