LarsMan
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Marc is one of my all-time favorite singers..... Soft Cell's debut was brilliant, and the OG vinyl I've got sounds terrific, especially all the cool sounds on 'Sex Dwarf'....
Marc is one of my all-time favorite singers..... Soft Cell's debut was brilliant, and the OG vinyl I've got sounds terrific, especially all the cool sounds on 'Sex Dwarf'....
I just got a DVD player in to finally rip an old Woodstock ‘94 CD set to FLAC. I must have bought this album 3x in my lifetime, the first time on cassette in the mid-90’s. Primus “Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers” and NIN “Happiness in Slavery” are two of the highlights, as well as Melissa Etheridge “I’m the Only One.”This is the thread to post what you've been listening to today. To keep things organized, please do not spam the thread with repeated posts - let's keep it to a few posts in a day at most. Enjoy everyone!
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I gave this a listen on Spotify based on your review. It was ok, but overall, not my cup of tea.The Complete "Is" Sessions were recorded during Chick Corea's tenure with Miles Davis, along with bassist Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Recorded over three days in New York, 1968 Blue Note Records.
Blue Note has assembled not only the two released recordings on this double-CD package, but the alternate takes as well, to offer a complex, very remarkable portrait of the chemistry that occurred when that trio engaged Woody Shaw, Bennie Maupin, Hubert Laws, and additional drummer Horace Arnold. Corea plays both acoustic and electric piano on these sides and, taking his cue form his work with Miles, he pushes his own sense of melodic invention with the right hand to the breaking point. However, not a jazz-rock session in any way, this material, for as "outside" as it was trying to get, was formalist in conception if not intent -- these players swung hard even if they didn't intend to.
Listen to "The Brain," with its front line engagement by Maupin and Corea using counter point inside a blues fragment to open up a lane for hard swinging rhythm is a case in point. Elsewhere, on "This," and its longer alternate take, angular Rhodes solos are stunningly reflected back into a polyrhythmic mass by bassist Holland. Corea's runs are countered in rhythm and harmony.
"Song of the Wind," a ballad in inception, becomes a kind of mid-tempo piece that uses mode and formal composition to create a meandering wind through nearly pastoral soundscapes thanks to Corea's glissandi and Hubert Laws' beautiful single-tone playing. In sum, this is out jazz that any jazz fan can appreciate; it not only respects the modern tradition, but uses it to further its own aims.
That was intense
I have McCoy Tyner's Looking Out (1982), with Phyllis Hyman on two tracks - Love Surrounds Us Everywhere, and In Search of My Heart. I bought that one as I was (am) a Phyllis Hyman fan. What a beautiful voice. Love that album, mainly because of her. But also, his track Senor Carlos.
Studio albums as leader, after his 5-yr stint with John Coltrane, recorded from
1967 to 1972. HD800 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>
Are both the light and dark versions available on your CD/Blu-Ray?Received my CD / Blu Ray Audio, set, yesterday. It’s been on repeat ever since. Amazing album ! So great to finally have the physical discs.
Peter from a few years earlier....Received my CD / Blu Ray Audio, set, yesterday. It’s been on repeat ever since. Amazing album ! So great to finally have the physical discs.