Now What Are You Listening To? Febus Mark III

I used to go to this used and new record store called Ella Guru until they relocated and they always had a good selection reasonably priced Miles.  That's where most of my Miles albums came from.  I don't recall seeing that one (Valentine) there, or maybe I just passed it by.  Putting that one on my wish list.

Sometimes you just gotta step away from the prog.


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 04 2009 at 13:41

Slartibartfast wrote: ^ I've got an s-load of Miles, that's one of the one's I don't have.  If you've got a lot of Mileses, how does it rank?

If you love Kind of Blue, this is necessary for you.

While it is extremely similar in sound, it relies less on the blues progressions that make up Kind of Blue (although they do a peppy, upbeat cover of "All Blues").

However, a 23-year-old Herbie Hancock is the star of this one, in my opinion...just wow.

There are some great liner notes in the latest version to read as well.  Ron Carter wrote them (I believe).  A lot of history behind this album, especially with the recent assassination of JFK...and the band members were pissed because they found out just before the show that it was a benefit and that they wouldn't be paid.  Carter nearly walked out.

All said, it is magic.

^ Though I don't pretend to be an expert in jazz, that is the one album I'd put on if were asked, what is jazz? 

But, when you come to think of it, there's a lot of variety in jazz as there is in prog.


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 04 2009 at 13:30

^ I've got an s-load of Miles, that's one (MFV) of the one's I don't have.  If you've got a lot of Mileses, how does it rank?
No reviews yet...
Oh, no one's done Porgy and Bess yet either...


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 04 2009 at 13:22

I'm eating cream of wheat and hot tea, with a pot roast in the slow cooker.  The babies are asleep, and it's raining out.

And I'm listening to this:

^ that's what makes this thread so fun. 

And get this, I use a two part random system to select what to load in my portable case and then what to put on.  In this case I was finishing up my last random batch and this was last in line.

And now:

Isn't that a triumvimouse?

Edited by Slartibartfast - December 04 2009 at 13:00

Edited by Slartibartfast - December 04 2009 at 12:32

TheProgtologist wrote: jplanet wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: A concept album about Stephen King's book The Stand(one of my favorites of his).Excellent!   I keep hearing about this from my bandmates - is it really any good?   No,stay away from this one...it sucks.   Joking!!   It's excellent John,even better than Welcome to the Freakroom,which I loved.You and the guys should be really proud of this album,you really knocked it out of the park.   You seem to like King,an author who I really admire.You have done an epic about The Talisman(superb novel!) and now The Stand.What's next,an album about The Dark Tower?

LOL! Cool! Thanks, you made my day! And if you write the first review, it'll make my year! LOL...

 Dave is the King fan, of course...I'll pass along the idea about the Dark Tower, although I had an idea to do a concept album based on the 13 generations of witches from Anne Rice's The Witching Hour, I still need to convince Dave, though...

Bind melon's first album. :D

^^^^^^^^^^