What's your latest "Discovery"

Marco - This is a really great thread. I have been running out of new music recently, since I just enjoy listening too much after finishing the setup of my new system. I picked up several suggestions here and still have long list left.

Following some of the recommendations here, I went out and got the following records:
White Stripes - Elephant
Patty Griffin - Living with Ghosts, Flaming Red
Crouching Tiger - Soundtrack
Madredeus - Anthologia, Ainda
Misia - Ritual
Amalia Rodriguez - The history of Fado

I guess I really got into Fado. I had already seen Lisbon Story a while ago and liked the music but never picked up on it. I haven't had much of a chance to listen to the history CD but it looks like it has a really good collection of traditional Fado singers (Including Amalia Rodriguez and Maria Teresa de Noronha) Not the best recording but worth having.
On the more modern site I'll probably start picking up some more White Stripes Album. I kind of left alternative for a while after leaving my teens and early twenties behind, this one was really refreshing though.

And since this thread is really more about discoveries, here are some of my suggestions:

Rabih-Abou Khalil - Sultans Picnic, Arabian Waltz
This is one of my favorite artists: great original compositions, great soloists and the band exhibits real coherence when playing together. Listen to Sunrise in Montreal on Sultans Picnic, the Harmonica solo is brilliant and fits in surprisingly well into this Middle Eastern/Western fusion jazz. Arabian Waltz is quite different, mixing in elements of western classical music. Also Enja Music does a wonderful recording job on all the records. And if you are lucky you can find them on vinyl.

Zakir Hussein and the Rhythm experience - The Rhythm Experience
Wonderful slightly modern perspective on Indian Classical Music, one of the best Tabla players in the World. And great to watch at a concert (He appears quite often on the west coast in concerts since he is living in LA).

Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy - The Fire this time
Great live big band brass album. Great recording as well.

Tom Waits - Real Gone
No need to say much about this one...

That's at least a short selection of my current favorites.

Best wishes,

Rene

Hi Marco, nice to see that you are still around. I haven't seen any posts of you
lately.

I really love this thread. Nice to see that it got revived again. Thanks for your
new suggestions, I will have to check out the Chemirani Trio's CD. I am
always looking for new Middle Eastern and Indian classical music. Another
Indian classical musician I can recommend to you is Amjad Ali Khan. I saw
him live here in ABQ with his two sons, which are both playing Sarod as well.
Amazing concert.

Also another CD I have to pick up sometime is: Jim White "Drill A Hole In That
Substrate And Tell Me What You See". I have been hearing the single "Static
On The Radio" a few times on Radio Free Santa Fe, and it got really stuck in
my head.

And yes the new Waits is pretty good. Although I am still more a fan of his
older records. I just really like the story telling in his older albums (Closing
Time, Heart of Saturday Night). I really enjoyed his early years albums as well,
which offer prerelease versions of his songs. Only Tom and himself in very
intimate recordings. On the other hand I am looking forward to a stage show
of Black Rider next Saturday in Calgary (even if Tom won't be there).

Hope to hear more suggestions here...

Rene

Howard (Boa2), that looks like a great recommendation. Any good suggestions where to get it? (Amazon did not come up with it.) Looking for the album, I found the following interesting review

Saxophones

I am not familiar with Pierre Favre, but I love the tuba player, Michel Godard, or at least what he does on Rabih Abou Khalil "Sultan's Picnic". I certainly have to check this one out.

Nice.

Michel Godard - Cousins German

I just heard Michel Godard live in concert yesterday at the Bolzano Jazz festival. His mastery of tuba is unparalleled - the sounds and melodies he extracts from the tuba are incredible. His work with Pierre Favre (Souffles) and Rabih Abou Khalil (Sultan's Picnic) is little more oriented toward world music, but this piece of jazz is original and beautiful in very different ways.

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By the way, I ordered both Todd Sickafoose CDs based on Boa2's recommendation - excellent Jazz and highly recommended.

Enjoy!

Rene

Time to dig out this thread - some new discoveries over the last few months. In the process of "becoming Canadian" I discovered some Canadian singers:

Jill Barber - For all time (check out the song "Hard Line")
Matthew Barber - Sweet Nothing
Feist - The Reminder
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971

I had the chance to listen to both Jill and Matthew (sister and brother) live at the Bookshelf in Guelph. Jill has an amazing voice - by accident I had listened to the song "Hard line" on itunes and it literally cought my ear.

Some more good alums I picked up:
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Eddi Reader - The Songs of Robert Burns

Eddi remains one of my favorite female voices (ever since Fairground Attraction). This ones a very folky album with wonderful interpretation of the tradionals by Robert Burns. Emmylou's fragile interpretation of Neil Young's Wrecking Ball captured me.

Enjoy!

I really like Trumpet led Jazz, and have picked up a lot of new stuff lately to complement my Mile Davis collection, including - Kenny Wheeler, Tomacz Stanko, Jon Hassell, Erik Trufaz, and others.

If you like trumpet led jazz you might want to listen to Lester Bowie. Even though he does covers of pop(ular) songs, his play can be amazing. Take a listen to "The Fire this time" - one of my favorite live albums.