I am not sure there is a thread on what Sonos is truly about - the music, so this might be an interesting thread. I have left out classical because that deserves a thread of its own and modern pop because it all sounds the same to me.
I have Phil Keaggy strumming Solitude from his Acoustic Sketches album right now in the bedroom on a play 1 pair and sounding very good indeed.
Recently heard and equally good music and mastering:
1. Michel Petrucciani and NHOP
2. Beyond the Missouri Sky - Metheny and Haden
3. Chiaroscuro - Fresu and Towner
4. Jan Johannsen - Jazz pa Svenska
5. The Astounding Eyes of Rita - Anouar Brahem
6. Last Dance/Jasmine - Jarrett and Haden
7. Saturday Morning - Ahmad Jamal
8. Melos - Paolo Fresu
All but the last are ITunes 256kbps purchases, the last a lossless CD rip.
Very little lost in translation for the lossy thing and Sonos convenience.
Any recommendations on similar music that uses the silence between the notes effectively?
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Mark Murphy was a mentor to many of today's Jazz singers; a singer's singer, better known among musicians than the general jazz community. He passed on the other day; I was in touch with a singer he mentored, who said the past few years were very difficult. Been playing his albums all day; an adventurous singer.
RIP.
RIP.
For some excellent duets between tenor sax and double bass, nothing better than the albums of Houston Person and Ron Carter. Both are acknowledged masters of their instrument, but their duets are of recent vintage, so the albums are also very well recorded. There are four I know of, and each one is highly recommended.
Dialogues; Just between Friends; Now's the Time; Something in Common.
While not essential, speakers that can go deep enough to deliver the entire dB from the double bass recording add to the pleasure. Perfect late night music.
PS: I realised that I am repeating a recommendation. The music is worthy of that though.
Dialogues; Just between Friends; Now's the Time; Something in Common.
While not essential, speakers that can go deep enough to deliver the entire dB from the double bass recording add to the pleasure. Perfect late night music.
PS: I realised that I am repeating a recommendation. The music is worthy of that though.
Jacob Collier, a 20-year old Brit with a lot of YouTube views, with good reason.
http://youtu.be/K28H04Y2IdE
http://youtu.be/K28H04Y2IdE
Speaking of Previn, here's a seemingly odd pairing that actually produced a pretty decent jazz date. Both were such pros, they were able to complete the entire album in a day, mostly single takes. They had never played together previously.
My old OmniFi DMS-1 streamer, with the OpenFi firmware, seems so antiquated now compared to the Sonos! 😉 Got the job done, though.
My old OmniFi DMS-1 streamer, with the OpenFi firmware, seems so antiquated now compared to the Sonos! 😉 Got the job done, though.
Shelly Manne is also very good. My Fair Lady is good, but I prefer his Black Hawk live albums for some very classy jazz. If I remember right, Monk was to perform with him there, but they did not gel well together, so Monk did his Blackhawk session with a different crew and that turned out very well. But Live at It club and Monk in Tokyo are better engineered live recordings.
The only other Andre Previn I have is After Hours. Trio with Ray Brown and Joe Pass and with that caliber of musicians it isn't a surprise how good that session was.
I haven't mentioned Ellington and Brubeck only because I did not think they would be news to anyone that likes Jazz!
Recent discoveries in the realm of great horn blowers that perhaps aren't known as widely as they deserve to be:
1. Scott Hamilton
2. Houston Person - his albums with Ron Carter in particular, are sublime.
3. Warren Vache
4. Early years Stanley Turrentine.
Very little mediocrity in any of their output.
The only other Andre Previn I have is After Hours. Trio with Ray Brown and Joe Pass and with that caliber of musicians it isn't a surprise how good that session was.
I haven't mentioned Ellington and Brubeck only because I did not think they would be news to anyone that likes Jazz!
Recent discoveries in the realm of great horn blowers that perhaps aren't known as widely as they deserve to be:
1. Scott Hamilton
2. Houston Person - his albums with Ron Carter in particular, are sublime.
3. Warren Vache
4. Early years Stanley Turrentine.
Very little mediocrity in any of their output.
Gershwin maybe, or Nigel Kennedy, or Keith Jarrett or at a stretch?
I have seen Nigel Kennedy in all three contexts.
Yes, that one is in the box too. On cd 9/10; I am only up to cd 5 so far. :)
When I first got my Sonos there was an initial splurge of resumed CD purchases, due to the liberation from hunting through cd shelves, and the nagging about not putting things away again. :D
I made a bit of a pig of myself in the first year, and got too many new albums to engage with properly. ... Since then I have disciplined myself to start listening to new albums at a more measured pace.
It is good to hear that things continue to be good right through to CD 9.
It is a good box. Has 17 complete original albums across the 10 cds. All in the original track sequence, and without alternate take fillers being merged throughout the album. No booklet though.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jazz-Recordings-CD10-Andre-Previn/dp/B006ZVI06E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442721892&sr=8-1&keywords=previn+the+jazz+recordings
André Previn is an incredible musician. I can't think of any other musician who was successful in jazz, pop and classical. His early albums with Leroy Vinnegar and Shelly Manne are well worth a listen.
Thanks. I will look for those. I am one of those dinosaurs who still collect CDs. And I do like the live jazz albums.
Our taste has much in common; ECM in general, Annour Brahem, Oregon and Collin Wallcott ... I have many of those
My top 50 artists contains many which you have mentioned; Mingus, Parker, Coltrane, Jarrett, Haden, Monk, etc ... also Brubeck & Ellington whom don't recall you mentioning
http://www.last.fm/user/Barry4679/library/artists?date_preset=
I also like classical music and pop|rock .... so many days, so many moods ..
One of my "new" (to me) artists are Oliver Nelson. I have owned, and enjoyed The Blues and the Abstract Truth for a long time, but recently got Straight Ahead and also Screamin' The Blues, both of which are good. I intend to get some more of his.
The other thing that I have started appreciating lately is André Previn's jazz recordings. Nothing flashy, but good chamber music style jazz. I bought his 10 cd box set a while ago, which I am slowly working through. ... These box sets are killing me. So inexpensive, but only if your time comes free.
The Blackhawk is a very good set, but perhaps trumped for overall production quality in two other live Monk records - Live at the It Club and Monk in Tokyo. Blackhawk probably has the definitive Round Midnight, certainly the longest one.
Just a bit more rowdy here. Playing the Miles Davis official bootleg from the Fillmore in 1970.
It is weird hearing music which I know well in the edited version, sounding foreign suddenly.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/miles-at-the-fillmore-miles-davis-1970-the-bootleg-series-vol-3-mw0002619823
Just finished the Thelonious Monk set at the Blackhawk in 1960. A great live album. It always strikes me as surprising that there is so much audience chatter through much of the concert.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-the-blackhawk-mw0000194844
It is weird hearing music which I know well in the edited version, sounding foreign suddenly.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/miles-at-the-fillmore-miles-davis-1970-the-bootleg-series-vol-3-mw0002619823
Just finished the Thelonious Monk set at the Blackhawk in 1960. A great live album. It always strikes me as surprising that there is so much audience chatter through much of the concert.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-the-blackhawk-mw0000194844
Playing me some Hank Jones: Complete Original Trio Recordings, and I Remember You. Great, eloquent, understated player. Loved his more recent recording with Roberta Gambarini, too.
Listening now...
Good timing, this blog just posted on the above two "forgotten" singers today.
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-girl-singers-that-time-forgot/
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-girl-singers-that-time-forgot/
Also Beverly Kenney, for all you playboys. 😉. Good singer, sad story.
Lucy Ann Polk isn't well known these days, but she was a pretty good jazz singer with a sexy voice. Her Lucky Lucy Ann album on the Mode label is her best work, IMO.
Time to rediscover Monk with two excellent live albums and Monk seems to do best in a live format:
1. Live at the It club
2. In Tokyo
Both very well recorded too.
And some new finds with the horn players as lead artistes:
1. Stan Getz - Anniversary, Serenity and People Time. All recorded live in Copenhagen towards the end of Stan's life. As good as he ever was, even when suffering from terminal cancer.
2. Scott Hamilton - many excellent ones. I liked Nocturnes and Serenades as well as his album with Harry Allen, Stompin the Blues. Jazz Signatures is also good.
3. Jane Ira Bloom on the soprano sax on Sixteen Sunsets.
4. Excellent trombone jazz from John Allred, In the Beginning.
1. Live at the It club
2. In Tokyo
Both very well recorded too.
And some new finds with the horn players as lead artistes:
1. Stan Getz - Anniversary, Serenity and People Time. All recorded live in Copenhagen towards the end of Stan's life. As good as he ever was, even when suffering from terminal cancer.
2. Scott Hamilton - many excellent ones. I liked Nocturnes and Serenades as well as his album with Harry Allen, Stompin the Blues. Jazz Signatures is also good.
3. Jane Ira Bloom on the soprano sax on Sixteen Sunsets.
4. Excellent trombone jazz from John Allred, In the Beginning.
I just got around to listening to the only Miles Davis from the 1950s that I had not heard till now, and it is brilliant, moody and evocative music. Soundtrack from the Louis Malle movie Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud, improvised by Miles and company while watching relevant parts of the movie in the recording studio, with little advance prep. No one but Miles could have pulled this off, capturing the dark themes, and it makes for great late night listening to a master of the trumpet. Recording quality is as good as from today's best studios.
And another Haden/Rubalcaba album, The Land of the Sun, with a Latin flavour and a larger ensemble. Also very listenable.
A couple of recent Charlie Haden albums found, duos with piano. The very recently released Tokyo Adagio, recorded live in Japan in 2005 with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and an older one, Nightfall - John Taylor on piano. Excellent late night music with the lights down low. Master musicians at work, and highly recommended for jazz piano fans.
Yep, Mariza's star certainly shone brightly for several years. I think she's the only fadista besides Amalia Rodrigues to have sold more than a million records. The current critics favorite is a young girl from up north, with tattoos, tennis shoes, and a powerful, emotionally charged voice, who grew up listening to Amalia and loving the poetry of Fado: Gisela João. Enjoying her one and only (so far) self-titled release. Much more to come from this talent.
Portuguese, but Katia probably speaks Spanish, too! She speaks perfect French, there's an hour long video of her performing in the more traditional Fado style for French TV. And she's an MD, who apparently still practices! Dunno how she finds the time.
Nice clip. I like fado.
I have seen Mariza live. Portuguese by way of Mozambique. A very powerful concert. Great grace and passion.
I have seen Kurt Elling in concert too. Was good, but the Mariza one is one of the most moving I have been to.
An hour long clip of a great concert of hers here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6LdDqvrIHE
But this a shorter taste.
I have a couple of albums from that - Brad leads an excellent trio too.
The box set (6 cds) from the Brad Mehldau Trio, which is modestly titled The Art Of The Trio :8, contains some great music.
Is the Spanish or Portuguese?
Portuguese, but Katia probably speaks Spanish, too! She speaks perfect French, there's an hour long video of her performing in the more traditional Fado style for French TV. And she's an MD, who apparently still practices! Dunno how she finds the time.
And now I have Rdio, I have the album on play right away! Excellent.
Is the Spanish or Portuguese?
Is the Spanish or Portuguese?
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