What are you listening to right now? (#10 - For everything, everything, everything)

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  • Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

    Our move went well yesterday, no Internet for a week, though. I will have to work out how to get images on my iPad! I am sure it is easy if I try...
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    This is good to hear greg, We want to see your house from here !

    Sublime Musique Concrete from Francois Bayle (no longer @ €music)
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  • I'll see what I can do, BN

    At the moment I am limited to playing CDs that I had in my car, so I have played Beatles White Album, Neil Young Harvest and now moving to After the Goldrush. computer is still packed and I have still to find my iPod dock. Back to the boxes!
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    Trance Thursday.
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    Recommended for people who like music.
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    G.
    It's been amusing to me as I've been seeking out more jazz stuff to notice how for the reviewers on Amazon just about every other album and musician is "underrated". People even say it about albums that are in the Penguin core collection (and therefore presumably highly rated). Seems to be a standard jazz review mannerism. Is it because jazz is more fixated on rating and comparing people in lists than other genres? (There's no Penguin Core Ambient Collection). Or because there are just so many recordings everyone can find their own lost gem? Or a projection of a feeling by jazz fans that jazz in general is underrated (compared to pop, e.g.)? Or a manifestation of some particular historical divide between jazz critics and fans? (There aren't really ambient critics to speak of).

    It's just said so often it gets comical.
  • GP - I think the answer to your post is probably 'yes'.

    This album is actually overrated, but still enjoyable from time to time:

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    Craig
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    By listening to this underrated gem, I prove that I am cooler than other people.

    Glad everything worked out with the sale and move Greg! Good luck with the boxes.
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    @GP: cynically, I'd say the "hidden gem" is just one of a few tropes that Amazon reviewers use to organize their reviews, along with "the surprisingly good genre album" and the "picky listener." However, I think that there is something about Jazz, along with Classical, that makes listeners more aware of how albums are received. I think those genres require more reading, in order to understand the musical landscape fully.

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    Gu!

    Greg: Mazel tov! should you move again in the future, set up your stereo first and play your favorite record. It's the best way to bless a new home.
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    The long Dead Sevens - The White Waltz & Other Stories

    - "Somewhere betwixt the brooding, 10 gallon groan of 16 Horsepower; the baroque drawl of Blue Ruin; the whiskey smell of Bad Livers and The Bad Seeds’ beef scented brand of western gothic hangs a wanted poster offering reward, dead or alive, for the atmospheric, detailed twang of Long Dead Sevens. Oh death and grief and sorrow and murder shine like a tin star polished with the bullets of Nick Cliff’s baritone croon. Yet deep in the black heart that lies beneath banjo, fiddle, slide guitar, piano and derringer; somewhere near the unmarked grave of the coward Robert Ford; in a place that smells of salt peter and rancid tonic, the high lonesome is joined by the growling din of collapsing new buildings. A theatrical steam-industrial moan echoes through the mesa heralding an age not quite ancient and not quite modern. Colts and Mausers unite to shoot ‘em up in this dark, enveloping, weirding wild west operetta.
    - Yippee Ki-Yay!"

    Beta-lactam Ring Records - 2008
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    Trance Thursday
  • 'Designated Gods' are one of the problems in jazz, along with 'Ancestor Worship.' (Never mind 'Seriousness')

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    *Not* underrated!
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    Infinity Frequencies - Dream Recovery

    Unrated.
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    Prorated.

    Craig
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    Interesting late-90s effort from Abercombie, adding horns, organ and violin in various combinations.

    The Amazon write-up leads me to this one from the same era:
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    @Doofy, I started the morning with
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    , and am sure it must be underrated by someone because it was rather good. Then worked my way through
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    - one and a half times actually before it started sounding familiar and I realized I had inadvertently turned on "repeat" on my iPod Touch.
    Now just finished:
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    which does not feature John Abercrombie but would be hard to overrate.
    ETA, thanks for the Charles Lloyd rec - I thought I had grabbed all the Abercombie albums from Guvera, but of course I have not plumbed all the collaborations.
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    ETA2: delicious, thanks.
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    @BT, I wonder if anyone has done any serious study of music review tropes. Post-rock reviews tend to rely heavily on the "it's been done before/sounds like GYBE or EITS" move. Whereas I am not running into the "it's been done before" one so much in the jazz reviews I've read - which on the face of it might seem odd since Jazz is supposed to be about not repeating.
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    Cohabitated.

    Craig
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    Serrated.
    (There's actually a band by that name but I can't claim to be listening to them)
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    Billy Preston - Encouraging Words

    Unbraided.

    Eta: I don't know if this qualifies as underrated, but it certainly isn't as well known as it deserves to be. Maybe undercelebrated?
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    Based on cover art, I imagined this was the soundtrack for some 70s exploitation flick. Turns out the title is, "I’ll Kill You If You Don’t Buy This LP"

    (translated)
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    Initiated.
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    Not outdated.
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    I like Tibbetts' work a whole lot.
  • Safe Journey is a classic by Tibbetts
  • Totally loving the above, which is my first Tibbetts album, but there are quite a few on Guvera and I have plenty of credits still so....
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    Guverated.
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