Just acquired a CD copy of this one - really cool little trip. What's kind of interesting is the sound of the recordings because with the effects and instrumentation, especially the exotic, it often sounds like they just went next door and borrowed it from the Strawberry Fields era Beatles. Liked it a lot.
Rats - I just cannot get images to go up on this ancient non-right click laptop - have to hit the link to see the pretty picture - Psychedelia At Abbey Road 1965-1969.
What do you think about that Harrell? Personally, I thought it was a bit uneven, but then again, I can't claim to be his biggest fan. Others may find more to like there.
Like the late Michael Brecker in the US, British saxophonist Alex Garnett has spent a couple of decades helping other people's music to sound good (he's worked with everybody from the Stones to Humphrey Lyttelton) before stepping into the limelight himself. This New York-recorded session of original pieces with a terrific transatlantic quartet not only reflects his vast experience, but reveals a compositional sharpness that makes this new solo career look like a long-term one. The idiom is superficially very familiar tightly swinging updated hard bop, and soulful tenor-sax balladeering. But Garnett's combination of a brusque, hard-punched sound has a rare conviction suggesting early Coltrane, the work of such elegant long-gone hard-boppers as Ronnie Scott and 60s Blue Note sideman Hank Mobley. The themes of uptempo pieces such as the opening Lydia and the Tubby Hayes-like Blueprint are full of exhilarating melodic turns, and smokey ballads such as the languid Three for a Moor and Dracula's Lullaby take Garnett, pianist Anthony Wonsey and bassist Michael Janisch on constantly absorbing trips. It's an unexpected gem.
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Rats - I just cannot get images to go up on this ancient non-right click laptop - have to hit the link to see the pretty picture - Psychedelia At Abbey Road 1965-1969.
Ah, that's better...
What do you think about that Harrell? Personally, I thought it was a bit uneven, but then again, I can't claim to be his biggest fan. Others may find more to like there.
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Streaming on Bandcamp...
Cloning Americana - "For Which It Stands"
I liked the SF Jazz so much I've now downloaded their previous set
Jeremy Udden - "If the Past Seems So Bright"
Translated: The Fight Club - The Swedish Disco
Yuval Cohen - "Song Without Words"
This is really good, bought it a couple of days ago as the DotD.
Dream Theater, via spotify. Every once in a while I got through a prog phase. This is great music, but the drums really wear me out.
Steven Lugerner - "Narratives"
But now listening to:
Bill Frisell - "Quartet"
-Nothing quite as beautiful as this.
Playing the second 'album' of this two CD length set. I really like this band
Source: Guardian 15.09.11