Listenings of interest

Tony Rice - Church Street Blues YouTube (Wikipedia)

Vince Guaraldi is the guy who plays the Peanuts piano, and it's quite pleasant, including the Christmas album. He died at 47 of a heart attack.

Introducing Kenny Cox 1968

Kenny Cox - piano

Charles Moore - trumpet

Leon Henderson - tenor saxophone

Ron Brooks - bass

Danny Spencer - drums

Composer of the Week: Bud Powell on BBC. I feel like he's rushed. That's bebop maybe. I didn't know he spent time in a psych ward after being arrested in 1945. He had ideas of reference, and was in Creedmoor for quite a long time, and got ECT in 1946.

The Charismatic Voice is Elizabeth Zharoff education about vocalizing. She's a classically trained singer, and teacher, and she puts words to music. She has great facial expressions, and she doesn't really know the history of rock and roll, and she's enjoying breaking down great songs. It's really quite fun somehow. The way she breaks down a song and goes back and relistens is really interesting, I feel like when I listen to her analyse a song, that I really know it. It makes me love rock and roll again. She is so pleasantly surprised by music she's never hear. Her focus is supposed to be the voice, but she's gutted by the lyrics sometimes.

"What A Fool Believes"

"Sympathy For The Devil"

"Bloodletting"

"Wish You Were Here"

"Paradise By The Dashboard Light"

London Calling (1979)

Lots of death in music, Peter Sinfield of King Crimson.

Jazz In Memoriam collects them.

Roy Haynes is the latest (NY Times).

How have I not known about Ted Gioia! I want to read his history of Jazz.

Fastest bluegrass

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Missy Mazzoli

Reading about Missy Mazzoli today. Born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA in 1980. She won the best new opera Grammy in 2017 for Breaking The Waves. She won the Kraviz prize ( Symphony.org ). Operas: Salt 2012 Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt 2012 Breaking the Waves 2016 Proving Up 2018 The Listeners 2022 Lincoln in the Bardo 2025 (planned) Her opera The Galloping Cure, scheduled for 2026, sets Franz Kafka’s short story A Country Doctor against the backdrop of the current opioid crisis in the USA. ( Berliner Phil ) Links: Cathedral City ( Spotify ). Podcast about Breaking The Waves ( Spotify ). My everything on Spotify playlist. Jennifer Koh & Missy Mazzoli: Tiny Desk Concert ( YouTube ). This is amazing, watch this! Vespers for a New Dark Age ( Bandcamp ). NY Times review of The Listeners. Her website . She lost her father this year ( Facebook ). 5 Reasons to see Breaking The Waves ( opera.org ). I use Spotify, but beware Spotify, h...

Tenorio jr

There's a movie on Netflix, They Shot The Piano Player (2023). It's about the disappearance of Tenório Jr. I'm really surprised, I couldn't find a previous post about Tenório Jr . Born in 1940, he disappeared in 1976 when he was 34, just coming into his powers. He came out with his first and only album in Embalo in 1964 ( Spotify ). He's an accompanist on many other albums. I tracked down all the albums mentioned on the Wikipedia page on Spotify and made a playlist . Lots of the albums were not present, and some had to be hunted for, did not come up on the search for the title. Embalo on YouTube .

Female vocalist I like

My friend asked for more women vocalists. I sent him Right Back To It by Waxahatchee, which is my current favorite. Kathryn Crutchfield is the singer. Unfortunately when I’m meditating, these kinds of questions obsess me as a kind of distraction. My first thought was Joni Mitchell , and Brandi Carlile . Those two are giants. There’s nobody like Ella Fitzgerald , I think she’s the top. I like her work with Duke Ellington best. Billie Holiday is a favorite. I love it that J. Edgar Hoover sent an agent to get the dirt on her, and he fell in love with her. I love her albums with Lester Young . Alison Krauss has such a sweet voice, from bluegrass to pop. Her latest albums have been with the guy who sang for Led Zeppelin. Linda Ronstadt constantly amazed me. Blue Bayou is amazing. Lately I've been listening to Sophie Milman . Indigo Girls have some solid hits. Galileo , Closer To Fine , Tiny Desk Concert . Tiny Desk Concerts are amazing. Power of Two on Spotify . ...

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