Music

Someone posted on Reddit you could add two songs to a jazz playlist, and two songs are always different. It's called Kind of Us .  Jazz musicians I discovered for myself: Ivie Anderson : She was Duke Ellington's go to singer until asthma took her out of it.  Sam Lanin : Early band leader.  Isach Skiedvoll : He only has German Wikipedia entry, but my browser is set to translate everything into English. Theon Cross : Cross is a core member of the jazz band Sons of Kemet . Angélique Kidjo : Beninese-French singer-songwriter, actress, and activist. Kidjo has won five Grammy Awards and is a 2023 Polar Music Prize laureate. She has released many albums, performed around the world, and frequently collaborated with other artists. I did Soppin' The Biscuit by Roy Hargrove and A Go Go by John Scofield, 19 and 20. 

I've always loved Billie Holiday  (1915-1959), even before David Sedaris wrote about singing like her. Before reading about how the FBI sent someone to get her, and he fell in love with her, chained to a hospital bed. Before learned Billie Eilish was named after her. Before I knew she was named after Billie Dove. Before I heard Strange Fruit , her greatest song, lyrics by  Abel Meeropol . Early life bio: She was born in Philadelphia, grew up in Baltimore. "Eleanora Fagan [4] [5] was born on April 7, 1915, [6] in Philadelphia to African American unwed teenage couple Clarence Halliday and Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan (née Harris). Her mother moved to Philadelphia at age 19, [7] after being evicted from her parents' home in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, for becoming pregnant. With no support from her parents, Sarah made arrangements with her older, married half-sister, Eva Miller, for Holiday to stay with her in Baltimore." (Wiki...

Tallest mountain on a planet: Olympus Mons on Mars.  Spotify used to seem like a necessary evil for musicians. Now it just seems evil David Bridie Guardian Going to be giving other choices for streaming moving forward (8/6). 8/1 Inglewood Jam 1952(recorded)/1978 release Charlie Parker with Chet Baker YouTube 8/2 Alex Malch 2025 hyacinth spotify 8/3  Fergus McCreadie 2022 Forest Floor spotify 8/4 Fergus McCreadie 2025 Stream (revisited) spotify 8/5 Modest Mouse 2024 Good News For People Who Like Bad News spotify 8/6 John Cooper Clarke 1980 Snap, Crackle & Bop   spotify    YouTube 8/7 Nine Treasures 2021 Awakening from Dukkha spotify   YouTube 8/8 Dharma  2021 Treasury of the True Dharma Eye spotify Dharma on Bandcamp . 8/9 Aaron Copeland 1970 London Symphony Orchestra Appalachian Spring, Lincoln Portrait, Billy The Kid spotify   8/10 Nice little playlist from NY Times about Roy Hargrove . Spotify 8/11 Billy Harper 1979 The Awakening ...

Playlist of the month: Singing with guitar 7/1 Whiskey Before Breakfast Band 2022 Vol 2 Out and About spotify 7/2 The Del McCoury Band 1992 Blue Side of Town spotify 7/3 Doc Watson 1964 Doc Watson spotify 7/4 Neil Young 2025 Talking To The Trees spotify 7/5 Shirley Horn Live At The Village Vanguard 1991 YouTube 7/6 Steve Cole 1998 Stay Awhile spotify Not sure what I think about smooth jazz. I don't want to look down my nose at it, and I don't really want to listen to it either.  7/7 Bizzare House playlist spotify 7/8 Nick Walters 2023 Padmasana spotify 7/9 Jack White 2012 Blunderbuss spotify 7/10 Ann Liu Cannon playlist spotify 7/11 I Draw Slow 2022 I Draw Slow spotify 7/12 I Draw Slow 2017 Turn Your Face To The Sun spotify 7/13 I Draw Slow 2014 White Wave Chapel spotify 7/14 Hungrytown 2024 Circus For Sale spotify 7/15 Hungrytown 2015 Further West spotify 7/16 Carolina Chocolate Drops 2010 Genuine Negro Jig spotify 7/17 The Waifs 2003 Up All Night spotify 7/18 REM 2024 ...

I'd say I'd rather just listen to jazz than people talking about it, but jazz is so vast, and the world is really opening up, and I'm always wanting to learn. r/jazz asks about podcasts, and I find You'll Hear It on YouTube . 1. They start out the podcast riffing while playing piano. So they're a couple of pianists: Peter Martin,Adam Maness. They play some music. They talk over it some, which is good because they're all about describing what is going on. They seem to be in arrangements.  I listen to the latest episode about  Shirley Horn’s “Here’s to Life” ( spotify ). "It’s an album only an artist with decades of love, loss, and resilience could create. In this episode, we break down Horn’s unmatched ability to accompany herself, the elegance of Johnny Mandel’s string arrangements, and the quiet confidence that defines every track. Whether you’re discovering Shirley Horn for the first time or revisiting a favorite, this episode will leave you hearing her...