Sunday, August 09, 2009

Another random baker's dozen from my iTunes library

1) Universal Message, Albert Ayler, might help me sort out String Theory, also, if you don't hear the blues in it you're not listening; 2) Encantamento, Mafalda Arnauth, I'm still lamenting that love I lost back when and she's singing about it, in Portuguese; 3) Violets For Your Furs, John Coltrane, working the upper register and hinting at his eventual importance; 4) Memoirs Of A Frozen Summer, Stefon Harris, good vibes, literally, although kind of sad in this case; 5) Miss Brown To You, Billie Holiday, she could be miss purple with pink polka dots and I would still, as Duke says, love her madly; Yesternow, Miles Davis, you say you want to take a shower after, so what?; 6) Moving Out, Sonny Rollins, Sonny does bop; 7) Begin The Blues, Barney Kessel, somebody asks you what jazz and blues have to do with each other, you could do worse than trotting this out

8) Blues For Philly Joe, Sonny Rollins, Newk shifts to hard bop and it won't be the last time he shifts; 9) The Lone Arranger, Chu Berry, big band plays, Chu gets something like 20 seconds to solo and that's all you end up thinking about; 10) Lonesome Road, Madeleine Peyroux, suck it in, go harder, keep truckin'; 11) Cottontail, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, that said, I need to comment why? 12) Scrapple From The Apple, Charlie Parker, no one, no one, played the saxophone like him before, or since; 13) Confirmation, Charlie Parker, sometimes clusters result from randomization, no complaint here.

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