The Week in Music Soul - Donny Hathaway Blues - BB King, Taj Mahal, Junior Wells, T-Bone Electronic - Naples, Aurelia Smith, Yorke 20th Century - Glass, Chin, Dutilleux, Webern, Berg, Kapustin Any faves?

It’s with great sadness and a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Ken Downie on 20/12/25. Rest In Peace brother, you will be deeply missed and never forgotten. Our condolences to Sheena and his family.

#NowListening McCoy Tyner – Sama Layuca (Milestone, 1974) Post-Bop

#NowListening #5albums25 Philip Glass – The Complete Piano Etudes (Vanessa Wagner) (InFiné, 2025) Contemporary Classical / Minimalism / Piano Solo

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#NowListening B.B. King – Deuces Wild (MCA, 1997) Blues

Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love. Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.

albums we missed because they died early: - Jim Morrison doing a chicago blues record with 80s sounding drums

Hello. I would like to celebrate the lost art of the compilation album as an eye and ear opening path into pleasures previously unknown. It might be a sampler, it might be a mix album but it's a person's singular vision of a particular genre or theme. Thread below of some favourites

I don't understand why people have their telephone conversations in public. No headphones. On speaker phone. Since when was this normal? Why do so many people do it?

#NowListening Alban Berg – Lulu-Suite • Three Pieces for Orchestra (Abbado, LSO) (DG, 1971) 20th Century Classical

#NowListening #5albums25 Anthony Naples – Scanners (ANS, 2025) Deep House / Techno

This year's favorite listens for #5albums25 Sure, I've played some way more than others, there might be an EP or two, and one from the back end of '24, but all worth a listen if you're looking for something that's not the typical alt/folk/indie/pop/band stuff that fills the Top 100! Any faves?

#NowListening Donny Hathaway – Live (ATCO, 1972) Soul Features a stupendous cover of 'Jealous Guy' just in case you want to listen to that.

#NowListening Donny Hathaway – Everything is Everything (ATCO, 1970) Soul

#NowListening Carlo Maria Giulini – The Complete Sony Recordings (Sony Classical, 2014) Classical / Romantic / Choral

The Week in Music Classic - Mozart 20th C. - Sørensen, Lutosławski, Szymanowski, Webern 21st C. - Glanert, Chin Jazz - Coltrane Electronic - Autechre Any faves?

#NowListening Dvořák – Symphony No.9 (Giulini, Concertgebouw) (Sony Classical, 1994) Romantic / Classical

#NowListening Mozart - Piano Concertos K. 453 & 467 (Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker) (DG, 2006) Classical

#NowListening Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 23 (Horowitz, Giulini, La Scala) (DG, 1987) Classical

#NowListening Mozart – Concerto For Two Pianos & Piano Concerto No. 27 (Emil Gilels, Elena Gilels, Böhm, Vienna) (DG, 1974) Classical

#NowListening Mozart – Clarinet Concerto, Clarinet Quintet (David Shifrin, Gerard Schwarz) (Delos, 1985) Classical

#NowListening #5DebutAlbums7074 Edgar Froese – Aqua (Virgin, 1974) Ambient / Electronic

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This is my favorite Jethro Tull song!

Who says classical album covers lack imagination?

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#NowListening Philippe Thuriot - Ravel & Couperin (Warner Classics, 2018) Neo-Classical / Baroque / Solo Accordion

#NowListening Adams & Korngold - Violin Concertos (Ilya Gringolts) (Orchid, 2017) Late Romanticism / 20th Century Classical

#NowListening Shostakovich – Violin Concertos (Alina Ibragimova, Vladimir Jurowski) (Hyperion, 2020) 20th Century Classical

#NowListening Karol Szymanowski – Violin Concertos (Zimmermann, Wit, Warsaw) (Sony, 2009) 20th Century Classical

#NowListening Clifford Brown and Max Roach – Clifford Brown and Max Roach (EmArcy, 1954) Jazz / Hard Bop

#NowListening Lutosławski – Works for Orchestra (Lutosławski/Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra) (EMI, 1978) 20th Century Classical

#NowListening Lutosławski – Concerto for Orchestra (Seiji Ozawa, Chicago) (Angel, 1975) 20th Century Classical

#NowListening Unsuk Chin – 3 Concertos (Myung-Whun Chung, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra) (DG, 2014) Contemporary Classical

#NowListening Anton Webern – Chamber Music for Strings (Schoenberg Quartet) 20th Century Classical / Modernism

#NowListening Prokofiev – Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Kyung-Wha Chung, André Previn, LSO) (Decca, 1977) Late Romantic / 20th Century Classical

#NowListening Detlev Glanert - Oceane (Runnicles, Oper Berlin) (Oehms, 2020) Contemporary Opera

#NowListening Tristan Murail – Winter Fragments (Aeon, 2006) Contemporary Classical / Spectral / Electro-acoustic

#NowListening Love Coltrane, but needed more piano. McCoy Tyner – Enlightenment (Milestone, 1973) Modal Jazz / Post-Bop

#NowListening John Coltrane – Kulu Sé Mama (Impulse, 1966) Spiritual Jazz / Free Jazz

#NowListening John Coltrane – Meditations (Impulse, 1966) Free Jazz

#NowListening The John Coltrane Quartet – The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (Impulse, 1965) Post-Bop / Modal Jazz

#NowListening John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (Impulse, 1965) Jazz / Post-Bop / Spiritual Jazz

#NowListening #Jazz John Coltrane Quartet – Crescent (Impulse, 1964) Post-Bop / Modal Jazz

#NowListening LutosAir Quintet – Canto For Winds (Maslanka, Janssesn, Szeligowski, Fazil Say) (NFM, 2017) Contemporary Classical / Chamber Music

#NowListening Martin Suckling – This Departing Landscape (Volkov, BBC SSO) (NMC, 2021) Contemporary Classical

#NowListening Bent Sørensen – Shadowland (Dacapo, 1998) Contemporary Classical / Chamber Music

#NowListening Bent Sørensen – Sterbende Gärten & The Echoing Garden (Dacapo/Marco Polo, 1996) 20th Century Classical

#NowListening trying to decide whether to take my 10 year old son to Tristan & Isolde or the Marriage of Figaro next year. Mozart – Le Nozze Di Figaro (Prey, Mathis, Janowitz, Fischer-Dieskau, Böhm, Berlin) (DG, 1968) Classical / Opera