https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOz2T-SdYiY
Tune of the Day
"Blue Rondo a la Turk" on the Two Generations of Brubeck album. Wow.
There are many fine versions of this tune, but this one gets me dancing, clapping, fist-pounding, whatever, every time....and it's not easy to dance in, what, 9/8? I love tunes that grow, build, develop, and move through changes. This one just picks me up and takes me right along with it. Great melding of jazz and rock idioms, too. It's fun to imagine Dave Brubeck setting the groove and then sitting back to hear where his kids and their friends take it.
You can continue exploring Dave and the kids on Two Generations of Brubeck, "The Great Spirit Made Us All". And Chris Brubeck's rock/jazz band Sky King on "Secret Sauce".
For extra credit, give a "spin" to Chase, "Bochawa" from their last album, Pure Music.
Anyway, that's my two cents today.
There are many fine versions of this tune, but this one gets me dancing, clapping, fist-pounding, whatever, every time....and it's not easy to dance in, what, 9/8? I love tunes that grow, build, develop, and move through changes. This one just picks me up and takes me right along with it. Great melding of jazz and rock idioms, too. It's fun to imagine Dave Brubeck setting the groove and then sitting back to hear where his kids and their friends take it.
You can continue exploring Dave and the kids on Two Generations of Brubeck, "The Great Spirit Made Us All". And Chris Brubeck's rock/jazz band Sky King on "Secret Sauce".
For extra credit, give a "spin" to Chase, "Bochawa" from their last album, Pure Music.
Anyway, that's my two cents today.
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"If You Play With My Mind (You’re Gonna Get Your Hands Dirty)." Written by Cornell Hurd, the performance of the song on Little Art’s Poker Party TV show by the Springfield Missouri band.The Skeletons. If the drummer looks familiar, it’s because it’s Bobby Lloyd Hicks, later in Dave Alvin’s band The Guilty Men. Coincidentally, the female drummer in his band The Guilty Woman played in Cornell Hurd’s band for awhile. Bobby Lloyd and Skeletons’ bassist/songwriter/singer Lou Whitney are both now deceased, both I believe as the result of being lifelong cigarette smokers. Cornell Hurd’s longtime guitarist Paul Skelton faced the same fate, for the same reason. The last time I saw Paul on stage (with Cornell), he had a tube running from an oxygen tank into his nostrils. Grim. Paul left behind a wife and son.
https://youtu.be/RebLXWH73iQ?si=j-CEqroBbEhOmQ-T&t=1
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NRBQ performing "Flat Foot Flewzy" live. The last time I saw the band live in a Portland Oregon club, Los Lobos saxophonist Steve Berlin joined them onstage for a coupla songs. They were---as this video displays---great.
https://youtu.be/5KItRaAK9GI?si=nnrWNZgblazZsyhg&t=1
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