Fellas, if this doesn’t make your blood boil, you’re probably dead.
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168: Neal Hefti, ‘Girl Talk’
Women are a superior breed to men, but they sure like to talk. Girl Talk.
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
130: Thelonious Monk, ‘Let’s Call This’ (Monk’s Advice to Lacy)
How to be a ‘cool’ musician.
Or maybe about How To Be.
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.
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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.
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