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"

Some singers, mostly the songs of others (some more covers): Saturday Music Club on Sunday

Miriam Makeba: "Come to Glory"


Fontella Bass: "Talking About Freedom"

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: "Jackie"


Monday Michiru: "Zanzibar"


Olivia Ong: "Ain't No Sunshine"


Melody Gardot: "Ain't No Sunshine"


Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings: "Your Long Journey"


Boa: "Duvet"


The Go! Team: "Catch Me on the Rebound"


The Go! Team: "Grip Like a Vice"

reBeatling: Saturday Music Club

More covers.

Please also see:
Some Beatling
Skinning the Ticket
Some Cover Versions
Acoustic, with a Beatles outbreak



An RAI (Italian television) documentary segment on Apple Corp. from 1968





Miriam Makeba: "In My Life" 

The Pretenders: "In My Life"

The B-52s: "Paperback Writer" (courtesy Eric Gary Anderson)


Blues Beatles: "Ticket to Ride"

"Yesterday"

The Paragons and Rosalyn Sweat: "Blackbird"


Alison Kraus: "I Will"


Roseanne Cash "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"
 

Johnny Cash: "In My Life"

Brasil '66: "Day Tripper"

Wes Montgomery: "A Day in the Life"
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade: "Eight Days a Week"

The Mamas and the Papas: "I Call Your Name"


The Beach Boys (& Co.): "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"


The Who: "I Saw Her Standing There"

Pat Benatar: "Helter Skelter"

Jackie Lomax, Eric Clapton, Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney: "Sour Milk Sea"

Dirty Mac: John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell (introduced by Mick Jagger): "Yer Blues"

Saturday Music Club: further afield...

Light in Babylon: "Hinech Yafa"

Studio version/promo video

Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra: "Shalom Alechem"


Mahotella Queens: "Umculo Khawupheli"


Rai No Ris, live in Khatmandu, Nepal 2012


The Floorbirds: "Moonshiner"


Cuarteto Zupay: "Jacinto Chiclana" (lyrics by Jorge Luis Borges, music by Astor Piazzolla)

Saturday Music Club: yearning/journeys

Dengue Fever: "Tiger Phone Card"


Maggie and Terre Roche: "Telephone Bill"


Paula Frazer: "This is a Song"


Stephanie Brazil: "Maid on the Shore"


Kami Thompson: "Little Boy Blue"


Stan Rogers Band: "Barrett's Privateers"


Kasey Lansdale Band: "At Last"


Faiport Convention: "Farewell, Farewell"


The Byrds: "Boston"

Saturday Music Club: some music programming on US Public Broadcasting: television

PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service (network, founded 1970):

Austin City Limits: 
"Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys"

"Neko Case"


Soundstage:
"The World of John Hammond" featuring Bob Dylan


From Jump Street:
"Willie Dixon"


Great Performances: 
"Leonard Bernstein"


Blugrass Underground:
"The Civil Wars"


APT, American Public Television (syndicator; previously APS, the American Program Service, and the legatee of EEN, the Eastern Educational Network, founded 1961)

Sessions at West 54th:
"Joe Jackson"

Joe Jackson - Sessions at West 54th (1997) by DemonPreyer
"Diana Krall"

"Sonic Youth"


Music Voyager:
"Israel: Voices from the Desert"


Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis:
"Showcase: Season 1"



NETA, the National Educational Telecommunications Association (syndicator; previously SECA, founded 1967)

Jubilee:
"Sierra Hull and Highway 111"


Backstage Pass:
"Orquesta Ritmo"



MHz Worldview (network, evolving essentially in 2001 out of Northern Virginia Educational Television)

BB's Presents: The Best of the Blues:
"Michael Burks"


NET, National Educational Television (network, founded 1952)

Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger
"Mimi and Richard Fariña"

"June Carter and Johnny Cash"

Saturday Music Club: more newer schools of jazz and jazz-offshoot

Chamber jazz:
Chico Hamilton Quintet: "Blue Sands"


The Jazz Abstractions Band: "Variants on a Theme by Thelonious Monk (Criss Cross)"


Jan Garbarek Quartet: "Molde Canticle"


New acoustic/"New Age":
Paul Winter Consort: "Icarus"


Dave Grisman Quartet (with the Tonight Show Band): "Dawg Jazz"


Steve Tibbetts, Marc Anderson, Ani Choying Dolma:


Jazz into "world music":
Gabor Szabo: "Bacchanal"


Return to Forever: "Light as a Feather"


Randy Weston et al.: "African Rhythms"


Jazz dance:
Chico Hamilton: "Conquistadores"


Elvin Jones/Richard Davis Band: "Raunchy Rita"


Charles Mingus Band: "Ysabel's Table Dance"


The Modern Jazz Quartet: "The Jasmine Tree"

 Brubeck Quartet: "Three's a Crowd":

And just because:
Toshiko Akiyoshi and John Lewis: "Willow Weep for Me"


Dave Grisman Quintet: "Dawg's Rag"

Saturday Music Club on Sunday: David Amram

www.davidamram.com

To note that David Amram is a protean talent is to beggar his achievement...an innovator, gifted composer, performer and educator in nearly every field of music he's turned his hand to, he also has performed with similarly gifted revolutionaries within those varying traditions, and this is a very thin sliver of even what's poachable on web video, much less all he's recorded and seen others record.  He's also almost too generous with his time and praise of those who hope to further recognition of his work, as when he wrote in to comment here on a previous post about third-stream soundtrack writing. (I, as I've noted here before as well, was in the audience for the performance below with Dizzy Gillespie and a band of young lions, and was almost as blown away when Amram wrote his comment as I was to meet the man face to face at the reception after that first Thelonious Monk Memorial Concert in DC in 1987.)

Other Amram posts: Third Stream album reissues
Soundtracks: Third Stream


American Routes is a PRI, not an NPR. radio series.

Saturday Music Club: some new schools of jazz (and jazz-derived music) since ca. 1960

*Free jazz:
Cecil Taylor with Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles: Bemsha Swing

(proto-free...you can hear fj sprouts emerging in this Thelonious Monk tribute, on Taylor's first album from 1955)

Cecil Taylor and the Art Ensemble of Chicago:


Air: Weeping Willow Rag


Jeanne Lee band: Sundance


Oregon: Beneath an Evening Sky


Anthony Braxton (with Buell Neidlinger, Mal Waldron and Bill Osborne): Brilliant Corners

(back to Monk; recorded 1987)

*Fusion
The Sun Ra Arkestra and the Blues Project: Batman

WFMU's Beware the Blog post on the 1966 album this is from

Gary Burton Quartet: Ballet


The Byrds: Eight Miles High


Gil Evans Orchestra: Crosstown Traffic


Gil Scott-Heron: Lady Day and John Coltrane


Mahavishnu Orchestra: Resolution


*Acid jazz, Go-go, Ska and such
The Skatalites: Skalloween


Miriam Makeba: Mas Que Nada

the original recording, before Brasil '66, by Jorge Ben Jor 

The Brand New Heavies: What Do You Take Me For?


Incognito: Always There; Nights Over Egypt


Monday Michiru: Will You Love Me Tomorrow?


Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers: Moody's Mood for Love



Of possible related interest:
Saturday Music Club: Early/Mid '80s Jazz-Pop Resurgence
McCoy Tyner and others
Some (latter-day, mostly) jazz big bands

Saturday Music Club: Angelique Kidjo (w/Alicia Keys), Bangles, Blonde Redhead, 8.5 Souvenirs, The Ex, Jane Wiedlin & Billy Zoom, Jasmin Tabatabai/DKQ

Angelique Kidjo: Batonga


Jasmin Tabatabai with the David Klein Quartet: After You Killed Me (live)


Angélique Kidjo & Alicia Keys: Djin Djin


Bangles: Between the Two (live)


Jane Wiedlin (with Billy Zoom): Where We Can Go


Dutch punk pioneers The Ex (covering Chumbawamba for their second number, "Heaven/Hell"...middle-aged anarchist punks in Moscow, last year...what could go wrong?):


Blonde Redhead: Doctor Strangeluv (live)


8 1/2 Souvenirs: Minor Swing


Jasmin Tabatabai with the David Klein Quartet: Eine Frau


Angelique Kidjo: Summertime