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)

Saturday Music Club: Some rock albums from the summer of 1966

Among the notable aspects here...nearly all of these allow, if one pops out the links to watch/listen to them at YT, track selection.

Also notable, perhaps, is that these key albums of the Byrds' and Beatles' careers are also their jazziest albums...for the Byrds, not solely "Eight Miles High" and "I See You" but even "Hey, Joe" feature heavily jazz (most obviously John Coltrane)-influenced guitar riffs on McGuinn's part, and McCartney reaches toward pop jazz in "Good Day Sunshine," "For No One" and particularly "Got to Get You into My Life," and while the tape loops and other experimentation running through "Tomorrow Never Knows" owes more to post-serial electronic music innovators in the classical world, that and some of the other Lennon songs (and Harrison's playing around with Indian classical influence) all have a certain free jazz flavor to them (not quite the MC5, but along the path).  Perhaps some of my fondness for these stems from the Wailers being essentially still a ska band, moving toward the creation of reggae, and that the Animals, the Stones, and of course the Yardbirds, while growing more adventurous, were still not quite ready to shed their partial identities as blues bands...

The Wailers: The Wailing Wailers (issued at the end of 1965 in Jamaica, but of uncertain date and availability in the US and elsewhere...leading off with special pleading)


The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (released May 1966)


The Rolling Stones: Aftermath (released in the US June 1966; UK April 1966)


The Animals: Animalisms (released June 1966)


The Yardbirds: Roger the Engineer (aka Over Under Sideways Down) (released July 1966)


The Byrds: Fifth Dimension (released July 1966)


The Beatles: Revolver (released August 1966)


Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane Takes Off (released August 1966)


The Mothers of Invention: Freak Out (official release July 1966; this an alternately sequenced and produced album released as bootleg)