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I wrote this kind of thing 2 years ago, i suddenly feel like making this 10 recommendation for music lover:

1. <b>Kira Lynn Cain - The Ideal Hunter</b> 2007
nice femin voice with retro crime film sound. (photo from Diana Elliot) www.kiralynncain.com

2. <b>Bill Evans &amp; Jim Hall - Undercurrent</b> 1962
Jim Hall is a very tender jazz guitarist, and Bill Evans is one of the most artistic pianist.
i did this drawing long time ago, love this cover photo so much.

3. <b>T. Rex - Electric Warrior</b> 1971
so glam and groove, especially after re-watch Billy Elliot

4. <b>Big Mama Thornton - In Europe: with Muddy Waters' Blues Band</b> 1965
it's a live album of this big size woman with jamming quality backup band, her blues inspired Elvis, Janis Joplin, she also plays harmonica.

5. <b>Leonard Cohen - Live Songs</b> 1970-72
never know that he can improvise so much in concert, more than just Hallelujah, more than a poet.

6. <b>Hellsongs - Lounge</b> 2006
indie folk Swedish band cover oldskool metal like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Motorhead. www.hellsongs.com

7. <b>Leech - The Stolen View</b> 2007
Swiss Postrock introduced from my guitar student. www.leech.ch

8. <b>duzze - Flon/Macun</b> 2005
the neighbor lived downstairs is the bassist, some soft rock with SwissGerman dialect, very nice xylophone. www.duzze.ch

9. <b>Andrea Lang - Liebesode</b> 2009
Opera with simple piano, she's the sister of my student, very high class feeling while playing this CD at my flat. www.andrealang.ch

10. <b>Jon Foreman - 4 Seasons EP</b> 2008
he used to play in a loud band and now solo with totally quiet acoustic with soulful broken voice, sometimes duet with angel voice woman, thoughtful lyrics, emotional instrument and arrangement, i wish to make music like him to express our own believe. www.jonforeman.com

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Heh, fulao i četvrtu godišnjicu, i to za skoro mjesec dana. I jopet, tko bi rekao da će se to dogoditi, pošto ionako cijeli dan provodim gledajući kako se stvari skroblaju.

Odskroblano 66894 pjesama, što bi odokativno bilo 22718 u godini dana, za razliku od 16-17 prije. Polako ali sigurno idem prema svom cilju od 50k godišnje, prljavoj potkošulji, tucetu mačaka i zamračenom podrumu.

Top 20

1 Belle and Sebastian 1,252 (+-0)
2 Sufjan Stevens 945 (+-0)
3 Yann Tiersen 935 (+8)
4 Radiohead 882 (+9) WTF
5 The National 797 (+2)
6 Deerhoof 791 (-1)
7 Kristin Hersh 755 (new entry) <3
8 Svadbas 721 (-2)
9 of Montreal 717 (-1)
10 Sparklehorse 713 (-1)
11 Bill Evans 712 (-7)
12 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 705 (+4)
13 Art Tatum 703 (new entry) meh
14 Aimee Mann 689 (new entry)
15 Yo La Tengo 684 (new entry)
16 Modest Mouse 674 (+1)
17 Thelonious Monk 670 (+1)
18 Joanna Newsom 664 (-4)
19 Pink Floyd 654 (-7) još uvijek tu, wow
20 Architecture in Helsinki 634 (+-0)

I'm a sucker for a good (or bad) survey, so here's another...

1. How did you get into 29?
The Beatles: Hard to say. I remember my mom playing some Beatles stuff when I was younger but I didn't really listen to them very much again until I was probably 18 or 19.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
The Band: I'm sure it was either "The Weight" or "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Dead Kennedys: All of them except the live archival stuff they've put out recently.

4. What is your favorite song by 15?
Dead Can Dance: I'll say "Black Sun" because I guess technically "How Fortunate the Man with None" is a cover of sorts.

5. What is your favorite song by 5?
John Coltrane: I like "Alabama" a lot. "Equinox" is great too. I'll say "Alabama," though.

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Johann Sebastian Bach: Lots, but I'll be predictable and say the "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" movement of Cantata 147.

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
Neil Young: "Cowgirl in the Sand."

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
The Velvet Underground: I can't really think of anything specific.

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Madvillain: The whole Madvillainy album makes me happy. I'd be even happier if they ever put out the proper follow-up to it.

10. How many times have you seen 25 live?
Steely Dan: Never! I would love to see them live, though.

12. What is your favorite album by 11?
The Rolling Stones: The four from Beggars Banquet to Exile on Main St. are all equally awesome, I think... but in the past couple years my favorite has been The Rolling Stones, Now!.

13. What is your favorite song by 1?
Thelonious Monk: I'll say "Bemsha Swing."

14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Misfits: No. I'm not old enough to have seen them when they were together, and I don't consider the current band to be the same Misfits.

15. What is a good memory involving 27?
The Jesus Lizard: Check back with me in November, when I hope to have seen them live.

16. What is your favorite song by 16?
The Fall: That's like asking a parent to name their favorite child. If I had a gun to my head I would say "Garden."

17. What is your favorite album by 18?
Morphine: Probably Cure for Pain, but The Night has really grown on me lately.

18. What is your favorite song by 21?
Pixies: "Motorway to Roswell."

19. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
Carl Orff: "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana.

20. What is your favorite album by 2?
Ludwig van Beethoven: He pre-dates the idea of "albums," so I'll skip this one.

21. What is you favorite song by 3?
Tom Waits: "All the World is Green."

22. What is you favorite song by 8?
Cows: Again, this is very difficult. I'll say "Cabin Man," although I've likely perjured myself since I think I said "The Man" in another survey.

23. How many times have you seen 17 live?
Minutemen: None.

24. What is the worst song by 12?
Bill Evans: I haven't heard anywhere close to everything he ever recorded, but it's tough for me to think of a bad song of his that I have heard.

25. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: "Red Right Hand," which pops up randomly in Dumb & Dumber.

26. What is you favorite album by 7?
Ramones: The debut. I'd put it in my top 3 albums of all time.

27. What is your favorite song by 24?
The Clash: "Straight to Hell."

28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Lou Reed: "Walk on the Wild Side" makes me kind of happy. If I could include "Sweet Jane" that would be my choice.

29. What is your favorite album by 4?
NoMeansNo: 0+2=1.

30. How many albums do you own by 20?
Fugazi: All of them except the "Furniture" single.

1. How did you get into 29?

Bill Evans: I believe I got Everybody Digs Bill Evans after hearing him play on Kind of Blue.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 2?

Tom Waits: Ol' 55.

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33?

Steely Dan: "Deacon Blues"

You call me a fool
You say it's a crazy scheme
This one's for real
I already bought the dream
So useless to ask me why
Throw a kiss and say goodbye
I'll make it this time
I'm ready to cross that fine line

4. What is your favorite album by 49?

Dead Can Dance: Aion

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?

Fugazi: All of them, excluding the "Furniture" single.

6. What is your favorite song by 50?

GZA/Genius: Liquid Swords.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?

Leonard Cohen: Uh... yeah.

8. What is your favorite album by 15?

Pixies: Trompe le Monde

9. What is your favorite song by 5?

John Coltrane: Pretty much impossible to say, but I'll go with Alabama.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?

Johann Sebastian Bach: Plenty.

11. What is your favorite album by 40?

Dwarves: Blood Guts & Pussy.

12. What is your favorite song by 10?

Misfits: Hybrid Moments.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?

The Clash: I can't really think of anything specific.

14. What is your favorite song by 38?

The Band: Acadian Driftwood.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?

Morphine: Oh yeah, because when I think "Morphine" I think "happy." Buena or Thursday maybe...

16. How many times have you seen 25 live?

Deftones: 2.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?

The Beatles: I can't be positive because I was very young, but the first one I remember hearing was Get Back.

18. What is your favorite album by 11?

Minutemen: The Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat EP.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1?

Thelonious Monk: Well, he's only one man, so I guess that makes this pretty easy.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?

The Rolling Stones: No.

21. What is a good memory involving 27?

Sepultura: For a second I thought it was Aphex Twin, in which case I actually did have a specific "good memory" in mind. Sepultura, though... I don't really have one.

22. What is your favorite song by 16?

Cows: Too tough to choose. I'll go with Hitting the Wall.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?

Sam Cooke: Wonderful World.

Bill Evans Piano Fan
Bill Evans Appreciation Society
Bill Evans

Bill Evans was one of the most famous and influential jazz pianists of incredible talent and artistry.
He did work briefly with Miles Davis and was the pianist on all but one track of 'Kind of Blue' (1959).
Along with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, Evans did form the Bill Evans Trio in 1959 -
the trio recorded 4 albums: 'Portrait in Jazz' (1959), 'Explorations', 'Sunday at the Village Vanguard',
and 'Waltz for Debby' (1961).
Bill Evans & Jim Hall formed a jazz duo on two albums: 'Undercurrent' and 'Intermodulation'.

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Tras mucho investigar e indagar por varias páginas de la red que tratan sobre música, recompilé la información necesaria para encontrar los mejores grupos y solistas de la historia de la música.

Todo el mundo sabe que la mejor música siempre será la música clásica pero para los que no están aún preparados ante tal maestría y talento se puede acceder a música más "fácil" de escuchar como lo es el Rock o similar.

A pesar de no ser música tan grandiosa como Mozart, Beethoven, Bach o compañia, se puede encontrar verdaderas preciosidades dignas de ser escuchadas para el oído entrenado o la mente abierta.

Repito, he indagado mucho para encontrar, al fín, la lista de los verdaderamente mejores músicos de los ultimos tiempos. Son para degustar delicadamente por esas personas que de verdad sepan apreciarlos. Abtenerse los necios.



After much investigate on several pages of the net about music, I re-compiled the necessary information to find the best groups and soloists of the history of music.

The whole world knows that the best music always will be the classic music, but for those who are not prepared such mastery and talent, one can accede to "easier" music to listen like it is the Rock or similar.

In spite of not being a music so grand as Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or company, it is possible to find real preciousness worth being listened for the trained ear or the opened mind.

I repeat, I have investigated very much to find the list of really better musicians of last times. They are for these persons with delicately taste and who indeed can estimate them. Don't for fools.



La lista/the list:


- A Tribe Called Quest

- AC/DC

- Agalloch

- Al Green

- Albert Ayler

- Alice Cooper

- Andrew Hill

- Arcturus

- Aretha Franklin

- Art Blakey

- Arvo Pärt

- Big Star

- Bill Evans

- Bill Hicks

- Billie Holiday

- Björk

- Black Sabbath

- Blind Guardian

- Bob Dylan

- Bob Marley

- Boogie Down Productions

- Boredoms

- Brian Eno

- Bruce Springsteen

- Caetano Veloso

- Camel

- Can

- Candlemass

- Captain Beefheart

- Carcass

- Cecil Taylor

- Cocteau Twins

- Coil

- Creedence Clearwater Revival

- Current 93

- Curtis Mayfield

- Charles Mingus

- Danny Elfman

- David Bowie

- Dead Can Dance

- Death

- Deep Purple

- De La Soul

- Depeche Mode

- Devin Townsend

- Dream Theater

- Duke Ellington

- Elvis Costello

- Elvis Presley

- Ella Fitzgerald

- Elliott Smith

- Emperor

- Ennio Morricone

- Eric B. & Rakim

- Eric Dolphy

- Fairport Convention

- Faust

- Fleetwood Mac

- Frank Sinatra

- Frank Zappa

- Fugazi

- Funkadelic

- Gal Costa

- Gene Clark

- Genesis

- Gentle Giant

- Glenn Gould

- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

- Gong

- Grateful Dead

- Guided by Voices

- Herbie Hancock

- Howard Shore

- Howlin' Wolf

- Hüsker Dü

- Ice Cube

- Iron Maiden

- Isis

- Jackie McLean

- James Brown

- Jay-Z

- Jethro Tull

- Jimi Hendrix

- John Coltrane

- John Fahey

- John Lennon

- John Williams

- John Zorn

- Johnny Cash

- Joni Mitchell

- Jorge Ben

- Joy Division

- Judas Priest

- Judee Sill

- Kate Bush

- Keith Jarrett

- King Crimson

- Klaus Schulze

- Kraftwerk

- Kreator

- Led Zeppelin

- Leonard Cohen

- Los Hermanos

- Lou Reed

- Magma

- Marillion

- Marvin Gaye

- maudlin of the Well

- Melvins

- Mercyful Fate

- Metallica

- Miles Davis

- Modest Mouse

- Motörhead

- Neil Young

- Neu!

- Neurosis

- Nevermore

- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

- Nick Drake

- Nico

- Nirvana

- Nobuo Uematsu

- Opeth

- Ornette Coleman

- Os Mutantes

- Otis Redding

- OutKast

- Pain of Salvation

- Parliament

- Paul Simon

- Pavement

- Pearl Jam

- Pere Ubu

- Peter Gabriel

- Philip Glass

- Pink Floyd

- Pixies

- PJ Harvey

- Porcupine Tree

- Portishead

- Premiata Forneria Marconi

- Prince

- Public Enemy

- R.E.M.

- Radiohead

- Rahsaan Roland Kirk

- Rainbow

- Ramones

- Randy Newman

- Red House Painters

- Richard & Linda Thompson

- Robert Wyatt

- Roxy Music

- Rush

- Sam Rivers

- Santana

- Sepultura

- Serge Gainsbourg

- Simon and Garfunkel

- Skinny Puppy

- Slayer

- Sly and the Family Stone

- Smashing Pumpkins

- Soft Machine

- Sonic Youth

- Sonny Rollins

- Sparks

- Steely Dan

- Steve Reich

- Stevie Ray Vaughan

- Stevie Wonder

- Sun Ra

- Swans

- T. Rex

- Talk Talk

- Talking Heads

- Tangerine Dream

- The Allman Brothers Band

- The Band

- The Beach Boys

- The Beatles

- The Byrds

- The Clash

- The Cure

- The Chameleons

- The Doors

- The Fall

- The Flaming Lips

- The Gathering

- The Jam

- The Kinks

- The Misfits

- The Mothers of Invention

- The Olivia Tremor Control

- The Pogues

- The Replacements

- The Rolling Stones

- The Smiths

- The Stooges

- The Velvet Underground

- The Who

- Thelonious Monk

- Tim Buckley

- Tindersticks

- Todd Rundgren

- Tom Waits

- Tool

- Townes Van Zandt

- U2

- Ulver

- Van der Graaf Generator

- Van Morrison

- Wayne Shorter

- Ween

- Weezer

- Wes Montgomery

- Wilco

- Willie Nelson

- Wire

- XTC

- Yasunori Mitsuda

- Yes




Todos estos artistas han logrado cambiar la música de su momento de alguna u otra manera o grabaron discos dignos de ser joyas preciosas de las mejores colecciones.

Si entiendes de música sabrás apreciar a todos ellos, si no, te pierdes la vida chico/a y no puedes llamarte a tí mismo amante con mayusculas de la música. Dejad de perder el tiempo y dedicarselo a lo que de verdad vale, hay mucho alrededor y solo el que sabe buscar encuentra. ¿eres uno de ellos?

Repito, deja de perder el tiempo y sé más exigente, sube un nivel y escucha algo de esto, te aseguró que en un futuro te darás cuenta de como esos grupos que idolatrabas no expresaban nada.


Siento que mi esfuerzo a merecido la pena y he logrado al fín la lista de la mejor música actual definitiva dentro del siglo XX y XXI.



All these artists change the music of his moment or they recorded discs worth being precious jewels for the best collections.

If you deal on music you will be able to estimate all of them, if not, you get lost the life dude and cannot be call you lover with capital letters of the music. Stop losing the time and devoting it what indeed costs, it is very much around and only the one that can search finds. Are you one of them?

I repeat, stop losing the time and be more demanding, raise a level and listen to something of this, assured you that in a future you will realize since these groups that you were adoring they were not expressing anything.


I feel that my effort to been worth it and I have achieved the list of the best current definitive music inside the 20th and the 21st century.

The only album in this book that represents 1961. Now I'm no expert, but im sure there must be something better, and if this is what the authors of the book thought was the pinnacle of the year, then it must have been one of the worst years in music ever!

I got my hands on a copy of this which is 2hr 30mins long, with alternate takes for almost every song. This must be like a goldmine for any Bill Evans fans out there, but for me its been an almost unbearable experience listening to it all the way through.

Sunday At The Village Vanguard is yet another jazz album, which is completely instrumental and live. At the time (late 50's, early 60's) it seemed to been the fashion for jazz artists to release live shows as their main output. Fascinating how the times have changed.

My rating: 0.5/5
My girlfriends rating: 0.5/5

Очередной пост, посвященный статистике. Сегодня нашей темой является джаз (точнее, топ-100 тега jazz).

Just another one statistical post. Jazz is our field of research today (top-100 of the tag jazz, to be exact).

предыдущие посты / previous entries
mainstream
russian rock
progressive rock
black metal

Сначала наше традиционное упорядочение по количеству прослушиваний и слушателей.

First of all, our traditional arrangement with respect to number of plays and number of listeners.








И тут, и там наиболее популярным исполнителем является Amy Winehouse (и, да, по личным соображениям я убрал из статистики Тома Уэйтса). Дальше начинается вполне классический джаз - Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong и так далее.

In both cases the most popular artist is Amy Winehouse (and, yes, I supposed it would be correct to exclude Tom Waits from jazz stats). Then the things go more classical: Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and so on.




А вот так выглядит общая зависимость количества прослушиваний джазовых исполнителей от числа слушателей. Заметно, что чем правее, тем сильнее эта зависимость идет вверх. Таким образом, получается, что лидеры находятся на каком-то особенном положении у слушателей.

And that's the way, general dependence of playcount to number of listeners looks like. You can notice, it's bending upwards with growing number of listeners. So, that means, the leaders of our statistics are treated by listeners in a different way, than other artists.




Это также подтверждается графиком удельного числа прослушиваний (число прослушиваний делить на число слушателей для каждого исполнителя). Вообще, у джаза этот показатель оказался рекордно низким - в среднем 11 прослушиваний. Наибольший показатель у вездесущей Эми Уайнхаус - 32.

The graph of specific number of scrobbles (a playcount divided by number of listeners for each artist) confirms that notation. Surprisingly, jazz artists have very low specific scrobble number - 11 in average. Amy Winehouse has the highest one - 32.




Гистограмма лишь подтверждает печальный факт концентрации удельного числа прослушиваний вблизи рекордно низких значений, в целом по форме повторяя распределение для других жанров. Джаз умер?

The histogram just supports concentrating of specific number of scrobbles near very low values, repeating the histogram for other genres in general. Sad, but true. Is jazz dead?




Немного статистики по активности слушателей в рупорах исполнителей. Как видно из графика, какой-либо строгой зависимости числа сообщений в рупоре от числа слушателей не наблюдается. То, что более популярным исполнителям больше пишут, понятно и так. Кстати, Эми Уайнхаус я сюда не включил - взглянув на следующий график, вы поймете, почему.

Some stats about the user activity in shoutboxes. As one can see, there's no strict dependence of number of shouts to number of listeners. It's obvious, that more popular artists should get more shouts. By the way, Amy Winehouse isn't included here - see the next plot to understand why.




А вот зависимость числа сообщений в рупоре от удельного числа прослушиваний. Эми Уайнхаус и здесь лидирует, причем с шестикратным отрывом. Короче говоря, для джаза она - исполнитель, аномальный по всем параметрам) А вот если убрать Эми, то будет видно обнаруженое ранее явление: среднее удельное число прослушиваний является чем-то вроде барьера, разделяющего исполнителей с малым и с большим числом сообщений в рупоре. Посмотрим, что покажут другие жанры)

And here's the dependence of number of shouts in the shoutbox to specific number of scrobbles. Amy Winehouse takes the lead again, having six times more shouts than others. So, she's really anomalous for the jazz. And without Amy, the graph exhibits the property, found in previous research: average specific number of scrobbles behaves like a barrier, separating artists with few shouts from artists with lots of them. Let us see, what another genres would show us the next time)

P.S. Суммарное число прослушиваний в top-100 джаза - 348 миллионов.
The total playcount in jazz's top-100 is 348 millions.

P.P.S. Спасибо Hzlqgmnzhh за полезный скрипт.
Thanks to Hzlqgmnzhh for his script.

List of considered artists:

Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Louis Armstrong, Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Amy Winehouse, Thelonious Monk, Jamie Cullum, Duke Ellington, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, Michael Buble', Katie Melua, Madeleine Peyroux, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Esbjo"rn Svensson Trio, Keith Jarrett, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Pat Metheny, The Cinematic Orchestra, Oscar Peterson, Cassandra Wilson, Count Basie, Pat Metheny Group, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Koop, Weather Report, John Zorn, Richard Cheese, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Pink Martini, The Bad Plus, Chick Corea, Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Melody Gardot, Dexter Gordon, Julie London, Brad Mehldau, Cannonball Adderley, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Eva Cassidy, Stacey Kent, Benny Goodman, John Scofield, Horace Silver, Room Eleven, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Skalpel, Astrud Gilberto, Marcus Miller, Jan Garbarek, Wynton Marsalis, Lee Morgan, Tord Gustavsen Trio, Peggy Lee, Glenn Miller, Bill Frisell, Jimmy Smith, Jaga Jazzist, Sade, Harry Connick, Jr., Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Bill Evans Trio, Lisa Ekdahl, Lizz Wright, Erik Truffaz, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis, Ornette Coleman, Blossom Dearie, Jaco Pastorius, Sun Ra, Etta James, The Cat Empire, Paolo Conte, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Grant Green, Avishai Cohen, Quincy Jones, Al Di Meola, Keiko Matsui, Al Jarreau, Morphine, Silje Nergaard