Dienstag, 15. Jan 2008, 1:42

Here are my musical meanderings over the last few weeks:

I bought myself AC/DC - For those about to rock (we salute you) a few weeks ago and loved it as I knew I would.

Throw in a listen to AC/DC's similar artists on last.fm which gave me a listen to ZZ TOP's track Just got back from Baby's which I had never heard before. Have to say that I loved the track.

ZZ Top led me to give my Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robert Cray discs or at least a couple of them a spin. Anders Osborne and Jimmie Vaughan also got a look in as well.

Throw in some Oscar Peterson Trio via the LP Night Train and a trip to the local library which allowed me to listen to a Howard Arlen songbook double CD on Verve, two Jimmy Smith discs, a Blue Note compilation or two, some Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Manu Dibango, a concert by The Marsalis Family and some early Sonny Rollins.

Don't usually like the sound quality of stuff recorded before 1950 or thereabouts but thought the Woody Herman stuff was great. The Jimmy Smith cds were also great. House Party and Dot Com Blues

So thats how I got from ACDC to Jazz.

All of this was happening along my usual rock stuff as well as some Peter Bjorn and John

Now for the Instro surf …

I know it's mainly rock to blues to jazz above but usually I move next to instro surf such as The Aqua Velvets or plain instro such as The Shadows

Now if I could only stop going to the library…

That's another lot of journals altogether.

Feel free to post your recent musical journeys as well

Cheers
GBD