"She's Not There" (composed by Rod Argent) as recorded by The Zombies and others: Saturday Music Club (on Monday)

The Zombies: "She's Not There"  

Maeve Lander: "She's Not There" (for Brass Quintet)  

 

Santana:

 

Neko Case and Nick Cave:  

Ola and the Janglers:

 

System:

 

The Cleverlys: "She Ain't There"  

Dirty Martha: 

 

The London Symphony Orchestra:  

Vanilla Fudge:

The Ventures:

Link to Danger Man (Secret Agent in the US) Season/Series 3, Episode 3, "Sting in the Tail" 1965: at about 17 minutes, Jeanne Roland sings (or lipsyncs, but it sounds like her voice) the French lyrics to a nightclub band's performance of "She's Not There"  (Roku; free with ads) (Link to Amazon "FreeVee")

IMDb: (French version: "Te Voilà," lyric by Jacques Chaumelle)

Noel Deschamps: "Te Voilà" (2012)

Peter Schickele: 

 

from the television series Glee:

U.K. Subs:

The Cliffmores: 

Howlin' Jaws:

  

The Road:

Danny McEvoy:

Ilona Knopfler Band:

The Zombies (2000s reunion band):

And their NPR Tiny Desk Concert:

John Lee Hooker's song "No One Told Me", which apparently inspired Argent to write the lyrics of "She's Not There"...the title phrase alone particularly sticking with Argent.

The SecondHand Songs links to various covers of "She's Not There". Which reminds me of the lovely educational cover by HistoryTeachers, "Elizabeth I".

A recent, not completely accurate (nor even internally consistent) 2-part video 

documentary tracing the Zombies' career, but still useful and enjoyable for the most part:

Part 1:

Part 2:

January/February Underappreciated Music: Links to reviews and performances

Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Pussy Riot Closing Statements (2012)

Cindy Lee Berryhill on Mojo Nixon; Berryhill on Trash Flow Radio on Nixon (about 35 minutes in)

Jim Cameron: Dave "Fathead" Newman:  Davey Blue; Wayne Kramer of the MC5 

Jeff Cantwell: Totally Wired: Machine Music and the Fossils of the Future (on early electronic instruments)

Annette Crossland: Elles Bailey: "Cheats and Liars"

Jeff Gemmill: Emmylou Harris: Thirteen; The Henry Girls: A Time to Grow; The Long Ryders: Native Sons; Maggie Pope: Crow; Sarah Jarosz: Polaroid Lovers; Mol Sullivan: Goose; Hayley Reardon: Live at Starseed Studios; The Castellows: A Little Goes a Long Way; Steve Bergsman: All I Want is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of the 1950s: AI adventures in reviewing Valerie Carter and the Faragher Brothers: "Never Get Your Love Behind Me": Chat GPT and  Gemini

Ted Gioia: My 60 Favorite Nonesuch Albums (in three parts); Part 2 (in part!); Part 3 (in part!)

Jerry House: Hymn Time

James Kaplan: From 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool (via Ted Gioia)

Jackie Kashian: Ian Lockwood on recent/current Pop Icons 

George Kelley: Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark; Rosanne Cash: The Wheel; Girl from the North Country: The Musical; Rock Steady 1971 (a Starbucks album); Daryl Hall and John Oates: Our Kind of Soul; 25 Best Hits of the 1960s [sic]; Oldies but Goodies V. 5 (CD version); Best of the Bubble Gum Years [sic]

Tom Kraemer: John Hall & al.: "Power"

K. A. Laity: "House Music"

Barry N. Malzberg: Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti; Bruckner: Symphony No. 6: Frankfort Radio Symphony conducted by Christoph Eschenbach

Todd Mason: 1959 Jazz Albums and the '59 Grammys

Charles Mingus, Abbey Lincoln &...

Thelonious Monk: Rewind and Play (link for beyond US)

Natasha Padilla: Mary Timoney: "Don't Disappear"; Saxsquatch

Wesley Paich: The Kiffness: "Numnum Cat"

James Reasoner:  Antii Martikainen: "Saloon Showdown"

Charlie Ricci: Creedence Clearwater Revival: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"; Brinsley Schwarz: Thinking Back: The Anthology 1970-1975; The Saw Doctors and Petula Clark: "Downtown"; J. D. McPherson: Signs and Signifiers; Muireann Bradley: I Kept These Old Blues; People!: I Love You; Billy Joel: Turn the Lights Back On; Arthur Alexander: Lonely Just Like Me; Spacehog: "In the Meantime"; The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen

Melanie Safka and Johnny Cash: "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"

Richard Williams: Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

Saturday Music Club: "I Need You"

 The Kinks:

The Who: 

The Beatles: 

The Impressions:

Elmore James:

Jon Batiste:

Eric Legnini and the Afro Jazz Beat featuring Krystle Warren: 

yaeow:

Jelly Roll:

Lynyrd Skynyrd:

The Ascots (covering the Kinks):

Western Music: Saturday Music Club on Thursday

Ennio Morricone: Per Qualche Dollaro in Piu (For a Few Dollars More)(live performance, with a few flubs)

Per Qualche Dollaro in Piu original recordings

Gustav Holst: "Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity" from The Planets

(inspiration for no few Hollywood western themes)

Jerome Moross: The Big Country

Joseph Horowitz: "Composing the American Frontier" (NPR article/playlist) includes performances of 

Virgil Thomson: The Plow that Broke the Plains (excerpt)

Aaron Copland: "Billy the Kid" (excerpt)

Antonin Dvorak: "Suite in A"  (excerpt)

Roy Harris: "Symphony No. 3" (excerpt)

Arthur Farwell: "Navajo Dance No.2"

immediately after each, an NPR news report will begin, jarringly

Leigh Harline: Warlock

Aaron Copland: Rodeo

Hot Rize: "Western Skies"

Hot Rize as Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers

The Texas Playboys and Asleep at the Wheel:

Mary Youngblood: "Hearts Desire"

The Modern Folk Quartet: "Ox Driver"

Odetta: 900 Miles

Johnny Cash: "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"

John Carroll and the Marx Bros.: "Riding the Range"

Some of my favorite rock/related music videos: Saturday Music Club

Jawbox: "Savory"

Fanny: "Place in the Country"

The Breeders: "Safari"

The Roots w/Erykah Badu: "You Got Me"

Miriam Makeba: "Mbube"

The Bangles: "The Real World" and "Want  You"

Thievery Corporation: "The Richest Man in Babylon"

Miriam Makeba: "Into Yam"

The Ex: "Soon All Cities"

FLiP: "Karto Niago" (or "Kāto Niago")

The Go! Team (with Bethany Consentino and Angèle David-Guillou): "Rolling Blackouts"

Light in Babylon: "Hinech Yafa"

Newish Sounds in Third Stream* and Related Music: [*Jazz and Classical Traditions]: Saturday Music Club on Tuesday

Camila Meza and the Nectar Orchestra: 

This concert was recorded on March 26th, 2019 at a private loft in Brooklyn, N.Y. SET LIST 0:10 - "Kallfu" 6:01 - "All Your Colors" 12:23 - "Milagres Dos Peixes" 18:41 - "Olha Maria" 24:24 - "This Is Not America" 30:01 - "Ámbar" MUSICIANS Camila Meza (guitar, voice) Eden Ladin (keyboard, piano) Noam Weisenberg (bass) Keita Ogawa (drums, percussion) Ludovica Burtone (violin) Tomoko Omura (violin) Leonor Falcon (viola) Brian Sanders (cello)

Catharsis: "Sister"; "Gallop"; "Zone"


Beast: "Satan"


Matthew Shipp, Mat Maneri, & Michael Bisio: Exploring and Performing Third Stream Music, Pt. 1


Laura Jurd Ensemble: Stepping Back, Jumping In

BandCamp page for the album--free access to selected tracks

Dinosaur: rooftop concert in Holland

playlist:
"Shine Your Light" "Forgive, Forget" "Old Times’ Sake" "Swimming"
All compositions by Laura Jurd. Laura Jurd – trumpet, synthesizer, Elliot Galvin – synthesizers, Conor Chaplin – bass; Corrie Dick – drums

Maureen Choi Quartet: "Ida y Vuelta"


Maria Schneider and Ensemble Denada at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 13 July 2018


And a ringer:
George Russell and the Big Bang Band of 1967

1: from The New York, New York suite: "Manhattan Rico" 2: (10:19:07:00): "Oh, Jazz"
Poster of the video notes: "from 29:00 the audio has disappeared, no thanks to a certain tube." Here's the missing audio/replacement footage:

George Russell, conductor, piano
Woodwinds: Christer Boustedt, Claes Rosendahl, Bernt Rosengren, Jan Garbarek Trombone: Rune Ericsson, George Bernard, Folke Rabe Trumpets: Lasse Samuelsson, Rolf Ericsson, Bertil Lövgren, Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay Congas:
Rupert Clemendore Rhythm: Carl-Axel Dominique, piano Rune Gustafsson, guitar Palle Danielsson, bass Jon Christensen, drums

Getting Around: Saturday Music Club on Wednesday: mostly jazz and classical

Nellie McKay, Helen and Nick Forster, the eTones: "Unknown Reggae"


Cleo Brown: "Boogie Woogie"


Carmen McRae, Dave Brubeck, Randy Jones, Chris Brubeck: "New York State of Mind"


Max Roach, Tyrone Brown, Cecil Bridgewater, Odean Pope: "Perdido"  (in East Berlin, 1984)


The Gene Krupa Orchestra (arrangement by Gerry Mulligan): "How High the Moon"


Teo Macero, Charles Mingus, Orlando di Girolamo, Ed Shaughnessy: "How Low the Earth"


Chamber Orchestra of Europe: Alfred Schnittke: "Concerto Grosso No. 1"


The Playground Ensemble: Henryk Gorecki: "Quasi una Fantasia" String Quartet no. 2, Op. 64


Steffen Schleiermacher: Henry Cowell: "Three Irish Legends"


Ennio Morricone Orchestra: "Per Qualche Dollari In Piu" (3rd Cue)

Some more women musicians, with and without some men (who explain later): Saturday Music Club in Mountain Time

A Tribe Called Red and Northern Voice: "Sisters"


Fanny: "Summer Song"


Strawberry Parfait: "Bulldog", "The Fugitive" and "The House of the Rising Sun"


Samantha Fish Band: "Cowtown"; "Need You More"; "Don't Say You Love Me"; "Daughters"; "American Dream"


Rising Appalachia: "Swoon"


Carion: "Six Bagatelles" (composer: Györgi Ligeti)


Barbara Hannigan and the Gothenburg Symphony Chamber Orchestra: "Mysteries of the Macabre" (composer: Györgi Ligeti; arrangement: Elgar Howarth)

1991 composition or, at least, arrangement: "Mysteries of the Macabre" is an arrangement by Elgar Howarth of the 3 arias sung by the Gepopo character in György Ligeti’s opera, Le Grand Macabre (1974-77).

The Maria Schneider Orchestra: "Choro Dancado"


The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: "She's Crazy with the Heat"; "That Man of Mine"; "Jump Children"; unidentified instrumental piece; "How About That Jive"; "I Left My Man"; unidentified instrumental excerpt; "Don't Get It Twisted"; "Just the Thing"


The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: "Lady Be Good"


Jelly Roll Morton: "Improving Spanish Tempos/Creepy Feelings" (Library of Congress Recordings)


Maria Schneider at the Library of Congress


Ian MacKaye at the Library of Congress

Dorothy Disney, a pioneering marriage advice columnist as at least one obit claims (notably for THE LADIES HOME JOURNAL's "Can This Marriage Be Saved?"), was Ian MacKaye's grandmother. Fun fact revealed here (at least new to me).

Chris Hillman at the Library of Congress


Fanny: "Hey, Bulldog" (live in Philadelphia, 1973)


The Beatles: "Hey, Bulldog"

Happy belated birthday, Richard Starkey...

Saturday Music Club: mostly jazz, a lot of keyboards, some singing...

Teo Macero and the Prestige Jazz Quartet: "Just Spring"

Randy Weston: "African Village/Bedford Stuyvesant"

Blossom Dearie Trio and Quartet: "I Wish You Love"; "Bag's Groove" 


Aretha Franklin Band: "Won't Be Long"


Toshiko Akiyoshi: "The Village"


Toshiko Akiyoshi 2007 interview:

from the same interview: on being a Japanese jazz artist

Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra: "Drum Conference"


Thelonious Monk: "Don't Blame Me"


Lenny Bruce's tv series pilot The World of Lenny Bruce 

Underappreciated Music: February/March/April 2018: more links to reviews, performance and more:

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


In honor of my father, 81 years old this past Friday.


Dave Brubeck/Gene Wright/Joe Morello: "Blues for Joe"
The first drum solo is good, but the second one is brilliant.


Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Paul D. Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Jim Cameron: Rahsaan Roland Kirk: We Free Kings; Sonny Rollins and Rahsaan Roland Kirk and co.: "Work Song"; H. P. Lovecraft the band: H. P. Lovecraft; Sal Nistico et al.: Heavyweights

Sean Coleman: Bee Gees: 1st; Denny Laine Band in concert

Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s;  Neil Young and the Santa Monica Flyers: Roxy: Tonight's the Night Live; music historian John Einarson;  Neil Young, 1973: Part 1; Part 2; Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John; Lucy Rose in concert; Courtney Marie Andrews in concert; Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain; Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band: Against the Wind; The Staves: Pine Hollow; The Jam: Snap!; Melody Gardot: Live in Europe

Lee Hartsfield: Teen-age Favorites (1963 knockoff collection LP)

Keiko Hassler: Luke Bryan: "Most People are Good"


Jerry House: Ma Rainey; Antecedents of Rock'n'Roll (1920s/30s); Clark Kessinger (and Ennio Morricone and John Barry); Hymn Time; Music from the Past

George Kelley: 10 '80's Hits; BBMak: Sooner or Later; Maureen McGovern: Baby, I'm Yours

Kate Laity: Song for a Saturday

B.V. Lawson: The Duke Ellington Orchestra; The Count Basie Orchestra: Oscar Peterson: "Take the A Train"

Steve Lewis: Music I'm Listening To

Barry Malzberg: Ulster Symphony: Symphony N. 2: "Elegiac" (Charles Villiers Stanford)(playlist link) and...

London Philharmonic Orchestra featuring Yvonne Minton: Sea Pictures (Op. 37) (Edward Elgar)


Todd Mason: new wine in new bottles; some surf music

Laura Nakatsuka: Stile Antico: "Ave Maria"; "Gaudete in Domino" and

Jean Rondeau: "Vertigo" (Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Roye)


Becky O'Brien: Hans Zimmer: Gladiator score

Andrew Orley: There Are No Words, An A-Z of Instrumentals.

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Charlie Ricci: editing The Beatles (White Album); Accuradio; Gulch Radio; Andrew Sheppard: Steady Your Aim; Nicole Atkins: Goodnight Rhonda Lee; Dion: New York is My Home; Jackson Browne and Los Cezontles: "The Dreamer"; Will Hodgson: Southpaw; Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life