Damien Jurado, Silver Timothy.
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.
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.
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@curiousjim, understood...I've always seemed to be an unwilling 'contestant' in the game of "DUCK!", with few 'wins'...unless you count 'impacts' as such.... Lets' see....a car accident when 5, tossed me into the dash (when they were unpadded metal)....brother talked me into riding on the handlebars later on, and stopped suddenly on the concrete driveway....climbing a cinderblock fence, jumped off, and the top decorative block followed me down....flag football in Jr. High, scrimmage had me and a heavier lad did a literal 'head-on'...(I knocked him out cold while I stood listening to the songs of the of the solar system....coach wanted me to try out for the team...."F'NO! That was quite enough, no thanx...")...Had an oak stool broken over my pate during a break-in @ a neighbors (ER intern, doing a 'baseball stitch' on my gash, commented that he'd had a lot of practice, doing such after 'bar brawls'...."Did you lose consciousness?" *sigh* Unfortunately...no...)... And those are just the 'major ones'.... *sigh* If it's low enough...I'm prone to hit it... I feel lucky in the sense that I still have a certain amount of my wits about me... although many ( as well as 'here') would argue against that.... ;) Ah, the Circumcision Game....reminds me of when a Jewish lady friend told me a joke amongst their sect... "Never eat gribenes with a mohel....." I recognized the latter term.....Phyllis defined the previous...
I've never had the 'pleasure'...and will continue to 'take a pass' on that.... ;) |
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