What Are You Listening To? November 2019

[Ojai Sam]

Charles Mingus - East Coasting (1957)

This morning one of Zeeb's faves popped up on my Bethlehem label listening project. Note that Spotify engaged in a little revisionist history with the cover art.

Nothing can ruin this great music, though.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Hammock - Silencia (2019)

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Samantha Fish - Kill Or Be Kind

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Live Skull - Bringing Home The Bait (1985)

 

[axolotl]

Keith Cooper ~ The Truth of the Matter (2002)

 

[axolotl]

Throw Me the Statue ~ Moonbeams (2007)



Thank me for the blurry cover.

 

[Nickyboy]

Thank you for the blurry cover.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

No thanks.

 

[Nickyboy]

Warren Zevon- Bad Luck Streak in Dancing If I Know School (1980)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Paul Whiteman - 50th Anniversary (1956)

Vinyl Rip Of The Day.

Zeeb has posted about "The King of Jazz" before in his terrific Music of the Century Series. Despite the looming storm clouds of rock and roll, in 1956 Paul Whiteman was still big stuff. To mark his 50th anniversary as an artist, Paul assembled a stellar cast of performers he had boosted back in the day, including Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Venuti and Jack Teagarden. The highlight is a 10 minute excerpt from Whiteman's 1952 radio show featuring a joyous reunion of the original Rhythm Boys in a sketch with Bob Hope. The Dorsey Brothers would both be dead within a year, so in retrospect this all star tribute marked the end of an era.

This beautiful box set came with custom sleeves and a 16 page booklet chock full of rare photos. Whiteman's music melded strains of jazz with orchestral pop music and the high fidelity recordings here do his sophisticated arrangements full justice. Of all these big names, Jack Teagarden steals the show, especially in his two energetic duets with Johnny Mercer.

 

[axolotl]

Despite the looming storm clouds of rock and roll, in 1956 Paul Whiteman was still big stuff.

I knew he was big, but....

The highlight is a 10 minute excerpt from Whiteman's 1952 radio show featuring a joyous reunion of the original Rhythm Boys in a sketch with Bob Hope.

Was Bob Hope working under a pseudonym?

 

[Ojai Sam]

I knew he was big, but....


Was Bob Hope working under a pseudonym?

No, he was the comic foil to Bing and the Boys.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

No thanks.

@axolotl, why the wow? That cover is much nicer not blurry.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Mel Torme - California Suite (1950)

This was the first version of Mel's magnum opus dedicated to the Golden State, the West Coast's riposte to Gordon Jenkins' Manhattan Tower.

Not on Spotify, although the Bethlehem Records remake is.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Sick Gazelle - Odum (2019)

 

[axolotl]

@axolotl, why the wow? That cover is much nicer not blurry.

Dancing if I know. I thought I'd punched the laughing emoji.

It probably would be laughing if I hadn't punched it so hard.

 

[axolotl]

Helvetia ~ Helvetia's Junk Shop (2009)

With a name like that, it has to be good.

And, to think, this one's even better'n the first.

 

[axolotl]

Dearest, Crown ~ A Single Star, Bigger than the Universe (2002)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Om - BBC Radio 1 (2019)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Comet Gain - Fireraisers Forever! (2019)