Staying with The Stones. I really didn’t need this, but picked it up for a song!
Trunk LP.
Vinyl
I did for a while and though the MoFi’s have a wonderful mid range I just always want to go back to the scale and dynamics of the Spatials. Time to move the MoFi’s on and play with something new!
I believe his Hot Fives/Sevens music is regarded as his best work? If so it must be terrific as this later album is exceptional in every sense, including SQ. Uniti Core.
The Hot Fives/Sevens are the most important recordings in all of jazz @twofifty (and Armstrong, along with Duke Ellington, is the music’s most important figure). The sessions took place almost a century ago and not only established Armstrong as the pre-eminent instrumentalist in jazz (and probably the greatest trumpet player ever), they also contained countless innovations including the creation of improvised solos and scat singing.
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But that WC Handy album is a stunner - and it has the definitive “St Louis Blues” on it.
Ah, thanks for that. St Louis Blues is a breathtaking opening number. I think St JamesI Infirmary on Plays King Oliver has a similar impact.
Manii - Kollaps (2013, limited edition)
Much like with The End Records back in the day, there was a period where I snapped up nigh-every record from Finnish label Blood Music as the quality of their picks was typically beyond reproach. A side-project of a couple members of Manes, this Norwegian duo eschew the weirdness of the former for a fairly straightforward expulsion of grim Darkthrone/Immortal tinged black metal. It’s pretty solid and performed well but lacks anything inventive or noteworthy. Commendable if ultimately unremarkable at times. Pressing is decent with good sound overall at least.
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited - CD (1965)
Happy 83rd Birthday 24/05/41 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman), American singer-songwriter, author, and painter. Dylan has released over 40 albums since 1964, and was a major influence on The Beatles. His biggest hits are the 1965 US No.2 single ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, the 1969 UK No.5 single ‘Lay Lady Lay’, and his 1964 UK No.1 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. He has won many awards throughout his career including the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, and twelve Grammy Awards. Dylan was also a member of The Traveling Wilburys.
Max Richter - Memoryhouse. Solemn, melancholy music on this grey morning. An evocation of a terrible past, lest we forget.
Grown up Taylor Swift this morning.
Evermore, written and recorded during lockdown in 2020. Not a single ‘girly pop song’ to be seen/heard anywhere. I really like this album.
