Travel day. See you in Brussels…
Category: daily best music in the world
DBMITW: Sonny Sharrock
Having a very busy weekend with students, gigs, and tour preparations, so here’s one of my favorite records from the 90’s, Sonny Sharrock’s Ask the Ages— by far his best album that I’ve heard. With […]
DBMITW: Milton Banana
Here’s some great playing from one of my favorite Brazilian drummers, Milton Banana: Bonus Banana after the break:
DBMITW: The Hawaii 5-0 fill, redux
What this Hawaii 5-0 nonsense is about, for people under the age of 40-something. Get Tale Spinnin’ by Weather Report
DBMITW: Owl of Cranston
Here’s a fun tune I’ll be playing on tour next month: Paul Motian is the Owl of Cranston— I have no idea what that means, but it seems to fit. I guess I’m not the […]
DBMITW: more George Duke
This is a little bit of a listening test from George Duke’s Brazilian Love Affair, again, with Ricky Lawson on drums. It would be easy for a lot of people to give this a cursory […]
Busy
Busy all day doing tour-related junk, and transcribing charts– Blood by Paul Bley, Priestess by Billy Harper, following Gil Evans’s arrangement, and a couple of Don Cherry tunes I used to play in the 90’s. […]
DBMITW: George Duke
Here’s Sugar Loaf Mountain, from George Duke’s Brazilian Love Affair, one of the three essential albums of his, along with Reach For It and Frank Zappa’s Roxy & Elsewhere. That’s Ricky Lawson providing the crushing […]
DBMITW: Jon Christensen is great
Jon Christensen, on Ralph Towner’s Solstice: Maybe it’s not a perfect analogue, but I think of him as the Billy Higgins of the fusion era– an egoless (in his playing, at least!), perfectly musical drummer. […]
DBMITW: freight train
Several clips of Tony Williams during his early 70’s “freight train from hell” phase: With Stan Getz, along with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke: Continued after the break: With Lifetime: Master of the single […]