This is Bob Spector’s music collection on Bandcamp.

Bob Spector

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  1. Lost Time - Bach's First Cello Suite
    by Derek Gripper
  2. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
    by London Symphony Orchestra
  3. Japan: New Orleans Collection Series Vol.11
    by Haruka Kikuchi
    Honky Tonk Honky Tonk
    Thank you, Ms. Kikuchi and collaborators -- this stuff just always cheers me up.
  4. Re:Invent the Universe (10th Anniversary Remaster)
    by Sithu Aye
    Particles Collide (feat. Plini) Particles Collide (feat. Plini)
    How can music be metal in the Take-No-Prisoners style and simultaneously both brainy and, well, positive? Sithu Aye somehow makes that sort of music. It will wake you up, cheer you up, shake up your brain, and move your body.
  5. Together
    by Judd Greenstein, yMusic
    Together (full-length) Together (full-length)
    This should not work, but in this performance, it does: "The six players don’t need to be in sync, but move together through the movement as a kind of “cloud”..." It's richly melodic, and full of beautifully strange harmonies, in a flowing, parlando rhythm. If any music can be zaftig, this is.
  6. Unwind
    by Yasmin Williams
  7. Flute Quartet
    by Edwin Sheard
  8. Ecstatic Science
    by yMusic
  9. Victor Hugo's blank page
    by Sergey Akhunov
  10. -in your never- three pieces for violin & piano
    by Sergey Akhunov
  11. Influences
    by Empathy Project
    Sì Dolce è’l Tormento Sì Dolce è’l Tormento
    This is a well-crafted album of varied but never raucous jazz. The influences mentioned seem to range from the American Songbook through bossa nova to Italian Renaissance song. The ensemble work is tight, and the vocal duets (mostly in English, thank you) affecting. Nothing could be lovelier, too, than Alexandra Kurkova's singing on "Sì Dolce è’l Tormento". which here provides a wonderfully appropriate jazz setting for a favorite song of Claudio Monteverdi.
  12. Evensong
    by Caleb Burhans
  13. Japan: New Orleans Collection Series Vol. 5
    by Haruka Kikuchi
    Burgundy Street Blues Burgundy Street Blues
    I recommend this album in the highest terms as an antidote to taking yourself too seriously, and to bouts of the blues of whatever cause.

    Haruka Kikuchi is the instigator and heart of a whole series of New Orleans trad jazz albums. This one one features particularly tasty clarinet work by Makiko Tamura.

  14. First
    by yMusic
  15. Day De Senar
    by Mediterranean Deconstruction Ensemble
    Ay, Ke Si Te Fueres A Banar Novia Ay, Ke Si Te Fueres A Banar Novia
    This album will make you want to whirl and dance. Wonderful melodies in deliciously odd-beat time signatures morph into wizardly jazz. There are some stunning solos -- notably on "Ay, Ke Si Te Fueres A Banar Novia", where practically everybody gets in great breaks. Truly tasty woodwind work, lovely piano conceptions by leader Sandomirsky, tabla-master-level percussion from Kirill Parenchuk, and fine singing Alina Rostotskaya and Logofet. The ensemble work is remarkably tight.
  16. Hans Gál and Robert Schumann- First Symphonies
    by Kenneth Woods, Orchestra of the Swan
  17. Sidewalks
    by Noah Wisch
  18. Kite Fight
    by Awaaz Do
    Kutch Kutch Hota Hai Kutch Kutch Hota Hai
    I really bought this for the first two tracks. The band wants to do punk takes on Bollywood music -- but these tracks have hearty voices 'way too good for punk, doing lovely tunes over propulsive, heavy, tight instrumentation. "From Darkness" is a fine, a metal-heavy hymn. "Kutch Kutch Hota Hai" turns a perfectly soppy movie love song into a powerful, danceable anthem, while "Chole ke Picche" simply reproduces the spirit of the original. Lyrics are mostly in Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit.
  19. Dear Yulman
    by Dewa Budjana feat. Tony Levin, Gary Husband, Jack DeJohnette
  20. Ale!x
    by The Sagtevlei Trio