WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[elwoodblue]

Anoushka Shankar in France
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a1zU0yxk6c

[David Houck]

Whoops; sorry folks.  I've been focused on some non-music things and have slacked off on my practicing and listening.  But I'm back to practicing every day, and spent a good bit of time a few nights ago listening to Chopin.
 
Brian; thanks for that wonderful account of Ungud!  I did find Krasnoyarsk on the map.
 
I've probably posted this one before, but here's a wonderful performance of my favorite Chopin piece, Fantasie Impromptu, played by Valentina Igoshina.  It's just an amazing piece of music.
 
I have some catching up to do.

[David Houck]

Peter, I just watched the Strength In Numbers video (well, I did skip through the vintage static).  That was wonderful!  The duet between Bela Fleck and Edgar Myer was pretty special; the things that Myer can do on bass are amazing.  But the whole concert was wonderful.  Great band!  Thanks for that!

[David Houck]

Peter; I kinda disagree.  Let Me Sing Your Blues Away has a pretty cool chord progression and movement.  Here it is by Jazz Is Dead; listening to this makes me think it would be really fun to play.
 
However, the Dead apparently only played it live six or seven times; so I'm guessing they weren't all that taken with it either.

[StephenR]

I really like Let Me Sing Your Blues Away but unfortunately have only gotten to play it live once. Agree about the chord progression. I don't think the Dead played it much because Keith sang lead, it requires all the vocal harmony parts to sound good and there is a horn solo on the recording. To my ears there is really something special about Wake of the Flood and fall of 73 GD in general.

[StephenR]

Absolutely loving the new Terry Adams CD Talk Thelonious which as the title implies is Terry's arrangements of classic Thelonious Monk songs performed by NRBQ plus assorted guests. Some of the most unique, heartfelt and successful interpretations of Monk tunes ever recorded. Who else would have ever thought to have pedal steel on Straight No Chaser? Superb record and recording most of it performed live.
 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCojHA1wdcYu5ckKCC2P-yjWE1TN4ml7

[David Houck]

John; that's a very nice, and very different, arrangement of Safety Dance.  Had never heard of the band.

[lbpesq]

The first song I ever learned to play was actually two old folk songs:  Deep Blue Sea and Oh Mary, Don't you Weep.  The first cool song I learned was Mr. Tambourine Man.  I was 11 or 12 in summer camp.  A counselor taught the song to me and one of my bunk mates.  The two of us stayed up to the wee hours of the morning playing it over and over and over again.
 
As for bad Dead tunes, IMHO, Money, Money, France, and Antwerp's Placebo can give Let Me Sing Your Blues Away some serious competition.
 
Bill, tgo

[David Houck]

Just watched the Little Feat concert that Ed Z linked.  Great band!  And it's great to see them essentially playing Waiting For Columbus.

[David Houck]

I got confused there for a moment; I thought Wolf was saying that the first song he learned to play was Mozart's Sonata for violin and piano in G major.
 
My vague recollection of a first song is Pipeline, in 1964.  Very vague recollection.

[pauldo]

Smoke On The Water.
 
Got my first bass for Christmas when I was 15; my grandfather was there - he was a well rounded musician, huge Eubie Blake fan he would drive my grandmother nuts banging out ragtime songs.  He also played ukulele and harmonica.  I unwrapped the bass, fumbled around and found the notes for Smoke.  I think he was pleased.
 
I now am the caretaker of his old upright piano, cigarette burn on the bench.  I need to learn how to play some ragtime on it in his honor . . .

[elwoodblue]

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun was always good for extended jams as a teen.
...Love me some good phrygian

[cozmik_cowboy]

Dave: My argument with LMSYBA is the singing &, especially, the lyrics. You're right on the Jazz is Dead version; very nice.
 
Bill:  OK, point taken.  Those do, indeed, drink through a straw with great force.
 
It being Saturday, I spent my workday with NPR; Car Talk, Wait Wait, This American Life, 2 local shows (Sound Opinions, with the rock critics from the Tribune & Sun-Times [bozos both] and Saturday Blues).  When I got home, for Her sake (not that I minded) the James Taylor channel on Pandora.
 
Now I think I'll ease myself to sleep with a little Paul Horn Inside The Taj Majal
 
Peter

[sonicus]

Dave my friend , I am paying atention ! I only wish that I had that kind of talent at the age of eight !  Most likely on the piano at eight I was playing just scales .  The scales however were building blocks for my future musical evolution !   The ultimate publication of the such would be the  Thesaurus of Scales And  Melodic Patterns By Nicolas Slonimsky     This was publication that John Coltrane  and JACO used and learned to jam better  with. _ I love scales & modes ! It is  Jam band material ______ ... ... ... ...  
 
Wolf

[sonicus]

Vincenzo  Maurogiovanni   ----SIX STRING Bass master !  
 
  Check out his hand technique !    This guy is amazing  
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https://www.youtube.com/user/viz76/videos
 
 
  Wolf