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| rdo (DC) | Posted: Apr 21, 2013 - 18:08 The Concierto de Aranjuez is a composition for classical guitar and orchestra by the Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo. Written in 1939, it is far and away Rodrigo's best-known work, and its success established his reputation as one of the most significant Spanish composers of the twentieth century. |
| j1sey | Posted: Mar 30, 2013 - 07:51 Very nice piece of music. Thanks RP. |
| PtBobGuy | Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 11:50 This song is very calming. I need to hear it more! Calming? I suppose it's calming when you're dead but that doesn't mean I want to go there either. Ok, play jazz but make it worth listening to or make it short. Eight minutes of that pot rattling is way too long. |
| Pedro1874 (Newton-le-Willows, England) | Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 11:38 Mo' Miles please Bill! Only 10 tracks in the library.  |
| mivade | Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 11:35 This song is very calming. I need to hear it more! |
| hbs47 (SE England) | Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 11:35 Jeez what a tuneless dirge. I really don't understand what people find to like in this guy's output. File under avoid. |
| MirageRF (Clemmons, NC, USA) | Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 11:28 Everyone at jazz improv nite from the local Burger King loves this song! |
| ncollingridge (Knebworth, UK) | Posted: Feb 24, 2013 - 00:42 Aural bliss. A treat for both the head and the heart. |
| hidey (NZ) | Posted: Jan 23, 2013 - 17:11 Brilliant choice Bill, a fine tune for a hot Southern Hemisphere afternoon...  |
| donnyballgame (41*53'36.29N 87*38'20.43W) | Posted: Dec 23, 2012 - 09:00 terrapin52 wrote: It's kind of like the Picasso of jazz.  I can dig that. But I hear more Joan Miro here than Picasso. This transforms me. I picked up a new Mac Air yesterday, and replaced my ear buds (right one blown). Guess which album I played to test the new buds?....Sketches of Spain. You can literally hear the tongue on the oboe reed. Happy holidays...  |
| peterblair (London) | Posted: Dec 23, 2012 - 08:58 radioroger wrote: Sorry to be close-minded, but if I wanted to listen Jazz, I'd listen to a Jazz station.
Surely that is the whole point of RP - listening to music you otherwise wouldn't listen to? I'm not a big jazz fan, but I live being surprised with it. Carry on the good work RP. |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Oct 21, 2012 - 15:27 Exquisite, very rewarding. Rodrigo's original piece is THE one, but Miles's take is innovative and engaging. I don't find this boring in the least, and it retains its emotional depth. |
| marmelock (Frankfurt, Germany, Home of the EAGLES!) | Posted: Sep 20, 2012 - 02:47 WORLD.CULTURAL.HERITAGE |
| enkay (Vancouver Island) | Posted: Aug 19, 2012 - 15:07 radioroger wrote: Sorry to be close-minded, but if I wanted to listen Jazz, I'd listen to a Jazz station. From RP's home page: "RP is a blend of many styles and genres of music, carefully selected and mixed by two real human beings. You'll hear modern and classic rock, world music, electronica, even a bit of classical and jazz." It's that eclectic mix that brings me here, because little bores me more than a single genre station playing variations on a limited theme all day. The mix is what RP is all about so unfortunately you'd better learn to use the PSD button or get over the occasional jazz track, because it'll come up regularly. Meanwhile, as for this track, Miles kind of passes me by I'm afraid. Nothing I can get nourishment from, but nothing I can be critical of either. That makes it a 5 from me I guess. |
| Shmelo | Posted: Jul 19, 2012 - 04:36 radioroger wrote: Sorry to be close-minded, but if I wanted to listen Jazz, I'd listen to a Jazz station. Considering there are rarely 2 songs of the same genre played within the same hour on RP this statement is just stupid. RP isn't a jazz station, or a rock station, or a prog station, or an electronica station, or a folk station, or a adult contemporary station. It's a music station. Learn things, Roger. Also, Miles is God. |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Jun 17, 2012 - 15:00 radioroger wrote: Sorry to be close-minded, but if I wanted to listen Jazz, I'd listen to a Jazz station. Everybody is a Jazz fan. It's the one art form that the whole wide world just loves, but, unfortunately, for some strange reason, when it comes to buying Jazz CDs, they can't go the last mile. |
| neuticle (fog fog fog) | Posted: Jun 17, 2012 - 14:54 oldslabsides wrote: If you don't get this, well.... you don't get it. agreed |
| Red_Dragon | Posted: May 16, 2012 - 19:58 If you don't get this, well.... you don't get it. |
| On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet) | Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 02:32 Not my favourite Miles, but still excellent. |
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 10:53 painful |
| ycb661 | Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 10:48 When the castanets started, I took off my headphones to see what my kids were doing - sometimes old stereo recordings are amazing. |
| FlatCat (Chicago) | Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 10:46 Not gonna complain about this one. It's classic. But when it first started with the percussion, I saw little metal bugs scuttling across the landscape in a bad Outer Limits episode. |
| valerie (Chile) | Posted: Feb 11, 2012 - 16:29 This is so boring. I know it's blasphemy in certain circles. But, please make it stop. |
| avatar71 (Oakland, CA) | Posted: Feb 11, 2012 - 16:27 Ah, Miles playing low without his ususal croak...he should have played in this register more. He could do it all... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 22:00 beautiful... love it... |
| kcar | Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 22:00 rollo_tomasi wrote: Sounds like a bunch of miscellaneous 1960s TV theme songs cobbled together. I'm waiting for the evil space monster to startle Dr Smith If I could get the animated emoticons to work, I'd give you a row of rolling LMAO heads.  But they just break.  |
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 10:30 Yoou keep playing Nu2Mi music. I keep buying from Amazon. Collection keps growing and growing. Thank you, I think |
| terrapin52 (Terrapin Station, SC) | Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 10:20 It's kind of like the Picasso of jazz. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 10:20 Everybody in my hotel room loves this music... |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 10:14 This is a 10. Now, Bill, play the original Rodrigo track. Exquisite and perfect. |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 22:26 radioroger wrote: Sorry to be close-minded, but if I wanted to listen Jazz, I'd listen to a Jazz station. you radiorog guys really no your stuff, i guess. NOT |
| radioroger | Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 22:20 Sorry to be close-minded, but if I wanted to listen Jazz, I'd listen to a Jazz station. |
| allabout (Perth Western Australia) | Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 22:15 The best, Miles any day any time. |
| dpvest (northern cali) | Posted: Sep 06, 2011 - 12:21 surprised to hear this from any but my collection. great working music...(2, 3, 4) |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: Sep 06, 2011 - 12:18 misterbearbaby wrote: Ah, yes- a jazz afficianado, I see! This would be one of the most influential and greatest jazz songs ever written and Sketches of Spain probably the most important, beautiful and musical jazz album ever pressed into vinyl; I thank the lord for my copy every day. As you say its a master peice and tracks like this I can see why Classical muscians second love is Modern Jazz. Thankyou for your comment misterbearbaby |
| dwlangham | Posted: Sep 06, 2011 - 12:15 Please keep this in the rotation. Maybe it'll sink in with someone who doesn't like jazz. |
| misterbearbaby (Marina del Rey, California) | Posted: Jul 05, 2011 - 18:36 Cynaera wrote: I just survived the week from hell, complete with snapped power cables, a knifed tire, a late appointment, temperatures near a hundred, and a fight with my brother. This song came at the perfect time - it's dramatic, but not melodramatic, and something about the groove simply feels good. Thank you, Bill and Rebecca - Miles Davis makes everything better for me.  Ahhhh... That's the spirit! |
| misterbearbaby (Marina del Rey, California) | Posted: Jul 05, 2011 - 18:34 PA1749 wrote: You ass-u-me that I don't understand it (whatever your interpretation of that might mean). I may very well "understand" it and still not like it. I know everything I need to know about music. I know what I like! Don't go changin' now! An open mind only collects dirt. |
| misterbearbaby (Marina del Rey, California) | Posted: Jul 05, 2011 - 18:12 rollo_tomasi wrote: Sounds like a bunch of miscellaneous 1960s TV theme songs cobbled together. I'm waiting for the evil space monster to startle Dr Smith Ah, yes- a jazz afficianado, I see! This would be one of the most influential and greatest jazz songs ever written and Sketches of Spain probably the most important, beautiful and musical jazz album ever pressed into vinyl; I thank the lord for my copy every day. |
| rollo_tomasi (32° 49' N 116° 58' W) | Posted: Jul 05, 2011 - 18:01 Sounds like a bunch of miscellaneous 1960s TV theme songs cobbled together. I'm waiting for the evil space monster to startle Dr Smith |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jul 05, 2011 - 17:56 I just survived the week from hell, complete with snapped power cables, a knifed tire, a late appointment, temperatures near a hundred, and a fight with my brother. This song came at the perfect time - it's dramatic, but not melodramatic, and something about the groove simply feels good. Thank you, Bill and Rebecca - Miles Davis makes everything better for me. |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 12:51 PA1749 wrote: This is not the reason why I listen to RP. There are lots of other oldies stations that I could turn to if I wanted this. Just to make it entirely clear Miles does not Suck he Blows, otherwise to suck this instrument would not produce such a wonderful sound. |
| PA1749 (Jim Thorpe) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 12:49 Toke wrote: Go to the back of the class and recite 100 times 'I MUST not complain about music I do not understand'. You ass-u-me that I don't understand it (whatever your interpretation of that might mean). I may very well "understand" it and still not like it. I know everything I need to know about music. I know what I like! |
| PA1749 (Jim Thorpe) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 12:44 Please God make it stop!!!! |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 12:43 PA1749 wrote: This is not the reason why I listen to RP. There are lots of other oldies stations that I could turn to if I wanted this. Go to the back of the class and recite 100 times 'I MUST not complain about music I do not understand'. |
| run4more (The cave) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 12:42 Battling depression... this not helping |
| PA1749 (Jim Thorpe) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 12:42 This is not the reason why I listen to RP. There are lots of other oldies stations that I could turn to if I wanted this. |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet CAN I GO HOME NOW?) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 12:41 I guess I just don't like this guy. I need something a little more inspiring than this during the lunch hour. |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 12:40 Poacher wrote: Many thanks for the sketch Poacher :-) My favourite Jazz artist the man who knew no bounds in music experimenting right up to the end of his life. |
| risk (Chicago, IL) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 12:39 This is the cut! |
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