Yeah this is the most bad-ass thing. I haven't ever even clicked on a spotify app or cared about any of it. This is v eye opening.
― Nickelback of folk (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
this is the best one i've seen by a large margin
another one i'd recommend -- and it's way more "homemade" seeming than this -- is Ulysses' Classical...just because he makes really cool playlists and blog posts...but it's more Spotify playlist enabled blog within spotify than something as ambitious as the Blue Note one
― jalapeno kloppers (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
i think those guys probably all had different conceptions of what a jazz LP should sound like.
I learned yesterday that Sun Ship wasn't recorded at Van Gelder's studio (or engineered by Van Gelder), and nothing in its' sound suggests otherwise. So yeah, I guess Thiele had more to do with the sound of the records than I'd previously thought (because I previously thought he left it entirely up to Van Gelder).
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
Cool, will check that xp. Thanks.
― Nickelback of folk (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
gentlemen: the Spotify app in question is neither available on the app store nor findable on my ipad--what am I doing wrong?
― theStalePrince, Saturday, 22 September 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
Here you go:
http://open.spotify.com/app/bluenote
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 22 September 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link
aha! apps don't exist on iPad/Pod, which are the only version I've used for months know....good to know. thanks for the link!
― theStalePrince, Saturday, 22 September 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
somebody needs to set up a "greatest Blue Note" cover poll....
― theStalePrince, Saturday, 22 September 2012 04:26 (eleven years ago) link
hmmm http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb30k1add71r3sdivo1_500.png
― tylerw, Friday, 28 September 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
those are really boring cover photos, no offense to barrack
― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Friday, 28 September 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
barack (d'oh)
the joe henderson PAGE ONE takeoff is good in the montage
― 69, Friday, 28 September 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
and the sidewinder one is ok too
― 69, Friday, 28 September 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Downloaded Art Blakey's Indestructible (his last Blue Note album, from 1965, with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton and Reggie Workman) and the two volumes of 3 Blind Mice (live stuff from 1962 with Freddie Hubbard, Fuller, Shorter, Walton and Jymie Merritt). There are days when all I want to listen to, ever, is Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers' stuff from 1960-65.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 13 July 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
I have been loving Pete La Roca's awesome Basra album a lot recently. It is a travesty that such a talented dude fucked it all off and became a taxi driver.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 11:20 (seven years ago) link
Dud mostly. The less rhythmic propulsion a track has, the more likely the track title will be an intransitive verb with a dropped 'g'.― dave q, Monday, August 12, 2002 7:00 PM (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol great dave q post
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
RIP RVGhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CquV540VMAAQBHy.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
I picked up a great book of lp covers from the label from a cheap sale a few years ago. They really did have a great sense of style.Seems to have been a major influence on mod. Presumably the modern jazz that's initially a short form for was best epitomised by the record label.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 25 August 2016 22:18 (seven years ago) link
RIP Rudy Van Gelder
humans will be listening to some of those tracks as long as the species has electrical power
― Brad C., Thursday, 25 August 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link
.. must have at least 8 or 12 of the RVG remasters on disc -- will need to dig them out
― bodacious ignoramus, Thursday, 25 August 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
Finally got around to watching 'Blue Note: Beyond the Notes' last night. It's nice and pleasant but didn't really contain much in the way of insights that any fan wasn't already familiar with. Highlight was watching Shorter & Hancock goof around. I could have gone for a lot more of that.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 13 January 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link