What's in your CD player/iPod?
 

I really have enjoyed the 'What are you listening to?' thread over on the TBDB site. This this new KSB bass forum is the bomb, I though it'd be cool to have a similar thread over here where it's not frowned upon for people who play double bass to also list music with no double bass or music with bass guitar or synth generated low end.

Right now I am listening to the '99 D'Angelo album Voodoo with Pino Palladino on electric bass. I also just listened to Coltrane's Blue Train Paul Chambers on bass and I got Radiohead guitarist and composer Jonny Greenwood's Bodysong: Music for the film. In general, I like it.

Time Warner Cable was supposed to come over today and set up Roadrunner high speed internet, but they didn't show up. I am looking forward to be able to check out more audio and video online when they make it here.

Right now I'm listening to some Tower of Power...a great funk group that if anybody hasn't checked out they should.

I also listen to a lot of Chicago and Earth Wind and Fire. This is usually my weekend music after having rehearsals and class all week.

I really like TOP and EWF; I would like to get more of their essetial albums. Which TOP albums do you like, Nick?
Today I've been listening to a really cool album, Andrew Hill's Black Fire with Joe Henderson, Richard Davis and Roy Haynes.

Soul Vaccination: Live in Concert is a great album. Also, Soul with a Capital "S", Souled Out, and Back to the Streets. Those are some of my favorites.

They have so many great CDs that you really can't lose with any of them.

We're playing Mahler 2 here right now, so it's San Francisco Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas playing Mahler 2. What a piece.

I put in Brad Mehldau Trio, Day is Done with Larry Grenadier on double bass.
Also, on the radio I heard some incredible singing on an NPR opera show. I wish I could remember the name of the female singer.

i'm listening to ari roland's cd sketches from a bassist's album'... he has a song called replaceable me, slightly based on embraceable you... really good gut string playing...

Today, I've been listening to John Patitucci's Line by Line, his latest album. Also, Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac.

Line By Line's been on my Pod a lot lately. I'm really diggin' Adam Rogers on that one.

I really like John's tone A LOT on Line by Line. I do wish Chris Potter got more room on it, but I like this group's sound (JP Trio with but not really featuring Chris Potter). As far as bass sounds go, steel strings pizz have been bugging me lately. I've been listening to PC and Richard Davis a lot and find the gut sound to be more vocal and communicative, like it brings out a better, more real sound of the bass. I think John Patitucci is getting that kind of sound on this albums with the metal wound gut.

Today, Michael Buble and Pearl Django.

Fred Hammond: Somethin' About Love
Fred Hammond is a great Christian/Gospel singer,arranger,songwriter who happens to be one of my favorite bass players. I've listened to his music for a while, but I just found out that he played bass for the Winans in the early 80's. Two highlights for me are an awesome 1/4 funk bass line on 'Not Just What You Say', and a great part on 'Lord We Need Your Love'.

Brian Bromberg

Although his tone is somewhat unconventional, very growly and knarly, I love the energy in both his electric on DB playing.

I think his chops are certainly remarkable yet he remains musical.

In a list of some newer talent, he's really dominated a good bit of my listening lately


Marc Johnson

Another really talented player. Love his fluidity. Great with Bill Evans in the 70's. More recently with John Abercrombie and on his own.

These three have been permanently in my mp3s for two years. Never sick of them

Kurt Elling - Flirting with Twilight - Marc Johnson bass
Dudley Moore trio - song for suzie - Peter Morgan bass
Deborah Brown - Jazz4jazz - Red Mitchell bass

I've been relistening to my old John Martin records lately ... Grace and Danger, Solid Air etc. There's some lovely bass in there too but I don't have a clue who it is.

Carli Munoz Trio
 

Nice recent album with Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJonette. I love Eddie's sound on this, very dark, and he plays some amazing stuff. Jack is predictably unpredictable, as always.

Uncommon Ritual - Edgar Meyer
Bach Cello Suites - Edgar Meyer
Fuera - Renaud Garcia-Fons & Jean-Louis Matinier... DB and accordian... two French guys. I was lent this CD by a violinist I'm going to be playing with. It's quite unusual and beautiful... hard to describe.

I don't have an ipod, but
 

Gary Karr w/ Oslo Philharmonic - Koussevitzky concerto
Berlin Phil (von Karajan) - Beethovan 9

I just got a Renaud garciz-Fons' Arcoluz. What an incredible player. He has an incredibly bright tone that not everyone will like, but his technique and musicality are incredible.

Increasingly, my 'pod is filling up with songs that I need to learn for performances.... I received some MP3s on Sunday morning for two new tunes from Amy Hanaiali'i.. for an opening act that we did that evening (with EW&F). Since it was a kind of big deal, I was glad to be able to listen to them while going about my business during the morning. Today, I have it loaded with tunes for a Willie Nelson recording that's happening in later this morning. I find the little thing indispensable as a scratchpad for last minute projects like these.

New (for me) cd
 

APpalachian Journey (Meyer, O'Conner, Ma) - Just bought it last week - I love this stuff.

Hey, Marcus - Where can I hear some of your playing? I've never heard of the Hawaiian singer you keep mentioning, but I'd like to give the group a listen . . .

in my cd-player:
 

herbie hancock - possibilities

is in my cd-player, but its off. i´m listening to the birds in the garden:)

Yes! Have you heard 'Uncommon Ritual'?

www.amyhanaialiigilliom.com

Hey Stan, thanks for asking. Amy may have some tracks with me on her site, not sure.

If you can find any tracks with Tom Conway or our group Gypsy Pacific, that might be something different for you to check out. Our websites are most likely down for revamping at the moment, but I could send you some CDs if you want to check it out. You might eventually want to check out the stuff we did with Willie Nelson this morning.... we had a blast! We'll go back in and finish the raw tracks over the next few days, and then pull it together while he's touring. I'll keep you posted if you're interested.

Yeah, I think Willie's great. Did you get to hang out with him, or was it strictly "professional"?

I'll check out those links later. Thanks. . .

We had a good hang.... Willie is really easy to work with, but he knows what he wants. I've known him for quite awhile, and we kept talking about doing a project together, but we finally got around to it this week. We'll be finishing up on Saturday, most likely.

For the last three days, i've been listening to Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Woods' Out Louder. It's a great album. Also listening to alot of Afro Cuban Jazz....primarily an album called Jam Miami w/ Arturo Sandoval, Poncho Sanches and Chick Corea to name a few. It's a Live concert celebrating Latin jazz.

I've put just about all my CD's into iTunes and my iPod. I have playlists for all the tunes I'm learning for about 3 or 4 different ensembles and sometimes I just put it on shuffle and take what I get. I have a whole bunch of Mingus in the there, Miles Davis (huge amount of Miles), Coltrane (most but more would be better), Oliver Nelson, Art Blakey, Thelonius Monk, Dave Brubek, Astrud Gilberto, Jobim, Getz, Astor Piazolla, Duke Ellington, Wayne Shorter, Weather Report, Sonny Rollins, Mahavishnu, Beatles, Zombies, Yardbirds, Television, Tom Waits, Yusef Lateef, Frank Zappa, Archie Shepp, Talking Heads, Deep Purple. UnCommon Ritual is in there as well as Edgar's Bottesini Concerto with Yo Yo Ma, and Oregon From the Wood and Bromberg Wood. Paul Warburton Quartet and **** Hindman trio (with Paul). Live Dead (Grateful Dead), Hendrix Electric Lady Land. Blue Oyster Cult. Black Sabbath's first 4 albums (really good stuff) Primus (which I am tempted to delete). And then there is Paul Chambers Boxed Set from Mosaic.

Here's some stuff that's in there that almost nobody here would have heard of but me: White Witch, Adam's Township, Jake Sharp, Squat, Dan Baraszu, Trey Wright, Kodac Harrison, Pillowtexans, Sugar Kayne, Kevin Spears, Cadillac Jones, Enter the Haggis, Art Vandalay, Pass a Fire, and far too much to list here.

Then there are my own bands and ensembles: 12+ Scapeweavel CD's, Carousel 5, 5th Sundays, DROP. Free Translation.

What bugs me is all my really good classical and rock and roll is mostly on vinyl and I haven't converted that to digital yet so I have to get my classical fix from the radio right now because I loaned out my turntable several years ago. And I have 8 gigabytes of WREK's All Jazz show that I downloaded as 128 kbps MP3's from their web server, with playlists. I think I might start downloading their classical show too.

The stuff I'm putting in there now is just about anything Rudy Van Gelder is re-mastering. It's all just killer Jazz recordings and I have a whole lot of that in there.

If you haven't heard Chris Wood with his brother Oliver Wood (Wood Brothers), that is just killer Delta Blues type stuff. Oliver sings and plays guitar and Chris does DB and harmonica. It's the best stuff I've seen and bought recently.

Tell me more about this Matthew. I'm not hip to it

If Willie likes you, I guess you're ok.......

I guess you can't say **** any more David. :eek: But thanks for listening.

I guess he likes me. I sure like him. Maybe the most easygoing guy in the biz.

Whoa!
 

What is that in Willies left hand? Looks suspicious. :eek:

:rolleyes:
Nuthin, he's just pointing at me. But I know what you're thinking.

It's some sort of overactive automated censor. Can't say ****, can't even say a it must have been those ****ake mushrooms I ate. :o Let's try putting Josie and the Pussy Cats in my iPod? How come that works?

In the old iPod

Paul Chambers - Mosaic Set
Miles Davis - At Newport 1958
Kurt Elling - Nightmoves and Live in Chicago
Lamber, Hendricks and Ross - Everybody's Boppin'

I dug up some of my old cassette tapes to listen to in the car. I found Joe Henderson 'Page One' and a tape that a drummer named Billy Bowker made for me a long time ago that's all Wynton Kelly with various other musicians including PC, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd and others. There is a lot more, I just have to re-unbury them out of my mom's garage.

I've been listening to John Patitucci's Communion and some John Mayer Trio stuff with Mayer, Pino Palladino, & Steve Jordan.

bjork: vespertine
lenny breau and dave young: live on bourbon street
the bad plus: prog