Click on the link here for Audio Player: Polica – In Session at Crossing Borders – 2012 Polica are an Indie/Experimental band from Minneapolis, fronted by ethereal lead singer Channy Leaneagh. They’ve been together a little less than a year, and in that short amount of time have gotten a lot
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 1968 – Year Of Revolution Starting today, and going all the way until New Years Day next week, I will be posting year-end reviews throughout history. A reminder that, in some ways, many things have changed, and in others, it’s exactly the same.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: MJQ w-PaulDesmond Xmas Concert 1971 Our annual nod to the Christmas season with one of the great, and strangely only, recorded concerts featuring the collaboration between Saxophonist Paul Desmond and The Modern Jazz Quartet. Performed live at Town Hall in New York City
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Jimmy Smith – baby, it’s cold outside Continuing our celebration of the season with a word from the immortal Jimmy Smith and a track from his 1964 album Christmas Cookin’. The venerable standard Baby, It’s Cold Outside. Cool Yule just keeps on
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 06-wynton_marsalis-o_christmas_tree Jumping into the more swinging side of Christmas Music. This one features Wynton Marsalis from his 2009 Christmas album, and a Traditional Jazz/Jam riff on O Christmas Tree. It jumps, and also goes good with Eggnog, especially if you’re having it with
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Simon & Garfunkel – America – 1968 Taking a break from Non-traditional, or any kind of Christmas music tonight. When Simon & Garfunkel released America in 1968, it was a reflection on what were the most uncertain of times in our country. We were
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: 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: Spirit – All The Same – 1968 It hasn’t been a very good week for music. First losing Dave Brubeck and now losing Ed Cassidy, who passed early Thursday morning. Dave Brubeck, everybody knew about and he was a household name since
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Eric Matthews – To Clear The Air – 1997 In the past, when I wrote about underrated and overlooked artists and albums, it was usually in the context of artists from the 1960s and 70s. But the neglect also holds true for
