Yes, that is a good book, if one that I have yet to make my way through. Didn't not know about the gigantic playlist but of course.
Ixp)Somehow with its romantic lunar London landscape it seems to me to be the aural equivalent of Elizabeth Bowen's “Mysterious Kôr".
― 195,000 Momus Threads Can't Be RONG! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 November 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
I have a vague suspicion that someone in an ilxor.
― 195,000 Momus Threads Can't Be RONG! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 November 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
Giant playlist looks to be extremely useful as you can pretty much listen one song at a time if you so choose.
― 195,000 Momus Threads Can't Be RONG! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 November 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
After quick glance through a few of the As, would like to say Mark Murphy's recording of "Angel Eyes" should have been included.
― 195,000 Momus Threads Can't Be RONG! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 November 2016 22:12 (seven years ago) link
But I see he did get in for "Cantaloupe Island."
― 195,000 Momus Threads Can't Be RONG! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 November 2016 22:14 (seven years ago) link
I got kind of obsessed with Memories of You for a while in college after hearing first the Mingus and then the Louis Armstrong version. Several years later it seemed like a lot of people were playing it, probably an example of both me and all of those other people "crate digging" for less-worn standards.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 7 November 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
Ted Gioia's Huffington Post articles about how Lady Gaga recording with Tony Bennett proves that young Americans are sick and tired of all that programmed electronic bleepity-bloop pop and are ready for real music has almost totally pushed me away from reading any of his books.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 7 November 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
The other day I got to wondering about the origins of Autumn Leaves, for the stupid reason that it's fall right now and autumn leaves were drifting past my window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWfsp8kwJto
― how's life, Monday, 7 November 2016 13:43 (seven years ago) link
There are so many versions of Love For Sale but aside from Ella Fitzgerald, the two Miles/Cannonball ones are the ones that cannot be fucked with imo.
― calzino, Monday, 7 November 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
I don't think this qualifies as a jazz standard, but I've been kind of obsessed with "The Weekend of a Private Secretary" lately, which it turns out was written by Johnny Mercer, and recorded by Mildred Bailey, Eileen Farrell, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra among others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey_xb8Ml-zU
― Their all losers and I like associating with loser (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 November 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
that spotify list is a great treat
― niels, Monday, 7 November 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
Even better than my Jazz Daily Mix
― Miskatonic Reducer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 November 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
Giant playlist is surprisingly listenable. Or maybe not surprising.
Also, here is another relevant thread: Standards Scrutiny: A Night In Tunisia
― In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 January 2017 05:33 (seven years ago) link