Old Listening This Week - June 17th, 2019

From the Country bin - some Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 1970s albums and 1968's I've Got You On My Mind Again...

Ain't It Amazing, Gracie

The Best Of Buck Owens, Vol. 6

In The Palm Of Your Hand

I've Got You On My Mind Again

I Wouldn't Live In New York City

That's All Right With Me (If It's All Right With You)...

New Listening This Week - June 17th, 2019

What's new for the ears this week?

Mark De Clive-Lowe - Heritage II

Released in April on Ropeadope - read their press release

Daniel Cano - Social Music

"Hon, A Couch Has Fallen From The Sky"

Michel Camilo - Essence

Fabian Almazan Trio - This Land Abounds With Life

Pitchfork Review here.


Sylvie Courvoisier & Alfred Vogel - Pulse

Piano and drums - out in April on Boomslang

Old Listening This Week - June 10th, 2019

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra Plus (1961 Fontana collection of Columbia recordings)

The Birth Of The Blues

The Nearness Of You

What Makes The Sunset

I Begged Her

I've Got A Crush On You

Saturday Night

The Things We Did Last Summer

I Concentrate On You

It's Only A Paper Moon

You Go To My Head

Bim Bam Baby

How Deep Is The Ocean?

One For My Baby

Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

All Or Nothing At All (with Harry James & His Orchestra)

Spring Is Here

S'Posin'

Time After Time

Stormy Weather

All Of Me

The Music Stopped

September Song

Sweet Lorraine

Try A Little Tenderness

My Blue Heaven

When Your Lover Has Gone

I'm Glad There Is You

Ol' Man River

London By Night (1962 compilation of Capitol recordings)

London By Night

Jeepers Creepers

Ebb Tide

My Blue Heaven

The Moon Was Yellow

The Lonesome Road

On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Where Are You?

South Of The Border

Something Wonderful Happens In Summer

Night And Day

Autumn Leaves

Released in the UK and Australia 

When Your Lover Has Gone (1961 compilation of Capitol recordings)

When Your Lover Has Gone

Ill Wind

Five Hundred Guys

Deep In A Dream

Weep They Will

What Is This Thing Called Love?

Can't We Be Friends

Mood Indigo

Can I Steal A Little Love?

Glad To Be Unhappy

Last Night When We Were Young

The Same Old Song And Dance

Sinatra & Company (1971 Reprise album) featuring “I Will Drink The Wine”

Drinking Water (Agua De Ber)

Someone To Light Up My Life

Triste

Don't Ever Go Away (Por Causa De Voce)

This Happy Madness (Estrada Branca)

Wave

One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So)

I Will Drink The Wine

Close To You

Sunrise In The Morning

Bein' Green

My Sweet Lady

Leaving On A Jet Plane

Lady Day

What Direction?

We all take different directions to get to the music that we enjoy. Follow your ears....

New Listening This Week - June 10th, 2019

Time to warm up the ears with some new sounds...Dave Douglas with Uri Caine and Andrew Cyrille - Devotion

The aptly titled Devotion by trumpeter Dave Douglas, pianist Uri Caine and drummer Andrew Cyrille is both a prayer and a dedication. Like a prayer, the trio resolves to maintain a virtuous approach to their celebration of personal heroes, both musical and cultural.

Review here













David Sánchez – Carib
A Grammy-winning saxophonist and member of the SFJAZZ Collective, David Sánchez presents his newest project, Carib – a deeply personal journey using modern jazz to explore the kinship between the West African drum rhythms of Yuba, Calinda, and Sika and music in Haiti, Carriacou, and his native Puerto Rico.

Avishai Cohen – Arvoles

Arvoles (meaning "trees" in the ancient Ladino language) opens with "Simonero," introduced by Cohen's solo pizzicato bass, swiftly joined by piano drums and shortly after by the surprisingly full-sounding ensemble of flute and trombone. This is a beguiling combination of instruments that's repeated on half of the ten tracks here. The title track is a neo-baroque trio piece, performed with delicacy, David's brushed drums providing a sonic wash for Cohen's pizzicato bass solo whereas Cohen's dynamic arco bass contribution on "Face M" is spectacularly virtuosic. The sumptuously thematic strains of "Gesture #2" are echoed by the neo-classical quintet arrangement of "Childhood (For Carmel)" accentuated by alternating arco and pizzicato bass. The tune is overlaid by elegant flute and plaintive trombone extemporisation. Cohen adds substantial gravitas to "Elchinov" with lugubrious arco bass.

Review here



Theo Croker – Star People Nation

Star People Nation finds Croker at the helm of production, songwriting and performance, resulting in an intimate exploration of “the everyday rituals of blackness.” A translation of Theo Croker’s personal, spiritual and creative experience, Star People Nation is a self-reflective collection of provocative, powerfully passionate and boundary-busting compositions that speak to our greater, shared human existence.

Official audio for "Understand Yourself" here









Greg Abate & The Tim Ray Trio: Gratitude: Stage Door Live @ The ZIf somehow you haven't yet heard saxophonist Greg Abate, now in his seventh decade and as sharp and eloquent an orator as ever, it is high time you did. The Rhode Island native is an earnest post-bopper from the Phil Woods/Bud Shank school of straight-on swinging, and Gratitude, Abate's fourth album with the admirable Tim Ray Trio, happens upon the ensemble in blue-chip form in a lively concert recorded on the cozy stage of the Zeiterion Theater in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Review here