What are you listening to? The world really needs to know. #6

[Erik]

To all my "friends"!
Hoping 2015 will be a shaving good year...

 

[Black Swan]

:DD

 

[Ponder]

U2, Norwegian Viking.

 

[Johannes]

 

[Erik]

ohhhh sh.............................aving cream.
Those reggae dudes are dang good at cover versions:

 

[Johannes]

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I like both:

 

[PhillyDave]

 

[Black Swan]

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[the only good poet]

 

[Andreas]

 

[Black Swan]

Best version!
Anyone seen the film?

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Back in the day, word was that Coltrane couldn't play ballads. Judge for yourself and enjoy the images of one of my favorite cities on Earth:

 

[Black Swan]

The Jolly Boys

 

[Johannes]

 

[Purple Stickpin]

A very unlikely trio. As a whole, the album didn't really work, in my opinion, but the title track speaks for itself in the jazz world of the '50s/'60s (actually most of music ever, right?). Duke is surprisingly modern in this '62 recording.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

thought that record worked just fine. as did the one Ellington did the same year with some dude...

and Monk borrowed a lot from Duke. So did Bud Powell.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I think the Trane/Duke record worked much better than the Duke/Mingus/Roach record as a whole. But I'm only some shmuck. Either way, I was searching youtube for a response and I literally did stumble upon this. I've never heard of any of the musicians:

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[hoochmonkey9]

That album is special, for sure, but Money Jungle was written (for the most part) by Ellington for that recording date; he knew Mingus was breathing down his waistcoat. Duke probably thought Fuck these flatted fifth motherfuckers, I'll show them modern!

But really he didn't have to, Monk and Powell and so many others were already reading over Duke's shoulder and slightly changing his shit up, they always knew he was ahead of his time.

Duke Ellington will always sounds like the future to me.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I could only like that post once, for the record. I had no idea that Duke largely composed those tracks for the session. Perhaps I should have known, but I have ~1,000 jazz LPs/CDs and I can't keep up with them now like I could back in the mid-90s.

Anyway, back to 'Trane ballads. This one kills it both from 'Trane and vocally from Mr. Scotch 'n' Syrup himself:


As does this one:

 

[number6horse]

"We said goodbye with a high-ball / Then I got as high as a steeple" (did you ?)

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I'd rather hear Bob Hope sing a standard than try to tell a joke.

 

[mjp]

ROCK THE FUCK OUT

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I love this guy. He's got a dozen videos that are just like this. Him just staring and solemnly two-fingering that keyboard to a Casio beat. Mesmerizing.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Dude needs another cheeseburger. And a hacksaw.

 

[mjp]

I admire his complete lack of guile, to say nothing of his perseverance despite an almost startling lack of talent or natural ability. Yet he puts it all out there like he don't give a fuck. That's style, like it or not.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Apparently your definition of style of my definition of woeful ignorance.

 

[Black Swan]

only 3 a.m., pretty good day so far...

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[Johannes]

 

[Ponder]

 

[d gray]

RIP kim fowley -

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