Progression, The Last Debut EP. Bought from AmieStreet some years back. They sound like Pink Floyd or Camel, a kind of progressive rock, but not over the top theatrics. Unfortunately, I know nothing else about them, the band name is used by a techno band and the album title is terrible for googling. Worth a listen.
Yes I did - I've played the first of two CDs, the other will come later today, but I just need background music at the moment! I was surprised at the sound quality of many of the recordings, as they must have originally been on 78s. But I can see why the liner notes place him at the centre of modern jazz in its early days
- "Painfully slow and achingly beautiful, The Passing Measures - for bass clarinet, amplified orchestra, and women's voices - is an ambient and emotionally charged meditation on the passing of time."
- Just my words . . .
- "David Lang is one of the most highly esteemed American composers writing today. His works have been performed around the world and in many of the great concert halls.
The recipient of a wide array of awards, Lang received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in music for the the little match girl passion, based on a fable by Hans Christian Andersen and Lang's own rewriting of the libretto to Bach's St. Matthew's Passion. The recording of the piece on Harmonia Mundi was awarded a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance.
His music is used regularly in ballet and dance productions around the world, by such choreographers as Benjamin Millepied, Twyla Tharp, Susan Marshall and Edouard Lock. Lang's film work includes the score for Jonathan Parker's recent (Untitled), the award-winning documentary The Woodmans, and the string arrangements for the soundtrack to Requiem for a Dream, performed by the Kronos Quartet.
In addition to his work as a composer, Lang co-founded Bang on a Can, a prominent new music festival in New York. He is Professor of composition at the Yale School of Music."
- Cantaloupe Music
This exhilarating session, nominally led by young Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi, is dominated by Gianlucca Petrella on trombone, Craig Taborn's inspired rhythm section of bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Gerald Cleaver, and former Lounge Lizards saxophonist Michael Blake. Though it echoes the sprawling, rough-edge ensemble sound of Carla Bley's brass-powered bands or Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, the set balances pace with rich improv ideas, all delivered with casual authority. The opening is pensive, but raucous trombone sounds soon smear across fast, bowed-bass figures and cyclonic free-jazz drums, before settling into a wry, Bley-like theme. The title track is a delectably smoky romantic melody for trombone and sax, but a skimming Ornette Coleman-like melody (effortlessly negotiated by Petrella) is not far behind. Begatto Kitchen is like Mediterranean and South African jazz merged; In Pursuit of Silence is exactly the exploration of space and minimal action it sounds as if it should be. This is an album made with heart, technique and freewheeling confidence.
Don't care for all of this, but "Mud Bug", which has Derek Trucks on guitar (what else?), is a great track.
From the artist bio on emusic:
The Project Z plane was to have six engines of 5,000 horsepower each; the Nakajima Aircraft Company quickly began developing engines for the plane, and proposed doubling HA-44 engines (the most powerful engine available in Japan) into a 36-cylinder engine.
From what I can tell, this is a 1964 German Concert:
Wolf is backed by his legendary lead guitarist Hubert Sumlin, drummer Clifton James, pianist extraordinaire Albert Luandrew (Sunnyland Slim to you and me), and supposedly Willie Dixon on bass, although not all sources agree about that. It does sound like Dixon's upright bass, though. And this impressive combo, which has Wolf himself playing rhythm guitar and a bit of harmonica, groove their way through a tough set of the grittiest electric blues you'll ever hear:
From AmieStreet, The Rheostatics. Creative strange pop, they sound like Terry Taylor or Daniel Amos at times. Last.FM opines: "simultaneously one of Canadas most influential and most unconventional rock bands in the 1990s, a band whose defiantly quirky, yet compelling, take on pop and rock music has been described both as iconic and iconoclastic."
Regarding Newport In NY 72: That looked really good, and I thought I'd see if I had enough in my account. Turns out it's $5.84, and I have $5.50. Maybe they're smarter than they often seem.
"With songs that transcend trends and musical boundaries, Shelby Earls Burn the Boats is a fine example of a singer-songwriter who has honed her craft to a fine point and whose songs are both touching and inspiring." PopMatters
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Progression, The Last Debut EP. Bought from AmieStreet some years back. They sound like Pink Floyd or Camel, a kind of progressive rock, but not over the top theatrics. Unfortunately, I know nothing else about them, the band name is used by a techno band and the album title is terrible for googling. Worth a listen.
Following amclark's recomendation, I've borrowed this from my local library.
Hope you enjoy!
Yes I did - I've played the first of two CDs, the other will come later today, but I just need background music at the moment! I was surprised at the sound quality of many of the recordings, as they must have originally been on 78s. But I can see why the liner notes place him at the centre of modern jazz in its early days
- "Painfully slow and achingly beautiful, The Passing Measures - for bass clarinet, amplified orchestra, and women's voices - is an ambient and emotionally charged meditation on the passing of time."
- Just my words . . .
- "David Lang is one of the most highly esteemed American composers writing today. His works have been performed around the world and in many of the great concert halls.
The recipient of a wide array of awards, Lang received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in music for the the little match girl passion, based on a fable by Hans Christian Andersen and Lang's own rewriting of the libretto to Bach's St. Matthew's Passion. The recording of the piece on Harmonia Mundi was awarded a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance.
His music is used regularly in ballet and dance productions around the world, by such choreographers as Benjamin Millepied, Twyla Tharp, Susan Marshall and Edouard Lock. Lang's film work includes the score for Jonathan Parker's recent (Untitled), the award-winning documentary The Woodmans, and the string arrangements for the soundtrack to Requiem for a Dream, performed by the Kronos Quartet.
In addition to his work as a composer, Lang co-founded Bang on a Can, a prominent new music festival in New York. He is Professor of composition at the Yale School of Music."
- Cantaloupe Music
Pete Namlook & Tetsu INoue - 62 Eulengasse
Now playing CD2
From my big list of Prestige stuff from the late 50s.
Don't care for all of this, but "Mud Bug", which has Derek Trucks on guitar (what else?), is a great track.
From the artist bio on emusic:
Fail.
From what I can tell, this is a 1964 German Concert:
(from an Amazon review).
Spotty sound, but great music.
From AmieStreet, The Rheostatics. Creative strange pop, they sound like Terry Taylor or Daniel Amos at times. Last.FM opines: "simultaneously one of Canadas most influential and most unconventional rock bands in the 1990s, a band whose defiantly quirky, yet compelling, take on pop and rock music has been described both as iconic and iconoclastic."
"With songs that transcend trends and musical boundaries, Shelby Earls Burn the Boats is a fine example of a singer-songwriter who has honed her craft to a fine point and whose songs are both touching and inspiring." PopMatters
Spotify: spotify:album:4GkgmYezKO9MXzgKfIlkDB
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Second play today - from Jonah's Jazz Picks on 17 Dots