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Kumar
January 12, 2015

Recommended music - other than classical and pop

  • January 12, 2015
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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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    chicks
    chicks
    June 28, 2015
    Check out this phenomenal 11 year old jazz pianist from Indonesia, who is taking the jazz world by storm.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f4V_uaxBVOw
    Leon
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    June 28, 2015
    His Idle Moments album has been in my collection for a long time [...] and I am looking to see what else of his I can find that is just as good.
    Idle Moment is one of my all time favourites.
    But you can’t go wrong with any of his LP’s he made up to 1965.
    Check out his LP’s with Larry Young on organ (‘Talkin’ About’ and ‘Street of Dreams’.
    KumarAuthor
    June 29, 2015
    Check out this phenomenal 11 year old jazz pianist from Indonesia, who is taking the jazz world by storm.

    Thank you, that is a great video. I had no idea that Indonesia had a jazz scene, leave along jazz prodigies like Joey. Remarkable. I wonder if he also improvises such that the song sounds different but the same each time he plays.
    I found another good video with him that is long, but seems just as good. A little wordy in the beginning.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOV2mONU8a0

    Check out his LP’s with Larry Young on organ (‘Talkin’ About’ and ‘Street of Dreams’.
    I will, thank you.
    KumarAuthor
    June 29, 2015
    I also found his first CD released just this year. I haven't heard all of it, but it sound very promising.

    http://www.amazon.com/My-Favorite-Things-Joey-Alexander/dp/B00TZE3W0C/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1435542754&sr=1-1&keywords=joey+alexander
    chicks
    chicks
    June 29, 2015
    I also found his first CD released just this year. I haven't heard all of it, but it sound very promising.

    http://www.amazon.com/My-Favorite-Things-Joey-Alexander/dp/B00TZE3W0C/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1435542754&sr=1-1&keywords=joey+alexander

    Yep, been listening to it via Sonos and Rdio. Have to wonder where he'll be in 10 years...
    chicks
    chicks
    June 29, 2015
    Here's an opportunity to help keep jazz alive. Help fund Tessa Souter's next album. She's not well known outside the Manhattan jazz clubs (where she performs with greats like Alan Broadbent), but is widely respected by fellow jazz musicians. Trained under the great Mark Murphy, who asked her to help lead his singing workshops. Her last album, Beyond the Blue, is a fav of mine.

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tessasouter/help-make-tessa-souters-next-cd
    KumarAuthor
    June 30, 2015
    I don't understand. Would one not just buy/stream the CD/music if one likes it? Like that of every other artiste since the recording era began?

    And with self publishing, I think it isn't as expensive to do this as in the past.
    chicks
    chicks
    June 30, 2015
    It's very expensive to pay for the studio time, the recording engineers, the musicians, etc. She details all that on the Kickstarter site.

    If you are a jazz artist, no matter how superb an artist you are, and you don't stoop to "smooth jazz" and the like to get airtime, it's very difficult to get backing, since your album sales will be small. Therefore, you either front the money yourself, or get creative.

    Tessa, IMO, is right up there with Irene Kral, a superb ballad singer well known only to other jazz artists.
    KumarAuthor
    June 30, 2015
    Interesting concept, and she has certainly been creative with the rewards.
    KumarAuthor
    June 30, 2015
    Irene Kral, a superb ballad singer well known only to other jazz artists.
    Very good, that singer. New find, thank you!
    I was reading up about her and she could have used kickstarter as evidenced by this quote:
    "Kral paid for the Where is Love? session out of her own pocket and shopped the tape everywhere. The few interested labels all wanted to 'sweeten' the material by heaping string tracks onto the songs. Kral's uniform response — as her friend Lee Wilder told me — was a curt "**** you."
    Lol. And that album, it appears, was her summit.
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