Guillermo Klein & Los Guachos - "Filtros"
-Klein with a sort-of big band doing his unique version of Latin jazz. IMO, this is one of the ten best jazz albums of the last ten years.
Calexico - "Feast of Wire"
-An alt-country band heavily influenced by the mariachi and Tejano of their native Tuscon. My favorite album by one of my favorite bands.
Epstein/Shepik/Kilmer - "Lingua Franca"
-A few of the more inventive musicians on the scene. They have a sort of world folk sound infused into a jazz album. Fun album.
Matthew Halsall - "Colour Yes"
-Halsall has a warm sound on his trumpet. Just a real pretty album by a new guy on the scene.

Dead...

3/20/1977...
Minglewood, Ramble on Rose, El Paso, Deal, Cassidy, Peggy-O, BIODTL, B.E Women, Estimated > Scarlet....

mercy... great way to cap a great weekand..

I can't get enough of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Best remake of the 21st Century.


Just reminds me of being at grandma's in Harlowe, NC as a kid. Dying from the heat because she didn't believe in using AC. Blueberry dumplings, shrimp with rice(no grits because this is coastal carolina), chiltlins, biscuits, crab, & hot applesauce, eggs, sausage, hot tea with plenty of milk & sugar, & OJ for breakfast promptly followed by a nap while she cleared the kitchen & started dinner (served at 2 pm).

Robbie Fulks - "Happy." All Michael Jackson covers. I paid $3.98 for it this morning on Amie St. Quite possibly one of the best bargains I've scored. Get it before it gets too hot - it's all the way up to $4.08 now...

Mozart Piano Concerto #20 in D minor, Daniel Barenboim pianist and conductor, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi conductor, Burl Lane saxophone, Gene Pokorny, tuba and the mighty Adolph "Bud" Herseth trumpet.

Sergey Rachmaninov Symphony #2, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer conductor.

Edvard Grieg's incidental music to Peer Gynt. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner, Ambrosian Singers, and Lucia Popp soprano.

Tonight's CSO concert was wonderful:

Sir Mark Elder, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano

Berlioz Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 (Reformation)
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
Wagner Overture to Rienzi

"Down River" from The Temper Trap

"Backwards Walk" Frightened Rabbit.

Both groups set for Lollapalooza this August

mhill95149 wrote:
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

Interesting, I think I actually like Strummer more for the influence he spread, than his actual music. Admittedly I don't know that album, or The Mescaleros years, but a feeling all the same.

SSDD

Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information 3

I find new things to like every time I listen. (AfroBeat/Jazz)

When The Drugs Kick In - Del-Lords

from their rough mix release Under Construction

Johannes Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem, Opus 45
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Daniel Barenboim Conductor, Margaret Hillis Chorus Master
Janet Williams, soprano, Thomas Hampson, baritone

The first cd in Gucci Mane's three-mixtape epic "the Cold War," a two-and-a-half hour ode to shiny stuff.



This mofo is out of his mind in the best way possible. Makes Lil' Wayne look like an honor student.

Habibi wrote:This mofo is out of his mind in the best way possible. Makes Lil' Wayne look like an honor student.

Wow, you're not kidding...I was listening to this before I read your post:



But after listening to a bunch of Gucci Mane tracks on lala.com, I've come to two conclusions: 1) Jay-Z sounds positively tame in comparison, and 2) I'm gonna have to grab some Gucci Mane tracks when I get home. Thanks for the heads up!

Peter Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathetique
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Conductor

Gustav Mahler, Symphonie No. 9
Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Pierre Boulez

The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol 1: Legion of Mary [live]

killer "mystery train" from 7/7/75

as well as a really nice "tough mama" from 7/4/75

Richard Wagner, Prelude to Act III and Prize-song (for horn) from Die Meistersinger, Siegfried Idyll
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Conductor, Dale Clevenger, horn

Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, op. 82
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis

AC/DC Back in Black. Also, anything but classical.

margaritaville xm- 55

Giuseppi Verdi, Overtures and Preludes
Orchestra Filharmonica della Scala, Riccardo Muti

Henry Purcell, Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Transcribed for orchestra of winds, brasses and percussion by Steven Stucky (for Esa-Pekka Salonen and the L.A. Philharmonic)
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Clark Rundell

Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose Suite
Berlin Philharmonic led by Pierre Boulez

We also heard this played wonderfully last night by the CSO.

Chicago's own Kanye West's Graduation. Infectious, especially the sample of Steely Dan on Champion.

Forty Licks-Rolling Stones

Luis Miguel-Love Songs

And this would be why Evil Ronnie and I have 2 different systems in our house.

Marian McPartland, piano, and Stacy Rowles, flugelhorn and vocals, from a show recorded in 2001:

Emily by Johnny Mandel, and Time after Time (no, not that one!...the '40's standard by Jules Styne and Sammy Kahn.)

See...I listen to other stuff too.