NWR - Music, work and wine

[Gavin Trott]

Hi

I'm luckier than most I suppose, self employed etc. I can listen to music often as I work away. The range varies but currently listening to some fantastic piano trio jazz, foot tapping stuff.

Interesting how, with moods, your wine choice, and music choice change!

Anyone else listen while, they work, and if so, hey, what's on?

[Neville K]

Gavin,
Not strictly music, but
wine and Music notes-

From the Divine Cabernets tasting I noted re
2001 Craggy Range Gimblett Gravels "Quarry"
Very heavy bottle, Gangsta rap with bad speakers playing too loud!

Neville K

[Gavin Trott]

Gavin,
Not strictly music, but
wine and Music notes-

From the Divine Cabernets tasting I noted re
2001 Craggy Range Gimblett Gravels "Quarry"
Very heavy bottle, Gangsta rap with bad speakers playing too loud!

Neville K

Understand, my 17 year old only listens to Rap, too loud, over bad distorting speakers!

I've come to love some of it (and hate some!).

Last night, a new cleanskin Pinot Noir (bloody good) with Andre Previn piano jazz, both light, foot tapping, easy and fun.

[brad]

Hi

I'm luckier than most I suppose, self employed etc. I can listen to music often as I work away. The range varies but currently listening to some fantastic piano trio jazz, foot tapping stuff.

Interesting how, with moods, your wine choice, and music choice change!

Anyone else listen while, they work, and if so, hey, what's on?

Gavin, also my own boss these days so I control the music as well. By coincidence I am listening to a bit of the Red Garland Quintet right now.

Garland (piano)/Coltrane/Byrd/Joyner/Taylor - a fantastic 3 track disc called All Mornin' Long.

cheers, brad

[MartinC]

Hi all,
Talking about music, my favourite band fr OZ was Man@Work. Wat happened to 'em now?
I listened to the radio @ work n now this fella "Gay" Sebastien, OZ Idol has been given too much of air-play for his single "Angels brought me here" till I get sick. Is he that popular down under?

[Gavin Trott]

Gavin, also my own boss these days so I control the music as well. By coincidence I am listening to a bit of the Red Garland Quintet right now.

Garland (piano)/Coltrane/Byrd/Joyner/Taylor - a fantastic 3 track disc called All Mornin' Long.

cheers, brad

Wine by Brad ... yes??

Me Andre Previn, Ray Brown, Joe Pass - After Hours Piano beautiful, guitar great and Brown swinging away!

backed up by the Three Sounds Black Orchid - no brain required, just tap feet and enjoy!

Sacriledge I know, but not a huge Coltrane fan!

[brad]

Wine by Brad ... yes??

Guilty.

Sacriledge I know, but not a huge Coltrane fan!

You call yourself a jazz fan?

[Gavin Trott]

Wine by Brad ... yes??

Guilty.

Samples in the mail I assume?

Sacriledge I know, but not a huge Coltrane fan!

You call yourself a jazz fan?

Brad

gimme a favourite album, I know, just one, yadda yadda, but go for it anyway.

Oh and Coltrane Sholtrane.

[brad]

Brad

gimme a favourite album, I know, just one, yadda yadda, but go for it anyway.

Oh and Coltrane Sholtrane.

I hate to sound cliched but how can you go past Miles' Kind of Blue?

[brad]

Samples in the mail I assume?

Nearly missed this bit. As it happens I'm sending samples out this week. You are on my list.

I'll PM you about this.

[Gavin Trott]

Brad

gimme a favourite album, I know, just one, yadda yadda, but go for it anyway.

Oh and Coltrane Sholtrane.

I hate to sound cliched but how can you go past Miles' Kind of Blue?

Listened to it again last week, agree.

From left field, but related, Something Else - sort of a Miles session nominally Cannonball Adderley, who's sax is wonderful!

About the best ballad I've heard is on there!

[brad]

From left field, but related, Something Else - sort of a Miles session nominally Cannonball Adderley, who's sax is wonderful!

About the best ballad I've heard is on there!

I have this also on regular playing - probably in my top 5!

Also another cliche, but Dave Brubeck's Time Out is a stand out.

[fred]

Yes Gavin.

I have 2MBS-FM playing (classical 90%& jazz10%) fulltime background music to think by but if the spoken word intrudes (or Schonberg et al) I reach for a CD.

Music helps me think (very quietly in the background even during conferences) but selecting music means I tend to listen (ie concentrate).

The exception to the general rule is JS Bach: that music is generally so precise that it forces concentration on the patterns and stops me working!

Late at night: great Verdi opera played oud while preparing submissions or an advice!

Most of the day : preference is clearly for chamber music of the classical or baroque (but will tolerate the romantic). Lots of Beethoven, Schubert, Hummel, Torelli, Locatelli, Telemann, Boccherini....but also Bruch & Mendelssohn

Jazz: very traditionally styled and particularly the jazz great female vocalists: Ella, Billie (more emotion but less voice) and veering to Piaf not jazz but crossover).
Instrumentalists are more liberal with jazz and my taste...

[brad]

Lots of Beethoven, Schubert, Hummel, Torelli, Locatelli, Telemann, Boccherini....but also Bruch & Mendelssohn

Schubert's Death & the Maiden would keep your submissions edgy.

And this one's brief, but I never tire of Schumann's Traumerei in the mornings.

[fred]

Brad,

Todt und das Madchen played frequently - and for lieder Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise frequently played(you know the old recording with Kathleen Ferrier?).

Favourites still remain the Schubert piano trios (Beaux Art or Busch brothers with Serkin), late Beethoven quartets and "midpoints" such as the Mendelssohn octet and Beethoven septet ( I really enjoy the mixture of emotional response as well as melody that you encounter in both!)....

[David]

As I was reading the replies, I am so impressed with all of you have very good music taste!

As Gavin and Brad said, how can we go pass Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck!!!
I would like to add few more to them are Fourplay, Diana Krall (especially When I Look In Your Eyes).

Happy drinking
David

[Jakob]

...my favourite band fr OZ was Man@Work.

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

!...now this fella "Gay" Sebastien

Not that there's anything wrong with that!
Heh, chalk up another TWO Seinfeld quotes, for a total of three in one day. Alright!

OZ Idol has been given too much of air-play for his single "Angels brought me here" till I get sick. Is he that popular down under?

No, he's not all that popular, but he sure has been given too much airplay Thankfully it's a crime committed only by the commerical 'video hits' channel(s) ( TEN, I'm looking in YOUR direction! ) and FM radio equivalents

[Jakob]

Already mentioned of course, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue takes a podium place together with Cuban social club jazz...( though, quietly, cigars can creep into the latter equation all too easily ). In appropriate company, John Lurie's kinkier adventures rate a mention ( think Marvin Pontiac! ) along with the wonderfully strange Lounge Lizards and their at times bizarro wanderings ( "feed a fever, starve the yak!" ). From the cache of Australian music, The Gadflys, some ( oh lord, how they can turn for the worse ) Whitlams, and of course we have a few respectable blues and jazz acts. A night at the Side-On cafe is hard to beat now that Wine Banc has closed. Oh Jade, where art thou ( and Mano a Mano to follow us into the morning light )?

[Jakob]

...oh and I shouldn't forget John Coltrane but the mention of Miles Davis should automatically bring Coltrane to mind. Gavin, if this is no good, then neither is an Aussie Cab/Shiraz blend

[Gavin Trott]

Already mentioned of course, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue takes a podium place together with Cuban social club jazz...( though, quietly, cigars can creep into the latter equation all too easily ). In appropriate company, John Lurie's kinkier adventures rate a mention ( think Marvin Pontiac! ) along with the wonderfully strange Lounge Lizards and their at times bizarro wanderings ( "feed a fever, starve the yak!" ). From the cache of Australian music, The Gadflys, some ( oh lord, how they can turn for the worse ) Whitlams, and of course we have a few respectable blues and jazz acts. A night at the Side-On cafe is hard to beat now that Wine Banc has closed. Oh Jade, where art thou ( and Mano a Mano to follow us into the morning light )?

The Gadflys, oh yes!

The Whitlams oh no! Lounge music (and usually not good lounge music)

[brad]

Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise frequently played(you know the old recording with Kathleen Ferrier?).

cheers, will hunt this down next time I'm in the city.