"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Georgie Auld – Blue and Sentimental – Coral Records – 1953 Not that I got out of my way to collect them, but I’ve been running across quite a number of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Claude Thornhill (Piano Solo) – That Old Feeling – Columbia Records – 1948 We tend to think the Wall of Shame, that grim testimony to all those overlooked and underrated bands…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Crows – Silver Tongues – 2014 I got it on high-spirited authority from my pal Mig, who saw Crows last night at a club in Bristol, that this band is on…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Spoon – Is Love Forever – 2010 Taking a minor break from the mountain of Shellac tonight, with Austin‘s very own Spoon and their 2010 single Is Love Forever? They are…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Blecaute (Blackout) – Que Samba Bom – 1949 Something out-of-the-ordinary, but not so unusual if you spend any time over here. Tonight it’s a single by the legendary Brazilian singer/Samba practitioner…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Slim Gaillard – Laguna – Bee-Bee Records 101 – 1945 Had Slim Gaillard never appeared, the world would have been an awful place. Truly and totally unique, with a language of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Brother Jack McDuff – Ain’t It – 1968 – Chess Records Easing into something a little more contemporary (if the 60s are contemporary . . .) with the legendary Brother Jack…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Charlie Ventura And His Bop For The People featuring Jackie & Roy – Whataya Say We Go – RCA-Victor -20-3396 – 1949 Jumping into some Bop 78s tonight, by way of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Alec Wilder Octet – Walking Home In Spring – March 30, 1939 – Brunswick Records Taking it down several notches tonight. One of the most widely admired, but little known…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Arnett Cobb and His Orchestra – Top Flight – Apollo #770 – May 13, 1947 Continuing with 78s tonight. This one comes by one of the inimitable High Priests of Bop,…