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
Jimmie D Lane's cover of "One Room Country Shack".  Boy can this guy play!
@reubent ,

Both are great!
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The Velvet Underground "Foggy Notion"
Courtney Barnett - "Crippling Self-Doubt and a General Lack of Confidence" or "Help Your Self". I can't decide.....
Budgie - "Napoleon Bona Part One and Part Two" from the album "Bandolier"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scIqFErh3v4

Give yourself 7:17 minutes and listen all the way through before you comment.....

OK guys, I'm going out on a limb with this one. But I've been listening to this band since I found the 8-Track of this album - Budgie "Bandolier" in my sister's car in 1975. Tell me what you think. I think it is an awesome example of an early heavy prog track.
Bettye Lavette - "Down to Zero"

A great song by Joan Armatrading, but bettered by Bettye's incredible vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHr6fY5ASLQ
I've patiently waited to after midnight to post one more song...

John Hiatt  "Down Around My Place" ….hell yeah!
Cool slaw, I'll have to give T & L another viewing. I haven't seen it since it was in the theaters, and hadn't recalled that scene.
@bdp24 ,

I was watching Thelma & Louise last night. In the bar scene, the band was playing a very good cover of "Tennessee Plates"!
OMG slaw, how I love that song! I saw him live with the lineup on that album, and though they were not as much to my taste as were the bands on Bring The Family and Slow Turning, they were great on their own terms. John Hiatt, one of our national treasures!
Oops! Didn't intend to put a nail in his coffin or anything. Neil seems like he could turn out to be one of those guys who lives to a ripe old age. I think he's a few years younger than most of his contemporaries (Crosby, Stills, Nash).

Awesome reubent! Slow Turning is every bit as good an album as it’s predecessor, Bring The Family. And his band on the album, The Goners (with Sonny Landreth on guitar), are fantastic. I was able to see/hear he and they on the tour for the album at The Roxy Theater on Sunset Blvd.---one of my all-time favorite nights of music.

There was an opening act whose name I was unfamiliar with, so I didn’t enter The Roxy until the opener, a young, lanky woman, was playing her set closer. The song was fantastic, and she was a real good singer with a real good band. Turned out to be Sheryl Crow, whose first album had been recorded but not yet released. Damn it!

John Hiatt - "Feels Like Rain" - Deep, Layered, Outstanding Sound and just a tremendous song. From a tremendous album - Slow Turning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DP0mn-fUqA

"Dimming Of The Day", performed live by Bonnie Raitt and the song’s writer Richard Thompson. Viewable/hearable on You Tube.
"Rainy Taxi"  Spoon

Since nobody posts here but me, I feel I have free rein to break the rules.

Enjoy!