I know this album is compared to Bitches Brew, but I do like Miles in the Sky better. That is completely subjective and may have something to do with growing up with Bitches Brew, having heard it so many times in my life may make me appreciate Miles in the Sky more.
I am really #sick have inflamed vocal cords. I can't speak and because of my sinuses, one of my ears feel 'blocked', so even music is out of the the question.
But when I get back to stereo, could you recommend me some #joyous#jazz from 1960's and up?
I really love Mastodon, my Heads place, you warm my heart.
Ok, here goes.
Oliver Nelson, "The Blues and the Abstract Truth".
Tito Puente and His Latin Ensemble, "Mambo Diablo".
Ray Bryant, "Con Alma".
Nicola Conte, "Jet Sounds".
Ginger Baker Trio, with Charlie Haden & Bill Frisell.
Stanley Clarke, Larry Carlton, Billy Cobham, Deron Johson and Najee, "Live at the Greek".
Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather, "Live in Osaka".
Hope this helps.
Yusef Lateef - Live Lila Eule, Bremen, Germany, October 20, 1971 ⚫
2021 Honey Pie Records
A1 In The Evening
A2 Lowland Lullaby
B1 Untitled Medley
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Bob Cunningham
Albert Toothie Heath
Kenny Barron
@kompaktkiste@jazz@vinylrecords They do such a good job on those (and the BN Classics). Great titles at a reasonable price. The Classics are cheaper but I like the gatefold on the Tone Poets. Great series.
I have recently read the manga "Soil" by Kaneko Atsushi and watched the jdrama by the same title. As it is often the case with me, in creating this piece of music I found elements of that story. One concept in particular reverberated insistently -- perhaps the central concept of the story: that of the foreign substance, or foreign organism -- in Japanese, "異物" (Ibutsu). The unfathomable, the unexplainable, that's the foreign substance. It is the fact that contradicts the theory we were trying to hypothesize -- the element that escapes our understanding and gently destroys our model of reality. And yet, it is an element of truth -- a fact. A moment of light in the dark cave. A delicate line between yin and yang.
Music, perhaps?
Delicate line between heaven and earth…
The calm of the ages,
all the world’s worth.
Such minuscule measure,
while we think it so grand…
Just five specks of smallness,
This soft quiet land.
So frail and so fleeting,
in the end you will see
Simple dreams were Horatio’s philosophy.
For all the truth,
all creation,
all secrets of yore
Can be told in an instant,
by then they’re no more.
Ah, The Unexplainable
All worries unsettled,
heartache unresolved…
All questions unanswered,
with death, shall be solved.
We already teeter,
this sheer cliff so high.
When we fall to corruption,
insecurities die.
To end is to start;
to surrender is to know.
Despair and depression,
together they grow.
Hope shall meet hopeless
when there’s nowhere to go.
(Thoughts on the precipice, poem by Fujimura Misao)
on now:
Sun Ra - Space is the Place,
the 2023 Verve By Request Third Man Pressing.
my first third man where quality control might have failed. some paper sticking in the vinyl between the run-outs. one minor tick, yet, ermm, not cool, for a €30+ product.
⚫ meh.
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@Whiskeyomega@jazz@vinylrecords
^replacing the paper sleeves is a no-brainer of course.
some are worse than others, almost abrasive & scratching hairlines on the vinyl.
i can understand if some mid nineties detroit techno release had them.
however a company putting vinyl-damaging cheap-ass sleeves into premium-priced jazz releases which entitle themselves "audiophile" is nothing less than a massive spit into paying collectors' faces.
yes, Verve / Third Man Records, i'm talking about you.
apart from the cheap unpadded inner sleeves i haven't had any quality issues with the Third Man vinyl reissues;
overpriced yeah, but aren't they all...
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