Life affirming, danceable and uplifting. People who clearly love music and love life. Maybe my favourite release of 2019 so far.
As I posted elsewhere this has been a jazz infused morning, with The Masters, spring in full swing: some live Brew-era Miles, Hank Mobley's Workout, Dexter Gordon's Our Man in Paris, and Wayne Shorter's nothing less than superb See No Evil. Right now this record is blowing me away pretty good--it is quite good; a challenging Unit Structures too...
Have you heard of Colin Stetson? I was turned on to him by way of the movie Hereditary. I wonder if he is considered Darkjazz?
Sunny mid 70s California breeze. The ex Byrds people did some amazing music. Crosby, Clark. Have not heard any McGuinn solo though
More in that same vein. Nicks/Buckingham guests. Stevie's backing vocals are some of my favorite in rock n roll along with Keith Richards and Steve Van Zandt to name a few
Suggested Rogers... 1.Cardiff Rose 2.Peace On You 3.Back From Rio 4.1979 King Bisquit Flower Hour ; McGuinn Clark & Hillman @ Whiskey A Go-Go
Will be listening to these later. Went to RSD 2019 and just walked out with these two used pieces for under 10 bucks. Charlie Parker and Earl Hines. The Earl Hines is a NM 5 record set.
Wow this stuff is incredible. How is he doing this? I read it's live with him on sax, is he doing some kind of Roland Kirk or whoever it is that plays ten of them with his nose? It seems like more than one line going. And I guess he's bashing the keys for the "drums"... ...but I mean it's really good anyway, not just for the gimmick factor.
I haven’t listened or researched him enough to know. I have no idea what his stage presence is. I just dug the music soundscape for the movie and during one of the bonus features on the Blu-ray the director mentioned how he had been listening to Colin during production of the movie and then asked him to do the soundtrack.
I've just listened to this list of songs: "Bring On The Night", The Police "Life On Mars?", David Bowie (live in Santa Monica, 1972) "Rapture", Blondie (special mix from The Best of Blondie) "Surf's Up", The Beach Boys (The Smile Sessions version) "Back To Black", Amy Winehouse "Hermano Perro", Almendra "Remember (Walking In The Sand)", Aerosmith "Don't Be Denied", CSNY (live, 1974) "Blind", Deep Purple "The Crystal Ship", The Doors "Agnus sei", Elis Regina "Autopsy", Fairport Convention "Blues On The Ceiling", Fred Neil "Blue Turk", Alice Cooper "Candyman", Grateful Dead (live, 2/24/74) ---> yes, it doesn't belong in this thread "All I Want", Joni Mitchell "Matte Kudasai", King Crimson "Elijah", Mother Love Bone "On The Radio", Regina Spektor "Dead Flowers", The Rolling Stones "Desarma y sangra", Serú Girán "Face To Face", Siouxsie & The Banshees "Time", Tom Waits (live)
While some of Hillman's stuff was a little too sunny for me, I have always loved his work with Manassas, Souther Hillman Furay, and of course The Byrds and Burritos. I saw him in Dec with Roger on the Sweetheart Tour. Hillman is simply americana-made, an amazing talent. Like your suggestions on McGuinn's solo output. I'd add that his first s/t lp in '73 is solid and ranks as one of my all time favorite records. NP... English Rawk has been in order for the last hour or so. Dave Mason's record is classic in every sense of the word. The jam-based Traffic is one of those things in music that magically happens, and 45-50 yrs later I'm still amazed that this group's output played out this way. When I put this stuff on, it is transporting in many ways. A special treat was seeing them tour in '94 after missing a few 70's opps. Their set list was made up of a good bit of the lps below, Winwood's guitar prowess was incredible. This is jamming at it's very best: the jazzy breaks, Winwood's incredible snaky guitar lines, the rhythm/percussion quartet locked in, taking a next step into who only knows what. There is no direction, only spontaneity, unpredictable in a nature that can only be sublime; these are a special few superb records that breath the rare air--the phenomenal break in Rainmaker only confirms it... again.
There's a great bootleg of Traffic from the Fillmore East, where Bill Graham introduces them as follows: In association with Her Majesty the Queen, we present- Traffic.
The Grados are strapped on me ears and the volume is pretty high, thus this is a real treat, may be the first time I've headphoned this title--should be heard this way to be believed. It is remastered with the extra songs, and it sounds superb. I don't really care that much that it is more uptempo than the studio material, it's live and there is some energy here--a very underrated live affair. Chris Wood is blowing the doors off with his reeds, the Muscle Shoals guys are too; stately, gorgeous piano adds a unique element to overall sound, the drums and percussion sizzle, Stevie's vocals are just right, laying the guitar scratch rhythm and lead lines on thick where needed, never overplaying-- this is great stuff, lots of slow cooking funky, rhythm and blues infiltrating my ear canals at the moment.
I don't remember anything about Jerry Harrison from the doc. I was, um, re-surprised that Ranaldo is a Deadhead. Sammy talks about how Bob knows many ways to play an E, and I remember (I think) @notesofachord and/or @trd explaining to not-a-musician-me what that meant. Which makes me wonder if hard rock/heavy metal people play with a less expansive palette than Bob.
