Al Jarreau Heart’s Horizon / 2015 WEA / Japan CD / WPCR28246
Al Jarreau Vocals Bobby McFerrin Additional Vocals Yo’ Jeans Michael Landau, Paul Jackson Jr. Guitar Freddie Washington, Abraham Laboriel Bass Stanley Clarke Acoustic Bass Russell Ferrante, George Duke, Philippe Saisse Keyboards David Sanborn, Marc Russo Saxophone Jerry Hey, Randy Goodrum Trumpet Paulinho Da Costa Percussion Earl Klugh Acoustic Guitar Ricky Lawson, John Robinson Drums
Happy Birthday - Sir Brian May 19/07/47, 77 today.
Brian May, guitarist, singer and songwriter with Queen who had the 1975 UK No.1 single ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ which returned to No.1 in 1991. Queen scored over 40 other UK Top 40 singles, and also scored the 1980 US No.1 single ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’. May had the solo 1992 UK No.5 single ‘Too Much Love Will Kill You’. May was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for ‘services to the music industry and his charity work’. May earned a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College, London, in 2007.
Great album, the lyrics of the title song hit me hard a couple of years ago, when I was close to a burn-out.
“I live in this frequency, its a frequency just for me”
In time to stave it off, though, but the song will always resonate. That and the fact these guys are incredibly good. It’s both complicated and understated.
Yeah @Boekster, the lyrics on all of there albums are so well crafted and searching. I do like this album a lot, but Your Wilderness is still my absolute favourite, although I am liking It Leads To This an awful lot too.
Ah hell, they’re all brilliant…
Michael Franks Dragonfly Summer / 1993 Reprise / US CD / 9452272
Michael Franks Vocals Gil Goldstein, Jeff Lorber, Russell Ferrante Keyboards Chris Hunter, Dave Koz, Bob Mintzer Saxophone Alec Milstein, Steve Rodby, Jimmy Haslip Bass Steve Khan, Paul Jackson Jr. Guitar Paulinho Da Costa Percussion Alex Acuña, William Kennedy Drums
@QuickSticks They have a sense of melancholy to them, which is generally what triggers me the most. It’s an easy way to provoke emotion in me and, since music is in a large part catharsis for me, I tend to gravitatie there. Their later albums have it more than their former. I got into them when Someone Here Is Missing got released. Also a magnificent album, albeit on the more heavy side at times. I quickly bought their back catalog after
I have much the same relationship with music.
There is nearly always music on in my house apart from 2 or 3 hours of an evening, when we watch TV.
One of my favourite times for music is bedtime.
I love to go to sleep listening to music. It generally soothes away the worst days.