A Little On The Resurgence of Vinyl

Last year I think I bought about 30 records. If not more than that. There is, in my opinion, no better way to listen to music than on wax, and it's a great thing, in my opinion, that vinyl seems to be coming back.

I don't want to preach the whole one is better than the other thing. There's plenty of places you can go online to swim in that pool. But I do prefer the old 33 & 1/3 RPM experience because that's exactly what it is, an experience.

You put on a record and it's an event. You go buy it and it's an event. You unwrap it, you take a look at the cover art, and it is all part of this awesome ritual. A unique experience. Everyone who likes to listen to music, whatever type, should at least once, listen to their favourite records on a turntable.

Ain't nothing like it.

Keep Jazzin',

Mario

Fall 2009 Show 2

Art Blakey - Buttercorn Lady
Buttercorn Lady
Limelight
1966


Bill Evans - My Romance
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Riverside/OJC
1961


John Coltrane - Vilia
Live At Birdland
Impulse!
1963


Dexter Gordon - I Was Doing Allright
Doin Allright
Blue Note
1961


Bud Powell - There Will Never Be Another You
A Portrait of Thelonius
Sony
1961


Sam Rivers - Beatrice
Fuchsia Swing Song
Blue Note
1964


Grant Green - I'm An Old Cowhand
Talkin About!
Blue Note
1964


Roy Haynes Quartet - Fly Me To The Moon
Out of the Afternoon
Impulse!
1962


Pat Metheny - The Sun In Montreal
99>00
Warner Bros
2000


P.A.F - South Shout Mouth
Morph
Label Bleu
2006


Andre Ceccarelli - These Foolish Things
Carte Blanche
Dreyfus
2004


Keith Jarrett Trio - I Cant Believe That Youre In Love With Me
The Out Of Towners
ECM
2005


Stefano Bollani - La Sagra Di Paolopoli
L Orchestra Del Titanic
Via Veneto Jazz
1999


Marcin Wasilewski Trio - Sisters Song
Trio
ECM
2005


Joshua Redman - Can A Good Thing Last Forever?
Elastic
Warner Bros
2002

Fall 2009 Show 1

Art Blakey - Its Only A Paper Moon
The Big Beat
Blue Note
1960

McCoy Tyner - Blues For Gwen
Inception
Impulse!
1962

Miles Davis - Joshua
Four and More
Columbia
1964

Modern Jazz Quartet - Django
European Concert
Atlantic
1960

Sonny Rollins - The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
Newk s Time
Blue Note
1957

Bobby Hutcherson - Jasper
Dialogue
Blue Note
1965

Brad Mehldau - Wonderwall
Live
Nonesuch
2008

Enrico Rava & Stefano Bollani - The Third Man
The Third Man
ECM
2007

Return To Forever - Dayride
No Mystery
Polydor
1975

Bobo Stenson Trio - Oleo de mujer con sombrero
War Orphans
ECM
1998

Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett - Grow Your Own
Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett
Atlantic
1971

Joni Mitchell - The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines
Shadows & Light
Asylum
1980

Marcin Wasilewski Trio - Cinema Paradiso
January
ECM
2008

The Jazz Trance...

Amazingly accurate/good

Mario

Beautiful Musicality

I just wish I could play with such a big smile on my face.... Billy Higgins was a genius.

Mario

Fall Semester 2009

The show will air in the fall on Sundays from 6PM to 8PM on WTBU.... I'm very excited to get back. We'll probably have some interns and definitely some great new music. I'm just waiting to get back so I can get some of the new releases that have predictably not come out here in Brazil. Steve Kuhn's new CD is in my sights...

Talk to you soon,

Mario

Sorry, again...Serious

So yeah, once again I promised to bring the blog back, and once again it has been an unfulfilled promise.  But you know what, I'm on holiday - or should I say we are on holidays - right now and holidays are a boring time.  Yeah summer (well it's summer for you guys in the northern hemisphere) is great and all, but lets face it: the three months and a half can lead to some tedious times.

So I'll be listening to a lot of music, hopefully compiling some for next semester, if I get the show that is, and all the while contributing to the blog with some of my finds and as usual, my thoughts.

Follow me at twitter, if you don't already, the link is on the feed up in the right corner of the site, but if you want to look by name it's at twitter.com/thesoulfultruth...

So I guess I'll see you around, and please, leave comments! That's how I know I'm not writing to the proverbial cyberspace walls!

Keep Jazzin,

Mario