If you ever want to know what’s new in music, check out what Jacob Collier’s been doing for the previous couple of months.
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091: Herbie Nichols, ‘House Party Starting’
A moment of your attention please for the most famous unknown jazz pianist of the 1950s, the wonderful, forgotten but unforgettable Mr Herbie Nichols.
Continue reading...SoTW 299: Brad Mehldau, ‘Junk’
Mehldau plays The Beatles. What the heck does that have to do with paranormality??
Continue reading...104: Charles Mingus, ‘Myself When I Am Real’/’Adagio Ma Non Troppo’
A brilliant, fully-realized composition improvised on the piano by an obstreperous bassist. Then it was orchestrated.
How wondrous are the works of Man.
080: Tim Ries w. Norah Jones, ‘Wild Horses’
A fetching beauty with a catchy rock song in a first-rate jazz context. What more could one ask for?
Saxophonist Tim Ries toured extensively with The Stones, who sponsored his very fine, very varied Rolling Stones Project.
079: Miles Davis, ‘So What’ (“Kind of Blue”)
THE masterpiece, universally acknowledged . By rockers, by rappers, by jazzists, by aficionados and cognoscenti, by layfolk and by elevator riders. A monolith of lyric beauty and depth.
It is perfect.
065: Ella Fitzgerald, ‘Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most’
A beatnik musical (what??), an obscure jazz standard (oxymoron), and high school nostalgia (snore)–the convoluted paths we take to visit our past.
Continue reading...294: e.s.t., ‘Dolores in a Shoestand’
Jazz for the 21st Century–the Esbjorn Svensson Trio. So worth the journey.
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