Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[dtwilbanks]

Fine Sunday morning music.

[Bogey]

Fine Sunday morning music.

I'm not even going to try and keep pace with this line-up.....

[Bogey]

I'm not even going to try and keep pace with this line-up.....

But at least I will make a showing:

[Drasko]

A Dark Night (Темная ночь) - the original version sung by Mark Bernes

http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/download.php?fname=tnoch

[helios]

0:)

[dtwilbanks]

But at least I will make a showing:

I've never heard of that one before.

[Bogey]

I've never heard of that one before.

I am not a huge fan of the Miles Davis/Gil Evans collaborations, however, from time to time, they are nice to spin.  Have you heard any of their albums?

[Solitary Wanderer]

[dtwilbanks]

I am not a huge fan of the Miles Davis/Gil Evans collaborations, however, from time to time, they are nice to spin.  Have you heard any of their albums?

I have PORGY AND BESS. That's them, right?

[Bogey]

I have PORGY AND BESS. That's them, right?

Yes.  Here is a short synoposis from the web:

In 1941-48 he worked as an arranger for the sophisticated Claude Thornhill Orchestra, from 1946 on in New York City. His modest basement apartment behind a Chinese laundry soon became a meeting place for musicians looking to develop the music from bebop, though Charlie Parker himself was among those involved. With Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan and others Evans collaborated on a band book for a nonet starting in 1948, which had a booking for a week's appearance at the "Royal Roost" as an intermission group on the bill with the Count Basie Orchestra. Capitol Records recorded the group 12 titles at three sessions in 1949 and 1950; these recordings were reissued on LP-album as Birth of the Cool in 1957.

Later, when Davis was under contract to Columbia Records producer George Avakian suggested several potential arrangers to the trumpeter who immediately fixed on the option of working with Evans again. The three main albums constituting their association are Miles Ahead (1957), Porgy and Bess (1958) and Sketches of Spain (1960). Later, another collaboration Quiet Nights (1962) was issued, but against the wishes of Davis, who broke with his then producer Teo Macero for a time as a result. These four records were marketed primarily under the name of Davis (often credited as Miles Davis and the Gil Evans Big Band). Their work was a companionship of classic big band jazz with a skillful soloist. All these collaborations feature Evans's big-band arrangements, onto which Davis played with extraordinary melodic and stylistic skill. Evans also contributed behind-the-scenes help to Davis' classic quintet albums of the 1960s.

Just another facet of Miles' work we are lucky to have.

[dtwilbanks]

Thanks, Bogey.

I'm listening to this four-disc set. Got it for twenty smackers. What a deal!

[dtwilbanks]

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[Solitary Wanderer]

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[Lethevich]

To commemorate the recent nice little burst of discussion on 70s/80s rock/metal, on goes:

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
Pagan Altar - Volume One

[dtwilbanks]

See what you made me do...

[Lethevich]

Hehehe - I guess I should admit that my favourite Black Sabbath song is actually a Megadeth cover of Paranoid. It takes skill to be such a philistine