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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 eoinfennessy


    Edward Simon - Poesia



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭dasdog




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Gyalist




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭dasdog




    I'd no idea I'd been listening to this fella for years (Art Blakey, Coltrane, Weather Report, etc...)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭G.K.




    We played this and 2 other songs at the Barbican today in the Essentially Ellington festival.


  • Registered Users Posts: 21 BrunoGeist


    Hi everybody!
    Jerzy Milan - "Wsrod Pampasow"


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Been listening to a lot of the classics recently. Purchased the "Ultimate" cd reissue of Coltrane's Blue Train to replace my worse for wear old copy - music sounds a bit fuller & there's a couple of extra tracks (alternate takes) on it which is cool, a good excuse to listen to a great album again.

    Also picked up the Sundazed vinyl reissue of Born Under A Bad Sign by Albert King - a fantastic pressing (which sadly isn't always the case with reissues), great depth & lifelike presentation to the recording. A real pleasure to listen to.

    Lastly I've been listening to an record that I picked up a few years ago based purely on liking the name, but which I disliked on first listen & didn't take out of the sleeve again. A few days ago I decided to give "Rev" Eugene McDaniel's Headless Heroes of The Apocalypse another spin & to my surprise (possibly because I've listened to a fair amount of soul jazz, funk & psychedelia in the intervening period) I actually really enjoyed it. Probably a bit weird for some but interesting to listen to it in the political context of the time. Having heard Gil Scott Heron's Free Will in the interim I was put in mind of that album (released the following year), though Heron's commentary is more directly contemporary. There's some great playing on Headless Heroes & it's definitely worth a relisten if it doesn't grab you the first time.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,805 ✭✭✭Setun


    Some wonderful stuff posted here lately, thanks all :) For those of you that are not accustomed to the Hammond B3 of Larry Young (he played with Tony Williams Lifetime, and also on Bitches Brew), this is a real treat:



    His album Unity on Blue Note is a classic. Also check out his recordings as a sideman with Grant Green, especially Talkin About.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 21 BrunoGeist


    Setun, many thanks, didn't know this one. The tune for today is "Time Out" by Dave Brubeck Quartet. I know it's rather well known album but I got me hands on brand new 180g pressing so this spins at home at the moment. My favourite is "Everybody's jumpin" with such a cool double base progression.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,805 ✭✭✭Setun


    Yeah Time Out is great, coincidentally I've just started listening to this again recently. The final track with the staccato piano block chords is a fantastic moment on the album.

    Another wonderful pianist with a great composition: Duke Pearson - When Sunny Gets Blue


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭Ole Rodrigo


    From the album ' Whats it all about '



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭18AD


    Loving Vital Information at the moment.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭Shakti


    BrunoGeist wrote: »
    Hi everybody!
    Jerzy Milan - "Wsrod Pampasow"

    nice choice Bruno fixed your vid for you


  • Registered Users Posts: 21 BrunoGeist


    Shakti wrote: »
    nice choice Bruno fixed your vid for you
    Thanks a million mate!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭dasdog




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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,723 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision




  • Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭zombiepaw


    I am really enjoying Jumpin Johnny Sansones new album "The Lord Is Waiting And The Devil Is Too", excellent hard blues with some filthy guitar work from Anders Osborne.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Currently kicking back with some quality Scandanavian jazz.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 93 ✭✭Berlin at night


    Just got turned onto Lyric FM's Blue of the night; darn good mellow stuff and perfect for late at night for reading a book to. The Lyric stuff can be dodgy during the day as there is too much opera, which I can't stand.


  • Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭earlytobed




  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,723 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭G.K.




    The shout chorus from 4:35 is especially good, imo. Eric Miyashiro (Lead Trumpet) is brilliant.

    I'm incredibly lucky to play in a band directed by Jay Craig, who wrote this piece and plays Bari Sax in the video here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭G.K.




    My grandmother bought me a decent bit of Ellington's stuff for Christmas and I'm in love with this track. So simple, yet so good. And I can't resist a wailing lead trumpet.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    If you're more conservative in your tastes you might not like Robert Glasper's efforts to blend jazz with modern styles like R&B, hip-hop & alt. rock but personally I think it sounds great. Really enjoyed the album Double Booked which came out a few years ago & recently picked up his ambitious collaborative project Black Radio on lovely gatefold vinyl. This interpretation of Nirvana's best known song is the closing track.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭G.K.


    Dunno if the live version conveys that perfectly, but I listened to the album version and that's pretty cool.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭G.K.


    Really enjoying Stan Tracey's Feather, Fin and Limb atm. However, can't find an album version of it online, only a school band, so here's my band playing it:



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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    I'd vaguely heard of this guy before but had never really investigated any further. Picked up The Jazz Messengers CD on a whim a few days ago & can't believe how good it sounds. The below track in particular really swings. Great record, shame on me for overlooking it for so long.



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