Resurrected unified MUSIC thread.

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For Zards, especially: this is not exactly a music suggestion -- it's a netflix show, The Eddy. But it's set in a jazz world (in Paris).

Very strong recommendation.

[Ruzious]

Whoa... meeting not for another 15 minutes.

Have I already posted this great great Son Seals song? This one is also for you, Zards:

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I heard him live once, when he first moved to Chicago. At a club somewhere on the South side.

Very nice. Figured I'll contribute one that gives me goosebumps:

Watch on YouTube

[daSwami]

I cannot stop listening to RTJ4. It's is the best hip-hop album since Damn, imo. Seriously - Check it out! It's free on the Run the Jewels website.

[DCZards]

For Zards, especially: this is not exactly a music suggestion -- it's a netflix show, The Eddy. But it's set in a jazz world (in Paris).

Very strong recommendation.

I read some stuff about "The Eddy." I'm planning to check it out soon.

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We've only watched one episode. Will definitely keep watching.

The bohemian setting of the Eddy really hit my personal nostalgia button -- I lived in Paris for a couple of years in the early '70s (yes, I am that old...).

[Doug_Blew]

I cannot stop listening to RTJ4. It's is the best hip-hop album since Damn, imo. Seriously - Check it out! It's free on the Run the Jewels website.

I added Ooh La La since i heard it on the season finale of Ozarks

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6 months with no posts here...?

A few things I've been listening to tonight:

"The Amazing Bud Powell: Vol. 1" -- truly an amazing record by one of the half dozen greatest pianists in the history of jazz. Fats Navarro on trumpet & the not-quite-19-years-old Sonny Rollins on tenor.

"Terra" -- by the Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso.
& while I'm at it, his version of the great Fado: "Estranha Forma de Vida" (A Strange Way to Live), followed by the original version of the song by the singer who wrote it, Amalia Rodrigues -- the queen of Fado & one of the great musical artists of the XXth century.

Writing this, I'm listening to her sing another of her great songs, "Primavera" & then, to end my little Fado session, the extraordinary Mariza singing Amalia's beautiful, "O Gente Da Minha Terra"

Is this music for everybody? No. But, there are a few of you who may respond, & so:

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I need to leave the Portuguese language before it takes me over. But not too far. Just to the place in the world where I'd most like to be right now. & so would you. On Cape Verde dancing with Lura:

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Back to the amazing Bud Powell, this time with Sonny Stitt on the tenor sax (instead of his more usual alto)

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In case you think music lives inside limits, here is one of my faves, Friedrich Gulda, playing the Mozart K332 piano sonata - one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed

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& here he is with his buddy Herbie Hancock playing a piece of music I must have heard 2000 times without tiring of it (could say that about K332 as well). If I need to tell you the name of the tune... nah. Zards will do it for me! Enjoy:

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[barelyawake]

The thing that breaks my heart about watching all these Washingtonian businesses fail is that DC was about to become the musical and culinary leader of the world. My company gives to NIVA, to try and help #saveourstages, and I would implore you to help the entertainment and food industries to stay afloat. And if you didn’t know DC was a wellspring of musical talent these days, check the bands: Bad moves, Corkily, Flasher, the paranoid style, Beauty Pill and others. Been waiting decades for all of our sports teams and nightlife to pop. They do (minus the Wiz of course), and here comes the virus. Ugh.

But, for me 2020 is all about two bands: Idles and Polyphia (well, and of course the aforementioned Run the Jewels). I’m certain I’ve already told you personally how amazing these two bands are, because I can’t stop trumpeting them. I’ll just drop these clips:

Idles:
https://youtu.be/SELdxmlg2Cw

https://youtu.be/l116zoMBl1Y


Polyphia (with one of the greatest instrumental songs in history):

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[DCZards]

Music lost one of its greatest piano players last week--Chick Corea. He'd best be described as a jazz musician but, truthfully, Chick played all musical genres.

He has performed with the Miles Davis band, headed up the fusion group Return to Forever, produced wonderful duet recordings with Herbie Hancock, Gary Burton and Steve Gadd, etc. So it was extremely difficult deciding what to feature here. I decided on a version of one of Corea's most well-known songs--Spain.

RIP Chick Corea.

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[AFM]

Anyone ever heard Tyrone Nesby's rap album.....

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[montestewart]

Anyone ever heard Tyrone Nesby's rap album.....

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He's got a side hustle as a high school coach.

Muhlenberg's Tyrone Nesby named state Coach of the Year in Class 5A boys basketball

A true multi-tasker.

[gambitx777]

Just bought tickets to see dance Gavin dance.! Excited .

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Getting back to this, Ruzious --

...I'll contribute one that gives me goosebumps:

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Don't hate me for this....

I grew up in Chicago. Blues & jazz grabbed me when I was about 13 years old. I'd lie in bed late at night listening to WGES, a radio station on the South Side. By the time I was 15, I'd been to every jazz club I could find in Chicago -- above all the Sutherland Lounge at 47th & Drexel. Just google it.

I'd also frequented Teresa's as well as The Burning Spear -- the 2 greatest blues clubs in the city back then.

Aside from being, usually tho not always, the only white person in those clubs (often with a couple of friends....), I was also, basically, a kid. 5'4" at that age, usually dressed in my Bar Mitzvah suit! An object of curiosity to say the least!

I had a pleasant conversation with Dizzy Gillespie when I was still 15. I bought Miles Davis a drink when... > well... more on that another time.

Back to your video:

Of course I heard B.B. King live a few times, & Albert King (my personal favorite) more often than that.

As to Paul Butterfield -- we were the same age & I met him (in 1961 I think) when we both bussed tables at the faculty club of the U of Chicago. He had just started his band, & they played weekly in one of the dorms, a weekly dance party. I'd heard Little Walter & Big Walter Horton too, & Butter was at their level. An amazing player.

Long long ago & never coming back....

[Ruzious]

Pif, my tastes go more toward rock than blues, and the musicians that do both are the ones that interest me. I'm not really a jazz or blues fan other than when it's mixed with rock, tbh. SRV was probably my favorite, and I always thought of Paul Butterfield being a better version of Eric Clapton.

[dobrojim]

Music lost one of its greatest piano players last week--Chick Corea. He'd best be described as a jazz musician but, truthfully, Chick played all musical genres.

He has performed with the Miles Davis band, headed up the fusion group Return to Forever, produced wonderful duet recordings with Herbie Hancock, Gary Burton and Steve Gadd, etc. So it was extremely difficult deciding what to feature here. I decided on a version of one of Corea's most well-known songs--Spain.

RIP Chick Corea.

Watch on YouTube

Great tune. From sometime back in the early 80s when these guys were
obviously much younger and before they won Grammies and such, Bela,
being a NY guy got Jerry to do this tune as a duet. Okay I was going to post
a link to that duet but came across this instead which includes local bassist Mark Schatz
and another one of literally the world’s most extraordinary musicians Mark O’Connor on
guitar (maybe his third best instrument). This video probably dates to more like 1986.

Watch on YouTube

[80sballboy]

Pif, my tastes go more toward rock than blues, and the musicians that do both are the ones that interest me. I'm not really a jazz or blues fan other than when it's mixed with rock, tbh. SRV was probably my favorite, and I always thought of Paul Butterfield being a better version of Eric Clapton.

I was a huge SRV fan. I took up guitar because of him and EVH. In 1989, I called DC-101 to try and win tickets to a show at the Cap Centre with Jeff Beck. I was fortunate to win since it was early in the morning on a Saturday and nobody was up. SRV was opening up but he played around 1:30 and Beck played around 45 minutes since he was apparently sick. They played a couple of songs together at the end. I never really appreciated how great Beck was until years later. Unreal concert and SRV was gone the following year.

[dobrojim]

I saw SRV once at MPP. The sound was all effed up since we were sitting far
to one side and the signal from the big speaker banks flanking the stage
were separated by sufficient distance that the sound reach us slightly
out of phase.

Wish I coulda seen Hendrix or Duane. Too young. Seen Clapton several
times. Seen Carlos from right up front. My two living favs for rock guys (Ruz),
both not surprisingly slide guys, are Derek Trucks and Sonny Landreth.
If you don’t have From the Reach, album by Sonny L, it’s amazing.
Guest appearances by Knopfler, Clapton, Eric Johnson, Robben Ford, Vince Gill,
Dr John…it’s easily one of my fav albums of the last twenty years. Good to listen to
with the volume up and in a good mood ie some alcohol Totally righteous guitar playing all
over the album.