Music

I think I might have one more month of listening to albums in me. I'm listening to a playlist of songs and bands mentioned in the 2022 memoir Stay True by Hua Hsu. Many classic rock songs, but there are 77 songs and I learned these bands I hadn't heard of.  5/1 Blind Faith 1969 Blind Faith spotify 5/2 Shonen Knife Our Best Place 2023 spotify 5/3 Sonny Sharrock  1969  Black Woman spotify 5/4 The Raincoats  1979 The Raincoats spotify 5/5 The Vaselines Enter The Vaselines 1992  spotify 5/6 Van Morrison Astral Weeks 1968 spotify 5/7 Harold Land Quintet  The Peace-Maker  1968 spotify Harold Land (tenor sax),  Bobby Hutcherson (vibes),  Joe Sample (piano),  Buster Williams (bass),  Donald Bailey (drums, harmonica) 5/8 Peter Bernstein Better Angels 2024 spotify Someone on r/jazz says this album is currently obsessing them, and I take a listen and wow. I quite enjoy it.  5/9 Peter Bernstein Signs of Life 1995 spotify 5/10 Belle a...

  Hiroshi Suzuki Cat 1976  spotify , YouTube At the Pershing: But Not for Me  (1958) by  Ahmad Jamal   spotify Israel Crosby – bass Vernel Fournier – drums The Jewel In The Lotus  (1974)  Bennie Maupin  ( spotify ). Bennie Maupin – saxophones, flute, bass clarinet, voice, glockenspiel Herbie Hancock – acoustic and electric pianos Buster Williams – bass Billy Hart – drums (right channel) Freddie Waits – drums, marimba (left channel) Bill Summers – percussion Charles Sullivan – trumpet on "Mappo" and "Excursion" Nipple  (1969)  Peter Brötzmann  Sextet ( Spotify ) Patty Waters  Sings (1965) ( Spotify ) Azymuth  first three albums (Brazilian jazz funk band). 1975 self titled album ( Spotify ) 1977: Aguia Não Come Mosca ( Spotify ) 1979: Light as a Feather ( Spotify ) Emily Remler  Firefly 1981  spotify Phenobarbital Sessions 2017 Abbey Rader ( spotify ) with  John McMinn . Red Garland's Piano 1957  Re...

Smalls is a jazz club in the Village. YouTube  currently live Saturday night April 19th 2025 Mark Morganelli / Trumpet ( NY Times article from Feb. 13, 2009 about his was in the loft movement) Roni Ben Hur / Guitar Essiet Essiet / Bass "After attending Mount Hood Community College, he played briefly in Los Angeles before working in Europe during the early 1980s with fellow American jazz musician Famoudou Don Moye. In 1983 he moved to New York City, playing with Abdullah Ibrahim, Art Blakey, Marty Cook, and Ralph Peterson Jr. Essiet Essiet has had many collaborations, including with George Adams, Ron Affif, Kenny Barron, the Blue Note All-Stars, Paul Bollenback, Donald Brown, Bruce Cox, Kurt Elling, Kenny Garrett, Benny Golson, Jim Hartog, David Hazeltine, Freddie Hubbard, Victor Jones, Joe Locke, Kevin Mahogany, Cedar Walton, and Bobby Watson. Sylvia Cuenca / Drums Last time I went to Smalls I saw Ari Hoenig. He was there last night: Video Ari Hoenig / Drums Gadi Lehavi / Pia...

I don't believe these kind of things, except they're useful in this circumstance, so I got these top 10 albums from here . Just for comparison, this list has similar 7. Reddit seems to agree with top 7. You can hear his memoir in German on Spotify.  1. Blood on the tracks 1975 Tangled up in Blue , autoplays the rest on YouTube. Spotify . Side one: 1.  "Tangled Up in Blue" December 30, 1974, in Minneapolis 5:42 2. "Simple Twist of Fate" September 19, 1974, in New York City 4:19 3. "You're a Big Girl Now" December 27, 1974, in Minneapolis 4:36 4. "Idiot Wind"                     December 27, 1974, in Minneapolis 7:48 5. "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" September 17, 1974, in New York City 2:55 Side two: No. Title Recorded Length 1. "Meet Me in the Morning"                            ...

I know Spotify is corrupt, doesn't pay artists enough, and has an AI music problem ( one ,  two ). I don't pay for it, and listen to commercials even though the heroine of  Laid  suggests that's not to be done. You don't like the links, don't click them. Pay for a service for me, and I'll link that up. I've added in YouTube sometimes.  Oscar Peterson trio 4/1 Oscar Peterson Night Train (1963) spotify 4/2 Oscar Peterson plays Duke Ellington Songbook (1960) spotify . 4/3 Wunderhorse Midas (2024) Spotify . 4/4 Wunderhorse Cub (2022) spotify . 4/5 Paco de Lucia Friday night in San Francisco (1981) spotify . 4/6 Paco de Lucia Siroco (1987)  spotify . 4/7 Hiroshi Suzuki Cat (1976) spotify , YouTube . YouTube: Cat was recorded in October 1975 at at Nippon Columbia Studio, while Hiroshi Suzuki was visiting his home country of Japan after moving to Las Vegas in 1971 to play with Buddy Rich and perfect his craft. Back on his old stomping grounds, the man known as N...