Music

Focusing on 2025 albums to catch up, keep things fresh and new. Spotify said my listening age was 88 in my yearly wrap.  I'm going to publish these when they're full, I just go ahead and put albums I listen to with the next open date. 2/1 Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts 2025 spotify Mary Halvorson , guitar (1-8), synth (Pocket Piano) (1–3, 8) Immanuel Wilkins, alto saxophone (1-2, 4-5) Brian Settles, tenor saxophone (1-2, 5, 8) Adam O’Farrill, trumpet (1-8) Jacob Garchik, trombone (1-8) Patricia Brennan, vibraphone (1-8) Nick Dunston, bass (1-8) Tomas Fujiwara, drums (1-8) Feel like Mary Halvorson is the jazz musician of the year for 2025 as the only artist with two albums on the best albums lists. There are other artists who play on multiple albums, sure, but she headlines two albums that top many lists.  2/2  Yazz Ahmed , A Paradise In The Hold 2025 spotify , YouTube 2/3  Emma Rawicz , Inkyra 2025 spotify She grew up in Devon, has a Polish grandfather, in t...

I hate that Spotify took money from ICE.  I watched Heart of Dog 2015, a movie about grief by Laurie Anderson, and while there's only a brief picture of Lou Reed, I'm sure the loss of him in 2013 is present, and the movie ends with a song off Ecstasy, and I realize I'd not listened to any albums since New York 1989, which I love.  1/1/2026 Ecstasy 2000 Lou Reed spotify 1/2 Set The Twilight Reeling 1996 Lou Reed spotify 1/3 Magic and Loss 1993 Lou Reed spotify 1/4 Songs for Drella 1990 Lou Reed spotify The movie Songs for Drella is on Criterion at the moment, and I quite liked that.  1/5  Mister Heartbreak 1984 Laurie Anderson spotify , YouTube "Gravity's Angel" borrows imagery from Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow (1973). Anderson had "wanted to make an opera of that book ... and asked him if that would be OK... He said, 'You can do it, but you can only use banjo.' And so I thought, 'Well, thanks. I don't know if I could d...

I don't like Chet Baker singing more than one song. I tend to like authenticity over precision and from just the neck up, but his flat tones are just too off for me after a while. I think listening to a lot of music has changed my appreciation some, my taste profile away from authenticity, to more precision and complexity.  I hate how drugs killed the life out of so many musicians. He took it up in 1957. He's singing these songs before he's the addict I'm wary of. Maybe I don't like the fame and money that came his way that made him think he could be a drug addict. I certainly don't like him being voted over Clifford Brown and Miles Davis in 1954, that's just pure racism. I mean he's not bad, he's allowed to be in the top 3, maybe top 10 at the time.  I watched Let's Get Lost  (1988), interviews shortly before he died, some footage when he was younger, lots of talking heads. He seemed quite haunted, a husk of a human. That's what addiction do...

I don't know how AI music is a problem if I'm going and looking for specific albums when I go to Spotify.  12/1/2025 A Flat, G Flat and C 1966 Yusef Lateef YouTube I was looking for a jazz album where the  theremin is played, and this one does, not in the first songs though, so listen further in. 12/2 Kuni Mikami 2018 Keep On Swinging spotify I looked him up because he's playing at Mezzrow the night I looked it up, not in December. I do these in advance. 12/3 Kuni Mikami 2023 Happy Birthday YouTube 12/4 Barry Harris 1957 If I Live Again spotify He was Kuni Mikami's teacher for 10 years. 12/5 Barry Harris 1960 At The Jazz Workshop (Live) spotify 12/6  Cynthia Erivo 2025 I forgive you spotify 12/7 Ariana Grande 2025 Brighter Days Ahead spotify 12/8 Wicked spotify 12/9 Wicked: For Good spotify 12/10 Wicked Original Broadway Cast spotify 12/11 The Stare (2024) by Consider the Source spotify 12/12 Thundercat: It Is What It Is (2020) spotify 12/13 The Y...