Thursday, May 26, 2016

Underappreciated Music: May 2016



The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...

"BNoirDetour": Five Classic Film Musical Numbers

Brian Arnold: David Peña: mariachi Star Wars; Ringo (1978 tv special)


Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos


Fred Blosser: Ennio Morricone (courtesy Bill Crider)


Paul Brazill: A Song for Saturday


Jim Cameron: Herbie Mann


Roger Catlin: Songs of Protest and War (courtesy Bill Crider)


Sean Coleman: Donovan at 70; Paul Simon's solo career

David Cramner: Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Review: "Romance in Durango"


Brubeck Quartet: Time Changes 


Bill Crider: Song of the Day; Forgotten Hits; Film music and the joy of the new: Ennio Morricone 

Jeff Gemmill: Top 5; Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt


Jerry House: Music from the Past; Hymn Time; Tim Buckley


Miriam Makeba and Nina Simone & co.: "Thulasizwe"/"I Shall Be Released"


George Kelley: Don't Make Me Over: The Songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David; Do-Wah-Diddy: Words & Music by Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry

Sam Juliano: Choral Arts Society of New Jersey: "Songs of the Sea"


Kate Laity: Songs for a Saturday

B. V. Lawson: Your Sunday Music Treat


Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2015


Evan Lewis: Songs

Steve Lewis: Music I'm Listening To

Jacqueline T. Lynch: Max Fleischer's Sing-Along Short Subjects


Todd Mason: some jazz performance television series in black and white; some jazz in 5/4 time (for May the 4th); some recent recordings of "I Put a Spell on You"; soundtrack composers for Night Gallery; Bebe and Louis Barron: "Bells of Atlantis"


Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

James Reasoner: Middle of the Night Music


Charlie Ricci: Arlo Guthrie: Presidential Rag


Luisa Domingo: Paul Hindemith, "Sonata for Harp" (1939)


Bhob Stewart: Anita O'Day


Vienna: Trudy Stevens dubbing for Lizabeth Scott


Bernie Williams Band: "Go for It"


Ennio Morricone and his orchestra: music from For a Few Dollars More

5 comments:

Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) said...

Some great quality stuff here Todd - thanks chum.

Jerry House said...

Just posted about Tim Buckley, Todd.

Todd Mason said...

Thanks, folks!

Kelly Robinson said...

Looking forward to all the cool music.

Todd Mason said...

I'm usually impressed, at least, by the choices...