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🎶 Rediscovering an old album heavily listened to in my teenage trumpet playing days. Maynard “Freak Chops” Ferguson.
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🎶 Apple Music's
🎶 Apple Music released its “Top 100 Greatest Albums" this week, which has some interesting choices and some puzzling omissions. I imported it into Spotify if you want to explore there.Â
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🎶 Will the Circle Be Unbroken
🎶 If you like “Down From the Mountain,” the DA Pennebaker concert documentary about the soundtrack to “O Brother Where Art Thou?”, you might like the early 70s equivalent: a bunch of young musicians teaming up with old bluegrass and country stars to record a set of standards: Will the Circle Be Unbroken.
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🎶 Keith Jarrett: Beyond the Koln Concert
After a glorious sunny afternoon blasting Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert around the house, to mark the end of a major work deliverable, I realized I didn’t know anything else of his solo piano work. I do have his collaboration with Gary Burton around here somewhere.
His solo work? There’s a lot. So I did what any modern learner does. Google found a gem: Doug Martin’s eponymously named article, Where to start with Keith Jarrett. He does a nice job of giving the reader a path through Jarrett’s works, with links to albums on Spotify and even a custom playlist of KJ’s shorter works. (Many of his recordings fill one side of an LP per track, so shorter pieces are a gentler intro).
Thanks, Doug!
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🎶 Bach for Breakfast
Still loving a random classical CD I bought at Starbucks a million yrs ago: Bach for Breakfast. A great, quiet, soundtrack for work.
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Bob Marley's 'Legend' Turns 40
In the 80s, a lovely introduction to Bob and to reggae for a lot of people; by the 90s the fraternities got a hold of it and blasted it out every window.
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Where to start with Bach
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