Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ahmad Jamal – I Hear a Rhapsody Ending up the week with a musical tribute to Tryptophan. A track from the legendary Jazz Pianist Ahmad Jamal, accompanied by a 15 piece string section in a session he recorded for Argo Records and
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Intimate Stranger – Sand & Water -Nightime I have posted tracks by Intimate Stranger several times over the past few years, having been a fan since roughly 2008 when I first heard them via their MySpace page. Truly an international band, with
Click on the link here for Audio Player:JFK Assassination Not to bring down the festivities of this particular Thanksgiving (falling on the 22nd of November and all), but today marks the 49th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As a reminder of how the day unfolded, from
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Danse society – Peel Session – 1981 Diving into some Post-Punk tonight by way of The Danse Society, recorded for John Peel at BBC Radio 1 on November 21, 1981. After Punk came a catch-all sub-genre known as Post-Punk. More experimental
Click on the link here for Audio Player:Artwoods-InTheDeepEnd – 1967 One of those bands in the 60’s that evolved into many different things while being highly respected. The Artwoods, with legendary keyboard player Jon Lord started life as The New Art Wood Combo in the early 60’s and then morphed
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Youth Wants To Know – Sen. Wayne Morse – 1957 Never one to shy away from controversy or taking a stand, Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Oregon) was interviewed on the NBC Radio Program Youth Wants To Know, regarding the Middle-East, which was undergoing
Click on the link here for Audio Player: PorcupineTree -TheSkyMovesSidewaysPhase1 I’ve kept meaning to post some Porcupine Tree on the Roundtable ever since we got started. But distractions got in the way and I didn’t get around to it until tonight. If you’re not familiar with Porcupine Tree, and have
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: Jacqueline Taieb – 7 Heures du Matin – 1967 Another sampling of some classic French “Yè-Yè” of the 60’s. This time from one of the lesser luminaries, Jaqueline Taieb, a French singer born in Tunis who had a string of hit singles
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Bryan Ferry – If There Is Something 1972 The Inimitable Bryan Ferry tonight. From a 1972 session at The BBC, and assisted by Roxy Music bandmates, Eno and Phil Manzanera, Ferry does an eleven minute rendition of If There Is Something. A
