What Are You Listening To?

[jaka]

Over the weekend:



Ciccone Youth - The Whitey Album
Sonic Youth - EP
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonic Youth - Hold That Tiger
Black Flag - The First Four Years
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Flag - In My head
Black Flag - Who's Got The 101/2?

Oops, I did it again.

[gonzo]

santana/mclaughlin -concert chicago 1973
larry young
billy cobham
doug rauch
armando peraza

[Jack Klompus]

Eric Dolphy- Stockholm Sessions
Thelonious Monk - Underground
Gerry Hemingway- Johnny's Corner Song

[mjb]

Dave Holland - Prism (streaming courtesy of the CBC) http://music.cbc.ca/blogs/2013/8/First-Play-Dave-Holland-Prism

Difficult to grasp that I first heard Dave in 1966 or so at the Little Theatre Club as part of the Spontanous Music Ensemble.

[Ron Thorne]

9:30 PM to 12:00 AM - The Donny McCaslin Group
Donny McCaslin - Tenor Sax , Orrin Evans - Piano , Luques Curtis - Bass , Billy Drummond - Drums

Nice things happening at Smalls, as usual.

[jaka]

Various Dischord Artists - 1981: The Year in Seven Inches
Various Dischord Artists - Flex Your Head
Various Dischord Artists - 20 Years of Dischord, Rare & Unreleased (disc 3)
Adolescents - S/T
Germs - (MIA): The Complete Anthology
Descendents - Fat EP / Milo Goes To College
Spermbirds - Something to Prove / Nothing Is Easy
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Mark Hollis - S/T
The Clash - Live at Shea Stadium
Minutemen - What Makes A Man Start Fires?
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Angry Samoans - The Unboxed Set
Hüsker Dü - Eight Miles High / Makes No Sense at All
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
David Torn - Cloud About Mercury

[Mike Schwartz]

Mike LeDonne's new piano trio album is KILLIN"!!

[bluenoter]

Oops, I did it again.

Who are you, Brocc'li Spears?

[randalljazz]

[Gentle Giant]

[Coda]

Starting my day listening to Lucian Ban: Transylvanian Concert

[Gentle Giant]

[jaka]

Very good one, indeed.
Have to browse the shelves to spin it.

Meanwhile...

Minutemen - 3-Way tie
Minutemen - Ballot Result
Pennywise - S/T
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Tanya Donelly - Lovesongs for Underdogs
Bill Frisell - Good Dog, Happy man
Keith Jarrett - Concerts (Bregenz)
Keith Jarrett Trio - Tribute
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste

[Chazro]

Some stuff I picked up this week:

Etienne Charles - Creole Soul
New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble - Double Edge
Steve Turre - The Bones Of Art
Volcan - (Latin Jazz Fusion Supergroup feat. Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Giovanni Hidalgo, & Jose Armando Gola!)
Chantae Cann (featuring Snarky Puppy)
Brian Andres & The Afro-Cuban Cartel - San Francisco

[Gentle Giant]

Great album. A co-worker turned me onto to that one last year.

Old (or young as the case may be) Herbie is the best Herbie.

[randalljazz]

[Coda]

Chick still has it, and this is his best fusion effort since...it must be 30 years?


I remember hearing Susan before she was known outside of Boston. She has a great voice and her husband is just knocking this one out of the park:

Blues with jazz sensibilities.

[Fred K]

John Coltrane Quartet - Crescent
John Coltrane Quartet - Dear Old Stockholm
Dexter Gordon - Dexter Rides Again (via Spotify)
Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up
Brad Mehldau - Largo
Brad Mehldau - Places
Brad Mehldau Trio - Day Is Done
Myra Melford Trio - Alive in the House of Saints
Trio M (Melford, Dresser, Wilson) - The Guest House
Helen Merrill - Dream of You
Lester Young - Teddy Wilson Quartet - Pres and Teddy
Lester Young - In Washington, DC 1956 (via Spotify)
Terry Allen - Salivation
Randy Newman - 12 Songs
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson - The Point
The Octopus Project - Hexadecagon
Sam Phillips - Push Any Button (via Spotify)
Sparks - Propaganda
Bach - Cello Suites (H. Schiff)
Beethoven - Cello Sonatas (Wispelway, Lazic)(via Spotify)

[jaka]

Ah, yes.
Crescent.
As undervalued and unappreciated as they come.

Crescent has always been my favorite Coltrane.

[jaka]

Otherwise...



Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
Pixies - Complete B Sides
Anthony Braxton - Eight (+1) Tristano compositions 1989 for Wayne Marsh
Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
Michael Formanek - The Rub And Spare Change

[sozamora]

Eric Dolphy/Booker Little - Live at the Five Spot 1,2

M.I.M.E.O. - Electric Chair + Table

[Coda]

This CD is just amazing.

[Fred K]

Cannonball Adderley w/Milt Jackson - Things Are Getting Better (via MOG)
Cannonball Adderley Quintet - In Chicago (via MOG)
Mengelberg/Lacy/Lewis/Gorter/Bennink - Change of Seasons (Music of Herbie Nichols)
Mengelberg/Lacy/Lewis/Reyseger/Bennink - Dutch Masters
Misha Mengelberg Quartet - Four in One
Gerald Wilson Orchestra - In My Tme
Gerald Wilson Orchestra - Detroit
Elis Regina - Essa Mulher
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master and Everyone
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
Bob Dylan - Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)(Bootleg Series, Vol. 10)
The LeRoi Brothers - Lucky, Lucky Me
The Replacements - Hootenanny
Otis Spann - The Blues Never Die! (via Spotify)
Sparks - Kimono My House
Mozart - String Quintets (Griller Qt., W. Primrose)
Mozart - Violin Concertos 3 & 5 (Kremer/Harnoncourt)(via Spotify)
Sibelius - Violin Concerto (Kremer/Muti), Symphony 2 (Berglund)(via Spotify)
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Vinay, Varney/Jochum)(via Spotify)
Licia Albanese - Opera Arias (RCA Vocal Series)
Anna Caterina Antonacci - L' alba separa dalla luce l'ombra (Hahn, Tosti, Cilea et al)

[randalljazz]

[Dr Dave]

Found this under a stack of other stuff. Damned tragedy that they couldn't keep this band together.