3/15/2005
Another stab at an all-bop mix, although some might quibble with labeling some of these tunes "bop" (the Calypso-ish "Hold `em Joe," for example). Title comes from a jazz book by Francis Davis. Many th …
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3/14/2005
I was being rather confrontational when I made the blanket statement that Clifford Brown was a better trumpeter than Davis. Although we agree on the point of Brown's superior technical facility; my phr …
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3/14/2005
Clifford Brown, better trumpeter than Miles Davis. Brown plays on all these tracks, the Once in a While is the first ballad I ever enjoyed, and Sarah is the first vocalist that I could listen to withou …
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3/13/2005
Volume III of my Coltrane series. I have in my collection a handful of folks playing Coltrane tunes, but mostly the same song(s) (I've got 4 `Giant Steps,' for example). I'd love to hear other `covers' …
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3/13/2005
Part II of my three-set Coltrane mix. The attempt here was to show Coltrane in a few different contexts, playing the music of others. A lot of Coltrane's choices for `covers' (Greensleeves, Inch Worm, …
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3/12/2005
After A Love Supreme - arguably John Coltrane's crowning achievement - `Trane went, well, off - in directions mostly too wild and wooly (and, let's face it, pretty incomprehensible) for these ears, I'm …
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3/11/2005
78:28 The series' wrap-up...using some long, winding and, stylistically, elegant tracks. 12/07: downloadable via 1st track link.
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3/11/2005
Good ol' breezy, bouncy, old-time pop from the 20s, 30s & 40s (save 10, which nonetheless fits perfectly). (There's no AotM genre title to best classify this music, so I put it under "jazz" because of …
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