What are you Listening to: Non-Jazz (2009)

[walkin]

Geraldine Fibbers-What Part Of Get Thee Gone Don`t You Understand?

Strange band from Los Angeles in the `90s.Frontwoman Carla Bozulich can go from screaming to twang depending on the song.Nels Cline joined in 1997 on their final album.On this collection they cover Willie Nelson,Dolly Parton,Bobbi Gentry...(actually Carla did a whole album of Willie Nelson covers with Willie guesting!)and some originals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANg-1VmgD0

[Dave Martin]

What? No Western Swing???

This week, I've been listening to Bob Will's Tiffany Transcriptions; 10 CD's and 200 songs that were recorded by the Teas Playboys for radio stations rather than for sale to the public. Also a couple of fine recent disks by a couple of Texas Swing and shuffle singers, Bobby Flores and Billy Mata. Also, a folk/bluegrass/old-time music CD by a young singer named Nora Jane Struthers.

[jkelman]

I've recently discovered a British band called Elbow, thanks to Joe Higham, whose Al Orkestra CD, Where Are We Now? is an eclectic jazz album well worth checking out. The group won the British Mercury Award a few years back, so I picked up their four CDs - 2001's Asleep in the Dark (a new Deluxe Edition with a bonus disc of live material and an EP, plus a DVD with a film about the band that I've not yet watched), 2003's Cast of Thousands, 2005's Leaders of the Free World and 2008's The Seldom Seen Kid.

An interesting band with some darkish lyrics, but a sound that's quite original.



They, along with 2009 Mercury-nominee Sweet Billy Pilgrim (hands down, my favorite "discovery" of the last couple years, and whose latest disc, Twice Born Men is absolutely one of this year's best beyond jazz discs, imo) are proof to me that there's some great stuff happening in the British scene; songwriters with some depth, and group approaches that are original and highly creative.



I've seen SBP twice this year (Punkt, in Norway; and, a couple weeks back, Enjoy Jazz, in Germany) and they're either done or just about done their first tour opening for Portico Quartet. If they come nearby, check them out, terrific live as well.

[Pie-eyed blue]

[walkin]

Kim Lenz And The Jaguars-The One And Only

Rockabilly revival group.Recorded in mono for an authentic `50s sound

[lokilokust]

lots of pere ubu and klaus schultze.

[duaneiac]

Disc 1 of



3 LPs from the early 1970's on 2 CDs. Orbison sings "Danny Boy". Yeah, it's just as incredible as you might imagine it to be.

An now onto some more Roy



and for a change of pace

The theme from Love, American Style is such a gem!

[xybert]

Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians



if you think about it too much while listening to this it can stress you out a bit; thinking about the musicians having to record this in 56 minute takes if they recorded it live in studio. I'm assuming the discipline and accuracy required to perform this piece must be phenomenal.

[dsschicago]

Easy Star All-Stars - "Radiodread"
Reggae covers of Radiohead songs.

[Alypius]

Originally Posted by xybert

Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians



if you think about it too much while listening to this it can stress you out a bit; thinking about the musicians having to record this in 56 minute takes if they recorded it live in studio. I'm assuming the discipline and accuracy required to perform this piece must be phenomenal.

xybert, Music for 18 Musicians is one of my all-time favorite pieces. You wondered what it is like to perform the piece. There is a great story about a group of adventurous music students at a small college (Grand Valley State University in western Michigan) who took on the project of learning to play the piece. They were so successful that their version was recorded and has gotten considerable fanfare. The story is told (with musical excerpts) on NPR. Here's the link:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=18581891

What I'm waiting for is the first complete recording of Reich's Double Sextet, a piece which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music last April (2009). One of the irritating things about the world of classical music is how painfully slow record companies are to release things. Supposedly, a complete recording will come out next year. Fortunately, NPR has a lengthy excerpt from the first live performance of the work--and it is dramatic. Here's the link:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=103304036

Enjoy.

[xybert]

Cheers Alypius, checked out those links when you posted them in the 'Steve Reich wins the Pulitzer' thread... definitely worthy of a revisit though.

[jkelman]

Originally Posted by Alypius

xybert, Music for 18 Musicians is one of my all-time favorite pieces. You wondered what it is like to perform the piece. There is a great story about a group of adventurous music students at a small college (Grand Valley State University in western Michigan) who took on the project of learning to play the piece. They were so successful that their version was recorded and has gotten considerable fanfare. The story is told (with musical excerpts) on NPR. Here's the link:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=18581891

Nice, thanks; I reviewed that disc, and have their new one, a double disc where they perform Terry Riley's equally iconic "In C," with the rest of the discs given over to very imaginative remixes. Review to come, but for those who like 18, check out In C, there are numerous versions but the original Columbia one from the late '60s, and Bang on a Can's take are my faves (having not given the new Grand Valley version time yet to sink in).

[1/2 Baked, Not Fried]

These guys knock me out. Killer harmony and amazing rhythm, often without rhythm accompaniment. Top notch stuff.