What are you listening to?

[The Minsky Moment]

Modern Jazz Quartet - Last Concert

Change of pace from the Miles electric stuff.  The knock on MJQ is that they were too mannered and buttoned-up, and I do find their work in the studio to be over-controlled.  The live stuff really shines though . . . This wasn't really the last concert - the group reformed in the 80s for some time, but this date probably was their peak.

[The Minsky Moment]

Bobby Hutcherson - Solo/Quartet
old favorite. 

[Eddie Teach]

Luis Fonsi- Despacito. The video was released in January and has already eclipsed Gangnam Style. 

Did a little checking. Gangnam Style had already been passed by that lame Paul Walker tribute song, which is still #1- for a couple more days anyway.

[Syt]

I know nothing about jazz, but Minsky's posts here have led to me listening mostly to classic jazz playlists on Spotify.

[The Brain]

Please tell me you mean Jazzy Jeff.

[Savonarola]

Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star-Club, Hamburg (1964)



Wow, this was one raucous concert.  It's a wild ride with the Killers pounding piano, rage fueled vocals, and the audience chanting "Jerry! Jerry!"  The mixing and the record production aren't great, but I've heard very few more electric live albums than this.

[Eddie Teach]

Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star-Club, Hamburg (1964)



Wow, this was one raucous concert.  It's a wild ride with the Killers pounding piano, rage fueled vocals, and the audience chanting "Jerry! Jerry!"  The mixing and the record production aren't great, but I've heard very few more electric live albums than this.

Were there fat people smacking each other on stage?

[The Minsky Moment]

Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star-Club, Hamburg (1964)



Wow, this was one raucous concert.  It's a wild ride with the Killers pounding piano, rage fueled vocals, and the audience chanting "Jerry! Jerry!"  The mixing and the record production aren't great, but I've heard very few more electric live albums than this.

That one's legendary

[Savonarola]

Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star-Club, Hamburg (1964)



Wow, this was one raucous concert.  It's a wild ride with the Killers pounding piano, rage fueled vocals, and the audience chanting "Jerry! Jerry!"  The mixing and the record production aren't great, but I've heard very few more electric live albums than this.

Were there fat people smacking each other on stage?

Heh, no, but the Killer did berate his band (The Nashville Teens) at points.  The world was blissfully unaware of Jerry Springer in 1964.

[The Minsky Moment]

Please tell me you mean Jazzy Jeff.

Keep it up and I'll take Esbjörn Svensson off the playlist.

[Savonarola]

Luis Fonsi- Despacito. The video was released in January and has already eclipsed Gangnam Style. 

Did a little checking. Gangnam Style had already been passed by that lame Paul Walker tribute song, which is still #1- for a couple more days anyway.

It's huge in Latin American; Maduro had a variation with different words as his campaign song for the last election (which alone justifies sanctions against him.)  It's also been banned from government radio in Malaysia, which probably made it a huge hit there as well.

[The Brain]

Please tell me you mean Jazzy Jeff.

Keep it up and I'll take Esbjörn Svensson off the playlist.

I'll be good.

[Eddie Teach]

I half expected that to be a made up name.

[The Minsky Moment]

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Listened to this one b/c it has Connie Kay (of MJQ) as drummer.  But the real star is Richard Davis - who was THE session bassist of the 60s (credits include Eric Dophy's Out to Lunch, most the Andrew Hill Blue notes, Roland Kirk's Rip Roar and Panic, Clifford Jordan's In the World among many others).  The album is blues-tinged bootstrapped folk-rock: it has the  sensibilities of folk without being part of any discernible folk tradition other than itself.  Basically it's an acoustic jam session from an all-star instrumentalist line-up over which Van Morrison sings his evocative if nonsensical lyrics (what exactly is an "Astral Week" anyways?).

Got me thinking - what are this generation's unique vocal talents?  Is there anyone that has a distinctive voice like Van Morrison, or Janis Joplin, or hell even like Mick Jagger?  Just saying certain names you can hear the voice without even referencing a particular song.  Maybe I'm just an Old but there doesn't seem to be that kind of vocal star anymore.  Is anyone going to remember what Ed Sheeran's voice sounds like 30 years from now?

[garbon]

Björk - Pagan Poetry