In the spirit of the Ethio music talked about a few days ago, on my commute home last night, I listened to the latest Ethiopiques album, Éthiopiques Volume 30: "Mistakes On Purpose", Girma Bèyènè & Akalé Wubé. It's a wonderful album recorded last year. This is the first I've heard of Girma Bèyènè or Akalé Wubé. Not to surprising that I have heard Girma Bèyènè since he was in exile for years and not really playing. I imagine his music from before the exile is hard to find. I love Akalé Wubé and will be looking for more of their music. Éthiopiques 30 - Mistakes on Purpose, by Girma Bèyènè & Akalé Wubé
3 out of the 4 for me (no wine/casual beer enthusiast mostly because NH is a desert when it comes to crafts, barely anyone distributes up to our low population state)
I don't dislike headphones but I'm glad I don't have to choose them over no music. I'm not surprised to hear the Music Matters titles sound good with 'phones but to really hear them you need to move some air. The Real McCoy is a barn burner, eh? Joe is smoking!
No vinyl eh? The Analog Productions pressing of "Quiet Kenny" is spectacular, the OJC pressing is unlistenable by comparison. The Analog Productions SACD of "Whistle Stop" is also excellent.
NP. An oft-overlooked vocalist. He brought old-school r&b, soul, and jazz styles together in a direct, warm way.
You may be an audiophile if... you use phrases like "brick walled recording" and refer to said recordings as unlistenable.
1. Audiophile 2. Foodie 3. Wine enthusiast (or craft Beer) 4. coffee connoisseur These? Applied to me? Maybe before, but not anymore (well, No. 1 was always out--I simply enjoy music, whichever way I can listen to it) . See number 5, though: 5. All New 1967-1972 Miles Davis junkie That's moi right now. ____________________ Hello, I must be going. I cannot stay, I came to say I'm overdosing on Miles, and the albums I'm listening to are hard drugs for me. Yesterday, I added to my playlist, for good measure (and this is where you can really start questioning my sanity), the Live-Evil album and of course the Cellar Door Sessions. I am going insane. It's way too much. (But is there any other way to enjoy music? I mean, personally, I usually need to be hit right over the head by what I'm listening to. If not: boring...) Leaving here now to go OD in peace. EnilcaJ
Coincidently I am listening to John Coltrane too, on a Paul Chambers lp A Jazz Delegation From The East that also has Kenny Drew and Philly Joe Jones.
I opened my CD of Live-Evil earlier today and gave it the first listen (I've been into electric miles for quite a while, just never picked up Live-Evil before because I already had most of the studio tracks elsewhere), of course, it made me want to get the Cellar Door Sessions now so that I can hear the complete unedited live takes. I really like the edited together pieces, sort of like a painting done with the raw live tracks as the palette, but confess that whenever I was into a certain thing they'd have going the edits would snatch it out from under me.
It was unlistenable on the high end system. Brickwalled recordings are listenable on on my gear, even the 70s era Stax earspeakers. I'll take non-brick walled recordings over brick walled ones if available and reasonably priced. But if the music is good, I can thouroughly enjoy any poor recording as long as the music is good.
I don't necessarily have to choose headphones or no music, we frequently like to have music on at home in the background (as opposed to TV). I'm fortunate that my wife is a music enthusiast, and a mean classical guitarist, so I don't have to worry about her being annoyed by it, but it's just not quite the same listening experience, though, with kids running around and playing and doing this or that. So, my time for real listening is usually limited to after everyone is in bed, so if I want to get some good volume then it's gotta be headphones. Or, while I'm working at home during the day and the kids are at school, but my office is in another room off to the side of the living room, so I'd really have to crank it up and point the speakers towards the door... but I usually decide to have mercy on our nanny and not torture her with loud jazz music all day. I got interrupted earlier while listening to The Real McCoy, so right now I'm giving it another go... it is indeed a real barn burner, I have to say, though, that my favorite tracks are the two ballads.
I guess most people in Seattle pay their taxes just like everyone else. Jimi makes up for Kenny and I'm not a baseball fan. Never heard any Soundgarden. My hometown is Leeds, England and our football team is owned by a shady Italian businessman with a conviction for fraud, one of the most famous sons of the city turned out to be a serial rapist and paedophile and we have a crap public transport system with no rapid transport for a conurbation (West Yorkshire) approaching 2 million. Still a great city though.
Forget Messi, if you want to see the beautiful game played at the highest level, check out Ronaldinho (the Brazilian, not the Portuguese) playing for Barcelona in the 00's. He was breathtaking. I was just a kid in England in 1970 but the Mexico World Cup is a formative memory for me, England had won in 1966 and there was still the feeling we were good enough to achieve back to back victories. We still had Bobby Moore and Bobby Charlton and a mature squad. Mexico didn't work out for us but Brazil were playing on a different planet. To beat an Italian defence 4-1 in a World Cup final shows how good they were. Likewise I was really sad when Cruyff's team were done in by German efficiency for years later.
WP Kenny Clarke Meets The Detroit Jazzmen (Savoy) With Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell Pepper Adams and Paul Chambers recorded in 1956 just before Kenny moved to Paris for good. NP Pony Poindexter - Pony's Express (Epic) yellow mono label. A smorgasbord of horn players from the aforementioned Pepper Adams to Phil Woods, Dexter Gordon and Eric Dolphy. Almost forgot, Gene Quill, plus Pony on the straight horn. It makes for some great ensemble playing too. One can play the blindfold test and try to pick out the musicians without peeking at the credits.
After The Real McCoy, I finished off Miles' Live-Evil from earlier today by listening to disc 2. That got me in the mood for Now Playing: Dave Douglas - Freak In
Tomasz Stanko's New York Quartet - December Avenue Purchased the 88.2/24 download. The sound of this album is very warm and relaxed (recorded in the south of France). Performances are largely the same, with a few exceptions. That doesn't mean it's soft however, and there are some smoldering tracks. The playing reflects the fine musicians in the quartet: Gerald Cleaver, David Virelles, and Reuben Rogers That said, based on a few listens, this album perhaps does not rank with my favorite Stanko releases (time could change that). Some of his previous releases and groups were of a very high standard that are hard to top. Still, a very enjoyable listen, and you'll want this if you are a fan. Would love to hear this band live.
Tomasz Stanko has a very consistent discography. NP Chic Corea. Tone For Joan's Bones (Vortex) stereo lavender label. What a band, Woody Shaw, Joe Farrell, Steve Swallow and Joe Chambers are killing it. This may be my favorite album by Chic.
I guess I would say I am a 2.5 on this. 1. Sort of. I would say I have a hodgepodge set up that is around 2-3k instead of the 30k and up systems you see by some folks on SH. I will seek out good vinyl but more of a bargain hunter for quality. The prices for original pressings for some titles seem outrageous to me and gong MM 45’s seems like a slippery slope (I like my Liberty Blue Note’s, Fantasy two-fer’s and 33 rpm Speakers Corner re-issues just fine though I am sure the MM’s sound amazing). I do feel I should support Mosaic and Mofi more often however. 2. I eat healthy and smart but no. The Bay Area tech bros who take photo’s of their food on social media instead of eating it and pay just to have a reservation for a place to eat ruins the whole scene. For some reason what you buy at a farmers market or stand in line for 20 minutes to get from a food truck cost $5 more than if it was bought at a store produced by the same people, seems silly. Eating well should be accessible and a right for all and not just for the well to do. 3. Major beer snob yes. I know the difference between a good bottle of wine and a bad one and how price points and quality change as you go higher, but like going full audiophile I don’t want get to that point where only bottles 20$ and up are the only ones worth seeking out. 4. Yes on this one. I can’t drink bad coffee.
Yeah, Ronaldinho was pretty good from 04-06. Barca don't have the success they would have later without him. I was pretty bummed when Cruyff passed last year. Speaking of Italian defenses as much as I hate Juventus I wouldn't mind seeing Buffon retire with a CL title this year. Of course Athletico Madrid deserve it also but than again Monaco wouldn't be bad either as they play fun attacking football and their window will close after this year.
I sympathise, early '70s, Don Revie's anti football team, they were so awful to watch and a disgrace to the game. Football aside great city though.
