Streamnotes: September 27, 2024

Most of these are short notes/reviews based on streaming records from Napster (formerly Rhapsody; other sources are noted in brackets). They are snap judgments, usually based on one or two plays, accumulated since my last post along these lines, back on August 27. Past reviews and more information are available here (24416+ records).

Recent Releases

Recent Reissues, Compilations, Vault Discoveries

Old Music

Limited Sampling

Records I played parts of, but not enough to grade: -- means no interest, - not bad but not a prospect, + some chance, ++ likely prospect.

Grade (or other) Changes

Sometimes further listening leads me to change an initial grade, usually either because I move on to a real copy, or because someone else's review or list makes me want to check it again. Also some old albums extracted from further listening:

Additional Consumer News:

Verve's Finest Hour series:

• Cannonball Adderley (2001)
• Fred Astaire (2003)
• Gato Barbieri (2000)
• Count Basie (2002)
• Willie Bobo (2003)
• Clifford Brown (2000)
• Betty Carter (2003)
• The Crusaders (2000)
• Duke Ellington (2002)
• Bill Evans (2001)
• Tal Farlow (2001)
• Errol Garner (2003)
• Stan Getz (2000)
• Astrud Gilberto (2001)
• Woody Herman (2001)
• Antonio Carlos Jobim (2000)
• Quincy Jones (2000)
• Roland Kirk (2001)
• Ramsey Lewis (2000)
• Chuck Mangione (2000)
• Carmen McBride (2000)
• Charles Mingus (2002)
• Wes Montgomery (2000)
• Anita O'Day (2000) A-
• Oscar Peterson (2000)
• Sonny Rollins (2002)
• Nina Simone (2000)
• Jimmy Smith (2000)
• Art Tatum (2000)
• Mel Tormé (2001)
• Sarah Vaughan (2000)
• Dinah Washington (2000)
• Ben Webster (2000)
• Joe Williams (2001)

Grades on artists in the old music section.

Music Weeks

Music: Current count 36534 [36534] rated (+0), 149 [149] unrated (+0).

Excerpts from this month's Music Week posts:

Notes

Sources noted as follows:

• [cd] based on physical cd
• [cdr] based on an advance or promo cd or cdr
• [lp] based on physical lp (vinyl)
• [dvd] based on physical dvd (rated more for music than video)
• [bc] available at bandcamp.com
• [r] available at napster.com (formerly Rhapsody)
• [sc] available at soundcloud.com
• [sp] available at spotify.com
• [yt] available at youtube.com
• [os] some other stream source
• [dl] something I was able to download from the web; may be freely available, may be a bootleg someone made available, or may be a publicist promo

Grades are probably self-explanatory, aside from B+, which is subdivided 1-2-3 stars, because most records that come my way are pretty good, but they're not all that good.