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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Katie Cruchfield

Katie Crutchfield is a 35 year old singer from Alabama. Her band is called Waxahatchee , after a river in Alabama. Saint Cloud (2021) won the Libera Award, for independent music, for the album about getting sober. Tiger's Blood is her new album ( Spotify ). Links: How the Waxahatchee singer-songwriter got sober, moved to Kansas City, and made her best album yet ( Rolling Stone ). New Yorker article ( archive ) "First-Person Singular" by Kelefa Sanneh. The Unexpected Sunlight of Waxahatchee’s “Saint Cloud” New Yorker , by Jia Tolentino ( archive ) 2/25 Fallon Tiny Desk Concert Tiger's Blood YouTube [Verse 1: Katie Crutchfield] You come alive in the heat, you ain't crossing state lines Stood up like a crepe myrtle, can't be killed or denied Throw a brick through the window, leave your mess at my door Lord knows sooner or later it'd wash up to shore Lord knows sooner or later it'd wash up to shore [Verse 2: Katie Crutchfield] You're laughing and...

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...

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.

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