Mozart - Lacrimosa (from the Requiem)

Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the Swedish Radio Choir.

Pachelbel - Canon in D Major

The Academy of Ancient Music conducted by Christopher Hogwood.

Dee Dee Sharp - Mashed Potato Time

Guitar Shorty - Slow Burn

Krugman on Trump and Economics

At the usual place.

Mr. Bush has chosen to attack Mr. Trump as a false conservative, a proposition that is supposedly demonstrated by his deviations from current Republican economic orthodoxy: his willingness to raise taxes on the rich, his positive words about universal health care. And that tells you a lot about the dire state of the G.O.P. For the issues the Bush campaign is using to attack its unexpected nemesis are precisely the issues on which Mr. Trump happens to be right, and the Republican establishment has been proved utterly wrong.

Pink Floyd - Grantchester Meadows

Probably my favorite Roger Waters song.

Amy Beach - Hermit Thrush At Eve

The pianist's name is not given for some reason. It's not the composer, Amy Beach, who died in 1944. Beach is one of the woman composers whose work has been rediscovered in the last few decades. This is her Opus 92, Number 1.

Danny Gatton & Joey DeFrancesco - Well You Needn't

I've posted this before but the link is broken, so why not. Danny Gatton was a true Master of the Telecaster, while Joey DeFrancesco was one of the spearheads of the B3 revival in the nineties. Here they work out on a Thelonious Monk classic.

The Beach Boys - Help Me, Rhonda

Happy birthday to Al Jardine, here taking the lead vocal.

The Doors - Aura Studio Demos

The Doors made their first studio recordings fifty years ago (h/t Glide magazine). Fame was still a couple of years away. Here Morrison sounds very young, the whole sound is unfinished, but the results are still fascinating.

The band here was Morrison,  Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore, plus Ray’s brothers Rick Manczarek on guitar and Jim Manczarek on harmonica, along with a woman playing bass whose name is lost in the mists of time. Manczarek's brothers and the bassist would fall away, Robby Krieger would join, and the world would open up to them.

Lily Tomlin - Edith Ann

Happy birthday to Lily Tomlin.

Krugman on Katrina, Trump, and the Lessons of Recent History

The things that Krugman says seem pretty obvious, but very few people seem to be saying them.

What we should have learned from Katrina, in other words, was that political poseurs with nothing much to offer besides bluster can nonetheless fool many people into believing that they’re strong leaders. And that’s a lesson we’re learning all over again as the 2016 presidential race unfolds.

You probably think I’m talking about Donald Trump, and I am. But he’s not the only one.

John Peel's Desert Island Discs

John Peel, longtime and deeply influential British DJ, plus the force behind all those Peel Session releases, was born on this date in 1939.

Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener

H/t PK.

Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte

The Orchestra UniMi with Alessandro Crudele conducting. Not familiar with them, but they seem to know what they're doing.

Count Basie's Kansas City Seven - Lester Leaps In

Featuring Lester Young.

Jimmy Rushing - Going to Chicago

Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam

Happy birthday to Mr EC.

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Gold and Silver

Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous, Jack DeJohnette - Sunrise

Guitar, bass, drums, but not a power trio.