December 2012 Downloads
C'mon folk, time to step away from the fire hose and let us have a convenient summary of what you found.
A note on this list: I compile these by creating a smart playlist by date in iTunes and exporting it to excel. That means this is really a list of music added to iTunes in December, not a list of what was downloaded. In past times the difference between those two concepts was modest. Thanks to Guvera, despite the list below there's perhaps another gigabyte of stuff waiting to be tagged and added to iTunes. It'll probably show up in January - but since I use smart playlists, some of which are date sensitive, to manage the flow onto my iPod Touch, I've been holding stuff back to avoid overwhelming the Touch.
Total cost of everything below: about $17. (The CDs were Christmas gifts)
To my own great suprise, favorite album on the list: Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges - Back To Back. Amazing stuff.
Guvera
Art Blakey Quintet - A Night At Birdland, Vol. 1
Art Farmer - Portrait Of Art Farmer
Ben Webster - Ben Webster and Associates
Ben Webster - Stormy Weather
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Cecil Taylor - Jazz Advance
Cynic - Traced In Air
Dave Liebman - Drum Ode
David Sylvian - Gone To Earth
Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
Duke Ellington - The Pianist
Duke Ellington - Piano Reflections
Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn - Piano Duets: Great Times!
Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges - Back To Back
Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong - The Great Summit - The Complete Sessions
Duke Ellington & Ray Brown - This One's For Blanton
Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields
Gene Ammons - Gentle Jug, Volume 2
Herb Ellis - Nothing But The Blues
Jan Garbarek - All Those Born With Wings
Jan Garbarek - Dis
Jan Garbarek - In Praise Of Dreams
Jan Garbarek - Witchi-Tai-To
John Surman - A Biography Of The Rev. Absalom Dawe
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Norman Granz - The Complete Jam Sessions
The Oscar Peterson Trio - Great Connection
Pascal Rogé - Satie: 3 Gymnopedies; 6 Gnossiennes etc.
Ran Blake - All That Is Tied
Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Terje Rypdal - Descendre
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
Vladislav Delay - Multila
Wadada Leo Smith - Divine Love
Amazon
Bob Marley - Legend
Simon & Garfunkel - The Best Of Simon & Garfunkel
emusic
Panabrite - Illumination
Red Shift - Siren
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Junodownload
Between - Between
Netlabels
Various Artists - The Garden of Forking Paths
Various Artists - Hydrozoa
Yannis Kyriakides - Highly Coloured Places
Physical
Taylor Deupree - Faint (Deluxe Box Set)
Arvo Pärt - The True Vine
Bandcamp
V/A - Songs for the North Country
A note on this list: I compile these by creating a smart playlist by date in iTunes and exporting it to excel. That means this is really a list of music added to iTunes in December, not a list of what was downloaded. In past times the difference between those two concepts was modest. Thanks to Guvera, despite the list below there's perhaps another gigabyte of stuff waiting to be tagged and added to iTunes. It'll probably show up in January - but since I use smart playlists, some of which are date sensitive, to manage the flow onto my iPod Touch, I've been holding stuff back to avoid overwhelming the Touch.
Total cost of everything below: about $17. (The CDs were Christmas gifts)
To my own great suprise, favorite album on the list: Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges - Back To Back. Amazing stuff.
Guvera
Art Blakey Quintet - A Night At Birdland, Vol. 1
Art Farmer - Portrait Of Art Farmer
Ben Webster - Ben Webster and Associates
Ben Webster - Stormy Weather
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Cecil Taylor - Jazz Advance
Cynic - Traced In Air
Dave Liebman - Drum Ode
David Sylvian - Gone To Earth
Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
Duke Ellington - The Pianist
Duke Ellington - Piano Reflections
Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn - Piano Duets: Great Times!
Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges - Back To Back
Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong - The Great Summit - The Complete Sessions
Duke Ellington & Ray Brown - This One's For Blanton
Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields
Gene Ammons - Gentle Jug, Volume 2
Herb Ellis - Nothing But The Blues
Jan Garbarek - All Those Born With Wings
Jan Garbarek - Dis
Jan Garbarek - In Praise Of Dreams
Jan Garbarek - Witchi-Tai-To
John Surman - A Biography Of The Rev. Absalom Dawe
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Norman Granz - The Complete Jam Sessions
The Oscar Peterson Trio - Great Connection
Pascal Rogé - Satie: 3 Gymnopedies; 6 Gnossiennes etc.
Ran Blake - All That Is Tied
Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Terje Rypdal - Descendre
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
Vladislav Delay - Multila
Wadada Leo Smith - Divine Love
Amazon
Bob Marley - Legend
Simon & Garfunkel - The Best Of Simon & Garfunkel
emusic
Panabrite - Illumination
Red Shift - Siren
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Junodownload
Between - Between
Netlabels
Various Artists - The Garden of Forking Paths
Various Artists - Hydrozoa
Yannis Kyriakides - Highly Coloured Places
Physical
Taylor Deupree - Faint (Deluxe Box Set)
Arvo Pärt - The True Vine
Bandcamp
V/A - Songs for the North Country
Comments
I'll get my list done tonight when I can sort via date added.
Craig
Greg and I have volunteered to be European test persons.
- As usual, my music dl's is on my 2012 list - (month>label>year in comments)
Keith Jarrett
Always Let Me Go
At the Deer Head Inn
Belonging
Black Hand
Bop-Be
Byablue
Changeless
Concerts (Bregnez)
Dark Intervals
Death and the Flower
Eyes of the Heart
Facing You
Fort Yawuh
In the Light
Invocations - Moth to the Flame
Keith Jarrett - The Kln Concert
La Scala
Live at the Blue Note
Luminessence
My Song
Mysteries
Nude Ants
Ruta and Daitya
Shades
Standards in Norway
Standards Live
Standards, Vol 1
Standards, Vol 2
Standards, Vol 3
Still Live
The Celestial Hawk
Tokyo '96
Treasure Island
Tribute
Works
Jan Garbarek Quartet
Afric Pepperbird
Aftenland
All Those Born With Wings
Atmos
Dansere
Dis
Eventyr
I Took Up the Runes
It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice
Legend of the Seven Dreams
Madar
Paths, Prints
Places
Ragas and Sagas
Rites
Rosensfole
Sart
StAR
Triptykon
Twelve Moons
Witchi-Tai-To
Naná Vasconcelos - Saudades
Carla Bley - Fleur Carnivore
Masqualero - Areo
Masqualero - Bande À Part
Zakir Hussain - Making Music
Kenny Wheeler - Gnu High
Enrico Rava - The Plot
Enrico Rava - The Pilgrim And The Stars
Enrico Rava - Volver
Circle - Paris Concert
Dave Liebman - Drum Ode
Wadada Leo Smith - Divine Love
Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers
Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds
Dave Holland - Jumpin' In
Egberto Gismonti - Circense
Egberto Gismonti - ZigZag
Egberto Gismonti - Sol Do Meio Dia
Classical
Gavin Bryars - Three Viennese Dances
Gavin Bryars - The Last Days
Siegfried Palm - Intercomunicazione
Edward Elgar - Violin Concerto; Chausson - Poème
Sibelius - Violin Concerto Op.47
Alexander Scriabin - Le Poème de l'extase
Steve Reich - Music for Mallet Instruments
Unsuk Chin - Double Concerto
Luciano Berio - Sequenzas
Jean Barraqué - Sonate Pour Piano
Bandcamp:
Various - Songs for the North Country
Amazon:
The Idan Raichel Project
The Touré-Raichel Collective
Motown #1's
And a bunch of cheap classical
Hodges and Ellington also have another album out called Side by Side that you might enjoy.
The Beatles - Revolver
Cult of Youth - Love Will Prevail
Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
Metz - s/t
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Stars - The North
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Titus Andronicus - Local Business
Bandcamp
V/A - Songs for the North Country
drip.fm
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Blues du Jour
Quasi - Featuring Birds
Woodbine - s/t
Gift
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Paul Westerberg - 14 Songs
Wipers - Box Set
Guvera
Bad Brains - Banned in D.C.
Bobby Womack - Facts of Life
Crystal Castles - s/t
Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped
Killing Joke - s/t
Miike Snow - s/t
Minutemen - Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat
Minutemen - Project: Mersh
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Peter Tosh - Mama Africa
The Police - Synchronicity
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
Redman - Whut? The Album
Rufus Wainwright - s/t
The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
7digital
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Craig
Ryan Adams, Cold Roses
Misha Alperin, Night, Her First Dance *****
Vitor Araújo, A/B (free) *****
Louis Armstrong, Satchmo at Symphony Hall, California Concerts
The Auteurs, How I Learned To Love the Boot Boy
Daniel Bachman, Seven Pines
Alain Bashung, Pizza, Roulette Russe
Count Basie and Oscar Peterson, Satch and Josh, Timepieces
Franco Battiato, La Voce Del Padrone
Beta Hector, Sunbeam Insulin
Black Twig Pickers and Steve Gunn, S/T (free)
Brave Old World, Klezmer Music
Bob Brookmeyer, Recorded Fall '61, Raditionalism
Gary Burton, Passengers, Ring
Gentle Giant, In a Glass House
Graham Coxon, Happiness in Magazines, Love Travels at Illegal Speeds
Harris Eisenstadt, Canada Day III
Bill Fay, Life is People *****
Nelson Freire, Brasileiro *****
John Fullbright, From the Ground Up
Golem, Citizen Boris
Barry Guy, Ceremony
Fujiko Hemming, Impressive Pieces *****
Hespèrion XXI, Ostinato
Beth Jean Houghton, Cellophane Nose
Ilaiyaraaja, Solla Solla
Klezmer Conservatory Band, Yiddishe Renaissance
Yusef Lateef, Eastern Sounds, Into Something
Least Carpet, II (free)
Michael Kiwanuka, Home Again
Missy Mazzolli, Songs from the Uproar
JD McPherson, Signs and Signifiers
Charles Mingus, The Great Mingus Concert
Drew Minter, A Wind Blows from the East: Four German Medieval Tales *****
Muddy Waters, Hoochie Coochie Man: The Complete Chess Masters vol 2
Ocean Colour Scene, Moseley Shoals
OMD, Dazzle Ships
Joe Pass, Two for the Road
Pessi and Wallu, If Grief Could Wait
Michel Polnareff, La Bal des Laze
Quantic, Caliventura
Tulipa Ruiz, Tudo Tanto (free)
Renaud, Tournée Rouge Sang, Ma Gonzesse
The Residents, Eskimo
Tony Rice, Devlin
Selda, S/T
Elizabeth Shepherd, Rewind
Jimmy Smith, Plays Fats Waller, Midnight Special
Alain Souchon, C'est déjà ça
Stuff Smith, Cat on a Hot Fiddle
Jacky Terrasson, Reach *****, Mirror
The Tornados, Telstar
Travesi and Cos, Frère Jacques: Round about Offenbach
The Ventures, Surfing
Jerry Jeff Walker, Driftin' Way of Life, Ridin' High, Viva Terlingua
Eberhard Weber Yellow Fields, The Colors of Chloe, Later That Evening *****, Pendulum
various, Mulheres de Péricles (free) *****
various, Oh Michael, Look What You've Done : Friends Play Michael Chapman
various, Songs from the North Country
I've rated ***** only recordings I think people should definitely check out.