Now playing…
Gary Burton - Picture This
Gary Burton (Vibraharp), Jim Odgren (Alto Saxophone), Mike Hyman (Drums) and Steve Swallow (Bass Guitar).
Streaming on Qobuz (96/24)… kicking off this bright and sunny Wednesday morning with the Gary Burton Quartet’s ‘Picture This’ and Gary, Jim, Mike and Steve are sounding sublime! A fine and fun album that gets the toes tapping and instantly lifts up the spirit… Life is Sweet!
Probably for the best. He’s a difficult bloke to like for sure.
Ryan Adams, Ten Songs From Live At Carnegie Hall, 2015.
Afternoon all.
Lynyrd Skynyrd followed by The Allman Brothers Band.
Just had my SBL crossovers serviced and straight from the off it’s made a great difference, highs are more ‘sharp’ without squealing (not that they did before) & percussion sounds really good. This time I’ve let the crossovers ‘hang’. This alone made putting them back on so much easier as they’re very hard up against the wall & I didn’t really want to move them.
I was told a couple of the capacitors were leaking so not sure if that effected the sound, I guess so!
Anyway back to the listdning!
Some more easy listening, but in the best possible taste!
The Ben Webster Quintet - Soulville (Speakers Corner/Verve)
Lovely warm and…well Soulful playing on this 1957 album sounding great on this Speakers Corner LP
Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis (who’s guitar playing I always enjoy especially his Nothing But The Blues album) and Stan Levey
Say no more, you know it makes sense!
Holds up well, still sounding fresh and ‘modern’. The Qobuz hires files sound better than my rips of the original CD’s.
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Up next…
Another lovely Speakers Corner/Verve job
Herb Ellis with Roy Eldridge, Stan Getz, Ray Brown & Stan Levey
From the same year (1957) I think as Soulville, my last post
Jonesing for a bit of live soulful blues rock.
Cue Beth Hart - Front & Center (Live from New York) on red vinyl.
Getting in the mood for Blues Club at a local boozer. If it’s a tenth as good as this it’ll be a good night. The beer and the craic are always good.
That’s a super album. What a great (huge) sax sound he has.
I thought you was saying something else there for a moment til I found my glasses 
Most definitely huge, and beautiful too
Blooz n Booz…might get messy!
Reminds me of a booze fuelled night with RL Burnside in a tiny little venue above a boozer in Brighton many moons back…
Rhiannon Giddens - You’re the One
CD|2023
Arrived in today’s mail. Due out this Friday. On the first song, a departure from her previous albums. Looking forward to the rest of the album.
Now playing…
Jakob Bro | Joe Lovano - Once Around The Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian
Jakob Bro (Guitar), Joe Lovano (Tenor Saxophone, Tarogato), Larry Grenadier (Double Bass), Thomas Morgan (Double Bass), Anders Christensen (Bass Guitar), Joey Baron (Drums) and Jorge Rossy (Drums).
Streaming on Qobuz (96/24)… continuing on this morning with Jakob< Joe along with a fantastic group of talented musicians, and they are sounding sublime!
One of the best, if not my favourite, live albums from the Dame. Returns me to the two Isolar II concerts I attended.
Sorry if this is a daft question…why is he sometimes referred too as Dame?
342 times by my reckoning 
