Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Anton Webern - Six Pieces for Orchestra (Op. 6)
Pierre Boulez conducts.
Monday, March 30, 2015
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.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Krugman on the Blue Recovery
Ah, just read it.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Cecil Taylor - Free Improvisation #3
From around 1980.
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.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Friday, March 20, 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
James Taylor - BBC 1971 - Love Has Brought Me Around
Live at the BBC in 1971 with Jo Mama and Carole King.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Frank Zappa - Pink Napkins
A variation on "Black Napkins" posted a couple of days ago.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Norma Tanega - Walkin' My Cat Named Dog
One of the curios of the very early psychedelic era,
Sunday, March 15, 2015
James Ray - If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody
Oops, got distracted yesterday morning, so a double post today to keep things up-to-date.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Thursday, March 12, 2015
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Happy birthday to JT.
Wednesday, March 11, 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.
Monday, March 9, 2015
Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
Happy eighty-fifth birthday to Mr C.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Friday, March 6, 2015
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
The Seldom Scene - Paradise
A bluegrass version of John Prine's environmental warning song.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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.
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