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Again…Chucho Valdes: Solo Live in New York. If you love solo jazz piano this needs to be on your play list. He did a great album with Chick Correa but I like Live in New York. It’s so Cuban.

So that…plus a little Stephane Grappelli here and there. He does Gershwin so very well.

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So this deserves a post of its own.

Stephane Grappelli. His early stuff with Django Reinhardt is pretty incredible. Anything of him doing classics from Gershwin, Cole Pirter, Jerome Kern…all to be cherished.

Favorite: Stardust. Written by Hoagy Carmichael.

And BTW…watched “To Have and Have Not” starring Bogart and Bacall recently? Hoagy is the piano player in the bar and they have him do one if his really cute numbers. Worth watching!

 
I've been taking naps, when possible, to this channel. There are several others, but I like how this user focuses in a smaller spectrum. If you don't like the Grateful Dead because of the vocals or the country influence or something else, maybe you can find something in the wonderful improvisations. Or, maybe not?

https://www.youtube.com/user/KDF54321/videos
 
So, that Target commercial theme is engrained in my brain, I know I've listened to a bunch of music but can't name a one with that dang theme rummaging about.
 
A friend was complaining about the "woke" stuff in the news and I reminded him of a song from our teenage years, "I'd Love to Change the World" by Ten Years After. A few more texts and I sent the conclusion, "So you are woke." A week ago when the Chinese balloon hit the news along with the earthquake in Turkey and Syria "Eve of Destruction" by Barry Mcguinn came to mind. After each song I let the streaming service choose the music and enjoyed trips down memory lane.
 
Though I've enjoyed punk my entire adult life, The Stranglers are new to me. In my youth, British accents weren't my thing, and the more snotty they got, the less interested I was. The Stranglers aren't snotty or really punk to my ears, but for context, all that early UK punk, and punk adjacent, is new to me. I've been particularly interested in their Black and White album and their Raven album. Their first two are more straight-forward rock.

Born contrary, The Stranglers had begun in 1974 as a prog-jazz-rock hybrid sweating blood on London’s notoriously hard-to-please pub-rock circuit. Burnel was a classically trained guitarist who’d read history at university, before Cornwell got him drunk and persuaded him to become the band’s bassist.

Black owned a fleet of ice-cream vans – one of which became the band’s makeshift tour bus – and was an accomplished jazz musician. Keyboard player Dave Greenfield was a moustachioed, Meerschaum pipesmoking piano tuner with hair down his back who dreamed of playing in Yes. Cornwell was a university graduate in biochemistry, whose first band included future Fairport Convention folk-rock star Richard Thompson.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-stranglers-no-more-heroes
 
Zeno Marx said:
Though I've enjoyed punk my entire adult life, The Stranglers are new to me. In my youth, British accents weren't my thing, and the more snotty they got, the less interested I was. The Stranglers aren't snotty or really punk to my ears, but for context, all that early UK punk, and punk adjacent, is new to me. I've been particularly interested in their Black and White album and their Raven album. Their first two are more straight-forward rock.

Born contrary, The Stranglers had begun in 1974 as a prog-jazz-rock hybrid sweating blood on London’s notoriously hard-to-please pub-rock circuit. Burnel was a classically trained guitarist who’d read history at university, before Cornwell got him drunk and persuaded him to become the band’s bassist.

Black owned a fleet of ice-cream vans – one of which became the band’s makeshift tour bus – and was an accomplished jazz musician. Keyboard player Dave Greenfield was a moustachioed, Meerschaum pipesmoking piano tuner with hair down his back who dreamed of playing in Yes. Cornwell was a university graduate in biochemistry, whose first band included future Fairport Convention folk-rock star Richard Thompson.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-stranglers-no-more-heroes
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I know nothing about Punk.
I grew up with Chuck Berry, Beach Boys, Beatles, Stones, Jefferson Airplane, CS&N, Zepplin, etc...
Though I did spend 10 days on a train traversing Scotland with the drummer from the Clash....Topper Headon.
My wife knew he was, but I had no idea.
We just enjoyed each other's company.
On the third day we were visiting Glamis Castle, family home of the Queen Mother (Elizabeth's mother).
We dropped into town.
He hadn't taken ten steps and the autographed seekers and selfie contingency surrounded us.
I was immediately elbowed to the outer perimeter.

At cocktails that evening I asked, "If you dont mind me asking. You know I'm an archaelogist. What do you do for a living besides sign autographs?"
His response, "I beat on things."
My wife laughed.
I replied, "Apparently, you do it pretty well."
 
Zeno Marx said:
Though I've enjoyed punk my entire adult life, The Stranglers are new to me. In my youth, British accents weren't my thing, and the more snotty they got, the less interested I was. The Stranglers aren't snotty or really punk to my ears, but for context, all that early UK punk, and punk adjacent, is new to me. I've been particularly interested in their Black and White album and their Raven album. Their first two are more straight-forward rock.

Born contrary, The Stranglers had begun in 1974 as a prog-jazz-rock hybrid sweating blood on London’s notoriously hard-to-please pub-rock circuit. Burnel was a classically trained guitarist who’d read history at university, before Cornwell got him drunk and persuaded him to become the band’s bassist.

Black owned a fleet of ice-cream vans – one of which became the band’s makeshift tour bus – and was an accomplished jazz musician. Keyboard player Dave Greenfield was a moustachioed, Meerschaum pipesmoking piano tuner with hair down his back who dreamed of playing in Yes. Cornwell was a university graduate in biochemistry, whose first band included future Fairport Convention folk-rock star Richard Thompson.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-stranglers-no-more-heroes
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I grew up a little punk, loving the music from both sides of the pond. Still haven't outgrown it :) The Stranglers have been touring Australia the last couple of weeks. I didn't bother going to see them. Hugh Cornwell hasn't been with them for years. I did go see them in Sydney last time they came out and Hugh was still with them. Enjoy!
 
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