Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[drogulus]

     I like Elvin Jones meself. This one is on the Pod ATM.

     

     

[Kaiser]

In case you didn't know...

Thanks George! Yep - that's the other place I tend to hang out at as well! Not sure that I'll be throwing down the hard-earned for the super deluxe edition, but I am curious to hear what they'll do with Exile. Even the disc I listened to last night ('94 Virgin remaster) has its issues and flaws - though I did like it overall. Hopefully the new remaster won't be put through the no-noise meatgrinder.
-------- Chris

[Harpo]

Irvin Mayfield - live performance at his jazz club in the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street in New Orleans - after dinner tonight we wandered into this hotel jazz place and this performer w/ his band was appearing (a Grammy winner & other awards - Wiki Article HERE - no cover charge, just drinks - stayed for the whole show!  The group was just wonderful - Mayfield on the trumpet w/ trombone, piano, bass, & drums - all performers excellent - he has released about 10 CDs - I own none but would be curious if others may know him?  Thanks - 

Irvin Mayfield, who is only 31, is considered a premier trumpet player, responsible for promoting and preserving American jazz. We were lucky to see him!

[Harpo]

We were very impressed with Mayfield and all he's accomplished to promote American jazz, at the age of only 31. His "Playhouse" at the Royal Sonesta is a very welcome respite from the beer-soaked parade down Bourbon Street (which could be renamed Beer Street?). His New Orleans Jazz Orchestra just won a Grammy for best large jazz ensemble, and several of the artists we heard were on that album.

We went back on Thurs. to see an excellent lady singer, Johnaye Kendrick, who, along with her bass player, sang on the Grammy album (Book One).. I, an infrequent drinker, had a really good cocktail, too: pineapple mojito--fresh pineapple, mint, lime,champagne and rum.

 

Johnaye Kendrick has a master's in Jazz Studies form the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz at Loyola University. She scats, as well as singing standards and contemporary songs.



John Autin, the piano bar guy at the Monteleone Hotel, also has a Masters in jazz studies and is an extremely versatile performer. The hotel's piano is the one that gave Liberace his start 70 years ago. John composed music for a computer-animated film that was produced here in Winston-Salem.



Badal Roy plays the Indian tabla, adapted to American jazz. The tabla has up to 8 drums at different pitches. After I listened for a while I could pick up the themes and variations in the rhythms, which was fun. I don't think I would like a CD of Roy, though--it's better heard in person.

[bhodges]

Irvin Mayfield, who is only 31, is considered a premier trumpet player, responsible for promoting and preserving American jazz. We were lucky to see him!

Thanks for posting this (and your other posts, which I missed).  I didn't realize Mayfield and the orchestra had another recording out.  Their first one, Strange Fruit, is very good, but it is a bit of a "concept album," in that it includes narration between the tracks.  (The narration is fine, but I'd rather just have the music.)

I heard him and the full 20-piece orchestra live at JazzFest a few years ago and they were electrifying.  You don't see many "new" big bands these days, so I'm really happy Mayfield has remedied that. 

PS, Jeremy Davenport is wonderful, too!  And I know what you mean about drunken revelers...alas, that is the sole reason some people go to New Orleans: to get completely hammered as fast as possible.   

Just saw your second post.  Too much great music in New Orleans! 

--Bruce

[SonicMan46]

PS, Jeremy Davenport is wonderful, too!  And I know what you mean about drunken revelers...alas, that is the sole reason some people go to New Orleans: to get completely hammered as fast as possible.   

Just saw your second post.  Too much great music in New Orleans! 

Hi Bruce, Susan & I were astonished at the quality of the music found in our hotel (Monteleone) and others nearby, i.e. Royal Sonesta & the Ritz - all outlined in the posts, mainly left by her - we had a great 4-days!  Food & other attractions posted in their appropriate threads - Dave 

[bhodges]

Hi Bruce, Susan & I were astonished at the quality of the music found in our hotel (Monteleone) and others nearby, i.e. Royal Sonesta & the Ritz - all outlined in the posts, mainly left by her - we had a great 4-days!  Food & other attractions posted in their appropriate threads - Dave 

Thanks, I'll poke around to see what I missed!  Hotel bars in New Orleans are great...

--Bruce

[MN Dave]

old time music mix

[SonicMan46]

Chris Thile - a mandolin player in many formats and a composer - we just saw him in concert w/ our local symphony orchestra (he is now 29 y/o) - posted in other threads - however, the experience led me to purchase some of his first albums, shown below:

Leading Off.... - he was 13 y/o then when this album was released in 1994 on Sugar Hill - most of the songs composed by him (the earliest dating to the age of 8 yrs or so!); string music in the 'bluegrass' tradition from him doing a single solo to other combination of instruments - a 'mouth-dropping' talent at that age!

Stealing Second - now 16 y/o and an album produced by Sam Bush in Nashville; all songs written by Chris Thile; some of his fellow musicians on these tracks include Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas (on dobro), Alison Brown (on banjo), his father on bass, and others - this kid was and is amazing! 

Take a chance and order one or both of these CDs; just an unbelievable talent - 

 

[karlhenning]

Thrak, again.

[toledobass]

Say for some reason I have no Rolling Stones in my collection....what 3 albums should I start with?

Allan

[MN Dave]

For you, I'd say one of them should be SOME GIRLS.

[Bogey]

Say for some reason I have no Rolling Stones in my collection....what 3 albums should I start with?

Allan

Three of my favorite without getting into "greatest hits stuff", Allan:

Exile on Main Street
Some Girls
The Rolling Stones (England's Newest Hitmakers)

[MN Dave]

I don't like many Stones albums but I do like BETWEEN THE BUTTONS.

[Bogey]

I don't like many Stones albums but I do like BETWEEN THE BUTTONS.

Neither did I until a few years back, Dave.  Then they just clicked.  Guess I came to the party late, but still a lot left over from the "banquet".

Now, thanks to your post:

[MN Dave]

Neither did I until a few years back, Dave.  Then they just clicked.  Guess I came to the party late, but still a lot left over from the "banquet".

Now, thanks to your post:

I'd say the two I listed above are the only ones I've heard that I really like.

[karlhenning]

My favorite Rolling Stones song is "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" as covered by Devo ; )

[MN Dave]

My favorite Rolling Stones song is "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" as covered by Devo ; )

Exactly.

[MN Dave]

Music from the first half of the twentieth century.

[Franco]

Chick Corea: Early Days