Right up there with food and water–Those Special Pop Songs.
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236: Jacob Collier, ‘Hideaway’
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.
Continue reading...102: Netanela, ‘Shir HaYona’ (Matti Caspi)
Noah’s dove, still searching for land.
A secular Israeli prayer for peace.
107: The Association, ‘Everything That Touches You’
Pop pap? Glorious? Should I admit in public that I really, really like this song?
Continue reading...170: Laura Nyro, ‘Luckie’ (“Eli & the 13th Confession”)
(Boom!Boom!Boom!) Are you rea-dy???
The evolution of the first 4 seconds of Laura’s masterpiece.
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...069: Catherine Russell, ‘New Speedway Boogie’
In which the daughter of Louis Armstrong’s musical director, Julliard graduate and studio singer par excellence, sparkles up an old Grateful Dead tune backed by a mandoline, string bass and tambourine.
Jerry would have loved it. So would Satchmo.
113: J.S. Bach, ‘Prelude to Suite #2 for Unaccompanied Cello’ (Casals)
Yom Kippur is when we Jews face up to the way we lead our lives. The cantor uses the liturgy to break open our hearts and try to pry open God’s. But if there were going to be a secular soundtrack, it would have to be Bach’s Cello Suites.
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