What are we listening to tonight?

Pehare, steve forbert? I love steve forbert! when i was a kid I must have listened to jackrabbit slim on my little turntable enough to wear it out. I have almost all of his cds now. The live ones are fantastic. i've seen him a couple times on stage and he is at his best in concert. if you go to steveforbert.com you can get on the newsletter and to be notified when he's playing near you. i highly recommend checking him out.

Van morrison...I just got a chet baker cd with van morrison singing send in the clowns. really beautiful. morrison and baker...who knew?

Sticking with the thread... I'm listening to Bud Powell right now.

It's midnight in Asheville,NC, and I'm listering to Earl Klug's Naked Guitar, Pat Matheny's One Quiet Night, and Diana Krall's When I Look In Your Eyes...I know, but she sounds great late at night.
John

Gene Harris,'Black and Blue',George Cables Trio,'Letter to Dexter',Ray Brown,'Live at Scullers',Oscar Peterson,'Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson', and for the wife,(sigh)Nat King Cole.

Jean Frye Sidwell's collection including her latest "For All We Know".....very easy jazzy rendition of old favorites

The entire Undertones catalog (making a compilation for a friend):

The Undertones ('78)
Hypnotised ('80)
Positive Touch ('81)
The Sin Of Pride ('83)
All Wrapped Up (collection, '83)
+ some 12" single bonus cuts

A band that went from being hailed as the Irish Ramones (the classic "Teenage Kicks" was the UK punk 'hit'), to neo-psychedelic pop, to new-romantic pop-soul, all in a shorter span of time than most less worthwhile bands take to finish their second video these days. Broke up when distinctive singer Feargal Sharkey left for a brief solo career, songwriting brothers John and Damian O'Neill formed the more poli-crit oriented That Petrol Emotion (which wasn't nearly as much my cuppa, lyrically or musically). Reunited without Sharkey in '03 for a pretty decent new album ("Get What You Need") and a series of shows where they played a lot of their classic material, one of which I was lucky enough to see considering the grand total of only 3 gigs in the States, and were even greater than I'd hoped for.