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[ Download ] 1. Elephant Stone - Strangers 2. Aloha - Moonless March (03:18) 3. Ted Leo and the pharmacists - Ativan Eyes (07:46) 4. Annuals - Loxtep (12:00) 5. Nada Surf - Elecrocution (15:52) 6. Burnt Ones - Gonna Listen To T.Rex (All Night Long) (18:57) 7. Pylon - Stop It (22:12) 8. Super Wild Horses - Golden Town (25:00) 9. Dark Meat - When The Shelter Came (27:32) 10. Double U - Breathing In The Wind (31:42) 11. Bill Wells - Perfect [...]
Few years were as successful for jazz as 1959, at least when you're counting up five star recordings. Columbia Records has recently reissued three of these, Charles Mingus's Mingus Ah Um , Davis's Sketches of Spain , and Dave Brubeck's Time Out , in deluxe two CD packages.
Bookends – Booker Little, with Booker Ervin beside him in the frontline on a 1960 session, originally issued under the leadership of Teddy Charles. Recorded at the Museum of Modern Art, some fiery blowing here. The track: 'Scoochie.' Ushered in by a sharp burst of drums from Eddie Shaughnessy, who drives the band on throughout. Booker Little takes the first solo, twisting a sure-footed elegance into his lines. Ervin leaps in directly just as he finishes, full-throated tenor spurred on by the drummer's interjections. Mal Waldron follows, utilising his trademark phrase-worrying to good [...]

Slowly getting back into the field... I promised to re-up this a week or more ago. The Clusone Trio, playing '117th Street.' (7 beyond 110th up into Harlem?). Anyway, no point re-writing, at the time I said: 'The Clusone Trio give the Herbie Nichols tune, '117th Street,' an outing. Always an element of drollery lurking when Bennink is involved – those crazy Dutch, eh? This swings in lightly over crisp old-school drumming as Moore states the theme and take the first solo – a limpid performance that builds through some more complex swirls into earthier [...]

When we ran our Vijay Iyer-penned piano mixtape last year, one of the kindest comments came from fellow blogger Hank Shteamer, who noted that he hoped it wouldn't be our last such compilation. Little did we know at the time that our next mix would come courtesy of Hank himself, who volunteered to create the following mind-bending, eye-opening playlist featuring the piano stylings of the underappreciated Bobby Few. So without much more ado, we are truly pleased and honored to present, on the occasion of Few's Vision Festival appearance scheduled for Friday, 13 June, "Hung Up on Nothing," [...]