Not started yet but I'm going to listen to Stanley Clarke's latest CD in the car in a moment. Anyone heard it and have any views?
 
A friend of mine who is a big fan messaged me this week before I ordered my copy and said he found it very disappointing. That said he held the same view on the last three of Stanley's albums.

I have the CD but haven't listened to all of it yet. It has some great stuff & some so so stuff, but the great stuff makes it worth the purchase! Pop Virgil is awesome!! His Alembic sounds amazing too!

Slight and hopefully forgivable change of course:   link to short video regarding Stanley's latest, Up.
 
And to get it back on course:
Lettuce - Rage! great rhythm section and killer horns.

In the Clarke vein . . .  
Stanley Clarke - Modern Man
 
SMV - Thunder
Clarke, Miller and Wooten = EPIC!

Pop Virgil from the new Stanley Clarke Band Album.
Sounds like a track I should learn for a gig sometime.  
 
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Chick Corea Trilogy
 
3 cd set released sept 9 2014
Recording quality is impressive; really 3D and the ensemble is astounding; the level of communication is truly remarkable.

Hot Tuna - Steady As She Goes

The Beatles - Rooftop Concert - Quality Restored!!!  
 

I love that version of I dig a pony!

My favorite scene from Immortal Beloved has been the Moonlight Sonata scene.  Very moving.  This reading of the Sonata is a bit faster than most, but within the context of the movie, quite powerful.  Today I found that the musician performing the piece for the movie is Murray Perahia; and I found a recording of the first movement by him (this is the most familiar movement, and the one which is partially played in the movie).  Again, it is a bit faster than most, and the phrasing a little different as well.  But it is moving and powerful.  The faster pace allows more of the melody and chordal movement to be taken in by the listener at any given time, creating a different perspective from which to appreciate the piece.

Kicking back watching Woodstock, the 1994 Director's cut on something called the Palladia channel.  CSNY, Ten Years After, Santana, Arlo Guthrie, Country Joe McDonald, stage announcements, Max Yasgur.  45 years ago!  Who knows where the time goes?
 
Bill, tgo

As a young child, my dad played pretty much only classical music at home (funny, as he managed an Odeon theatre in Scotland where the Stones and the Beatles played, among others)...anyway, I was far more into Beethoven than Mozart; just a different level of intensity and use of the power of an orchestra...considering my musical tastes now it makes sense that I'd go for intensity...as an example, today was the new Orange Goblin cd back from the abyss and Electric Wizard's time to die...Dad doesn't like my taste in music but to his credit he listened to Rush and could appreciate what great musicians they were and he did come to one of my gigs...Tony.

YouTubing through the as much as I can find of  late, great Blaze Foley; at this moment, .  How the hell was he never famous??!?!?!
 
Peter

That was nice Peter; thanks!

Agreed, Blaze's song was very enjoyable.
 
Plan on watching Duct Tape Messiah.