Gene Krupa playing with a quartet in the 1950s. This has a nice vibe, and doesn’t get ridiculous about showcasing Krupa. His accompaniment on the tenor solo on Little White Lies (starting at 19:06) is […]
Category: daily best music in the world
Daily best music in the world: tax day
Listening to the Japanese band Boris while I finish my taxes. First rock band I’ve liked in a long time— mashing up all of the 90s (or the first half, anyway) and making it better.
Daily best music in the world: Tamba Trio
Here are a couple of albums by Tamba Trio, a Brazilian group primarily active in the 60s-80s— the pianist I have used on my last couple of records, Jasnam Daya Singh (née Weber Drummond) was […]
Daily best music in the world: Oval
You know what I’m tired of? Music that sounds like it was created with a free Android app. So here is one of my favorite albums in the late 90s: 94 Diskont by the German […]
Daily best music in the world: Ronald Shannon Jackson with Albert Ayler
Ronald Shannon Jackson playing with Albert Ayler on the Live at Slug’s Saloon album, recorded in 1966. Jackson wasn’t recorded a lot at this stage of his career, and it’s really interesting to hear him […]
Daily best music in the world: Louis Hayes
While I finish a long Jack Dejohnette transcription, and work on my new cymbal-related web site, here is a Louis Hayes album from 1960, shared on Twitter this morning by Ethan Iverson:
Daily best music in the world: Jack Walrath
Great record by trumpeter Jack Walrath, with Dannie Richmond, John Scofield, Ray Drummond, and Jim McNeely. Walrath was in Charles Mingus’s last band, and of course Richmond was a long time Mingus drummer and creative […]
Daily best music in the world: Roy Haynes Hip Ensemble
Hip Ensemble is Roy Haynes’s fusion band that was around for a couple of years around 1970. Or is it just the title of the one record under Roy’s name? I don’t know, man. Anyone […]
Daily best music in the world: Miroslav
Here’s a great record from 1970: Purple, led by Miroslav Vitous. With John McLoughlin, Joe Zawinul, and Billy Cobham. It’s very much in a post-In A Silent Way Miles mode, with Cobham sounding at times […]
Daily best music in the world: Idris Muhammad
Here’s what I’m listening to as I finish writing the 2017 Book of the Blog, which will be available for you to order by Monday. I’ve played this thing like 10 times. My theory is […]