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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Jazz
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on: November 05, 2020, 02:53:07 PM
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Hard to go wrong with Art Blakey and/or Thelonious Monk.
I continue to enjoy my exploration of the different corners of jazz. Since my last post, I added a few more albums from the third Record Store Day installment, with Dexter Gordon, later Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and J.J. Johnson and Kia Winding. Did you know Kai Winding had a US top ten hit in 1963 with "More"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-kaquSOLo4I believe he's also on Miles's Birth of the Cool...
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Opera, anybody?
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on: October 29, 2020, 03:20:22 AM
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Each of the 54 segments in the video linked in the previous post identifies the role featured in that segment. To facilitate listening, and in case the cover image does a runner, here's a list of who sings what:
Maria Ercolano, soprano (Arsace, Prince of Corinth) Maria Grazia Schiavo, soprano (Rosmira/Eurimene, beloved of Arsace) Eufemia Tufano, mezzo-soprano (Emilio, Prince of Cumae) Sonia Prina, contralto (Partenope, Queen of Naples) Stefano Ferrari, tenor (Armindo, Prince of Rhodes) Charles Do Santos, baritone (Ormonte, commander of Partenope's troops)
Giuseppe/Pino De Vittorio, tenor and Borja Quiza, baritone, provide comic intermezzi, variously described as hilarious ("they stole the show") and excruciating!
(Recorded live 29 April--1 May 2011, Auditorium Victor Villegas, Murcia, Spain.)
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Blues through Rhythm and Blues to Soul
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on: October 26, 2020, 02:33:52 AM
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A little slow on the return...don't make it here every day....
I agree that is likely Johnny Winter on the first solo. Anyway, I would like to review this thread and check out more of the music linked. I enjoyed the Canned Heat -- I am a fan of theirs. They were my very first Concert at age 13 -- my mom brought me! This was right around Woodstock and Harvey Mandel was on guitar. I got his and Fito's autographs on my ticket stub! All were great players, but for me it's Al Wilson who really carries it over. I am a pretty fair harmonica player and have played in all sorts of bands. In one we were working on "On the Road Again." I could not replicate his harp solo. For one I think he doctored his harp. But moreover there is a fluidity in his playing that is uncanny. Was a very soulful cat. No worries about replying on time, ABD. This is cyberspace! Thanks for the confirmation. Al Wilson... I remember exactly what I was doing when they announced his death. I also remember that when Canned Heat mimed to "On The Road Again", Bob Hite was usually on harmonica duties! Cool that you saw them perform and got those autographs! My wife saw them at the Kralingen Festival in 1970, only a couple of months before Al died. Interesting to hear from a player that he modified his harp -- one wonders how! Here's another favourite of mine, "My Mistake" from Livin' the Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKaO9aLDYtc
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Ambient Music--Mood before Melody
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on: October 22, 2020, 02:46:42 PM
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After reading Mark Prendergast's encyclopaedic The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Moby some twenty years ago, I went to various shops in the UK and NL and bought, over a period of weeks, the following albums discussed within its pages (here listed alphabetically):
Air ~ Premiers Symptômes Aphex Twin ~ Selected Ambient Works Volume II Chemical Brothers ~ Dig Your Own Hole Chemical Brothers ~ Surrender Miles Davis ~ Sketches of Spain Enigma ~ MCMXC a.D. The KLF ~ Chill Out Kraftwerk ~ Trans-Europe Express Van Morrison ~ Astral Weeks Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze ~ Dark Side of the Moog IX New Order ~ Power, Corruption and Lies Spacemen 3 ~ The Perfect Prescription The Stone Roses ~ S/T Tangerine Dream ~ Phaedra Sven Väth ~ Accident in Paradise
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: The 1980's Appreciation Lounge
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on: October 18, 2020, 04:10:57 AM
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Still in Australia, this one's on the edge but more 1980s than 1970s. The Melbourne-based nine-piece punk-funk band Use No Hooks have an album out of almost all previously unreleased material and very good it is too! Their lineup is (to the best of my knowledge) Stuart Grant, Wendy Morrissey, Denise Rosenburg and Marisa Stirpe (vocals), Mick Earls (guitar), Matt Errey and Phil Nichols (keys), André Schuster (bass) and Arne Hanna (drums). The sax on the live tracks comes courtesy of Simon Grounds (with grateful thanks to Mylene at Hoffman for that information). The blurb on the Bandcamp page is most illuminating: https://usenohooks.bandcamp.com/album/the-job
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: The John Lennon Peace, Love, and Appreciation Thread
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on: October 10, 2020, 12:45:58 PM
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Meh, listened to the other John material - really not sth. I really-really like. I must really-really like music to appreciate the artist. Otherwise hey what's the point right? I kinda get why people like "Instant Karma", it's got nice beat, & accessible stuff like "Beautiful Boy" which ain't favorite but listening to it with John fan ears, i.e. as John fan would hear it, I gather why it's really favored, Paul f.ex. said it's his fave John song in youtube interview. Hey, RR. "Beautiful Boy" is a good song but I can't listen to it. They played it on the radio the night John was murdered. My own son was two at the time so it hit home rather hard. I love "Instant Karma". It's a good song anyway but Phil Spector's production makes it a great song. Those drums! And "Woman" is the perfect love song -- absolutely flawless. I don't like everything John did. I own three great albums of his ( Plastic Ono Band, Imagine and Wall and Bridges) and I can't see myself ever adding to them.
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