After my pathetic little beater of a car bit the dust a few weeks ago I replaced it with a dynamite $5500 20 year old Mercedes-Benz E320— the last of the bombproof Benzes— with an […]
Category: daily best music in the world
Daily best music in the world: So What
I’m going to transcribe some part of this— you can give it a listen while I figure that out. It seems worthy of a pretty full treatment, and breaks down cleanly into funk, medium swing, […]
Daily best music in the world / groove o’ the day: Sookie Sookie
I heard this on Portland’s jazz station KMHD yesterday— on Ben Turner’s excellent afternoon show. You probably don’t have a decent local jazz station, so you should be streaming KMHD online and becoming a monthly […]
Daily best music in the world: Mingus
Please forgive the light posting— in honor of Charles Mingus’s birthday, dig this record:
Daily best music in the world: Clifford Jarvis with Kenny Drew
Here’s a nice record from 1977— Clifford Jarvis playing with Kenny Drew, along with Portland’s own David Friesen. Straightforward power bebop, you could call it. There’s so much uncontrived tradition in this, it makes you […]
Daily best music in the world: harmolodic rock
From the 80s, when you could play this kind of music and get an apparently-decent recording contract, here is some James Blood Ulmer. It seems to fit the mood of the day. Harmolodics, for the […]
Mainstream Records on Bandcamp
Just directing your attention to the Bandcamp site for Mainstream Records— an independent record label in the 60s-70s. Founded by Bob Shad in ’64, folded in ’78. There’s a lot of 70s jazz in a […]
Daily best music in the world: Buck Hill
Here’s a really nice 1978 recording of some 70s powerhouse bebop by Washington DC saxophonist Buck Hill. Wikipedia says about him: Hill began playing professionally in 1943 but held a day job as a mailman […]
Daily best music in the world: Tony Williams solo
I’m still having a hard time writing anything, so here’s a really great open drum solo played by Tony Williams, in a concert video with Jean Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke. This is in 1972, […]