As the sheer volume of new releases and re-issues/re-masters abates, I’m not about to sacrifice quality for quantity.
I am quickly becoming a fanboy of Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under his baton and leadership. This week two recordings featuring them:
- Vadim Gluzman, Hannu Lintu, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Vasks: Distant Light; Summer Dances; Piano Quartet
- Stephen Hough, Hannu Lintu, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven: The Piano Concertos
Peteris Vasks, the Latvian composer heralded both in his home country and Sweden has seen his work recorded more frequently as of late and I could not be happier. Always great news when the composer is extant, thus the possibility exists that even more of his music, his new compositions can be shared/recorded.
And then there’s Stephen Hough, a favourite pianist of mine, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concertos with Hannu Lintu and the Finns. I never tire of the cycle and this set does not disappoint.
RoundAgain brought to us by Messrs. Redman, Mehldau, McBride and Blade have this all-star lineup working as a team, leaving their egos at the door (h/t Doonesbury). They know they are doing, getting down to business, they simply gel.
Sarah Wilis’ Mozart y Mambo, on paper, should not work, as some will find it possibly too kitsch. But then I cannot pass up Klazz Brothers recordings: Classic meets Cuba, Jazz meets Cuba and arguably their most relevant to this opine of mine: Mozart meets Cuba
I’ve said it before and I’ll double down on my fascination with both the recorder and the flute as recorded instruments. Mazzoli and Dang’s Chant Dans la Nuit – Flute Music in the Belle Epoque. Honestly now, I cannot think of a better era in history in which to …
The Midnight’s Monsters is such a mixed bag. From one track to the next it is as if I was playing my entire music library on random/shuffle play. No same old with this crew.
It’s fun opening up time capsules and this week is no exception:
- Deep Purple – – Nothing at All (Singles)
- Django Reinhardt & Friends – Hot Club Memories (All that Jazz, Vol. 127)
- Donna Summer – A Hot Summer Night
- Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
- Pat Metheny – 80-81
Anyone of the above is eye-openers: Workingman’s Dead introduced me not only to the Dead but one of the world’s herbal natural wonders, And then there’s 80-81 my introduction to Pat Metheny and fully conscious awareness of ECM as a record label.
A child of the ’70s growing up in NYC, spending most of my time in Manhattan and its clubs, Disco was everywhere and Donna Summer its reigning queen, but don’t pigeonhole Donna she was such an amazing vocalist with such range and the ability to belt them out as well as lull a young lad into more than a momentary lapse of being.
New Releases
Dena DeRose – Ode to the Road – 2020 (24-96)
Filippo Mazzoli& Nathalie Dang – Chant Dans la Nuit- Flute Music in the Belle Époque
Gerald Clayton – Happening Live At The Village Vanguard
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade – RoundAgain
Mariusz Duda – Lockdown Spaces FLAC
Ratko Zjaca & Nocturnal Four – Light in the World
Ricardo Grilli – 1962
Sarah Willis – Mozart y Mambo
Stephen Hough, Hannu Lintu, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven: The Piano Concertos
The Midnight – Monsters
Vadim Gluzman, Hannu Lintu, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Vasks: Distant Light; Summer Dances; Piano Quartet
ReIssues & ReMasters & Miscellany
Deep Purple – – Nothing at All (Singles)
Django Reinhardt & Friends – Hot Club Memories (All that Jazz, Vol. 127)
Donna Summer – A Hot Summer Night
Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Pat Metheny – 80-81
Share with your friends, share with your enemies. Music does not discriminate, nor should it.
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