Album of the Evening

[firedog]

2 hours ago, AnotherSpin said:

The recording, which has already been much talked about, is streaming in its entirety as of this morning. Definitely a disappointment. At best a set of raw sketches for a well-loved studio album themes. The playing is loose and shapeless, it feels like the musicians are under the influence and can't hear each other well. The addition of Pharoah Sanders and a second bassist only added to the overall disarray. The sound is poorly recorded, with rumbling drums in the foreground. Nothing of mystery and solemn uplift of original studio album. Made an effort to listen to the end.

 

 

 

Don't really agree. The recording is reasonable. It's two mics to an Ampex reel to reel. An "amateur" recording, but done by someone with decent equipment who regularly recorded at this club and knew what he was doing. 

Yeah, the drums are too prominent. But you can still hear everything.

I didn't have expectations this would be a great live recording - and it isn't. But I've heard much worse released. 

 

As far as the performance: it's a window into where Trane was going at this time, edging towards the last, "post quartet" phase of his career. 

It's not my favorite era of his music, but if you like the studio version this is interesting and worth listening to.

@The Computer Audiophile: maybe move this post and the previous one to the thread about the album itself?

[AnotherSpin]

1 hour ago, firedog said:

Don't really agree. The recording is reasonable. It's two mics to an Ampex reel to reel. An "amateur" recording, but done by someone with decent equipment who regularly recorded at this club and knew what he was doing. 

Yeah, the drums are too prominent. But you can still hear everything.

I didn't have expectations this would be a great live recording - and it isn't. But I've heard much worse released. 

 

As far as the performance: it's a window into where Trane was going at this time, edging towards the last, "post quartet" phase of his career. 

It's not my favorite era of his music, but if you like the studio version this is interesting and worth listening to.

@The Computer Audiophile: maybe move this post and the previous one to the thread about the album itself?

 

I'm glad you like the recording. Perhaps I know Coltrane's legacy too long and too well to have too high a level of expectation, especially for a previously unknown reading of A Love Supreme. Decent record for almost anyone, and bad for Coltrane.

[Musicophile]

In memoriam Bernard Haitink.

 

[WAM]

One of my favorite Haitink-recordings...

 

 

[Kal Rubinson]

I just ordered this................

[jiminlogansquare]

[Daccord]

3 hours ago, Kal Rubinson said:

I just ordered this................

So it's the album of a Future Evening?

[Kal Rubinson]

39 minutes ago, Daccord said:

So it's the album of a Future Evening?

Sure.  Just wanted to be the first to post about it.  😁

[AudioDoctor]

Jussi's new HQP Embedded 4.26 just sounds fantastic!

 

 

[Daccord]

Is there anything more beautiful than this?

[AnotherSpin]

4 hours ago, Kal Rubinson said:

Sure.  Just wanted to be the first to post about it.  😁

 

Posted it couple of weeks ago... 

[Musicophile]

New on Qobuz. 

[AnotherSpin]

In December 1964, members of the John Coltrane Quartet recorded the perfect album. Nothing superfluous, everything is in place, a unique moment of collective creativity that everyone can only aspire to achieve or duplicate, and almost always in vain. A few months later, Albert Ayler's influence would become too strong and reverse the direction of creative process in Coltrane's mind. Pharoah Sanders will be added to the group, perfect harmony and balance of classic quartet replaced by terror and ecstasy of shrieks and growls from the soloists of final line-ups. A few years later, Albert Ayler's band will play at Coltrane's funeral. Scary and symbolic.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

6 hours ago, AnotherSpin said:

 

Posted it couple of weeks ago... 

That may have been where I first learned of it.  Thanks.

[christopher3393]

 

You Have Already Gone to the Other World is A Hawk and a Hacksaw's sixth studio album with the subtitle "Music inspired by Paradjanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors". It is a concept album which is written as a retrospective soundtrack for the 1964 movie Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Sergei Parajanov.

 

 

[jiminlogansquare]

What can I say? If you like this sort of thing, than this is the sort of thing you will like. I like it.

 

 

[Allan F]

[semente]

 

 

 

 

 

[Musicophile]

Love Mackerras for Mozart, truly marvellous orchestral playing, but not sure I'll become a fan of the English lyrics. 

 

Streaming 24/44 from Qobuz. 

 

[DarginMahkum]

 

[orresearch]

[The Computer Audiophile]

[jiminlogansquare]

[jiminlogansquare]

Wow, this is some exciting Handel singing! Lots of drama, kind of just right to my ears. Great playing as expected from the Cologne musicians. 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]