The wonderful first album from Madeleine Peyroux, a jazz singer whose music and voice sound somewhat like Billie Holiday. This is very well-recorded and engaging music. Her two subsequent albums are also good. I like this for dinner parties, in the car and on long, sunny summer weekends (which we’re currently experiencing).
Archive | August, 2008
Today’s desert island disc: Louis Armstrong, Hot Fives & Sevens
This is simply incredible music. I dearly love really old, pre-bebop jazz, and Louis Armstrong invented much of it. More than a trend-setter, he was an inspiration to generations of musicians (of any genre). These British remasters of the early recordings are flawlessly done (an example of how Europe’s ‘lax’ copyright laws drive technical innovation [...]
Desert island discs
I think I’ll start a new type of post on Teabowl – “Today’s Desert Island Disc”. They’ll be short because I just want to quickly point out a much-loved, much-returned-to record in my collection without providing a full review. I’ll link to it on Amazon.com (the way I try to with everything here) and I’ll [...]
My Top 10
Top 10 records of all time… ready, go! It’s harder than you think. Most people don’t think of music that way, I guess. Certainly, making top ten lists is quite a nerdy thing to do. But here goes anyway. These are my top 10 pop records of all time. I thought about including other genres, [...]
Aging gracefully: Paul Weller & Pearl Jam
It’s heartening to see that there are rock ‘n’ roll acts who age gracefully. I think this is particularly (maybe a little too) important for those of us who would still like to think of themselves as a little counter-cultural, or at least open to it, not fully on ‘the man’s’ side, not quite bought [...]
Discovering The Kinks
It’s odd – sometimes there’s an artist who, despite my best efforts to take an inclusive view, slips through my fingers for years. I may know about them but – for whatever reason – I’ve never really listened to them. Then, something triggers a journey of discovery, and I explore what for me is a [...]
Wordle
Wordle makes “word maps” of pages, blogs or feeds. When you look at it like this, my blog looks really boring. I mean, “management,” “records,” “business” and compliance stand out? I should write about some more fun things around here…
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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