Click on the link here for Audio Player: Art Pepper – Live in Nice, France – 1980 Any one who is familiar with the story of Art Pepper knows what a brief and troubled career this brilliant musician had. Maybe not so much different than many others of his or subsequent
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The dB’s – Home For The Holidays – 1987 Continuing our week-long dose of non-Traditional Christmas music with The dB’s. Here’s another band that was prominent in the 1980’s, but packed it all in until recently. The dB’s have recently gotten back together and, according
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Balancing Act – Green Pants and Finance – 1987 Roaring on with our non-Traditional week of Christmas Tunes. The Balancing Act were one of those under appreciated and under-noticed bands of the late 1980s that got slightly overlooked by their then-label. Happily
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Timbuk 3 – All I Want For Christmas – 1987 Continuing our romp through non-traditional Christmas tunes, here is Timbuk 3’s contribution; All I Want For Christmas. Less domestic mayhem-oriented than last nights entry, it still carries that message of anti-conspicuous consumerism,
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Wall of Voodoo – Shouldn’t Have Given Him A Gun For Christmas – 1987 Continuing our Ode to Christmas (and the decided lack of Traditional Xmas tunes), here is the infamous Wall Of Voodoo and a track they recorded for a promo-only
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Hank Jones Trio w.Friends – Stockholm 1983 001 A classic concert, recorded live by Sveriges Radio in Stockholm on June 4, 1983, featuring the legendary Hank Jones Trio (w/ Red Mitchell, bass and Shelly Manne, drums) along with guests Chet Baker on
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Gladys Knight and The Pips – In Concert 1982 Some classic Soul this weekend by way of Gladys Knight and The Pips, live at the Jamaica World Music Festival from November 25, 1982. Great sounding concert (which I understand is now available
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The darling buds – shame on you In the mid-1980’s a sub-genre of Indie started to make the rounds. Dubbed The Blonde Movement, it consisted of bands fronted by a Blonde female singer and two or three reasonably scruffy looking guys filling
Click on the link here for Audio Player: John Lewis – Bach Prelude and Fugue No. 1 – 1984 Taking it down several notches tonight with something completely different, but somehow totally appropriate to end this insane week with. John Lewis, founder of the Legendary Modern Jazz Quartet, also recorded
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for October 22, 1980 News for this October 22nd in 1980, in addition to feverish campaigning on the parts of the Carter and Reagan camps, was word that a possible breakthrough in negotiations for the 50 Americans held hostage at the
