Now Playing

[Steve Minkin]

Paolo Angeli/ Hamid Drake -- Uotha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku23Rrdv8yY




Floratone (s/t)




Lowell Fulson -- The Tramp Years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwbMNS2dEiw





Oliver Lake Organ Trio/ 4tet -- Makin' It/ Plan




Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys -- The Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 1




Franck -- Symphony in D Minor: Symphonic Variations




Bach -- Violin Partita 2, Sonata 3 (St. John)




Clapton -- Best of




Genesis -- Turn It On Again

[negative potential]

[Steve Minkin]

Duke Ellington -- And His Mother Called Him Bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunMOjEwvGg




Paolo Angeli -- Sale Quanto Basta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHDKys3O_sw




Sergey Kuryokhin -- Some Combinations of Fingers & Passion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG4vh-OazJI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdvp5c8tpF4


and an extended Gershwin binge for the long 4th weekend:

[Steve Minkin]

Evan Parker -- Time Lapse

Threnody for Steve Lacy + Gees Bend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmwKpp-hQB4




Carl Perkins -- The Rockin' Guitar Man

Matchbox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJBOHs- ... e=youtu.be
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WOpD5D ... e=youtu.be




Paolo Angeli -- Bucato




Jared Gold -- Reemergence




Oliver Lake Organ Quartet -- What I Heard




Getz/ Gilbereto

Album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kelai_gaaw4




The Paragons Meet The Jesters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwxNetRttYg




Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 1,2 & 3 (Gilels)/ Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5 / Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Richter)




Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys* ‎– The Tiffany Transcriptions Vol. 2

Right or Wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMGbo1u ... e=youtu.be




v/a -- US Hot 100 3rd Feb. 1959: The Day The Music Died (a loaner from one of my club presidents)

Ambrose, why do we have to walk in the subway tunnels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ_Ubg9V9Xg
Jack Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVr80YpgdRQ

[joseghast]

La Negra Graciana - Sones Jarochos con el Trío Silva

The Roots Of Chicha, Psychedelic Cumbias from Perú

It's funny how I used to not like this stuff and now I find some of it fascinating. I suppose it's what not finding it out as often during one's dayli life does...

[Piano Mouth]

They're playing tonight in Northampton, and am checking them out now on spotify, they don't sound too bad, just not sure if it's something I'd go see live.

Lord Huron, kind of sounds like all the new MGMT/Tame Impala indie, but it's really not that bad. It just sounds like something I've heard too much of recently through other bands. Not sure if I'm going to see them (I figured out that cool events around here only happen about twice a month if that.)

[Steve Minkin]

v/a -- The Roots of Chica: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru

Great find, joseghst! Love it. I've used a modified first cut at my dances this week, and the Beethoven blew my mind.




Graham Lambkin/ Jason Lescalleet -- The Breadwinner




Aine O'Dwyer/ Graham Lambkin -- Green Ways




Laverne Baker -- Soul On Fire

Jim Dandy -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQUUfBQZFgI




Tessuti: Paolo Angeli Plays Frith & Bjork






Myra Melford -- The Image of Your Body/ Snowy Egret/ where the two worlds touch




Don Byas -- Paris Reocrdings




June Tabor -- Apples




Don Gibson -- Country Legends

Sea Of Heartbreak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOaPLY4 ... e=youtu.be

[Steve Minkin]

v/a -- Project W: Works by diverse women composers (Florence Price + contemporary composers)




Steve Kuhn/ Toshiko Akiyoshi -- Country & Western Sound of Jazz Pianos




Kelley/ Block -- Resolution





Carl Maria von Weber







Arthur Alexander

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLAvXOEWCzQ




Introduction to June Tabor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmA859PbHwg




White Album




The Chordettes

[Steve Minkin]

Myra Melford/ Zeena Parkins/ Miya Masaoka -- MZM

Dynamite! Sound palette ranging from SME-inspired 'insect music' to spacious static soundscapes to adventurous forays into unexplored jungles of wonders. Great group! 24- string koto + electric harp + piano and prepared piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fF7gLM-FCU





Jimmie Allen -- Mercury Lane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdemLamwHs







Sun Ra -- Jazz In Silhouette/ The Magic City/ Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy/ Art Form of Dimensions Tomorrow/ The Singles

Great Balls of Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJfUYOUKYns






Beethoven -- Piano Concertos 1-5





Lara Downes -- America Again/ Invitation To The Dance

Lou Harrison -- New York Waltzes, unexpected early career lyricism from Lou Harrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTYa9lXWtik






Sinatra

"You're like a child that cries and no one heeds the crying,/ You're like a falling star that dies and seems to go on dying."

[Steve Minkin]

Djivan Gasparyan -- I Will Not Be Sad In This World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fb114MMpOg








Peter Garland




The Authentic George Gershwin, Vol. 3: 1931-1937 (Jack Gibbons)




Sinatra -- Songs For Swingin' Lovers!




The Essential George Jones -- The Spirit of Country

[Steve Minkin]

Dylan van der Schyff/ Michael Moore -- Definition of a Toy




Sergey Kuryokhin -- Soundtracks: Master Designer/ The Initiated One




Evelyn Petrova -- Year's Cycle





Gesualdo




Cameo Parkway Box





new stuff for the dj playlists

[Piano Mouth]

Mark Kozelek - S/T



Yes! This is the stuff, double LP recorded in a hotel room in San Francisco by Mark himself.

[Steve Minkin]

Pistol Annies (Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angeleena Presley) -- Interstate Gospel

"I picked a good day for a recreational Percocet" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KB3PPdvz_M




Jack Gibbons -- Authentic George Gershwin, volume 4




v/a -- Nuggets of the Golden Age of Gospel





Matt Darriau/Paradox Trio -- Flying at a Slant/ Gambit




Diz and Bird -- Town Hall




Dizzy -- School Days




MJQ -- s/t








Hector Lavoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoHm47gmMFM




Bach -- Orchestral Suites (Marriner)

And a tip o'the hat to KDFC, listener-sponsored classical radio in NorCal, which gets a lot of my listening time although I don't record it.

[Steve Minkin]

Miles Davis -- Rubberband (a very mixed bag, a shelved album from 1985 goosed up with modern effects by the original producers, sometimes to good effect but more often to create an overproduced sound. Vocals by Lalah Hathaway and Ledisi take the parts originally intended for Chaka Khan and Al Jarreau, not crazy about any of the vocal tracks. But there are some dynamite instrumental jazz-funk tracks with some superb playing by Miles -- check out the last three tracks. Not one of the great albums, but some of the best funk Miles ever recorded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xG-nq2yhEM





The Baltimore Consort -- The Food of Love: Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjs7UxoVu_Y





Saint-Saëns: Complete Music for Piano & Orchestra/ Chamber and orchestral pieces for various instruments





Commodores -- Gold

[Steve Minkin]

Phillip Glass/ David Bowie/ Brian Eno -- Heroes & Low Symphonies




Verdi -- Otello (Domingo/ Scotto/ Milnes)




Best of The Baltimore Consort




Luke Combs -- This One's for You Too




The Very Best Of Billy Ward and The Dominoes




The Checkers -- Checkmate-Complete King Recs 1952-1955





Best of King/ Federal/ DeLuxe Doo Wop






Hector LaVoe

[Steve Minkin]

Pauline Oliveros -- Deep Listening/ The Roots of The Moment




Ivory Joe Hunter -- Classics 1947 - 1950

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqk4Kg0JuJ4





Mingus






Red Garland


And a bunch of Rimsky-Korsakov and other Russians

Glinka -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-gtLGjshVA

[Steve Minkin]

Kimmo Hakola -- Clarinet Concerto




John Carter -- Castles of Ghana






Thomas Chapin




Dave Bryant -- The Eternal Hang




Romano/Sclavis/Texier -- Suite Africaine




So Far - The Best Of Sinead O'Connor




Grateful Dead -- American Beauty

Robert Hunter, R.I.P.:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=671AgW9xSiA

[onion]

Steve, how do you pick what records you play on any given day?

[Steve Minkin]

I don't have a system. If I have a long drive to and from a gig, I'll pick music I like to drive to. I listen to all new acquisitions twice (only log the first time here) before shelving it, so a lot of listens are second listens to recently purchased discs which don't show up here. When I file the discs away, I often come across adjacent artists or albums I like but haven't heard in a while (Thomas Chapin above). Some of the selections are as much 'education' as pleasure listening -- since I do a lot of DJing at my dances I try to keep up with the new stuff (like the NOW That's What I Call Music series, which are like the old K-tel collections of hits), new artists that grab me, or old artists I've never really caught up with (just ordered comps of Gene Autry and Eddie Fisher, neither of whom I've been especially into but both of whom dominated their fields for a time, and belong in my collection. Gene Autry came into view because of the Ken Burns country series I'm watching, and Eddie Fisher . . . a song called Dungaree Doll popped into my head the other day, came out in '55 when I was 11, probably haven't thought of it in 60 years . . . took it as a sign to catch up on Fisher, who had 17 top ten hits in the early 50s and was like a god in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn. I have bizarre notion that when I get too old to lead dances, like when I'm 105, I'll turn to radio DJing and will want to have a comprehensive collection.

I go through periods of playing mostly classical, or country, or doo wop . . . currently jazz is my fallback genre. Neglected groupings build up in my mind and then I pull a bunch of albums and listen to them. Recently did that with King label Doo Wop, feel it coming for Mozart piano sonatas and concertos. And there are certain albums and artists -- Bach, Mingus, Kuryokhin, Miles, Sam Cooke, others -- that I need at least a minimum fix of every once in a while.

And sometimes somebody I haven't thought of in a while pops into my head and I have to hear them now -- currently going on for me with ROVA.

And my kids, friends, and dancers are constantly recommending new songs, artists and albums to me, which gets me talking about related music. A dancer recently sent me an e-mail of a new, Mongolian punk/ throat-singing rock group, only so-so but reminded me to revisit Ondar. And a discussion at tonight's dance with a dancer about that Burns' series led to my telling them about Roger Miller's late career Broadway show based on Huckleberry Finn. (Funny story from the series -- interviewer, knowing that Miller was a speed freak, asks his manager how many hours he had been awake at this point, and the manager replies, "I've only been with him a year-and-a-half, before that I can't say."



Ondar -- Back Tuva Future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKkbJlxqcyU





ROVA -- As Was





OBC/ Roger Miller -- Big River

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll1UwsOmLzg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8-bNminjiU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZNwR2maas

[Steve Minkin]

Thomas Ades -- Tevot/ Violin Concerto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mancz_ldzN8




Billy Bang -- Da Bang





ROVA -- Bingo/ Work vol. 3




Norvo/ Farlow/ Mingus -- Move!




Richie Valens -- Rockin' All Night, Very Best of . . .




Van Morrison -- Astral Weeks




Sinatra -- Only The Lonely