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Posted: **Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:37 am**

Arcade Fire is new great band from Canada. It seems that all good music in last few years comes from Canada, people are already speaking about Canada-syndrom (Feist, Arcade Fire...). Arcade Fire's debut album was voted for best album of 2004 by 99% of world critics, sites and magazines.

http://www.arcadefire.com/
http://arcadefire.net/

Posted: **Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:38 pm**

Summer music summer music....delving ever deeper into classic jazz and swing...thanks to a friends collection.

Arturo Sandoval - Trumpet Evolution (a remarkable tribute to everyone from Satchmo and Bix Beiderdeke to Miles Davis & Wynton Marsalis and everyone else in between)

Nat King Cole - The Definitive NKC (before his "vocal" career took off, NKC was one of the most influential jazz pianists in history, this album focusses mainly on his instrumental pieces from the 40s. Some jazz vocals too.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (This album is Intro Jazz 101 along with Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue'.

Bing with a Beat - Bing Crosby & Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz Band (recommended as one of the finest jazz vocal albums of all time)

Vusi Mahlasela - The Collection (3 albums: Silang Mabele/Wisdom of Forgiveness/When You Come back....a mix of african rhythms and melody with jazz elements mixed in. This collection is a must for anyone who likes african music. Only available in UK).

Posted: **Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:09 am**

Hello Kush,

how comes that I do hear the Waits-Style in Devils and Dust somehow ?

Posted: **Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:56 pm**

Hi Kush,

You are a true Renaissance Man. A wide range of music pleases you, it seems. For a while I thought you were Willie and Dylan only! African music seems to be enjoying a lot of attention these days. But Bing... I don't know. I'm more a Frank S. type of person.

Henning, while you're here, what songs 'feel' like summer to you? I'll just leave the question there and if you don't feel like answering now, that's fine. I will not be offended.

Linda.

Posted: **Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:01 pm**

Thanks Tom!

Ah! peace-syndrom maybe? When you leave in (relative, all is relative) peace, time can be devoted to creativity instead of destruction. Ah. Ha. I stop before being accused of patronizing

as I left similare messages all over the board these days. But 2004 is not the summer of my childhood/teens years, and it seems that only songs from that part of my life are classified by me as "a reminder of summer song" i.e. "O Sole Mio", by Caruso, if it could give you an idea of what I mean. Arcade fire, I like the name, it is a good beginning, I guess.

Posted: **Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:14 pm**

"O Sole Mio". Hmm. Interesting. I think I'll pass the time by looking into Arcade Fire, myself. It is and interesting name. I'll start with Tom's link here. Maybe I'll pace the web after that.

Posted: **Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:25 pm**

Henning my man....I do not hear any Tom Waits in Devils & Dust. Maybe its coz' I dont know who Tom Waits is...the milkman????

Linda...Willie & Dylan are passe. They come, they go after I've had my use for their music. I am a very promiscuous music lover.

But yeah...I see now there is a gold mine in american music from an earlier era.
There are two jazz albums Bing Crosby made in the 50s - 'Bing with a Beat' and 'Bing Sings while Bregman Swings' in which the man is actually rockin' & swingin'. This ain't no crooner Bing. Actually it is the latter album that was pronounced by a jazz critic to be one of the finest ever but both are very similar in style and the former has a litlle more variation in tempo. Both are fast-paced with the baritone gliding above a wall of sound from sax & trumpets & evrything else you can think of.

I recently borrowed a Sinatra jazz album with Count Basie "Sinatra-Basie: A Historic musical first" which is also outstanding, but I need to hear it more.
I find the rhythms and melody and movement of African music very unique and very close to the earth.

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:31 am**

Hi Kush,

I don't know how deep and how wide your love of jazz is, but here's an item from Jazz News outlining a cover of Leonard's and Tom Waits' songs on the CD, but it doesn't say which tunes:

jazz

JMP Announces The Deep Forbidden Lake

In a surprising shift of gears from the Jazz Mandolin Project's last album, “Jungle Tango” (2003), (laden with jungle grooves and improvisation), Jamie Masefield heads in a fresh, acoustic direction in his next upcoming relase. “The Deep Forbidden Lake” is a friendly collection of 12 of Masefield's favorite songs written by some of his favorite musicians.
Is it a jazz album? Well, it does include songs by Django Reinhart, Billy Strayhorn and Ornette Coleman. Is it a rock album? Well, it does include songs by Radiohead and Neil Young. Well, then how about a folk album? There are songs by Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits. Speaking more of thoughtful melodies and arrangements than grooves and exploration, this CD shows a whole new side to Masefield's mandolin playing. Performed in a setting unlike any previous Jazz Mandolin Project album, “The Deep Forbidden Lake” is an acoustic, lyrical cd with an unusual pairing of renowned musicians.

Here, the mandolin is accompanied by the piano and accordion of Gil Goldstein, who also joined Masefield on “Jungle Tango”. Gil has performed and/or arranged music with Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorious, and in 2004 won a Grammy for his arranging and producing on Michael Brecker's album “Wide Angles”. Greg Cohen, who has also performed with a varied host of musical luminaries including Ornette Coleman, Tom Waits, John Zorn and Bill Frisell, completes the trio on upright bass.

“The Deep Forbidden Lake” will be released in stores on May 3, 2005.

auskern

It sounds good, even to me!

Linda.

Posted: **Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:15 am**

Danke Linda ....my love of jazz is neither deep nor wide at present but quite old...my passion for jazz on the other hand is only a couple of months old. A stone fell on my head and turned on something in there. The best place to be coz' I am creating an oasis of jazz right now in my living room.
This is certainly worth checking out....I s'pose I could do without Mr. Waits offeration (just kidding H.)....actually I dont mind an occasional number by him at all. It will be on my list for future.

p.s. You can check out Hallelujah and others from that CD here....right now I am more into sax, piano and trumpet solos (with or without backing big band) but later on....

http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/ ... 0627&ITM=2

Posted: **Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:52 pm**

Anonymous wrote:These past few weeks and coming up :

Martha wainwright
Eddi reader
Leonard Cohen
Shirley Horn
Eliza Gilykson
Kirsty MacColl
Laurie Anderson
Nina Simone
Janis Ian
Claire Teal
Rufus Wainwright

Loads more, but they're all on heavy rotation at the moment.

That was me.

I got a new computer and forgro to log in. Sorry.

I've also been listening to The Killers. Ihad never hear them until the Live 8 concert and they impressed me greatly so I went out and bought the CD.

Posted: **Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:49 pm**

Hi Dylan,

I knew it was you! Like I said, after a time, you can guess who a person is by what they listen to. Nina Simone, Eliza Gilykson, Rufus...

- also, people use emoticons in a certain way

Thanks,
Linda.

Posted: **Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:07 pm**

Hi Linda. You know me well.

I'm trying to use less emoticons, but it is a hard habit to stop.

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