What are you listening to right now?

[cuthbert]

Be Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim

Bill Nelson is a great guitar player - and this for me was also a sleeper album. Bought it in the 70s, didn't listen to it much, but then rediscovered on CD a few years ago. It's held up as well or better than some of the other Be Bop Deluxe albums.

[tony]

Artie Shaw - 'Someone to watch over me' from the last recordings of the Gramercy Five in 1954.

Don't you just love those records that make you feel, if only for 3 or 4 minutes, like you don't need to listen to anything else?  Artie Shaw was really special and it didn't hurt being married to Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, that would make you feel like making music for a while.

No clips of the song available but this is with the big band in 1940 doing 'Stardust'.  Even if the idiom is not to your liking, hang in there until the clarinet comes around 1:45.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd-dB6qUTGI

[Davo]

Artie Shaw - 'Someone to watch over me' from the last recordings of the Gramercy Five in 1954.

Don't you just love those records that make you feel, if only for 3 or 4 minutes, like you don't need to listen to anything else?  Artie Shaw was really special and it didn't hurt being married to Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, that would make you feel like making music for a while.

No clips of the song available but this is with the big band in 1940 doing 'Stardust'.  Even if the idiom is not to your liking, hang in there until the clarinet comes around 1:45.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd-dB6qUTGI

As a soprano sax player-I can say yes, it is all there.  The emotional experience, life, and all the rest.

Just from a different era, thats all.  Also-I love 40's girls.

[tony]

As a soprano sax player-I can say yes, it is all there.

You play soprano sax.  I'm jealous.  Simple as that.

[Bro]

Mike stern!

[Davo]

As a soprano sax player-I can say yes, it is all there.

You play soprano sax.  I'm jealous.  Simple as that.

You should see my Kenny G. impression. 

[tony]

I was thinking more Sidney Bechet and John Coltrane but I'll take a Kenny G impression.  Everybody has instruments that stand out to them when they hear things and clarinet/soprano sax always gets me.

[Davo]

I was thinking more Sidney Bechet and John Coltrane but I'll take a Kenny G impression.  Everybody has instruments that stand out to them when they hear things and clarinet/soprano sax always gets me.

I love Coltrane, but growing up people only knew Kenny G...sigh.  And the instrument that grabs me the most these days is the cello.

[Migster]

Artie Shaw - 'Someone to watch over me' from the last recordings of the Gramercy Five in 1954.

Don't you just love those records that make you feel, if only for 3 or 4 minutes, like you don't need to listen to anything else?  Artie Shaw was really special and it didn't hurt being married to Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, that would make you feel like making music for a while.

No clips of the song available but this is with the big band in 1940 doing 'Stardust'.  Even if the idiom is not to your liking, hang in there until the clarinet comes around 1:45.

As a soprano sax player-I can say yes, it is all there.  The emotional experience, life, and all the rest.

Just from a different era, thats all.  Also-I love 40's girls.

I officially hate you davo.
For my money the instrument that does it for me is the oboe.
This is the full choral version of Gabriel's Oboe.  It has everything. Ennio Morricone is nothing short of a genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvBT9sqXnew

[Davo]

The mids of the Oboe are a force to be reckoned with. But id go with the french horn I had to pick symphonic "mids"  Thats a great song BTW.

I played this one in highschool wind ensemble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbiP5IUPu8s