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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Alice Coltrane

There was a moment when I was reading a lot about Alice Coltrane and I was surprised to look back and not see I'd written about her on my music blog. I did quote the beginning of a book on her on another blog : Portrait of Devotion: The spiritual life of Alice Coltrane by Shankari C. Adams The introduction starts: “It was August 1975; a group of us had gone to a music hall in Northern California to hear Alice Coltrane perform in concert. Certain recreational activities, such as drinking and smoking, had been banned from the evening venue. This allowed for a higher vibrational energy to fill the room’s atmosphere. It felt clean and clear. Subsequently, the consciousness of those present felt elevated. The audience was seated and filled with joyful expectation.” I have two friends who are really into hallucinogens and I feel I get high enough meditating a lot. I read about this album where she's just singing devotionally: Kirtan: Turiya Sings ( spotify ). Today I'm listenin...

John Ruocco

His obituary appeared yesterday. John Ruocco (1952-2025) was born in New Haven, Connecticut, played with Dizzy Gillespie, Art Farmer, Slide Hampton, Ed Soph, Beaver Harris, Teddy Edwards, Toots Thielemans and many more, and was the director of the Dutch Jazz Orchestra and of The Hague Conservatory big band. He has been living and working in Europe since 1979. I listened to Leib Plays the Beatles 2013 spotify , which he plays on. No, maybe... YouTube . Like someone in love YouTube 10/01/2014.

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...

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