Whats on your turntable tonight?

My Tuesday night music meeting:

Johnny Hartman, "The Voice That Is"
Massive Attack, "Heligoland"
Rickie Lee Jones, "Traffic From Paradise"
Porcupine Tree, "Fear of A Blank Planet"
Porcupine Tree, "Stupid Dreams"
Ike Quebec, "Soul Samba"
Beach House, "Teen Dream"

Welcome back Albert! (In lesser news, misspelling "suavest" not exactly a suave move on my part -- certainly not deserving of Joe Williams' hounds-tooth & pipe ;^)

Barney Kessel - "Plays Carmen" [Contemporary mono LP '59] Subtitled "Modern Jazz Performances From Bizet's Opera". Group includes Buddy Collette, Andre Previn, Shelly Manne, Herb Geller and Victor Feldman, adapted and arranged by Kessel, who is in fine form on guitar. Warm and intimate, quite dynamic and very clean, reasonably extended sound by Roy DuNann

The Paul Winter Sextet - "Jazz Meets The Bossa Nova" [Columbia stereo LP '62] Redundantly-titled, percussion-crazy swell set, capable of generating a spread of sound seemingly greater than the width of the room far in excess of the speaker positions, without the help of added reverb either

Listened again tonight with a fellow wanting to audition the Allnic, short session but the following got spun before shutting down.

Massive Attack, "Heligoland"
Eric Clapton, "Layla"
Hampton Hawes, "Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes"
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Brubeck Desmond"
Daniel Lanois, "Acadie"

1. procol harum--exotic birds and fruit. post-trower; generally ignored, but actually quite excellent--less arty, more concise than their earlier stuff. "the idol" and "new lamps for old" are among the best songs they ever recorded.
2. thin white rope--exploring the axis. the great lost guitar band of the 80s--brilliant, hooky, twisted psychy stuff in the same general ballpark as meat puppets and television, but entirely unique. the leader, guy kyser, is a genius.
3. sex clark five--strum and drum. really melodic, rem-ish one-minute pop tunes with clever, if incomprehensible, lyrics. 25 years after first hearing this, i still remember these songs.

The Originals - "Baby I'm For Real" [Soul LP '69]

Luther Ingram - "If Loving You Is Wrong I Don't Want To Be Right" [Koko LP '72]

Moments - "Moments With You" [Stang LP '76]