@slaw the other day you were saying how you thought you could write volumes about how much you loved a band, The Mountain Goats, if I remember right. I was actually thinking something similar about
Quincy Jones
Smackwater Jack
(On again)
How TV and Movie theme songs are somehow as “Americana” as many a contemporary hipster’s folk songs. This record is so sweet, like a confection of its time. Title song by Carole King, Qunicy’s infectious arrangements, Jim Hall, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Sample!, Toots Thielman, Herbert Laws, plenty of Wha Wha pedal and a load of good humor. It’s the sweet sound of youth man and I feel like I could go on and on about it. Feeling part of it.
Not serious Jazz of course - Grey’s Anatomy says ‘this is jazzy - but it’s not Jazz’. She tires of my more angular music pretty easily. It’s commercial, yeah, heck, it’s TV themes. But man it’s sweet.
