Brian Arnold: Shaking the Money-Maker
Anne Billson: Recent Film Scores
Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos
Jim C.: Groove Holmes: On Basie's Bandstand
Steve Coleman: Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson
David Cramner: The Carter Family: "Buddies in the Saddle"
Bill Crider: Forgotten Music; Song of the Day
Jeff Gemmill: Nalani & Sarina; Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet: World Cafe Live 2009
Jerry House: Dusty Springfield; Daily Music+; Hymn Time
Randy Johnson: (Music) Because I Like It...
Carmen McRae and Brubeck, Morello & Wright: "Ode to a Cowboy"
George Kelley: Ultimate Sinatra
Todd Mason: speculative-fictional jazz; trumpet and flugelhorn jazz; musical revisitation; early music
Thelonious Monk Quartet featuring Gerry Mulligan: "Straight, No Chaser"
Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday
Charlie Ricci: The Nat King Cole Trio: The Complete After Midnight Sessions
Richard Robinson: Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Complete Broadway Musicals
Ron Scheer: Geoff Dyer: But Beautiful; western movie and television themes
this month's list dedicated to the memory of Ron Scheer
Chet Baker Band: "Let's Get Lost"
4 comments:
You stated my topic very well, Todd. You can always count on me to bring things down to the lowest common denominator. :)
Or, perhaps, Brian, simply isolating the center of gravity...
That Monk - Mulligan piece is an odd thing, isn't it?
As I undertand it, Riverside wanted to record the then-current Monk/Coltrane quartet, but Atlantic wouldn't let Coltrane do so (he was under contract with them). Monk and Mulligan were neighbors and friends, so Mulligan offered to do the session, and a double-lp set of recordings resulted...one I've had since the two-fer was released by Milestone after they were absorbed by Fantasy Records...I've always liked the record. I think they work well together, particularly given how little time this version of the quartet got to sit in together...basically, they worked up arrangements in the studio, iirc. And, of course, like the other videos, I thought of the "essence" of West Coast jazz, Mulligan, mixing with Monk on that particular piece as being somewhat relevant to Ron and his tastes.
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