Steve Lacy, "The Holy la" <cq> (Sunnyside) -- relaxed almost sunny session by lacy's longtime trio (+irene) John Scofield, "Up All Night" (Verve) -- this is the post-hiphop jazz CD Sco's been after, a melange that consistently holds up song to song like no album he's done since A Go Go Dino Saluzzi, "Responsorium" (ECM) -- Dino throws Astor off his shoulder Thelonious Monk, "Monk in Paris: Live at the Olympia" (Hyena) -- just when you thought you had no room for yet another Monk, Charlie Rouse comes bursting out the gates like his hair's on fire Charlie Hunter, "Right Now Move" (Ropeadope) -- Hunter just keeps making that groove hipper and deeper, lots of cool little songs, and the two horns+harmonica lineup sounds great Steve Swallow, "Damaged in Transit" (WATT) -- Any questions about what Chris Potter can do? Not after listening to this live trio CD. Garage a Trois, "Emphasizer" (Tone Cool) -- C. Hunter, Stanton Moore, and Skerik, bring a new sparkle to the coal mine of jam bands Globe Unity Orchestra, "Globe Unity 2002" (Intakt) -- The Euro masters' reunion, with the focus and nearly the urgency of your dreams Garcia-Gebbia-Wogram, "Pronto!" (Intakt) -- the closest thing to the great Braxton/George Lewis sessions you'll hear these days Dave Holland, "Extended Play -- Live at Birdland" (ECM) -- wonderful spontaneous interaction, especially between Robin Eubanks and Chris Potter Kitty Brazelton & Dafna Naphtali, "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?" (Tzadik) -- the noisey unexpected surprise of the year Art Ensemble of Chicago, "Tribute to Lester" (ECM) -- As a trio, displaying a startling intimacy
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 11:02, mwisckol@ocregister.com wrote:
John Scofield, "Up All Night" (Verve) -- this is the post-hiphop jazz CD Sco's been after, a melange that consistently holds up song to song like no album he's done since A Go Go
I've also enjoyed this, and have been playing this a lot at the store. The list of new albums that came out this year and that I listened to for enjoyment more than once is surprisingly small. A lot of my listening has been to MP3s, meaning that I've been listening to individual tracks rather than albums, and I don't listen to music at home much, since I'm bombarded with music all the time at work. This also means that much of what I'm exposed to is at the more commercial end of the spectrum. And I've been doing a lot of listening to albums that were released earlier, reissues, and compilations. But here's a rough Top 10, in alphabetical order: David Bowie: Reality Annie Lennox: Bare John Mellencamp: Trouble No More Pat Metheny: One Quiet Night Rachel's: Systems/Layers Damian Rice: O David Sylvian: Blemish Various Artists: Masked & Anonymous (soundtrack) Rufus Wainwright: Want One Weird Al Yankovic: Poodle Hat
On 11 Dec 2003 14:07:50 -0800 Joseph Zitt wrote:
But here's a rough Top 10, in alphabetical order:
David Bowie: Reality Annie Lennox: Bare John Mellencamp: Trouble No More Pat Metheny: One Quiet Night Rachel's: Systems/Layers Damian Rice: O David Sylvian: Blemish Various Artists: Masked & Anonymous (soundtrack) Rufus Wainwright: Want One Weird Al Yankovic: Poodle Hat
Are your taste moving away from John Cage or do you already have all his records? Patrice (puzzled). PS: Weird Al Yankovic! Really? Can you say why?
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 14:53, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:
Are your taste moving away from John Cage or do you already have all his records?
I have most of what's been released. But I find that I don't listen to his recordings much for *enjoyment*, but more as a kind of research, and that I enjoy attending live performances of his works more, and most enjoy playing his works. Cage himself stated repeatedly that recordings of many of his work were not particularly useful. (Come to thing of it, I picked up one of his recent CDs the moment it came into the store several months ago, but it's still sitting on my to-be-listened-to rack.) But I do find that I'm listening more and more for melody, harmony, groove and the like. My current guilty pleasure is collegiate a cappella renditions of pop hits. One group in particular, UPenn Off the Beat, is exceptional. I have to hunt down some of their CDs sometime, since I've only listened to their MP3s.
PS: Weird Al Yankovic! Really? Can you say why?
It's the degluteazation response: he makes me laugh my ass off.
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