Music

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...

Just read about the Shaggs in This Is What It Sounds Like.  I'm listening to them. I'm reading the New Yorker about their 2017 concert ( Archive ). Wikipedia: The Shaggs composed seemingly simple and bizarre songs using untuned guitars, erratic time signatures, disconnected rhythms, wandering melodies and rudimentary lyrics. According to Rolling Stone, the sisters sang like "lobotomized Trapp Family Singers", while the musician Terry Adams compared their music to the free jazz compositions of Ornette Coleman.  The Shaggs formed at the insistence of their father, Austin Wiggin, who believed that his mother had predicted their rise to fame. For several years, he made them practice every day and perform weekly at the Fremont town hall. The girls had no interest in becoming musicians and never became proficient in songwriting or performing. In 1969, Austin paid for them to record an album, Philosophy of the World, which was distributed in limited quantities in 1969 by a ...

Friend said she did Gypsy in high school. I've never seen it. Good musical. She said yes. I'm always looking for a famous musical I've never even seen once, there are so many. Turns out I recognize a lot of the big numbers.  I created a playlist with many version of Gypsy soundtrack on spotify.  Couldn't find the movie. Could find a version on YouTube with the recently canceled  or snickered at her tone deaf diva comments, Patti Lupone. (New Yorker Archive ) ...  She apologized Bette Midler: Rose's Turn YouTube Tiny Desk Concert YouTube  April 22, 2025

I'm educating myself by listening to albums.   6/1 Salah Ragab  Egyptian Jazz 2006 spotify 6/2 Salah Ragab The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab 1983 spotify 6/3 Ivo Perelman Shammanaism 2020 spotify 6/4  Toshiko Akiyoshi The Village YouTube 6/5 Toshiko Akiyoshi was born in China to a Japanese family. In 1953, during a tour of Japan, pianist Oscar Peterson discovered her playing in a club on the Ginza. Peterson was impressed and convinced record producer Norman Granz to record her. Akiyoshi studied jazz at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. Toshiko's Piano was her first album in 1953 spotify . 6/6  Terumasa Hino Taro's Mood 1973 spotify 6/7 Prince Rogers Nelson was born June 7th. Listen to The Gold Experience 1997 spotify Read some oral history about him BBC 6/8  Jun Fukamachi On The Move 1978  spotify 6/9  Akio Sasajima  Quiet Intentions 2013 with Carla Helmbrecht ( artist site ) spotify 6/10 Marcus Miller Su...