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The Minsky Moment

#8325
April 05, 2020, 03:46:41 PM
Branford's father was another coronavirus victim as widely reported. Jazz musicians are heavily concentrated in New York and New Orleans; I fear we may lose more before this ends.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

The Minsky Moment

#8326
April 07, 2020, 03:13:03 AM
Dave Holland/Zakir Hussain/Chris Potter, Good Hope (2019)

Very strong trio lineup - Holland played bass on Miles Davis' In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew and has been one of the best small group and big band leaders over the past 20 years. Potter is one of the best tenor sax players of the era.  Hussain is on tablas; he is best known for prior work with John McLaughlin in Shakti and collaborations with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead.  The ensemble playing is terrific, but for me the album lacked pizzaz, especially coming after the energetic and eclectic B Marsalis quartet recording
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Syt

#8327
April 07, 2020, 03:25:03 AM
I watched La Bohème (November 2019 Vienna State Opera) for the first time on the weekend. It was lovely. :wub: :cry:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

PDH

#8328
April 07, 2020, 09:33:16 PM
Blue Öyster Cult - Harvester of Eyes
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

mongers

#8329
April 07, 2020, 09:36:14 PM
Quote from: PDH on April 07, 2020, 09:33:16 PM
Blue Öyster Cult - Harvester of Eyes

:ccr
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

#8330
April 08, 2020, 10:27:30 PM
The Black Crowes - 'She Talks To Angels'.  :hmm:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Eddie Teach

#8331
April 10, 2020, 02:08:50 AM
She'll tell you she's an orphan
after you meet her family
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

PDH

#8332
April 10, 2020, 10:38:34 AM
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

The Minsky Moment

#8333
April 14, 2020, 04:11:44 PM
Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade, Trilogy 2 (2019):  as indicated second effort from this group and a strong one.  Generational mix.  McBride and Blade played as youngsters in a quartet with Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau in the mid 90s; all four have had successful careers as leaders.  Corea was significant part of the Miles Davis electric era in the late 60s/early 70s and started a fusion band of his own in the 70s, but always has shown best doing inside/outside on acoustic piano.  Here it is mostly inside.  My favorite of 2019 so far, though admittedly I'm soft for piano trios.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

The Minsky Moment

#8334
April 15, 2020, 01:32:56 PM Last Edit: April 15, 2020, 01:37:42 PM by The Minsky Moment
Camila Meza and the Nectar Ochestra, Ambar (2019). Meza is a Chilean singer who also plays electric guitar in a Pat Matheny style; she is backed by an octet with strings.  Not clear whether this is jazzy pop or jazz with a pop sensibility - this album crossed over successfully enough to get a US release from Sony.  This was the first I have heard of Meza; superficially she reminds me a bit of Esmaralda Spalding, another youngish singer-instrumentalist (double bass) but while Spalding's style is rooted more in streetwise R&B/funk sound, Meza opts more for pop romanticism. Personally I prefer Spalding's work and not just because she cost Justin Bieber a grammy.

I digress .  . .  Meza's performance is excellent both with voice and guitar and she melds very well with the band.  It's not really my bag but  I am not surprised there seems to be market demand for her work.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Liep

#8335
April 17, 2020, 02:11:21 PM
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

:o

Holy shit.
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

Savonarola

#8336
April 17, 2020, 02:21:41 PM
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (1968)

Tropicália meets psychedelia; the results are pretty good though very weird. 
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#8337
April 17, 2020, 02:27:01 PM
Quote from: Liep on April 17, 2020, 02:11:21 PM
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

:o

Holy shit.

Yeah, I agree.  I think Pitchfork put it best when they said that her hero is John Lennon; but in this album she's clearly taking a lot of cues from Yoko Ono.  (They meant in terms of musical daring; not that she sounds like Yoko.)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Liep

#8338
April 18, 2020, 02:20:06 AM
Jung - Blitz, Baby
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

jimmy olsen

#8339
April 18, 2020, 05:55:00 AM
Soulshine by the Allman Brothers :punk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDIQ7Otf1mw
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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