Sound Science Music Thread: Pass it on!

[Glmoneydawg]

Moon for sure...and I'd even throw in Entwistle. They really 'drove' the band from an energy/rhythm/etc. standpoint.

I can remember cranking My Generation, The Real Me, 5:15, etc. on my system as a kid -- speakers blasting! They were quite a combo

Still smile every time those songs come through on shuffle...

THE OX

 

[taffy2207]

Shawn James. He should be a legend, he is to me. Plays a heady mix of Blues / Soul / Gospel :-

 

[bigshot]

Big deal for opera fans... The 26 blu-ray "Tutto Verdi" box has been released in a slimmed down package at a third of its original price.

https://amzn.to/2SssdPI

More than 3475 hours of some of the greatest music ever in solid performances, 5,1 sound, HD. Super bargain. I just ordered it for myself for Christmas. I always know what to get me!

 

[Glmoneydawg]

Can I make a confession? I've never been able to relate to anything by the Who. Nada. But I take this as a challenge. I am going to go looking for something of theirs that I like.

The poster I can relate to. I got a free one of those posters in the form of a sun visor for my car when I bought a box of Maxell cassettte tapes once. . .wish i still had it.

when you have to duct tape keiths headphones on...you know its gonna be good

 

[GearMe]

Was fishing around in Spotify and ran across this. . . blew me away.

I assume that's Jo Jones (not Philly Joe Jones!) on drums to bring the song in, Count Basie has to get in his two notes for his intro solo before Sinatra takes off in flight, the arrangement of the Count Basie big band is by Quincy Jones, the Sinatra vocals, just incredible. . . if you play an instrument try and play that, just the single notes he's singing! Even just a few notes! It sounds simple but he is playing with the melody and the words and the rhythm and the feeling in just an incredible way! This is not a "straight" reading by any stretch of the imagination. I'm pretty sure that's Freddie Green on guitar doing his thing, so perfect. . . and the big band all together is so great. Best version of this song I've ever head for my taste. And I love the flute getting some solo time. . . perfect!

Sinatra in a nutshell....
It sounds simple but he is playing with the melody and the words and the rhythm and the feeling in just an incredible way!

Summer Wind, Lady is a Tramp, Moonlight in Vermont, The Best is Yet to Come, Luck be a Lady, My Way, the list goes on and on

 

[bigshot]

In The Wee Small Hours is an incredible album.

 

[GearMe]

Some of his bossa nova stuff is nice as well...

 

[castleofargh]

Big deal for opera fans... The 26 blu-ray "Tutto Verdi" box has been released in a slimmed down package at a third of its original price.

https://amzn.to/2SssdPI

More than 3475 hours of some of the greatest music ever in solid performances, 5,1 sound, HD. Super bargain. I just ordered it for myself for Christmas. I always know what to get me!

for just a little more you could have treated yourself to a nice USB cable. tis a shame.(plz don't let the modo know I'm trolling)

 

[bigshot]

Ha! A good USB cable makes the high Cs higher!

 

[Steve999]

This one is more about original composition and unique poetry and beautiful singing.

This artist at her height was near the top of the D.C. music scene. I got to see her maybe three or four times. The first time was in a lodge at Shenandoah National Park and I was just blown away. I also got to see her at a house party once where she invited a limited number of people--I have no idea why my name got pulled out of the hat but it was a thrill to see her perform a few feet away.

Now the only traces of her on YouTube are these songs and one other, and these two are superior for my taste--by the time of the other tune she had veered off the road a little. : )

Here's a little write-up from AllMusic about her:

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/vicki-pratt-keating-mn0000804429

Just seeing (or listening to) these videos is nothing like what the jaw-dropping experience of seeing her run through a full range material in person was, but this is all that's really left on YouTube. She left the D.C. area for Arizona too soon thereafter and I think took some different directions trying too hard to sell records and it backfired, as far as I could tell. Anyway, tremendous and original talent.

She opened for Jethro Tull in at least in one series of concerts.

If you can get your hands on the CD or stream or get an MP3/AAC of her album Blue Apples it has a lot of really great moments on it. That was pretty much her recorded musical peak I think. Here you get one live performance and one track from Blue Apples. As you can hear in the live recording, there was no need to dress up her raw talent (and yes that's her on guitar in the recordings). The first track is from a compilation from a folk festival from which we are extremely fortunate to have a live recording of her—she’s not one of the women on the album cover.

 

[Steve999]

for just a little more you could have treated yourself to a nice USB cable. tis a shame.(plz don't let the modo know I'm trolling)

Well as long as the modo is trolling and going OT, I am sick to fricking death of the running arguments in a few threads. It could drive me to drinking.

Speaking of. . . Lush Life was a piece of genius wriitten by Duke Ellington's legendary sidekick and musical companion Billy Strayhorn.

There is speculation that Sinatra never finished a recording of "Lush Life" because it drove him to drinking. . . it was too difficult for him! Here he takes a few cracks at it (scroll down to the video in the article):
https://variety.com/2018/music/news/frank-sinatra-lush-life-only-the-lonely-1202976600/

Speaking of the Lush Life, and who could play it. . . Back to Coltrane! and Johnny Hartman.




Sinatra did of course repeatedly nail one of my other favorite drinking songs, One for my Baby--

But on second thought I think I like this Willie Nelson version--



Sinatra said that one of his primary influences was Billie Holiday. I think it's pretty easy to hear the influence--

 

[GearMe]

Ha! A good USB cable makes the high Cs higher!

Only if it's a USB C cable though!

 

[Steve999]

Only if it's a USB C cable though!

You need USB C on both ends to make it work. . . none of this adapter or hybrid cable garbage. Then you get one full octave up, you're at 8372.018 hertz. Approximately.

 

[Steve999]

Only if it's a USB C cable though!

Well you know, Duke Ellington was hip to those USB C cables, even in his early years, as early as 1942!

He was so delighted, he had all of the jazz greats over to the Harlem Cats Eatery and they played "[USB] C-Jam Blues" !

 

[Steve999]

@Phronesis pointed out research showing that even music perception can be subject to expectation bias, in terms of judging the quality of music performance. Apparently perceptions can be throw off wildly simply by giving wrong information as to whether the performers are professional or not! Here's a link to the article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24528-3

One proviso I would offer is that none of the test subjects had any formal musical training. But still it's an extremely interesting article. I believe that to get a perfectly objective evaluation we will have to consult not a music critic (who would likely be playing music professionally if he or she were capable), but rather the fool on the hill.