Right now I am listening to ...

Anil kumar · #**521** 25th August 2008, 12:09 PM

Suhas, thanx for the BIG list!!!!
Add JEAN LUC PONTY & SHADOWS for violin & guitar list. Tadao Hayashi is a great album, i first heard it 15 years back, i still have the casette.

Regards,
Anil

Quote:

Originally Posted by SuhasG

Nice album. I too like TM very much. Try TM plays Standards.

If you like Piano (Jazz style) then build your collection based on following (Jazz) Piano artists:

Bill Evans
Count Basie
Horace Silver
Keith Jarrett
Red Garland
Vince Guaraldi
Ramsey Lewis
Diana krall
Marc Copland
Duke Ellington
Art Tatum
Thelonious Monk
Chick Corea
Herbie Hancock
Ahmad Jamal
Sir Roland Hanna
Bud Powell
Erroll Louis Garner

And here is my pick for other instruments:

Soprano Sax

Wayne Shorter
David Liebman

Tenor Sax

Dexter Gordon
Stan Getz
Lester Young
John Coltrane
Sonny Rollins
zoot sims
Joe Henderson
Hank Mobley
Tina Brooks
Stanley Turrentine

Alto Sax

Art Pepper
Jackie McLean
Lou Donaldson
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Paul Desmond
Charlie Parker
Johnny Hodges
Ornette Coleman

Bari Sax

Pepper Adams
Gerry Mulligan
Leo Parker

Trumpet

Louis Armstrong
Chet Baker
Donald Byrd
Miles Davis
Lee Morgan
Freddie Hubbard
Chuck Mangione
Tomasz Stanko
Dave Douglas
Wynton Marsalis
Dizzy Gillespie

Guitar

Grant green
Wes Montgomery
Kenny Burrel
Pat Martino
Joe pass
Allan Holdsworth
Pat Metheny
John Abercrombie
John McLaughlin

Vibes

Burton
Hutch
Milt Jackson
Lionel Hampton

Trombone

J J Johnson
Curtis Fuller
Carl Fontana

Bass

Paul Chambers
Ron Carter
Leroy Vinnegar
Charles Mingus
Charlie Haden

Drums

Philly Joe Jones
Max Roach
Alan Dawson
Billy Higgins
Idris Muhammad

Arranger

Benny Golson
Duke Pearson
Oliver Nelson
Glen Miller

Violin

Mark Feldman
Stephanne Grappeli

Organ

Shirley Scott
Jimmy Smith
Big John Patton
Lonnie Smith

Just for information. Hope this helps.

Sanjay Khanna · #**522** 25th August 2008, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by prabuddhadg

Hey! I was listening to Riding with the king yesterday. Nice jugalbandi. Which reminds me of Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler's Neck and Neck. Another great effort.

And Suhas, 200 jazz albums means you have quite an amazing collection. That is inspiring. Quite a bit of my music is still on cassettes. I am finding replacements on CD, little by little, but I still have a long way to go to get to the 200 mark.

Both fantastic albums.Hauled out Riding with the King after seeing this post.But for pure genius - Abbey Road by the Beatles.Almost impossible to beat. The whole album is terrific

persiflage · #**523** 25th August 2008, 04:20 PM

'Neck and Neck' by Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler is a big favourite! One track alone, 'There'll Be Some Changes Made' - with its combination of good humoured banter and some killer guitar work - is worth the price of admission. The two geniuses together mine and showcase every school of guitar playing there ever was..all in the space of one song. Heartily recommended.

I like 'Riding with the King' for the acoustic take on the blues standard 'Key to the Highway' - interesting counterpoint to Clapton/ Allman's sublime version on the Derek and the Dominoes album some 30 years ago.

prabuddhadg · #**524** 25th August 2008, 04:50 PM

Talking of the Beatles, the only album I had liked spontaneously, was the Sergeant Pepper's in which I liked all the songs. It took me some time to start appreciating their earlier songs, like Eight Days a Week and Help. Abbey Road of course, is a superb album.

But its not right to compare beatles to the blues. Blues are specifically simple structures and its the rendition with that makes the piece special.

And talking of Neck and Neck, Persiflage, There'll be some changes made is my favourite track on the album. They create such a cosy informal atmosphere, that it adds to the beauty of the piece.

Sanjay Khanna · #**525** 25th August 2008, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by prabuddhadg

Talking of the Beatles, the only album I had liked spontaneously, was the Sergeant Pepper's in which I liked all the songs. It took me some time to start appreciating their earlier songs, like Eight Days a Week and Help. Abbey Road of course, is a superb album.

But its not right to compare beatles to the blues. Blues are specifically simple structures and its the rendition with that makes the piece special.

And talking of Neck and Neck, Persiflage, There'll be some changes made is my favourite track on the album. They create such a cosy informal atmosphere, that it adds to the beauty of the piece.

Totally agree with you guys.I have the CD in my car so I'm looking forward to the drive home today. The Abbey Road observation was totally random. I wouldn't dream of comparing the Beatles with the Blues. Cheers,

persiflage · #**526** 25th August 2008, 06:08 PM

This is getting real interesting. The Fabs were stylistically too diverse to be tied down to one genre, but showed they could do the Blues as well as the rest of them.

Case in point, Lennon's 'Yer Blues', dirty screeching lead guitar and all, was meant to be as a tongue-in-cheek parody of the Bluesbeakers and the whole Brit Blues scene, but in my view is one of those cases where the imitator excels the imitated...

Abbey Road is truly a classic. The songs themselves are all top-class, but much of the magic lies in the album sequence. To cite but one example, 'I Want You' ends mid-note in a cataclysm of white noise, to be followed by Harrison's delicate acoustic picking on 'Here Comes the Sun'. Talk about seeds of life germinating after a nuclear holocaust.

Sanjay Khanna · #**527** 25th August 2008, 07:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by persiflage

This is getting real interesting. The Fabs were stylistically too diverse to be tied down to one genre, but showed they could do the Blues as well as the rest of them.

Case in point, Lennon's 'Yer Blues', dirty screeching lead guitar and all, was meant to be as a tongue-in-cheek parody of the Bluesbeakers and the whole Brit Blues scene, but in my view is one of those cases where the imitator excels the imitated...

Abbey Road is truly a classic. The songs themselves are all top-class, but much of the magic lies in the album sequence. To cite but one example, 'I Want You' ends mid-note in a cataclysm of white noise, to be followed by Harrison's delicate acoustic picking on 'Here Comes the Sun'. Talk about seeds of life germinating after a nuclear holocaust.

And "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" with its lighter side of serial killing (as seen by the fab four) followed by one of the most intense songs of all time - Lennon's " Oh Darling ". Truly monumental.

xela · #**528** 25th August 2008, 07:59 PM

. . .The Best of Alphonse Mouzon (jazz) . . . Morning Sun, Early Spring, A Lullable for Little Alphonse . . .

Regarding the Beatles, I have an album entitled - The Beatles 1 . . . This collection of number ones is taken from the most widely circulated charts in th UK (Record Retailer) and the USA (Billboard). . . The CD has 27 #1 singles .

BTW, the back cover says, digital remasters.

persiflage · #**529** 25th August 2008, 08:02 PM

'Oh! Darling' is actually Macca doing duty on the vocals/ songwriting. But your point is valid all the same, if anything the contrast is all the more creditable because the same individual is responsible for two such dissimilar songs back-to-back.

BTW long after the breakup, Lennon said he hated 'Silver Hammer' while lavishing praise on 'Oh! Darling'.. so it's not surprising that the latter gets mistaken as one of his songs.

One of the myths about the Beatles is that Lennon produced all the heavy, intense numbers so revered by latterday punk rockers, while McCartney was reponsible for the candy pop. But guess what: check out 'Helter Skelter' on the White Album, Paul may well have invented metal with that one.

HerculePirate · #**530** 25th August 2008, 08:09 PM

I can't describe in words
The greatness of these 2 Bands and the way they make me Feel.

1. Sigur Ros
2. Blackfield

Sigur Ros is an ambient Post rock band...I will suggest this album called " ( ) "
...>Turn the lights and go...ahhhh

Blackfield is an Acoustic - Alternative Rock band ... Woah... please try any of their 2 self titled albums...Steve Wilson is God

Regards

Hercule Pirate

Similar Threads for: Right now I am listening to ...
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Importance of Acoustically customizing Listening Room.	HKMT Acoustic Designs	My Audio/Video Setup	17	16th August 2009 01:36 PM
Does power(watts) affect listening ?	SynthSmith	Speakers	44	23rd April 2009 03:34 PM
I am listening to Heartfelt by Fourplay	Anil	Music	1	17th December 2008 12:51 AM
Want to build a pro music system mostly listening to metal music + lot of divx movies	topazamp123	Speakers	19	4th November 2008 01:22 PM

The Following User Says Thank You to prabuddhadg For This Useful Post:
Sanjay Khanna (25th August 2008)