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Seán
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by Seán » Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:58 pm
Karl, I share your affection for the music of Charles Mingus.
The Ellington Orchestra's tribute to Billy Strayhorn.
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by Seán » Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:53 pm
Earlier today, this caused quite a stir at our family get together.

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by Mark Harwood » Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:49 am
Arrived today.
Jolly good electro-pop!
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by Mark Harwood » Fri Aug 26, 2011 3:31 pm
Surprisingly engaging.

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by Seán » Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:53 pm
Jazz, Jazz, Jazz, listening to classical chamber music and Jazz, Jazz, Jazz, lately. A small sample of my listening habits:

Oh the wonderful VJO, their new cds are on order, and so to whet my appetite I listened to perfromances of the compositions and arrangements of Slide Hampton.

The SJO performing music written by Bob Mintzer.

On the TT, the Clayton Brothers, John and Jeff playing beautifully throughout. John Clayton and drummer Jeff Hamilton are regular members of Diana Krall's group.
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by Seán » Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:55 pm
New York's finest.
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by bricon » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:32 pm
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by bricon » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:35 pm
On Vinyl:

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by alarickc » Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:26 am
A cello rock group. Very interesting and very original. I'd recommend looking them up.
"Private human life is anything but dull. On the contrary, it is far too interesting. The troublesome thing about it is that it has no real conventions, makes no inner sense. Anything can happen. It is mysterious, unpredictable, unrehearsable. Professional life is not mysterious at all. The whole music world understands music. Any musician can give to another comprehensible rendition of practically any piece. If there is anything either of them don't understand, there are always plenty of people they can consult about it.
Private life, on the other hand, is beset by a thousand insoluble crises, from unrequited love to colds in the head. Nobody, literally nobody, knows how to avoid any of them. Religion itself can only counsel patience and long-suffering. It is like a nightmare of being forced to execute at sight a score much too difficult for one's training on an instrument nobody know's how to tune and before a public that isn't listening anyway." -Virgil Thomson
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by karlhenning » Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:54 pm
The Essential Maynard Ferguson
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by Mark Harwood » Thu Sep 08, 2011 3:36 pm
Music for vigil.
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by karlhenning » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:57 am
Still in the throes of serious Jethro-Tull-Mania.
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by bricon » Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:35 am
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by Mark Harwood » Thu Oct 06, 2011 5:45 pm
Four Orbital albums

, on new headphones

. 20 years out of date

, nothing new about that

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by Mark Harwood » Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:35 am
"I did it for the music."
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by Fergus » Sun Oct 09, 2011 2:08 pm
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by Seán » Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:39 pm
absinthe wrote:
I like Lee Konitz, I don't have that album though, enjoy.
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by Mark Harwood » Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:49 pm
Fergus wrote:
Fine band! Never came across that disc though. Must investigate.
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by Fergus » Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:49 am
Mark Harwood wrote:Fergus wrote:
Fine band! Never came across that disc though. Must investigate.
It is a good one Marc and it contains one of my favourite Andy Irvine performances "Báneasá's Green Blade/Mominsko Horo"....wonderful stuff altogether!
In the lineup on this album Johnny Moynihan substitutes for Donal Lunny (who does make a guest appearance).

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by karlhenning » Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:45 pm
Penguin Café Orchestra
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by absinthe » Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:05 pm

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In memoriam, following
Rugolo's passing away earlier this month.
Edit: replacing lost image.
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by Wallingford » Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:43 pm
I listened to a few cuts from Jethro Tull's Christmas album.
I like what I hear....no one can do Yuletide like these English traditionalists.
Good music is that which falls upon the ear with ease, and quits the memory with difficulty.
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by Chalkperson » Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:11 pm
Wallingford wrote:I listened to a few cuts from Jethro Tull's Christmas album.
I like what I hear....no one can do Yuletide like these English traditionalists.
Ye God's, is nothing sacred, I guess not...
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by Wallingford » Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:51 pm
Chalkperson wrote:Wallingford wrote:I listened to a few cuts from Jethro Tull's Christmas album.
I like what I hear....no one can do Yuletide like these English traditionalists.
Ye God's, is nothing sacred, I guess not...
Would it comfort you at least a little to know I also once purchased Yes keyboardist John Anderson's
Three Ships?
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by Chalkperson » Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:56 pm
Wallingford wrote:Chalkperson wrote:Wallingford wrote:I listened to a few cuts from Jethro Tull's Christmas album.
I like what I hear....no one can do Yuletide like these English traditionalists.
Ye God's, is nothing sacred, I guess not...
Would it comfort you at least a little to know I also once purchased Yes keyboardist John Anderson's
Three Ships?
Actually he was the Singer...and it's spelt Jon...
I should know, I once did his Family Xmas Card...

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by Mark Harwood » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:49 am
"I did it for the music."
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by Fergus » Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:17 pm
Beautiful low key Irish traditional music for Christmas....being a Celt I have to acknowledge the Winter Solstice with some appropriate Celtic lore!
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by Fergus » Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:37 am
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by Len_Z » Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:59 am
Like it quite a lot, I must admit.
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by Seán » Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:44 pm
On the TT:
This is a slendid album. It is the MJQ's farewell concert in Avery Hall, New York in 1974. They had toured and performed together for 22 years and had decided to disband.
The MJQ play to a hugely appreciative audience. There are minor low points when, for example, at the start of "Bags' Groove", some members of the audience indulge in moronic hand clapping along to the music, the MJQ pick up the tempo and leave them in their wake, it's really well worth having.
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by absinthe » Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:48 pm
Seán wrote:On the TT:
This is a slendid album. It is the MJQ's farewell concert in Avery Hall, New York in 1974. They had toured and performed together for 22 years and had decided to disband.
The MJQ play to a hugely appreciative audience. There are minor low points when, for example, at the start of "Bags' Groove", some members of the audience indulge in moronic hand clapping along to the music, the MJQ pick up the tempo and leave them in their wake, it's really well worth having.
Superb! I made acquaintance with the MJQ with that album - yup, LP 'n all. It persuaded me to go for an early one, Concorde, putting forth some beautifully laid-back Gershwin. I later bought it on CD.
It's one of those albums that comes out a lot on summer afternoons/evenings.
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by Mark Harwood » Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:14 pm
Orbital's last album.
Not their most highly rated effort, but I enjoy it a lot.
The new one is out soon.
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by karlhenning » Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:42 pm
Miles, Monk & Bags: “Bags’ Groove”
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by Seán » Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:15 pm
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by Seán » Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:32 pm
On the TT:

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by Mark Harwood » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:38 pm
"I did it for the music."
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by BWV 1080 » Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:26 am
Here is the new Meshuggah album I know JBuck and everyone else here is so eagerly awaiting:
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by Mark Harwood » Tue May 01, 2012 2:36 pm
King Crimson: Lizard. Always my favourite Crimson album, but recently I've been listening to it a lot. There's a stunning new production job on the 40th anniversary edition too.
The long title track is about Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, and has the most remarkable lyrics.

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by Dennis Spath » Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:25 pm
Given my love of a big choral sound I've recently become a fan of "Mythodea" by Vangelis, with a complete performance available on You Tube....something to listen to while doing research of otherwise engaged on the Web.
It's good to be back among friends from the past.
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by Mark Harwood » Thu Aug 16, 2012 6:18 pm
Having one of my binges. This one is Joni Mitchell's albums up to & including Hejira. Today, Clouds.

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by piston » Wed Dec 05, 2012 11:04 pm
Tona La Negra, born October 1912, and virtually "classical" to Mexican culture:
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished—a word that for them has no sense—but abandoned....(Paul Valéry)
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