From the category archives:

Jazz

They Do Not Understand the Urgency Of Life

May 22, 2009

[I'm off on a mission next week, but I'll be back with fresh vegetables on June 1] You can’t say Colin Meloy doesn’t know and appreciate his pop. He’s put out several solo EPs covering other artists: Sam Cooke, Shirley Collins, and our beloved Morrissey, who turns 50 today (So many years left!). I’m always [...]

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That’s One Thing That I Can Do Without

March 27, 2009

I first heard this song on a mixtape given to me by my beloved Ida some many, many years ago. The tape went woefully AWOL after a handful of listens, but the song never left my brain. That percussion! Mose Allison – I’m Not Talking from The Word From Mose Allison

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Pass The Morning Bun, Please

March 10, 2009

I was fortunate enough to hear this song twice last week while filling myself with pastries and sweating over my laptop at good ol’ 33 Revolutions (the coffee shop that turns you on). I was unfortunate enough to see this picture on the album cover. When the subject matter is removed from Bobbie Gentry’s song, [...]

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And A Brawla, Brawla Soo-It

January 22, 2009

Turn back! Once you’ve heard this song, that’s pretty much it for you. But I’m contaminated now, and bound by Satan to pass along this terminally catchy number with a somewhat disputed origin. This version swings hella harder than other versions, and that’s how we like it here. The Horace Heidt Orchestra – The Hut-Sut [...]

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I Knew It Wasn’t Local

July 21, 2008

It had to happen sooner or later — the Jazz category. I wouldn’t say it’s the jazziest jazz, but Ronny Jordan counts as jazz so jazz it is. (Jazz.) I’ve resisted delving deeply into jazz for fear that once I dive in I will never come out. (I’m saving that for my 50s.) So I [...]

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Good Grief

December 14, 2007

Just close your eyes and listen to this until the start of the 2012 season, and it should be all over by then. This is a Vince Guaraldi time of year, but instead of a Christmas track, here’s something from the first Peanuts album Guaraldi did. It was written for a documentary about Peanuts in [...]

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