Spike
Songs You Should Be Listening To
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Allah's Holiday. Fox TrotJazz and Hot Dance in Switzerland (HQ 2011)
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You Are My Lucky StarJazz and Hot Dance in Austria (HQ 2014)Heinz Sandauer, Klavier, begleitet von seinem Orchester
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When You've Got a Little Springtime in Your HeartRay Noble/Al Bowlly
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I Ain't Got NobodyColumbia Historic EditionBob Wills & the Texas Playboys (with Tommy Duncan)
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Jerry o' Mine
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That's What Little Girls Do
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Fajar Di Atas AwanMusic of Indonesia 20: Indonesian GuitarsSuarasama (Rithaony Hutaljulu, vocal)
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Here’s a mini-playlist of items some of you may have heard before.
The first is a 1978 single "Don’t Look" by Nervus Rex, a New York City group. They had an LP with this song on it soon after, but I never bought it. I always thought this single was my private discovery, but allmusic just told me that "the single was an underground smash on both sides of the Atlantic. It even won ‘Best Independent Single of the Year’ honors from Britain's New Musical Express." Good for them! (Seriously)
Next is "Shake Some Action" by Flamin’ Groovies, a San Francisco group, from their 1976 album of the same name.
The two tracks speak for themselves. What can I say? The British could have had something to do with the fact that South Africa has a strong tradition of choirs. The track above is from an undated Rough Guide anthology from the U.K., whose liner notes say that Voyo Mokoena has been extremely popular in South Africa, but doesn't have a photo of him.
The track below, "Moya Wami" by the Leeukop Prison Choir, is from another U.K. anthology God Bless Africa, from 2000, on the Demon Music Group label, consisting of Gallo Music tracks. According to the CD's liner notes, a Rebecca Malope made this song famous earlier. I deleted the inert first minute of this, for your listening pleasure.
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vety nice, Spike. I can see why Paul Simon fell in love with this.
Thanks for the post
(If you want to hear a basic straight version of "Out of Nowhere," a song that the Charlie Parker Quintet later improvised on, listen to Bing Crosby’s 1931 recording above.)
When bebop burst onto the jazz scene around 1945, it sounded as if "Tin Pan Alley was being scrambled like data being fed into a military coding machine to emerge as a new musical intelligence….The entire body of American jazz, from Bolden to Basie, was being subjected to an exhaustive re-examination," in the words of biographer Ross Russell in his book Bird Lives!
The 32 tunes that the Charlie Parker Quintet recorded in late 1947 with Duke Jordan as pianist are for me one of the highpoints in jazz history.
Charlie Parker, 27, alto sax; Tommy Potter, 29, bass; Miles Davis, 21, trumpet; Duke Jordan, 25, piano; Max Roach, 23, drums.
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Spike, you old dog. This is so fine. At 1:43 in he just stole my heart. I don't have the necessary vocabulary to speak here, I cannot adequately express myself......but ......His touch is authoritive and sure. Not what I'd call a "light" touch. His left hand especially gets delightfully, dramatically percussive at times as it sends the right hand off on excursions through the melody, soaring, diving, spinning madly across the sun.
Thanks for this.
The above comments were made in reference to Embraceable You.
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I like the second one, but their name is tragic. Nice antidote to my late night office machine issues. Thanks.
Nervus Rex is new to me and the song is pretty good!
The other two bands don't have a chance in hell of ever beoming famous. I mean The Who! (AH hahahaha!) and the Flamin' Groovies (come on, please!).
I luvs me some power pop! B^P
Thanks for sharing this. You just might've noticed that I'm a powerpop fan and have never heard the Nervus Rex song. I am destined for iTunes to buy this. If the rest of the album is this good, I may have to go further.
There is a touch of the Beau Brummels in the chord structure which is reminiscent of a song which escapes my aging brain.