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Couldn't sleep so spun this softly.

 

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Love the quality of this :x though after seeing what these go for, I'm scared to play it....definitely scared to put it in the PC ROM to rip it in case it marks it :/

 

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Michael Mantler - Review


Despite his substantial body of work, Austrian composer and trumpeter Michael Mantler tends to get overshadowed. There's his former wife, Carla Bley, whose early career he did much to foster. He sets words by literary figures (Auster, Beckett, Pinter) who also cast long shadows. And Mantler hires starry performers - Marianne Faithfull, Jack Bruce, the Balanescu Quartet, conductor Peter Rundel - whose names are more of a "draw" than his own.
However, you don't attract collaborators of that calibre without being bloody good. Review, a 75-minute retrospective (1968-2005), is a startling reminder of just how inventive Mantler is, working confidently across contemporary composition, jazz, improv and progressive rock. Twenty, for example, features guitarist Mike Stern, Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason and the LSO strings. The Sinking Spell has Robert Wyatt singing Edward Gorey's words. Mantler deploys his raw materials with poetic intensity, but without artifice or pretension. This collection is too brilliant to ignore. John L Waters - The Guardian 

 

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A brilliant jewel of a morning and whizzy commute to go with it. Almost made it worthwhile.  Not sure this quite aligned with the spirit of a marvelous spring day, with the music showing a capacity to turn in on itself and a little more introspection than the new growth seems  inclined to explore. But it was still entertaining.

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Chicago/Sao Paulo Underground feat Pharoah Sanders - Spiral Mercury.

 

Personnel: Pharoah Sanders: saxophones; Rob Mazurek: cornet, electronics; Chad Taylor: drums; Matt Lux: electric bass, guitar; Guilherme Granado: keyboards, vibraphone, marimba; Maurício Takara: percussion, electronics, cavaquinho.

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Well everyone seems to have this album so I thought I would consider purchasing it to see what all the fuss was about.  What clinched the deal was reading it has the Oscar Peterson Trio and Buddy Rich playing in support.  Got to admit that it has (to me) a very lovely olde world charm that had been excellently recorded.  Great trumpet playing and very present natural singing.  

 

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Ella and Louis

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1 hour ago, KRSDarwin said:

Well everyone seems to have this album so I thought I would consider purchasing it to see what all the fuss was about.  What clinched the deal was reading it has the Oscar Peterson Trio and Buddy Rich playing in support.  Got to admit that it has (to me) a very lovely olde world charm that had been excellently recorded.  Great trumpet playing and very present natural singing.  

 

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Ella and Louis

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Ella is, to my mind, probably the best popular music singer of all time. I’d listen to her sing the phone book front to back. 

 

The harmonies on Stars Fell on Alabama are worth the price of the disc all on their own. 

 

Enjoy :)

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