Robert C. Gilbert
@listeningsessions1.bsky.social
Toronto-born and Oshawa-based music critic, record collector & Laura Nyro fanatic. Subscribe to my music newsletter on Substack: www.listeningsessions.ca. Looking for a writer? Email me at listeningsessions78@gmail.com
New from me - Modern, daily life getting you down? Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross had the secrets to shake it all off. www.listeningsessions.ca/p/lambert-he...
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and the Hip Life
The triumph of the vocalese three
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Excited that guitarist Shai Jaschek's new album is out. This is for those who love jazz guitar trios. Highly recommended and definitely has an autumn feel too. More info here: www.jazzbird.org/product-page...
Gave a first listen to Cameron Winter's Carnegie Hall recording and am impressed. Fearless and strange, and keeping the spirits of Tim Buckley and Laura Nyro very much alive.
I have listened to about 100 new albums in past eight weeks or so and have found eight that I think you will love. Good listening awaits! www.listeningsessions.ca/p/eight-new-...
Me from earlier this year on Laura Nyro's 'New York Tendaberry,' released 57 years ago today.
Everyone has their favourite Coltrane performance or performances, this is mine. Trane’s tightly coiled fury, and McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman and Elvin Jones deeply, deeply in the pocket. youtu.be/_Fz_ZgweERo?...
Song Of The Underground Railroad
YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic
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Today is the centenary of John Coltrane's birth. I've written about Trane once. It was in 2023 to mark the release of previously unheard recordings from 1961 at the Village Gate. www.listeningsessions.ca/p/eavesdropp...
Eavesdropping on John Coltrane in the Summer of 1961
Reviewing Evenings at the Village Gate
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Music to greet the start of glorious autumn.
Just finishing up Mitchell Cohen's on the New York music scene in the 60s. There is a lot of territory covered here - Cohen knows his stuff and then some - in 230-or-so pages, and he does so with deep authority and opinionated passion. Highly, highly recommended!
New from me - a look at one of the most exhilarating, extravagant and exciting albums from late-sixties New York. open.substack.com/pub/listenin...
Lotti Golden’s Extravagant New York Cabaret
Another gem from the rise of the female singer-songwriter
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Visited the local thrift shop and came home with some goodies…
A detail about The Graduate from my book research: The one scene in which they couldn't plausibly make Anne Bancroft, 36, look old and sun-damaged was the goodbye in the rain (it was 60 years ago and makeup in color was still tricky). So you get a glimpse that's close to what she really looked like.
The soundtrack for Thursday night as I eagerly await the beginning of autumn.
New from me - I wrote earlier this year about starting to once again collect cassettes and here, I write about my continuing adventures in re-discovering the joy of tapes. www.listeningsessions.ca/p/continuing...
Continuing Adventures in Cassette Collecting
On the sustained mania for tapes
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Two amazing pick-ups from earlier this week - both esoteric, somewhat strange but deeply exhilarating. Essays on both coming later this year.
A very New York soundtrack to Wednesday night.
Honed my Statement of Purpose into about 900 words that, I think, clearly and passionately, outlines what I wish to do with the book I wish I write.
Robert C. Gilbert@listeningsessions1.bsky.social · 2mo agoFinished up a draft of what I call a Statement of Purpose for the book I want to write (tied to my 33 1/3 book proposal still under consideration and the biggest piece of music writing I have done). It felt good to get something down on paper that articulates my vision.
Whipped together about 4,000 words on Elvis' spring 1960 Nashville sessions - his first recordings after returning from the Army that signified a deepening of his artistry. www.listeningsessions.ca/p/elvis-is-b...
Elvis is Back!
On the singer's triumphant return in 1960
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Somewhat crummy day today but thus arrived in the mail and so it's Laura to the rescue this evening.
New from me - on the great Elvis Presley comeback of 1960. www.listeningsessions.ca/p/elvis-is-b...
Elvis is Back!
On the singer's triumphant return in 1960
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The soundtrack to Tuesday night - all in homage to Dolly Parton.
