Vocal jazz doesn't get much better than this! Finally found the expanded Japanese 2 CD reissue from 2007. Carmen McRae, "The Great American Songbook - Recorded live at Donte's" in 1971 w/Jimmy Rowles, Joe Pass, Chuck Domanico and Chuck Flores.

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Dienstag 12. September stelle ich um 22 Uhr auf www.radiostonefm.de vier hervorragende Klaviertrio-Neuheiten von 2023 vor.

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#NowListening to "For Jemeel - Fire from the Road (2004-2005)", a 3 CD set released earlier this year, dedicated to the late Jemeel Moondoc, who was part of the quartet documented here, Steve Swell's Fire Into Music, with William Parker and Hamid Drake.

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#NowListening - as so often I'm a lagging behind a bit, but damn, this is great!

Anohni and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross

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Listening to #TheOffspring…always has been a very underrated band IMHO https://youtu.be/c-sORaM-UJM
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The good stuff is served by Ernestine Anderson tonight. Live recordings from 1987 (all her tracks from three albums she guests on) and 1990 (the full "Live at the 1990 Concord Jazz Festival, Third Set" album).

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Ich war gerade mit Bertrand Chamayou @ChamayouB am Ufer des lac de Wallenstadt, bald geht es in Alpentäler und dann nach Genf, und später nach Venedig, Neapel und Rom. Eine umwerfende Einspielung der Années de pèlerinage von Franz Liszt -

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Robbie Robertson's final album was "Sinematic", released in 2019. Howie B returns, and so does Pino Palladino (his fretless bass is a different animal, but still reminds me a bit of Rick Danko here and there - also he can be as funky if he wants to). Jim Keltner, Chris Dave, Glen Hansard, and Derek Trucks have their turns. The result is an atmospheric, often indeed cinematic mixture of trippy Howie B beats and rootsy rock. Ain't "The Shadow" a grand trip?

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Another long wait before the next album, the somewhat uneven "How to Become a Clairvoyant" from 2011. After exploring techno beats, we're mostly back to rootsy sounds with an excellent band including Eric Clapton and Pino Palladino. There are several touching autobiographical songs, but also some rather lacklustre ones ("Axman"). The opener "Straight Down the Line" and the title track are probably my favorites. An artsy "Tango for Django" caps things off.

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Jaime Royal Robertson was born 1943 in Toronto, were his father was from. Robertson's mother was of Mohawk descent, born and raised on the Six Nations Reservation. He learned to play guitar from relatives during summer visits to the reservation. I don't own his album no. 4, "Contact from the Underworld of Redboy" (Capitol/EMI, 1998). One of the tracks, "Sacrifice", features spoken words by incarcerated activist Leonard Peltier:

https://youtu.be/ZDFAw_wj_Go

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Robertson's third album was my very first encounter with his music. I didn't understand much of or about it as a kid ... but it has grown on me a lot. "Robbie Robertson' & The Red Road Ensemble - Music for The Native Americans" often seems like a movie, traveling places, changing camera angles and narrative perspectives. Featuring Pura Fé, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Rita Coolidge and others."It's a Good Day to Die" is another masterpiece.

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"Storyville" was Robbie Robertson's second album, released in 1991 - and much more to my liking. In ten songs, Robertson travels through the eponymous section of New Orleans, the music now sounding warm (and breathing!) indeed. Garth Hudson, Ronnie Foster, the Rebirth Brass Band and several of the Meters are among the guest musicians. "Soap Box Preacher" is one of Robertson miniature epic song-tales.

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"Robbie Robertson" was released in 1987 - a "moody and atmospheric" production by Daniel Lanois, which to my ears never really gets going. I'm afraid those Lanois productions sound pretty cold to me (his work for U2 a lot more so than this). Yet some of the songs are outstanding and ample proof Robertson hadn't lost his epic songwriting talent a bit. "Fallen Angel," "American Roulette," and "Somewhere Down the Crazy River" are new yet sound familiar.

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Revisiting the late lamented Robbie Robertson's leader albums. I'm afraid none of them will ever be as dear to me as the albums by The Band ...

📷 Robertson in Woodstock by Elliot Landy

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#NowListening to Andor Földes - disc two of the box below, Schumann and Grieg, recorded in 1950/51 for Mercury.

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#NowListening to the first album of Mozart violin sonatas (I know: sonatas for piano and violin) by Frank Peter Zimmermann and Alexander Lonquich - that gorgeous, humble yet lucid cycle is the major part of the big Zimmermann box I've already been familiar with previously, but it's a always a pleasure to return to!

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Aimez-vous Brahms? #NowListening to the piano trios, performed by the late Nicholas Angelich, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon.

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#NowListening to Charlie Mariano feat. Ramamani, "Bangalore" (Intuitiion, 1998)

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George Bohanon, geboren am 7. August 1937 in Detroit, mit "Speak Low":

https://youtu.be/9z5nMXUOxKo

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Guten Morgen mit Herb Ellis (3. August 1921 - 27. März 2010) und "The Shadow of Your Smile" (rec. 1983 mit Monty Budwig & Shelly Manne):

https://youtu.be/7nceiRMmE20

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