2006年 05月 15日 月曜日 23:08
Let's assume you are exactly like me and have both an http://www.emusic.com account and a last.fm account. Furthermore, you are blessed with a last.fm friend who has really good taste, more toward the out-jazz end of things (or shouldn't that be toward the out-jazz beginning of things?), someone like beelzbubba, for instance. You'd probably make some recommendations to your friend.
Just as part of being friendly, and because I like to fuss over charts and tables and live links to albums and artists and whatnot (enlist in the BBCode Brigade to learn more about this particular hangup), I made a nice list today of stuff I'd downloaded from emusic in the past and liked in order to recommend it to him.
It turned out that we had both independently found this gem: Comme A la Radio, which features Brigitte Fontaine and the Art Ensemble of Chicago together. (emusic download) So I wasn't going to recommend that one.
But here are 13 other good albums on emusic. I linked them to the artist names, not to the albums, so they would be more visible on last.fm pages;.
- Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan: An instant classic blues album. emusic download
- Arthur Blythe: tenor sax, tuba and drums. A beautiful, groovy sound. emusic download
- Bootsy Collins: One of the better Bootsy records out there is Blasters of the Universe; stick with the noninstrumental disc, however. emusic download
- Bia: pan-European pop from a Canada-based singer. I have been listening fairly regularly to Bia Carmin for more than a year and I really like it. emusic download
- Dave Holland: Large ensemble jazz. emusic download
- Freddie Hubbard: This disc has “Joy Spring,” which I think is the most gorgeous head ever composed. “Red Clay” isn’t bad either. emusic download
- Harold Land: One of the great West Coast jazz saxophonists. emusic download
- Ivy: Immaculate pop with a heart and mind. Mix with Bia for instant bubble-bath music. emusic download
- Joyce: Brazilian singer with a great approach to jazz-tinged songs. emusic download
- Keith LeBlanc: This guy was the drummer for the Sugar Hill Gang, the creators of “Rapper’s Delight,” one of the first hiphop records. This whole disc is just a truckload of sonic invention, dropped right outside your ear canal. emusic download
- Russ Freeman: The disc here is him with Shelly Manne. These are pretty full-sounding tunes for being only piano (Freeman) and drums (Manne). Worth a listen. emusic download
- Booniay!!: A Compilation Of West African Funk: This is a 100% gold compilation. Listen and love. emusic download
- The Hold Steady: Indie favorites. The guy shouts, declaims, whatever, over instant-classic classic-rock cover-band arrangements. Download “Stevie Nix”; if you don’t like it, you won’t like any of the other tunes either. emusic download