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.




77jovian

Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) 

Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings  

also by Ms. Jones  - Midnight Rider 

@slaw,

Approximately 250 "free" CD Albums made there way to my doorstep last week & "The Inevitable Past Is the Future Forgotten" so happened to be sitting on very top of the first box opened, a band which I’d also forgotten about. All 250 ... give or take are keepers, in my book.

:-)

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Maybe the most pure song ever written by John Prine.

I Wanna Dance with You

Sung by George Strait.

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"Well, You Can do it Without Me" & 

"This is Sally Hatchet". Father John Misty 

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Hans Theesink, "Mercury Blues"

from Songs of the Southland

It's shocking how lifeless and staid most music on Youtube sounds even with headphones