What are we listening to right now..

[RayDunzl]

Ravi Shankar - Live at Monterrey Pop (1967)

• Ravi Shankar – sitar
• Alla Rakha – tabla
• Kamala Chakravarty – tambura

 

[RayDunzl]

Weather Report - Heavy Weather (1977)

- Joe Zawinul / Oberheim polyphonic & ARP 2600 synths, acoustic & Rhodes electric pianos, guitar, melodica, tabla, vocals, orchestrations, co-producer
- Wayne Shorter / soprano & tenor saxophones, assistant producer
- Jaco Pastorius / bass, mandocello, drums, steel drums, vocals, co-producer
- Alejandro Acuña / drums, congas, tom toms, handclaps (excl.11)
- Manolo Badrena / tambourine, congas, timbales, percussion, vocals (excl. 11)
With:
- Peter Erskine / drums (11)

 

[RayDunzl]

Chiara Civello - Last Quarter Moon

• Vocals – Chiara Civello
• Bass – Ben Street
• Cello – Mark Stewart
• Drums – Dan Rieser
• Guitar – Adam Rogers
• Piano – Alain Mallet

 

[RayDunzl]

Pete Levin - A Solitary man (1990)

Cliff Almond Drums
Ray Anderson Trombone
Manolo Badrena Congas, Percussion
Jeff Berlin Bass, Bass (Electric)
Alex Foster Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Saxophone
Pete Levin Composer, Keyboards, Piano, Primary Artist, Producer, Programming, Synthesizer, Vocoder
Nick Moroch Guitar
Lew Soloff Trumpet

 

[amirm]

Pete Levin - A Solitary man (1990)

Cliff Almond Drums
Ray Anderson Trombone
Manolo Badrena Congas, Percussion
Jeff Berlin Bass, Bass (Electric)
Alex Foster Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Saxophone
Pete Levin Composer, Keyboards, Piano, Primary Artist, Producer, Programming, Synthesizer, Vocoder
Nick Moroch Guitar
Lew Soloff Trumpet

Good stuff!

 

[NorthSky]

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[RayDunzl]

The Police - Outlandos D'Amour (1977)

A little wakeup noise for a Sunday Morning.

I'm a sucker for simple counterpoint...

 

[RayDunzl]

Screaming Headless Torsos (1995)

Dean Bowman Vocals
Fima Ephron Bass
David Fiuczynski Guitar
Jojo Mayer Drums
Daniel Sadownick Percussion

Track 1...

 

[RayDunzl]

For some reason when I look in this thread I'm reminded of music past

Ryuchi Sakamoto... I have one...

Not a favorite, sort of old J-Pop in some ways, I guess.

I bought it to see where Kazumi was earning a few Yen at that time.

"Tokyo Joe is a 1978 album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and guitarist Kazumi Watanabe. It is a compilation of tracks from the albums Thousand Knives (1978), Kylyn (1979), Kylyn Live (1979) and the track "Tokyo Joe" which appeared on a various artists anthology Tokyo-Paris-London-New York, Dancing Night. The album was originally released in Japan in 1978, then re-released also in the Western countries in the 1980s."

Relistening now... Electro-Pop-Jazz-Synth-Fusion-Something-or-other

Not a favorite, but gets played in the rotation.

 

[RayDunzl]

Carla Bley - Live (1981)

All compositions by Carla Bley
"Blunt Object" - 5:10
"The Lord Is Listenin' to Ya, Hallelujah!" - 7:24
"Time and Us" - 7:59
"Still in the Room" - 9:06
"Real Life Hits" - 4:26
"Song Sung Long" - 7:30

Recorded at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California on August 19-21, 1981.

Carla Bley - organ, glockenspiel, piano
Michael Mantler - trumpet
Steve Slagle - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
Tony Dagradi - tenor saxophone
Vincent Chancey - French horn
Gary Valente - trombone
Earl McIntyre - tuba, bass trombone
Arturo O'Farrill - piano, organ
Steve Swallow - bass guitar
D. Sharpe - drums

Gary Valente inspired me to go out and buy a trombone...

 

[NorthSky]

 

[RayDunzl]

Yes - Tormato (1978)

A band breaking up...

 

[NorthSky]

Big YES fan.

 

[RayDunzl]

Ran Blake and Jeanne Lee - You Stepped out of a Cloud

Ran Blake - piano
Jeanne Lee - vocalizations

Dreamy, slow, improvisational renditions, recorded direct to 2-track...

 

[NorthSky]

I just finished listening to this (CD):

Lol, it's been a long time. I'm good now for many more years...
I didn't crank it to eleven, only to sex and half. But when I first bought that CD we used and abused it in our systems...including our own systems (biological bodies, dancing with the girls, intoxicated by hallucinatory substances in the form of small barrels of different colors...including purple ones).
The bass was punchy in our cerebral guts and nuts.

What we didn't do is to play it @ our local cathedral and crank it up to the red clipping light.

Today, it's a fart compared to recordings with much more intense bass. But it is still a 'smooth' music recording, nothing virulent, just relaxing between two young lovers.

 

[RayDunzl]

Steve Swallow and Christian Muthspiel - Simple Songs (2014)

Christian Muthspiel – trombone, piano, e-piano, toy piano, flutes
Steve Swallow – bass guitar

1 Pas de deux tranquille 4:38
2 Monsieur Satie 5:52
3 Viennese Marketplace 1:50
4 Himmelblau 3:49
5 Let My Children Waltz 3:26
6 Lullaby for Moli 4:43
7 (F)all Blues 4:57
8 Mildred, Bim & Mohamed 7:05
9 Mein! Yours? 5:36
10 Is the Moon Still Blue? 5:03
11 Hymn to Health 5:53

"The concept behind this album, is described in the liner note by one of the most distinguished Austrian novelists of our time, Christoph Ransmayr (whose own search for simplicity led him to spend around a decade and a half in the west of Ireland). Ransmayr sums up the album's aesthetic as "seeking to understand simplicity for what it is, the cornerstone of our world and our reality, and to bring it to our ears."

On the 'tube...

 

[RayDunzl]

Steely Dan - Katy Lied (1975)

• Donald Fagen – vocals, piano, keyboards, saxophone
• Walter Becker – bass, guitar

• Michael Omartian, David Paich – pianos, keyboards
• Hugh McCracken, Denny Dias, Rick Derringer, Dean Parks, Elliott Randall, Larry Carlton – guitar
• Wilton Felder, Chuck Rainey – bass guitars
• Jeff Porcaro, Hal Blaine – drums
• Victor Feldman – percussion
• Phil Woods – alto saxophone
• Jimmie Haskell, Bill Perkins – horns
• Michael McDonald, Myrna Matthews, Sherlie Matthews, Carolyn Willis – background vocals

 

[RayDunzl]

Keith Jarrett - Bye Bye Blackbird (1991)

Keith Jarrett – acoustic piano
Gary Peacock – acoustic double-bass
Jack DeJohnette – drums