I just had a sudden urge to listen to some Mastodon. Currently listening to "The Czar" from the Crack the Skye album. I love how the guitars are filled with so much warmth and crunch. It definitely makes me want an Orange amplifier even more. Such a great group with terrific music.
[size=medium]It's taken [/size][size=medium]Enrico Rava[/size][size=medium], the [/size][size=medium]Miles Davis[/size][size=medium]-inspired trumpeter from Trieste, until his 70s to hit the dance floor. This live album is dedicated to [/size][size=medium]Michael Jackson[/size][size=medium], who Rava said he didn't discover until the singer's death – and then became obsessed with. Thriller, Smooth Criminal, Blood on the Dance Floor and other classics make up a track list exuberantly performed last year by Rome's Parco della Musica [/size][size=medium]Jazz[/size][size=medium] Lab, a young workshop band led by trombonist Mauro Ottolini, whose arrangements these are. A wonderful ballad-player, Rava plays Speechless rather as [/size][size=medium]Davis played Jackson's Human Nature[/size][size=medium], and boiling groovers like Thriller in flashes of shrill improv over tuba riffs and rumbling congas. Privacy is an electric guitar and soul-sax maelstrom, Smile is a New Orleans street march strut, and Little Susie (the best track) features Rava in Mediterranean heat-haze mode, before a lilting waltz partnership with Danielle Tittarelli's alto sax. It sounds like a laid-back jazz group having a party, not a Quincy Jones band nailing every hit, but it's a real tribute, not a lament for lost youth.[/size]
LIVE ART
[size=small] Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (1996)[/size]
[size=13.333333015441895px]Live Art is the fifth album released by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones [/size]
[size=13.333333015441895px]and their first non-studio album.[/size]
[size=13.333333015441895px]It was recorded live at various concerts between 1992 and 1996 ...[/size]
[size=13.333333015441895px]Of special note are the songs that feature jams with Branford Marsalis,[/size]
[size=13.333333015441895px]Chick Corea, and Bruce Hornsby...[/size]
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