recent listening July 1-15, 2017

Cream – Fresh Cream
Cream – Live Cream v2
Jaco Pastorius – Truth, Liberty and Soul
North Mississippi Allstars – Prayer for Peace
Billy Gibbons – Perfectacamundo
ZZ Top – King Biscuit Flower Hour 1980
Gene Bowen – the Vermillon Sea
John D’Earth – One Bright Earth
Sonny Stitt – Shangri-La
Sonny Stitt – Soul People
Max Richter – Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works
David Starobin – Newdance
Henry Kaiser, S Kuriokhin – Popular Science
Matt Mitchell – Forage
Matt Mitchell – Fiction

…..and a big dose of Don Patterson and Carl Nielsen. 🙂

 

recent listening June 2017

Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson – Crop Circles
DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski & Scofield – Hudson
Stacy Kent – Close Your Eyes
Anna Garbarek – Balloon Mood
Anna Garbarek – Briefly Shaking
Paco De Lucia Plays Manuel De Falla
Ginger Baker Trio – Going Home
Bill Frisell – Small Town
Ferenc Snetberger – Titok
Ron McClure – Yesterday’s Tomorrow
Lee Konitz, Paul Bley, Bill Connors – Pyramid
Contact, Live at Jazz a Porquerolles 2010
Johnny Winter – Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter – Second Winter

recent listening May 13-30, 2017

August 2016, Rahway, NJ

Gavin Bryars – Adelaide Town Hall
Toro Takemitsu – Rising Sun
The Film Music of Toro Takemitsu
Lou Harrison – Gamelan Music
Albert Manglesdorf, Jaco Pastorus, Alphonse Mouzon – Trilogue – Live!
King Crimson – Live in Argentina, 1994 DVD
Arve Henriksen – Strjon
Anthony Braxton, John Linberg – Six Duets (1982)
Baden Powell – Solitude on Guitar
Baden Powell – Apaixonado
Organissimo – Live, 2007 E Lansing Jazz Festival
Romeo Void – Warm, in Your Coat
John Stowell/Michael Zilber Qt – Shot Through With Beauty
John Stowell, David Liebman – Blue Rose
Paul McCandless – Heresay
Allan Holdsworth – Flat Tire

recent listening May 1-12, 2017

Ornette Coleman – Hidden Man
Ornette Coleman – Sound Museum Three Women
Sun Ra – Supersonic Sounds
Return to Forever – Where Have I Known You Before
Julian Priester – Love, Love
Gerald Garcia – Baroque Favorites
Gerald Garcia – Romantic Guitar Favorites
John Williams – Takemitsu Guitar Pieces
Lorenzo Micheli – Miguel Llobet Guitar Works
José Luis Montón – Solo Guitarra
Matt Mitchell – Roulette April 4, 2017
Evan Parker & Peter Kowald – Cottbus, 1979
Evan Parker & Dave Holland – Roccella Joni, Italy 1989
Tyshawn Sorey – solo piano – at JACK, Brooklyn – July 20 2015
Button Trio (Stephen Haynes, Joe Morris, Tyshawn Sorey) – at The Stone, NYC – July 30 2014
Ches Smith Trio, Winter Jazz Fest, Friday, January 10, 2014
Matthew Shipp Trio – at Vision Festival 19 – Roulette, Brooklyn – June 14 2014

recent listening April 15-29, 2017

Bill Frisell – Before We Were Born
Anthony Braxton – Trio & Duet
Anthony Braxton – Nine Duets (1993)
Anthony Braxton – Creative Music Orchestra (Koln) 1978
Anthony Braxton – Composition No. 165 (for 18 Instruments)
The Microscopic Qt – Lobster Leaps In
John Stevens with Allan Holdsworth – Re-Touch
Levin Torn White
Ran Blake – Suffield Gothic
Ran Blake – Short Life of Barbara Monk
Ran Blake – Grey December, Live in Rome
Konrad Ragossnig – Lute Music of the Renaissance
Andrew Hill – Change
Julia Hulsman – Sooner & Later
John Clark – Faces
Sam Rivers – Streams
Tempest – Tempest
Paul Motian – Psalm
Don Thompson Quartet – Winter Mist
Cecil Taylor – Berlin Jazztage 1969 with Sam Rivers and Jimmy Lyons
Sam Rivers – an Evening in Hamburg 1979
Roger Powell – Cosmic Furnace
ScoLoHoFo – Oh!
Frank Zappa – Meat Light: The ‘Uncle Meat’ Project/Object Audio Documentary

recent listening April 1-14, 2017

Jakob Bro – December Song
Jakob Bro – Gefion
Terje Rypdal – Blue
Double Image – Dawn
Thomaz Stanko – Polin
John Surman Trio – Hamburg, Ger. 1975-06-08
Dominic Miller – First Touch
Eddie Jobson – Theme of Secrets
Yes – Progeny: Highlights from Seventy Two
Yes – Yes
Jacques Loussier Trio – Bach: the Brandenburgs
Evan Parker – Monoceros
Sam Rivers – Hues
Power Tools – Strange Meeting
Bill Frisell – Lookout for Hope

recent listening March 11-31, 2017

Jay Gottlieb, Philip Glass – Piano Music
Andrew Chubb, Philip Glass – Etudes Book 1
John Adams – Earbox
The Swingle Singers – Anyone for Bach, Handel, Vivaldi?
The Swingle Singers – Jazz Sebastian Bach
Cecil Taylor – Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come
Paul Motian Trio – Bill Evans
Jacob Bro – Balladeering
Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan, Joey Baron – Streams
Anthony Braxton – Willisau (Quartet) 1991
David Liebman – Trio + One
Dave Liebman & Franco D’Andrea – Nine Again
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid – The Exchange Session, Vol. 1 & 2
Marilyn Crispell / Mark Helias / Tyshawn Sorey – at The Stone, NYC – July 29 2014
Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Jack DeJohnette (ECM 1237)
Joe Diorio Trio – Live
Joe Diorio – …It’s About Time
David Becker and Joe Diorio – the Color of Sound
Joe Puma – It’s a Blue World
The Sound of the Johnny Smith Guitar
Jeff Berlin – Champion
HBC – HBC

Lovingly remastered live studio performance of Tubular Bells Part 1 for BBC TV ‘2nd House’, filmed on 30 November 1973, originally broadcast on BBC2 on 1 December, with a cast including Oldfield, his brother Terry (flute), Fred Frith (and other members of Henry Cow), Steve Hillage, Pierre Moerlen, Tom Newman, Mike Ratledge, Mick Taylor, Karl Jenkins and others. It includes a new part for oboe.

Video remastered in to HD.
Audio remastered and restored with some subtle stereo widening.
All remastering done by Peter Nicholls.

Tubular Bells Live Performance on BBC TV
“BBC TV 2nd House Performance”: live-in-the-studio performance for the BBC, filmed on 30 November 1973, originally broadcast on BBC2 on 1 December, with a cast including Oldfield, his brother Terry (flute), Fred Frith (and other members of Henry Cow), Steve Hillage, Pierre Moerlen, Tom Newman, Mike Ratledge, Mick Taylor, Karl Jenkins and others. It includes a new part for oboe.

This has been released on the Elements DVD and is on the 2009 reissue of Tubular Bells

Music copyright Mike Oldfield.
Video copyright BBC.
This production by Peter Nicholls 2016