Ella and Louis were accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet for this 1956 release and it is primarily a vocal album, and a charming one. Having previously collaborated in the late 1940s for the Decca […]
1001 Other Albums – 9 – The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop – Pithecanthropus Erectus
This early Atlantic session in 1955 was one of the first of the bassist-composer’s workshop styled programmes. He felt that written music could not convey the true music of the composer as musicians would put […]
1001 Other Albums – 8 – Otto Luening / Vladimir Ussachevsky – Tape Recorder Music
I only discovered this album recently and I am simply astounded that it was recorded as far back as 1955. I love strange cut ups such as those one might hear from Prefuse 73 and […]
1001 Other Albums – 7 – Bill Haley & His Comets – Rock Around The Clock
I had originally discounted this album as I wrongly assumed it was included in the 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die book. I’ve no idea why it wasn’t really, although the 50’s isn’t well […]
Return to work
After 4 months working from home I returned to work for a day on Thursday for the first time. My office was empty and it was a peaceful and productive work day. While there I […]
1001 Other Albums – 6 – Sarah Vaughan – Sara Vaughan
This album from Sarah Vaughan is one of those albums where everything is just right, nothing seems out of place and it feels effortlessly crafted. Enhanced by the excellent trumpet playing of Clifford Brown each […]
1001 Other Songs – 5 -Moondog – MoonDog And His Friends
Welcome to the oddness of Alt-folk and the world of Moondog. Louis Thomas Hardin, also known as Moondog, was an American musician, composer, theoretician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. He was blind from […]
1001 Other Albums – 4 – Peggy Lee – Black Coffee
It may seem odd to say it, but Black Coffee by Peggy Lee is a collection of songs that sound exactly as you would expect them to sound, which is exactly as they should sound. […]
1001 Other Albums – 3 – Various Artists – Anthology Of American Folk Music
The Anthology of American Folk Music is a six-album compilation released in 1952 by Folkways Records comprising eighty-four American folk, blues and country music recordings that were originally issued from 1926 to 1933. Experimental film […]
1001 OTHER ALBUMS – 2 – Les Baxter – Ritual Of The Savage
Ritual of the Savage is an album by American composer Les Baxter, released in 1951 often cited as one of the most important exotica albums. The album features lush orchestral arrangements along with tribal rhythms […]
1001 Other Albums – 1 – Yma Sumac – Voice of the Xtabay
So this is probabaly a rather leftfield choice and a difficult album to kick proceedings off with as parts of it sound rather odd 70 years after it’s release, but odd in a rather brilliant […]
Black Pumas – Black Pumas
Over a whatsapp video call, David showed me a new CD he had bought, I nodded politely as though I recognised the band and knew all about them and we moved on to the next […]
33 1/3 Radio – Show 12 – Funk and Soul
At last, what nobody has been waiting for! A new radio show episode!
Manuel Göttsching – Inventions For Electric Guitar
Shortly before Lockdown I saw a copy of ‘Inventions For Electric Guitar’ in my local record store and completely ignored it as, based on the cover, it was probabaly not my thing at all, soI […]
Nashville Skyline Contemporaries
I played my copy of Nashville Skyline by Bob Dylan at the weekend and it had one of those inner sleeves that advertises other albums, that I like. I knew most of the artists on […]
Record Store Day Picks – 1
Due to the global pandemic RSD 2020 was put on hold and re-designed so that instead of a single day there will be three ‘Drops’ over a period of three months begining in August. From […]
The Turing Test (Soundtrack to an Imaginary Film)
Another movie in my head that now has it’s own soundtrack. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/545iiYndSssryyuFi8wgiA?si=munbGhkpQSacvACZN0aiWw
Off Earth (Soundtrack To An Imaginary Film)
I have had an entire movie going around and around in my head today, which is where it should stay as in there it is epic but if I wrote it down it would probably […]
Best Albums of 1967
1967 was probabaly the greatest year ever, mainly because it was the year I came into this world. As a result of being 0 years old I don’t remember any of these at the time […]
Top 40 Joni Mitchell Songs
Quite why I start these almost impossible lists is something I probably need to speak quite earnestly to a therapist about, however, here I am, doing it again. As always it is just my opinion […]
