Recent content by JazzyRandy

Rodney Barnes (author, screenwriter, comic book writer, and husband of acclaimed horror writer Tananarive Due, who herself wrote the award-winning "The Reformatory" which, among countless other awards, won the 2024 LA Times Book Prize) standing with Sting. Sting's holding a copy of Barnes'...

Bob Marley - Natty Dread (1974) I just read something that said Bob listed a charity soup kitchen as the writer/owner of "No Woman, No Cry" so the regular royalty checks would ensure they could keep the doors open well into the future. I then went to listen to the song because ... why not...

Woody Shaw - Lotus Flower (1982)

Me’Shell NdegéOcello - Dance of the Infidel: The Spirit Music Jamia (2005) In the spirit of being spiritual Jazz like Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders might have done in the 70s. Except that genre, like all music, has continually adapted over the past 50 years. New examples of spiritual...

Freddie Hubbard - High Blues Pressure (1968)

A great theme demands to be seen through to its trilogic conclusion... Tom Harrell - Roman Nights (2010) There's no gladiator on the cover, but I tried. I thought of album covers (in my collection) with knights, warriors, soldiers, barbarians, but could not come up with another one that had a...

...sticking with the gladiator theme .... Rick James - Throwin' Down (1982) Yes, my musical entity is entertained.

Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard - Gladiator: More Music From The Motion Picture (2001) Different from other soundtracks recordings in that this one includes more dialogue from the movie.

Thanks for the tip. Regarding the Mohicans soundtrack, I've regularly listened to soundtracks. It started way back when I was about thirteen years old, before we had a VCR. I loved the Superman movie and when it was broadcast on HBO, I put a tape recorder in front of the television and...

Interrrrrrreeeeesssssstttiinnnngggg. (if I had a handlebar mustache, I'd be fingering it now)

Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman - The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

I feel seen

Music Lessons

Listened to a couple of Kenny Dorham albums yesterday. Kinda continued with that this morning... Kenny Dorham - 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia (1956) About the time of my third phase of Jazz Expansion, I came across Dorham's work and fell in Jazz love with his playing. He slips...

I liked them a lot during my 70s/80s pop radio days, but have never listened to an album. Would be an interesting exercise to get a cheap box of their albums. Hmmmm...