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"

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)

Underappreciated Music: January 2018

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

Patti Abbott: Louis Prima and Keely Smith: "Just a Gigolo"; "I Ain't Got Nobody"

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Paul D. Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Jim Cameron: Pete (La Roca) Sims: Turkish Women at the Bath

Sean Coleman: Gordon Lightfoot: Old Dan's Records; Men at Work: Cargo; Stealers Wheel: Stealers Wheel

Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s; Diane Birch: "The End";  Albums of the Year: 1978-2017; First Aid Kit: Ruins; Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain; Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel

Jerry House: Theodore Bikel; Hymn Time; Music from the Past

George Kelley: Growing Up Too Fast: The Girl Group Anthology; Barb Jungr: Every Grain of Sand: Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan

Kate Laity: Song for a Saturday; Mark E. Smith/The Fall

Evan Lewis: Louie Fest 2003

Marc Maron: Rita Moreno; Don Was

Todd Mason: Some Sounds of DC; Some More Sounds of DC; Some Further Sounds of DC

Laura Nakatsuka: Blue Heron: "Ecce, quod natura"


Becky O'Brien: Maurice Jarre: Lawrence of Arabia: Henry Mancini: Breakfast at Tiffany's;  from The Sword in the Stone: "A Most Befuddling Thing"

Andrew Orley: Mark E. Smith

Dave Pell's Jazz Octet: A Pell of a Time (RCA 1957)

• • Baritone Saxophone – Pepper Adams
  • Bass – Tom Kelly
  • Coordinator – Shorty Rogers
  • Drums – Mel Lewis
  • Guitar – Tommy Tedesco
  • Piano – Marty Paich, Paul Moer (tracks: 2, 5, 7)
  • Tenor Saxophone, Leader – Dave Pell
  • Trombone – Bobby Burgess*, Ray Sims (tracks: 2, 5, 7)
  • Trumpet – Jack Sheldon

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Charlie Ricci: Brubeck Quartet/Tony Bennett Combo: The White House Sessions, Live 1962

Prashant Trikannad: Chandrashekhar Phanse, Joslyn Braganza +: "Come September"

Underappreciated Music, the links to the sounds and the words about them, October/November 2017 updated

Rest in Glory: Jon Hendricks, 1921-2017

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



Patti Abbott: Nightly Music

Brian Arnold: The Boston Pops: Christmas Festival; Holiday Music and more; Hallowe'en music and more One; Two; Three

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Paul D. Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Jim Cameron: Booker Ervin: Tex Book Tenor 

Alice Chang: Hiroyuki Sawano: "Sylvalum (night)"


Sean Coleman: Pretenders II 

David Cramner: The Flaming Lips: "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"

Bill Crider: Song of the Day; Forgotten Hits; Link Wray and His WrayMen: "Rumble"

Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s; Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: I Love Rock'n'Roll; Janet Jackson in concert, 1990; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in concert, 1990;
Olivia Newton-John: Totally Hot; Juliana Hatfield in concert, 2017; Paul Weller in concert, 2017

Jerry House: Big Mama Thornton; Hymn Time; Music from the Past; Jim Kweskin and His Jug Band
Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, et al.: "Hound Dog"/"Down Home Shakedown"


Jackie Kashian: Ryan Conner on Smashing Pumpkins

George Kelley: Greatest Hits of the '70s; The Bodyguard: The Musical; La Bouche: Sweet Dreams

Kate Laity: Song for a Saturday

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: "Moanin'"

Jon Hendricks and Company: "In Walked Bud"

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and Joe Willisms: "Everyday I Have the Blues"


Evan Lewis: Shary Richards & co.: The Sounds of the Silly Surfers/The Sounds of the Weird-Ohs

Marc Maron: Kim Deal

Anna-Claire M: Aural Image #42 (a Spotify playlist)

Todd Mason: spirits; a Whole Lot of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (and Bavan)

Joe Megalos notes: Sun Ra on BandCamp

Becky O'Brien: Moana S/T: "There You Are"; The Walking Dead S/T; Stranger Things season 2 S/T; American Made S/T; Flatliners (2017) S/T 

Andrew Orley: Nobody's Listening

Dizzy Gillespie's centenary year: 2017: To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life (1990)


Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Charlie Ricci: The Gospel Whiskey Runners: Hold On; Dan Auerbach: Waiting on a Song

Tom Reney: George Avakian: 1919-2017

W. Royal Stokes: Best Jazz CDs of 2016 

Music inspired by the work of Robert Bloch (and some adaptations): Saturday Music Club on Sunday of Bloch centennial week

Bernard Herrmann: Psycho suite


Peter Rugolo Orchestra: Thriller: "The Hungry Glass"


Jerry Goldsmith: Thriller: "The Grim Reaper"


Oliver Nelson: Night Gallery: "Logoda's Heads"


Molle Mystery Theater: "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" (hosted by Peter Lorre)


Thriller: "The Cheaters"


Thriller: "The Devil's Ticket"


Torture Garden (despite the stolen, irrelevant title, the first and best of the several Amicus anthology films shot from Bloch's adaptations, more fiddled with by producers later on, of his own short stories)

Big Jazz Bands Writ Large: Saturday Music Club

Carla Bley/Michael Mantler Orchestra: Escalator Over the Hill


Anthony Braxton Orchestra: Creative Orchestra Music 1976


Gunther Schuller Orchestra: Jazz Abstractions


Thelonious Monk Big Band and Quartet: In Concert (Columbia)


Charles Mingus Quartet and Toshiyuki Miyama's New Herd Orchestra: 
Charles Mingus with Orchestra (Denon. 1971)


Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band: "Sumie"


Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra: The New Continent


David Amram Orchestra: The Young Savages

The soundtrack composers in the NIGHT GALLERY: Saturday Music Club submitted for your approval on Sunday

Night Gallery was a disappointing television series, to say the least, even given the occasional excellences in individual episodes (they had the wit to adapt Fritz Leiber stories, but never very well; oddly, they did some of the best dramatization of Lovecraft we've seen). But in one regard, it was a pretty remarkable assembly, even for its time...check the soundtrack composers list from IMDb:

Series Music by  
Eddie Sauter ... (17 episodes, 1971-1973) 

Paul Glass ... (11 episodes, 1971-1972) 


Oliver Nelson ... (7 episodes, 1971-1972) 


Robert Prince ... (5 episodes, 1970-1971) 


Gil Melle ... (4 episodes, 1971-1972) 


Robert Bain ... (2 episodes, 1971-1972) 


John Lewis ... (2 episodes, 1971-1972) 


Billy Goldenberg ... (1 episode, 1969)


Benny Carter ... (1 episode, 1971)


Lalo Schifrin ... (1 episode, 1972)


Frank Skinner ... (1 episode, 1972)

Saturday Music Club on Thursday: mostly 1960s televised music of various sorts...

Opening themes to a variety of 1960s US series (including documentary series). Interesting the degree to which big-band-flavored jazz arrangements were meant to indicate modernity, and not solely though of course usually in scoring crime-drama. Westerns more likely to emulate Ferde Grofe when not Holst or Copland. This particular episode of Bus Stop got the series into trouble, adapting as it did a Tom Wicker crime novel, and criticized in Congressional hearings as an example of excessive violence--see the first Kovacs segment, below (Stephen King selected another episode, Robert Bloch's script from his own short story, "I Kiss Your Shadow," as the single most effective work of television horror drama he'd seen).


Dusty, Dusty Springfield's BBC half-hour series.


And a French & Saunders (Brit comedians/comic actors, best-known in the States for, respectively, The Vicar of Dibley and Absolutely Fabulous)-hosted interview with/biodoc about Springfield.


From Stephen Sondheim's score for the ABC Stage '67 adaptation of John Collier's "Evening Primrose": "I Remember" performed by Charmian Carr:


Frankly Jazz, a local series in Los Angeles that ran 1962-63, and drew heavily on the artists signed to Richard Bock's World Pacific label.


A freshet mostly from the late series for Ernie Kovacs, Kovacs Corner (ABC):
Among other things, a bit of a parody of NBC Radio's Monitor and their purring weather-reporter "Miss Monitor"...(a Benny Carter composition from the Count Basie Orchestra recording Kansas City Suite plays behind her):


Kovacs musical animation:


Segments featuring Yma Sumac and mockery of Disney, a partner of ABC but not yet its owner, in the earliest 1960s (and this series was on NBC, anyway...):


Married couple Kovacs and Edie Adams, doing her fine impression of Monroe, and singing more Disney parody...