A little Shuggie Otis for you— also check out the GOTD from this album:
Category: daily best music in the world
DBMITW: Bernard Purdie
Posting will continue to be a little light this week, as I’m occupied with other projects, so here’s an obscure track featuring Bernard Purdie, recommended by Rick Marotta: [h/t to Geoff Gil]
DBMITW: Tom Zé
Busy week here, moving my girlfriend Casey Scott to Ashland, Oregon for the summer, where she will be acting and playing bass in Family Album, the new play by Stew Stewart, part of the Oregon Shakespearean […]
DBMITW: My Bloody Valentine
Recovering from yesterday’s pretty grueling recording session, and catching up with other work, so enjoy some My Bloody Valentine:
DBMITW: my fat bass drum
Just sharing a little piece of my own development here. From the early 90’s, until I finally submitted to the too-soft, you-don’t-really-want-drums-on-this-gig-do-you craze of the mid-oughts, I played a 20″ Gretsch bass drum with Remo […]
Rock on
A little hitting-the-road music:
Daily best music in the world: Barbara Song
Here are several versions of Barbara Song, from Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera. I could try to write something about it, but what for? The content is self-evident and I see no need to flail around […]
Lou Reed 1942-2013
It’s a good day to give White Light, White Heat a listen in its entirety— news that Lou Reed has died is breaking all over the Internet right now. I first heard this record on […]
DBMITW: Rumba in Havana
Preoccupied with tour-related stuff this week, so here’s a Rumba group playing in the street in Havana:
DBMITW: happy 80th to Wayne Shorter
In honor of the 80th birthday of the great saxophonist Wayne Shorter, here is one of my favorite solos of his— or of anyone else’s, ever— from Miles Davis’s Complete In A Silent Way Sessions […]