Spinning Today - What Are You Listening To Right Now? (Part 3)

Shaft (Soundtrack) - Isaac Hayes (1971)

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Day 4 of my 90 day Tidal free trial, and going through some of my favourite albums to see how they sound. This one is a perennial favourite of mine, on my 2nd Vinyl copy and also have on CD/FLAC. Very pleased to find that on Tidal this is a "Master". Coupled with Tina Dico's latest being on there also as a Master I suspect my 90 day free trial is going to end up being a £20 a month commitment...

Anyway, if you've lived under a rock for almost the last 50 years and have never heard this it's fabulous, mainly instrumental, some fantastic playing especially the nineteen-and-a-half minutes of "Do your thing" (which although one of the three tracks with vocals, is mainly instrumental.)

Album Trivia: Upon its release in the summer of 1971, Shaft became the first double album of original studio material released by an R&B artist.

Harry Belafonte

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Joe Louis Walker, Bruce Katz and Giles Robson.

Journeys to the Heart of the Blues.

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Top album this. Giles is a super harmonica player, and the only Brit harpist to play for Aligator records

If you like driving rock played well with energy that sounds fresh, then give this a listen. It is their most recent offering. Extremely good musicianship IMO.

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If you are not familiar, they are not a tribute band to the Floyd, it was just something they did. They actually hail from the Allman Brothers and originally was a side project. Well worth a listen.

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Roger Waters - 'Amused to Death'

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Sometimes regarded as "The Final Cut - Part II', this superbly recorded and brilliantly damning indictment of the state of the world, is even more relevant today than when it was first released in 1992.


U2 - 'The Joshua Tree'

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U2 - 'Rattle and Hum'

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Traffic - 'Welcome to the Canteen'

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Now

Tangerine Dream - 'Rubycon'

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Jimmy Scott. all the way.

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Tidal.

Ray Charles

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Jimmy Scott again. An amazingly soulful jazz voice he has although you would think it a female as he is whats called a countertenor if memory serves, which is around mezzo soprano for a woman. Always had top musicians wanting to play with him

Chilling out:)

The Who ‎– Who's Next
Label:Polydor ‎– 076 176-1, Track Record ‎– 076 176-1, Decca ‎– 076 176-1
Format: 3 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Deluxe Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Gatefold
Country: UK
Released: 2003
Genre: Rock

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