Tower of song on an open thread
A towering song by a towering genius sung by a towering voice.
A towering song by a towering genius sung by a towering voice.
Giant Steps (John Coltrane)
The man on an open thread singing for only the lonely.
Pour yourself a stiff one and kick back.
Just. cuz. I’m. feelin it.
I chose a chanson française for tonight’s Friday night chill in tribute to the the women of France this week who rebuked the posers of the #metoo movement, and if you aren’t up to speed on that ….
Friday night thaw.
Something warm and sexy on a bitter cold New York night.
Mix yourself your favorite cocktail, kick back, and have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
What a lovely way to be on a Friday night — Frank Sinatra crooning, Wave.
I know of no proud Jew, myself included, who can hold back tears when hearing this song (it’s more like a prayer).
It is a rare thing indeed when one of someone in the entertainment or music business whose work I love is of politically sound mind. Beloved icons of my youth such as Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen were, in fact blithering idiots, making it difficult to listen to their music.
Art Tatum – The Tatum Solo Masterpieces, Vol. 1
George Thorogood doing Hank Williams’s Move It On Over.
As promised last week, some of the one, the only, the only — Hank Williams.
Tonight’s Friday night music open thread is great American masterpiece, ‘Can the circle be unbroken’ by The Carter Family.I don’t play enough of this great American art form – particularly the early stuff like Hank Williams.
This spectacular city in an equally spectacular season……. glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel
On this the eve of Yom Kippur I give you Leonard Cohen’s “Who By Fire,” a song taken/inspired by Kol Nidre, the prayer recited in the synagogue at the beginning of the evening service on the Day of Atonement; the name is taken from the opening words.
John Coltrane and Miles Davis
Stella by Starlight
Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing
Let’s break out the booze and have a ball
If that’s all there is…
Because I have been singing this all week 🙂
Labor day music thread — big doings next week. Yuuuge. So enjoy the chill and then start your engines. There’s work to be done!
This is Thelonious Monk, a true American original, on piano, playing his incandescent classic “Straight, No Chaser.”
Tatum, that is. The greatest piano player ever.
No, not Louis Armstrong.
Rita, Rita, Rita to sway. Only thing hotter than this NYC heatwave.
Tonight’s open music thread is a cool chill that’s perfect on a hot summer night when you are with the one you love or if you’re dancing with yourself.
Led Zeppelin ripped off this song shamelessly in their “Lemon Song,” but — as is so often the case — the original is much better.
“It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the motherland; but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.” Abraham Lincoln
I thought I would play my ringtone for tonight’s Friday night music chill. I hear it so much I thought I would share the love.
Who among my readers was shaking their tail-feather at the Palladium to Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Billy Bremner, and Terry Williams (on drums!)?
Aslan’s cake is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Knowing me you are thinking, Chanel, right? Wrong.
It’s a whole other thang.
This charming man, indeed.
Morrissey and The Smiths were the soundtrack of my heady twenties. It had slipped my mind until I saw this Facebook post by Morrissey in the wake of the jihad bombing of the Ariana Grande concert.
Shreds of my soul on Friday night open thread.
Back to my man tonight for our weekly Friday night diversion.
Lord, what a difference a day makes.
Tonight’s Friday night cocktail hour features Frank Sinatra and adoring daughter, Nancy.
“Coltrane plays in such a demented, brilliant way that we stay paralyzed in our seats” writes Pierre Fallan of Arts.
The weather is heating up, and so is tonight’s Friday night music thread.
I have been on a Phil Spector jag and when the Crystals crooned, I thought Friday Night!
Tonight is a playlist from the firmament of my itunes library. Jazz. Vocals. The women.
Tonight’s open music thread is in tribute to Israel where I have been for the past week. Despite being surrounded by her enemies, ongoing terror attacks, and relentless threats from her numerous stunted enemies (from Fatah, Hamas, Hzb’allah, Iran etc), this country is a ….. joy. Everywhere I go, art, music, history dot the landscape.
These are difficult times — as Tom Paine would say, times that try men’s souls, with forces vying for the very soul of the nation.
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1961 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers 1961 I thought this a cool selection, especially since there was no Friday night music thread last night.
It's why I do what I do ……………all the way. excerpt from my latest at the Thinker Fight for Art, Music, Love! "Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature." The fundamental view of man's…