How to be a ‘cool’ musician.
Or maybe about How To Be.
Jazz
281: Carla Bley with Steve Swallow, ‘Lawns’
This is what love at 60 should be–gentle, warm intimacy born of years of two very individual individuals living together, creating a world bigger than the sum of their own selves.
Continue reading...055: Miles Davis/Gil Evans, ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’ (“Sketches of Spain”)
A jazz recasting trumps the classical original. Gil Evans and a taste of heaven.
Continue reading...105: The Boswell Sisters, ‘Crazy People’
The Boswell Sisters had 20 hits in the early 1930s, and are arguably THE best vocal jazz group ever. Their 3-part harmonies are tighter than Aunt Bertha’s girdle. An education and a delight, 90 years on.
Continue reading...308: Jakob Bro w. Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian, ‘Evening Song’
3 wrinkled legends meet a chill young Dane. Music to think by.
Continue reading...138: Eliane Elias, ‘Baubles, Bangles and Beads’
Brazilian/American jazz/bossa pianist/singer Eliane Elias should be a household name – she is a serious musician, outstandingly talented, commercially appealing, and uncommonly pleasing to look at.
Continue reading...273: The Necks, ‘Sex’
Jeff’s Top Ten from the last fortnight–surprises, non-surprises, and Rachael Price going ‘Ooh-ooh–ooh’.
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