november 2017 – good to hear

Old castle by the river in the middle of a forest
Chick Corea & Hiromi
Chick Corea needs no introduction; Hiromi Uehara (born 1979) is a highly acclaimed Japanese jazz pianist, who does not only infuse this genre with new energy but has also brought her scorching style to jazz-rock-fusion. Here we are listening to an older probe of her art that can be equaled with that of veteran Chick Corea, with whom she plays here. For those who want to hear more, further pearls of her exceptional talent can easily be found.
Yasuhisa Tanaka, March 2010

Turn up the quiet
Diana Krall
A further sure value in the world of jazz has published a new album this year and promotes it with a world tour. Diana Krall, married to Elvis Costello, was born into a familiy of musicians and began to play the piano at age four. Add her warm and far reaching voice and, thanks to her husband, her own compoistions and texts. On Turn up the quiet, characterized by standards, she is accompanied by a series of wellknown musicians such as Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Tony Garnier (bass) or Karriem Riggins (drums).
Vevo, March 2017

Give More Love
Ringo Starr
Ringo has surrounded himself with friends and released an all-star album, on which, next to Paul Mccartney, Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh (Ringo’s brother-in-law), Peter Frampton (formerly Humble Pie), Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) or Don Was can be heard. Qualitatively, the tracks are rather varied but – hey! – it is Ringo Starr who remains a great drummer and still has a lot of fans.
Roccabella, September 2017

Chicha Çoçek
Szkojáni Charlatans
The gipsy band hails from the mysteriously sunken village of Szkojan in Transsylvania, of which nobody ever heard again. The at least three sometimes four or maybe five or six musicians around the young violinist Kjartan Code live in Budapest and Santiago de Chile, travel around the world and  delight who hears them with the wild and dreamlike quality of their sound. The band formed in 2012 with the intention to prove to their audience that folk music is still and always the best party music, standing in a mystic tradtion no-one can pass by. And so they play Balcan rhythms and gipsy music with a strong muti-cultural, urban influence. Janoš Bito is great on the accordion though not as much in evidence in this song as in others.
Video by Mussy Parra, Ramon Madariaga and Valeska Aracena, March 2017

Leonard Cohen Playlist
Leonard Cohen
Here fans find the entire work of Leonard Cohen in chronological order as a free 22-hour-stream.
Open Culture, October 2017

Why is there so much beauty in the world?
Rupert Sheldrake
Why is there so much beauty in the world? And Psychedelic Expriences and Morphic Resonance
Two talks by Rupert Sheldrake (about 40 min each)

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