02/14 - I Can't Get Out Of What I'm Into With You

There's been too much new music on my lists lately. Let's balance it out with some ooold songs:

Scott Joplin - Leola

So, let's go way back, back before pop culture, before rock n roll, before jazz even... to Scott Joplin. The king of ragtime. This was where the 1900s started. And what a wonderful start it was.

Miles Davis - Straight, No Chaser (live)

There are better versions of this classic tune. But they don't have that bass-solo, with those fingersnaps. Seriously. Don't just half-listen to it. DIG IT.

The Matthew Herbert Big Band - Misprints

Matthew Herbert, the king of conceptual irresistible sample-music, once joined up with a real jazz big band, had them play his compositions and then edited the fuck out of them. I bought the album. I loved it. I saw them live. It was one of the extraordinary concerts of my life. His wife Dani Siciliano came onstage wearing wellingtons and sang this; what could possible be the theme song to my art practice.

Follow the meaning
Read all the books
Pick out the reading
Be as dumb as you look

Dinah Washington - I Get A Kick Out Of You

I do. Get it. A kick. Out of that trumpet amongst other things.

Grizzly Bear - All We Ask

Much because of the literally show-stopping, and absolutely stunning version of it that finished off the concert embedded below. Jump to 2:00:11 if you just wanna listen to that song, but NO. No. Treat yourself to the whole thing. You won't regret it. So many spinetingling moments. An absolutely jawdropping concert, from start to finish.