Tune of the Day


"Blue Rondo a la Turk"  on the Two Generations of Brubeck album.  Wow.

There are many fine versions of this tune, but this one gets me dancing, clapping, fist-pounding, whatever, every time....and it's not easy to dance in, what, 9/8?  I love tunes that grow, build, develop, and move through changes.  This one just picks me up and takes me right along with it.  Great melding of jazz and rock idioms, too.  It's fun to imagine Dave Brubeck setting the groove and then sitting back to hear where his kids and their friends take it. 

You can continue exploring Dave and the kids on Two Generations of Brubeck, "The Great Spirit Made Us All".  And Chris Brubeck's rock/jazz band Sky King on "Secret Sauce".

For extra credit, give a "spin" to Chase, "Bochawa" from their last album, Pure Music.

Anyway, that's my two cents today.




77jovian

I could nominate any number of songs on the album to which I am currently listening, Buddy Miller’s Your Love And Other Lies. At the moment "Watching Amy Dance" is playing, so I’ll go with it. Fanf*ckingtastic! A great song, superior musicianship and singing, good recorded sound quality.

A few tracks later is a duet between Buddy and his wife/collaborator Julie, "You’re Running Wild". Buddy and Gurf Morlix on guitars, Al Perkins on steel, Tammy Rogers on mandolin, Don Heffington (Lone Justice) drumming.

Music this good (and dogs ;-) makes living in this miserable world tolerable. To me this is not, as I have here read some say, a hobby, but rather a life raft.