What Are You Listening To? April 2020

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I take it that this song was the impetus behind your selection of your law career in probate, trusts, and estates.

Don't tell me I'm wrong, Ken. I've got leverage now.

It's OK. I've got James Bond on my side.

"Leiter chuckled. 'Come on lovebirds,' he said, looking at his watch. 'We ought to get going. I've got to get back to Vegas tonight and start looking at the skeleton of our dear dumb friend Shy Smile. And you've got your 'plane to catch. You can go one quarreling at twenty thousand feet. Get a better perspective from there. May even decide to make up and be friends. You know what they say' - he beckoned to the waiter - 'nothing propinks like propinquity.'"

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Various Artists - The Jazz Arranger vol. 1 (rec. 1928-40, comp. 1989)

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"A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty 'Hi-Yo Silver'..." Oh. Sorry, kemosabe. That's the Lone Arranger. :nunja:

Working through the Columbia Jazz Masterpieces series, this collection popped up to brighten my day. Produced by Michael Brooks and annotated by Leonard Feather, The Jazz Arranger - Vol. 1 presents 19 :oops: tracks, most of which you are unlikely to have encountered before. The arrangers are a different story, including both familiar names like Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and Sy Oliver alongside less renowned chartists such as Chappie Willett and Fud Livingston (of "Fud and the Fuddy Bears" fame) .

The years covered here were a time of ferment for jazz as the flapper age gave way to the swing era. Each song shows how much color and variety could be coaxed from an orchestra by a creative arrangement.

:5.0: on the Sam-O-Meter.
 
Charlie Parker ~ Bird at the Roost / The Savoy Years Vol. I (1988)

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Among the most rewarding live recordings of Charlie Parker are his performances on a regular series of broadcasts that emanated from the Royal Roost during 1948-1949. Muse, in its Savoy series, released all of this valuable music on two double LPs and a single album; some of it has since appeared on CD. This first volume has six of these radio airchecks (with Symphony Sid Torin announcing), and finds Parker and his quintet (either Miles Davis or Kenny Dorham on trumpets, Tadd Dameron or Al Haig on piano, Curley Russell or Tommy Potter on bass, and Max Roach or Joe Harris on drums) getting the opportunity to stretch out on four- to five-minute versions of such songs as "Groovin' High," "Big Foot," "Ornithology," "Slow Boat to China," and "East of the Sun," among others. A special highlight occurs when Bird answers a request on the December 25 broadcast and does a brilliant reworking of "White Christmas." Highly recommended.
~ AMG
 
Ben Goldberg - Unfold Ordinary Mind (2013)

This is a mix between Jazz, pure energy, and some alt-country something or 'nother.
At the 7:10 mark in the video, it breaks out into some scrunchy country-music Buddy Holly meets Hendrix like guitar wrangling backed by saxes and a bass clarinet taking the part of a bass string instrument.
 
Our Brother The Native ~ Sacred Psalms (2009)

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The band’s third full-length, ‘Sacred Psalms’, sees them pushing into further fresh territory, inspired by a love of African, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, Balkan, and Javanese Gamelan music (sampled fragments of which drift through the mix), and with a vast array of sounds and ideas flowing about, this is both their most eclectic release to date and a fully coherent attempt to culminate and draw on everything good the band has previously committed.
Sorry, Nickyboy. That's the whole quote. I don't know what kind of Javanese Gamelan is on the album.
 
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Ike Turner - 1951-1954 (Classics comp. 2006)

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The earliest R&B sides from Ike appeared on labels like Chess, RPM and Flair. Many were recorded by Sam Phillips at the Sun Studio in Memphis. A lot of people mistakenly associate Ike with a certain fiery female vocalist, but that was actually a different guy:

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Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence Patience and Grace (2007)

Nirvana came up in a conversation I had last night with my son and his friend while talking about Wilt Chamberlin, making Hip Hop music, economics, photography, and internships. Ever since, Dave Grohl has been on my mind and I couldn't help but put on some FF this morning when I took a break from Designated Survivor to clean my cluttered dusty office.
in Stranger Things Have Happened Dave Grohl said:
Goddamn this dusty room
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and I knew I had chosen the right album
 
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