That's fun. I've never heard of him (of course!). I see there are a couple of albums on Tidal, so I'm going to give them a spin (gotta be retro with kind of stuff :-) ).
Yessss! Oddly I had it in my head that the album was disappointing before last night's listen. (Maybe the cover caught my eye due to the emerging escaped gorilla story...) But when I put it on last night I found the opposite (what is the opposite of "disappointing"...? ("satsifying" or "encouraging" aren't really doing it for me. I want a word that means something like "exceeding expectations + uplifting + surprising"...)
I can't resist, I'll see your Cole Porter with...Just de-lovely and delicious....
Good call. One of my all time fav's. And, even though I'm usually adverse to muso know-it-allness, in this case I want to acknowledge your fine choice of the proper version of this tune. The one with the Q-Tip rap! :-D
Kindly purchased for me on vinyl by a good friend. Once I accpeted that the album it could not be as good as their early 70s tunes, this new effort has grown on me this week. Only the track "Sea of Tears" remains completely and utterly awful. It puts me in mind of some theme tune from some 1980s cartoon. The sort that would probably have been shown on ITV.
Milford Graves and Bill Laswell - Back in No Time (Live at The Stone)
Again, nothing on YT, so here's something a bit similar. Graves and Laswell with John Zorn in Middelheim. Yup. I'm still in the left-field New York groove ;-)
This isn't anything to do with Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, as billed. I think I agree with one of the posters that it's Zorn's assemblage, The Dreamers, with many of his usual suspects. Marc Ribot is fantastic on guitar.
Barry Guy, Trevor Watts, Howard Riley and John Stevens - Endgame
Free improv with a lot of structure, if that makes sense. Trevor Watts, in particular, is in soaring form, but this lot had been playing together as part of the British Free scene for about 15 years when this album was recorded and those hours and hours of playing show.
A recent acquisition for me and one that is being played a lot in Rosam Towers.
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette - Somewhere
When Jarrett plays like this, I wonder why I listen to any other pianists. Not an essential Jarrett, but a great recent live album with his long-lived trio.
Quite a pleasant diity along with the auto-play one that follows, comes more alive once the keyboard kicks in.
Hmmm "Mow Mow" strangely reminds of the Spanish term taught to kiddies for the sound a cat makes i.e. "Misu misu" (pronounced meesoo meesoo). I have asked many a Spaniard how they came up with that one, none of them know!
Get some friends of different nationalities around a table, give them plenty of food and drink and then ask them what noises various animals make. Always a good laugh ;-)
Mal seems to be a bit overlooked these days. Shame. He made some great albums. This one is a fine live album with some brilliant playing from all three members of the trio.
A free jazz supergroup from the early 70s - Dave Holland, Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton and Barry Altschul. Rivers has passed, but the others are still active today.
BTW, there's some brilliant music on this album. And not all of it is 'out there'.
This is one of those jazz albums that transcends all that baggage people think comes with the genre. Mingus' band is an unstoppable shouting, hollering, stomping juggernaut. You'd have to be dead not to get something from this.
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Oddly I had it in my head that the album was disappointing before last night's listen. (Maybe the cover caught my eye due to the emerging escaped gorilla story...)
But when I put it on last night I found the opposite (what is the opposite of "disappointing"...? ("satsifying" or "encouraging" aren't really doing it for me. I want a word that means something like "exceeding expectations + uplifting + surprising"...)
I see your Deee-Liteful offering and raise you a:
One of my all time fav's.
And, even though I'm usually adverse to muso know-it-allness, in this case I want to acknowledge your fine choice of the proper version of this tune. The one with the Q-Tip rap! :-D
Kindly purchased for me on vinyl by a good friend.
Once I accpeted that the album it could not be as good as their early 70s tunes, this new effort has grown on me this week.
Only the track "Sea of Tears" remains completely and utterly awful. It puts me in mind of some theme tune from some 1980s cartoon. The sort that would probably have been shown on ITV.
Hmmm "Mow Mow" strangely reminds of the Spanish term taught to kiddies for the sound a cat makes i.e. "Misu misu" (pronounced meesoo meesoo). I have asked many a Spaniard how they came up with that one, none of them know!
BTW I like the descriptive label on that. All albums should have an appropriate label like that.
I'm not a Daniel fan, but I was quite impressed with it...
Here's the original:
and live...
Only very ropy uploads on YT. Quite a departure for both parties from what they are better known for and IHMO an excellent and more chilled album.