What Are You Listening To? February 2023
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Zeeba Neighba
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Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins ~ Sonny Side Up (1997 Verve Master Edition; 1957)
Difficult to imagine how this blowing session could be any better
Always love the story about Gillespie stoking the other two blowers on by telling each privately that the other felt they were a better saxophonist
Great album!
Yesterday, I played the “Ten Songs From” playlist (Pop Charts from 1987) on a drive with my wife and she soundly criticized each selection - “These are the songs you picked?!”. In all fairness I’m not sure it was the best year in pop music
OTOH, it takes a certain ear to appreciate the greatness of Baltimora’s “Tarzan Boy”
Zeeba Neighba
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Steve Reich - Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint (Kronos Quartet, Pat Metheny)
axolotl
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Why do you test your marriage with songs from 1987?Yesterday, I played the “Ten Songs From” playlist (Pop Charts from 1987) on a drive with my wife and she soundly criticized each selection - “These are the songs you picked?!”. In all fairness I’m not sure it was the best year in pop music
OTOH, it takes a certain ear to appreciate the greatness of Baltimora’s “Tarzan Boy”
Did she agree to take future drives with you?
Ojai Sam
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History: Sinatra pal Keely Smith defined desert cool
Music critic Joel Selvin wrote of her in 2008: "She was the hippest doll in America, a real cool cat before they called it that."
www.desertsun.com
"Her signature hairstyle, the severe bob, happened by accident. Originally, she wore pin curls in her long hair all day before the show, only to have it straighten out within minutes under the hot lights on stage. One night, she spotted a young girl with short hair in the room where they were appearing. Smith took her into the backstage office and, with the office scissors, the girl cut Smith's hair to look like hers. "When Louis saw it, he wanted to kill me," she says. "But it worked out ..."
Zeeba Neighba
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Ten Songs From… The Lovin’ Spoonful
1) “Do You Believe in Magic”
2) “Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind”
3) “Younger Girl”
4) “You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice”
5) “Daydream”
6) “Nashville Cats”
7) “Summer in the City”
8) “Darling Be Home Soon” (from soundtrack You’re A Big Boy Now)
9) “She Is Still a Mystery”
10) “Close Your Eyes”
Never a big Lovin’ Spoonful fan, so thought I’d tackle ‘em straight on for today’s playlist. Most of the usual suspects here but some nice lesser-known later tracks - I really like “Close Your Eyes” which gets more chamber-y/psychedelic. Sadly that would be John Sebastian’s last album so not sure what direct they would have gone (I skipped their final album post-Sebastian leaving with Joe Butler taking the reins as lead vocalist).
1) “Do You Believe in Magic”
2) “Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind”
3) “Younger Girl”
4) “You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice”
5) “Daydream”
6) “Nashville Cats”
7) “Summer in the City”
8) “Darling Be Home Soon” (from soundtrack You’re A Big Boy Now)
9) “She Is Still a Mystery”
10) “Close Your Eyes”
Never a big Lovin’ Spoonful fan, so thought I’d tackle ‘em straight on for today’s playlist. Most of the usual suspects here but some nice lesser-known later tracks - I really like “Close Your Eyes” which gets more chamber-y/psychedelic. Sadly that would be John Sebastian’s last album so not sure what direct they would have gone (I skipped their final album post-Sebastian leaving with Joe Butler taking the reins as lead vocalist).
Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah! (1962)
Ojai Sam
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Lilit Grigoryan - Mompou: Música Callada (comp. 1951, 1962, 1965, 1967, rec. 2021)
Frederic Mompou (1893-1987) composed four books of piano miniatures under the title "Musica Callada" ("Silent Music") that fuse the folk melodies of his native Catalonia with the impressionist influences of Ravel and Debussy. They are performed with a mesmerizing level of introspection by Lilit Grigoryan, who was born in Armenia and educated at the Rostock University of Music and Drama, where she teaches today.
on the Sam-O-Meter. Listen to the silence. 
Frederic Mompou (1893-1987) composed four books of piano miniatures under the title "Musica Callada" ("Silent Music") that fuse the folk melodies of his native Catalonia with the impressionist influences of Ravel and Debussy. They are performed with a mesmerizing level of introspection by Lilit Grigoryan, who was born in Armenia and educated at the Rostock University of Music and Drama, where she teaches today.
on the Sam-O-Meter. Listen to the silence. 
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axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
Hans Karl ~ SHAGXOTICA! (2001)
C'mon! You know you wanna hear it!
hanskarl.bandcamp.com
C'mon! You know you wanna hear it!
Alternatively, you could listen to popular music of 1987.
SHAGXOTICA! (New Music Inspired by the Paintings of Shag), by Hans Karl
16 track album
hanskarl.bandcamp.com
Zeeba Neighba
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Been all Springsteen this week. His first tour in 5 years (not counting his Broadway stint) has begun with the E Street Band - he's not getting any younger so planning on seeing him 3 times in March (in Boston, Denver, and North Carolina)
Looking at his early setlists, four songs off his 2021 album Letter to You and two songs off recent soul covers album - not his best stuff but still lots of great classic stuff showing up in concert too, so excited about it.
So been going through my Complete Chronological Bruce playlist now
Looking at his early setlists, four songs off his 2021 album Letter to You and two songs off recent soul covers album - not his best stuff but still lots of great classic stuff showing up in concert too, so excited about it.
So been going through my Complete Chronological Bruce playlist now
Unsomnambulist
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Polyphia - New Levels New Devils (2018)
Zeeba Neighba
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Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy (2017
