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Longform listening tonight: not a single track on Tales is shorter than 11 minutes.
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Glad to be returning to this gem again for a week-long immersive listen.
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All About Jazz’s webmaster displays a solid sense of humor.
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Możdżer’s Polska has been on rotation for the last several nights, another reminder that I need to spend more time going through ACT’s catalogue.
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Endless Field recorded Alive in the Wilderness outdoors, in southern Utah. I’ve been listening to it at night, when everything is still, marveling at the sound quality and the mix of instruments with the sounds of the environment — birds calling, wind gusting, water rushing.
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After four listens over the past three days, I’m pretty confident Emily’s D+Evolution is an even greater album now than it already was in 2016.
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This might be the first year in quite a while that I don’t finish a year-end music mix.
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When Apple Music’s algorithm starts serving up albums you bought from BMG’s record club while in high school, have you come full circle?
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10 December 1967:
Redding is flying up from Saturday night shows in Cleveland in the well-used green-and-white Beechcraft 18 airplane he had just bought for $78,000.
Madison In The Sixties – The Death Of Otis Redding | WORT 89.9 FM
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I’ll be forever grateful for my visit to the Pec. I’d so looked forward to returning one day. Another loss in a year of far too many unnecessary losses.
El Chapultepec, Denver’s iconic jazz club and bar, closing permanently after 87 years | Denver Post
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A musical kindred spirit’s rendition of one of my favorite Christmas tunes, on one of my favorite Christmas albums.
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I keep returning to Joep Beving. Tonight “Solitude” fits. I love how Beving close-mics his piano to capture its mechanical noises.
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Ibrahim Maalouf’s 40th birthday commemoration is a late entry for favorite album of the year.
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What did you do before the war?
I was a chef, I was a chefTom Waits’ “Hell Broke Luce” remains a surreal, searing personal favorite.
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Sarah McLachlan to System of a Down is a hell of a transition.
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Our first snowfall of the year came this afternoon. I went for a two hour walk in it, rejoicing at the descending flakes. Jakob Bro’s Returnings was the perfect soundtrack, particularly “Oktober” and “Lyskaster.”
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The entire album is fantastic, but this remains my favorite version of “Misery.”
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Well, a fresh Rodrigo y Gabriela live album to keep the COVID blues away. Happy early weekend to me.
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Night, 2020: Tarkovksy Quartet, “Nuit blanche.”
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I’ve heard some great music over the years listening to community radio stations, but I’m still surprised on occasion. Hearing one of my all-time favorite songs — Venice Beach busker Ted Hawkins’ cover of “There Stands the Glass” — just now about blew me out of the water.
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How many different recordings of Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto can one listen to in a night?
Not enough.
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I love how much vintage Soul Asylum I hear in the guitar part behind the verses on “Dogtown Days.” I think the upbeat, jangly guitars masking the sadness in the song feels resonant of SA’s best work. The drum part behind the last chorus is pretty great, too.
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The later it gets, the better Haunted Heart sounds.
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I‘d hoped for a smaller Apple One bundle. I subscribe to iCloud (2TB), Music (gladly), and News+ (reluctantly). I’d prefer a 5% discount on those three rather than getting three other services I don’t plan to use for “free.” That’s not free; Apple’s extracting a subsidy.
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