Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Anton Webern - Six Pieces for Orchestra (Op. 6)

Pierre Boulez conducts.

Monday, March 30, 2015

Ray Charles - Tell Me You'll Wait For Me

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Monty Python - Nudge Nudge Wink Wink

Happy birthday to Eric Idle.

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis - The Groove Merchant

Another one of the amazing Jones brothers, here functioning as a co-bandleader. From 1968.




Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Third Movement

The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra filmed at Toronto's Trinity-St. Paul's Centre on May 15, 2009.

Monday, March 23, 2015

The Gary Burton Quartet - I Want You

Young jazzers in the sixties doing Dylan. Bassist Steve Swallow is featured.




Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Monday, March 16, 2015

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Jan And Dean - Sidewalk Surfin'

The date on the label is a re-release -- this song dates to the first era of skateboarding in the mid-sixties. It's the Beach Boys' song "Catch a Wave" with new lyrics, as apparently Brian Wilson was happy to adapt his song.



Wednesday, March 4, 2015

The Seldom Scene - Paradise

A bluegrass version of John Prine's environmental warning song.

Monday, March 2, 2015

The Ballad of Mack the Knife

From the original English-language version performed off-Broadway in New York in 1954. Much more straightforward in its phrasing than most better-known subsequent versions.

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Ned Kendall's Hornpipe

Nineteenth-century American music as played in the twenty-first century.