"Birth of the Cool" is an album that collects the twelve sides recorded by the Miles Davis nonet (featuring Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz and others) for Capitol Records in 1949 and 1950. The music is considered seminal. This blog is dedicated to that spirit -- keeping things "cool" by blog birthing. If you've got somethin' cool to share, blow on.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Daryl Hall & Grace Sewell
This season of Live From Daryl's house wrapped up a few weeks back, but until recently the last few episodes were not available on the web site. Now they are all there, along with a lot of episodes from past seasons. This season had a lot of great moments (more on that in posts to come) but my favorite was Grace Sewell's appearance. This 19 year old Aussie is the real deal. What I particularly enjoy about this episode is how Grace and Daryl and the band become more and more into the mood and music as they go along, until at the end it is clear that a genuine, and perhaps unexpected respect for each other has blossomed. You can check out the show in very high quality video right here. If you have time, play the entire show, but you can play individual songs if you like. I particularly like "Hell of a Girl" and "You Don't Own Me," but "Your Imagination" really rocks as well.
Enjoy...
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Ah, the good old days...
You've probably noticed that I haven't posted anything lately. Mainly, it was because I fell into the trap of watching too much news and getting more and more angry and depressed about what these evil, greedy, heartless bastards are doing to my country. It is even worse that I thought it would be, and it's apparently going to keep getting worse. It's all bad, but what they are doing to the EPA is unforgivable.
Well, I decided I had to crawl out of my hole and at least make an appearance on my own blog. So, as long as I am out here in the open, I will at least leave you with something from much happier days.
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