What Are You Listening To?

Change of pace. got this idea from the song game-

Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense- Great album and even better DVD. Wish I could have caught them live. One of the few late '70's early '80's shows of the great live bands I missed out on.

That was good stuff!

Back to my jazz- Spyro Gyra- Got The Magic. I just don't get tired of this easy on the ears stuff. Getting old.

Last one-

Sade- The Best Of. Keep on churnin'!

=Breaktime!!

-Lonewolf, Wired has been a favorite album of mine for a long, long time now.  Still never fails to bring a smile to my face...   As far as ryes are concerned, I'm rather partial to C. C, I find it has a slightly more robust flavor than C. R., But I'll never turn down C. R.

-OK, Brick!  Pleasure as usual!  I hope that you have a good weekend!

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Miles Davis Quintet  Cookin'

Cookin' is the first of four albums derived from the Miles Davis quintet's fabled extended recording session on October 26, 1956; the concept being that the band would document their vast, live-performance catalog in a studio environment, rather than preparing all new tracks for their upcoming long-player. The bounty of material in the band's live sets — as well as the overwhelming conviction in the quintet's studio sides — would produce the lion's share of the Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', and Steamin' albums. As these recordings demonstrate, there is an undeniable telepathic cohesion that allows this band — consisting of Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (piano), and Philly Joe Jones (drums) — to work so efficiently both on the stage as well as in the studio. This same unifying force is also undoubtedly responsible for the extrasensory dimensions scattered throughout these recordings. The immediate yet somewhat understated ability of each musician to react with the ingenuity and precision is expressed in the consistency and singularity of each solo as it is maintained from one musician to the next without the slightest deviation. "Blues by Five" reveals the exceptional symmetry between Davis and Coltrane that allows them to complete each other's thoughts musically. Cookin' features the pairing of "Tune Up/When Lights Are Low" which is, without a doubt, a highlight not only of this mammoth session, but also the entire tenure of Miles Davis mid-'50s quintet. All the elements converge upon this fundamentally swinging medley. Davis' pure-toned solos, and the conversational banter that occurs with Coltrane, and later Garland during "When the Lights Are Low," resounds as some of the finest moments between these musicians.

-Another all-time favorite of mine...

Hey Cleveland,

There was a really obscure movie called "Lunch Wagon" back in 1980 (softcore T&A with a lot of goofball humor, about attractive women running said lunch wagon to attract lots of male clientele from some local businesses on their lunch break.  Missing Persons had some of their music in the movie, and they even made an appearance in it!  You might try to find that one.

Going with the "new wave" theme like Missing Persons,

"Riding On The Metro" by Berlin.  I like this song more than "Take My Breath Away".

Gonna go to bed in a bit, but gonna play some PS2 first.  Talk at ya laters Cleveland, and keep the hits (and some not-so-hits) spinning!

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