![[Video] Chandler London: "Duke Ellington"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4230404_lg.jpg)
"I'm raw like that." Chandler London links up with Fly Kite Media for this new video for "Duke Ellington". The show is off Chandler's heralded Science of Sleep , produced by Stefan Ponce. It's a very introspective song, and Fly Kite does a good job of presenting viewers with a literal peek into Chandler's world in this clip. Check it out below.
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Peter Mulvey was one of the very first artists we wrote about here at Cover Lay Down, way back in October of 2007; at the time, we claimed that Mulvey has the versatility of the true cover artist, and the knack of bringing new meaning to a wide breadth of song , citing both his 2002 covers album Ten Thousand Mornings, recorded live in the Davis Square subway station just outside of Boston, and his collaborative work with lo-fi coverfolk supergroup Redbird, as ample evidence. Since then, we've come back to Mulvey's work [...]
Jazz from the '70's still fresh and vibrant.
UPDATE: Thought we'd re-post some of our more popular Christmas efforts; this one gets requests every year. This was one of the coolest albums of Christmas music ever. Originally released in 1962, this unassuming little compilation featured an all-star cast of jazz luminaries like Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and others. It was reissued on vinyl in 1980 (cover pictured above) but now it has disappeared into the mists of time. Don't bother looking for it on CD - [...]
If you already have the material, this package might not appeal. But even a passing interest in any of these principal figures, or in the broad range of American music, make this an essential selection. In a little over forty days, from the middle of August to the end of September of 1962, Duke Ellington recorded three small group records that stand as his most forceful statements in the medium: Money Jungle, a trio session with Charles Mingus and Max Roach and the most bare-and-battered-bones music of Ellington's career; Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins, a late-career summit of two [...]
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Although the legendary Duke Ellington is remembered for a number of his own compositions, Billy Strayhorn's "Take The A-Train" is considered by many to be the Duke's signature song. But it's a piece with an interesting history, one that includes a young singer who seems to have mis-timed the train's biggest moments. When Wilmington-born Mary Elizabeth Roché won an amateur contest at Harlem's Apollo Theater in pre-war New York, she knew it would give her a chance at a musical career. What she didn't know was that it would lead to her getting a job a couple [...]
Opera diva, Norman, shows her versatility on this live set.
MOVEMENT I ("INTERROGATION") MOVEMENT II ("LOSS") Anthony Davis You Have the Right to Remain Silent! Unreleased : 2007 Perspectives Ensemble featuring JD Parran and Earl Howard. VICISSITUDES (FOR MEL) Jason Robinson and Anthony Davis Cerulean Landscape Clean Feed : 2010 JR, sax; AD, piano. [...]
The giant green Adriondack chair on the lawn of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts has provided endless hours of amusement and climbing activity for Georgetown students late at night, but this is probably the first time a full-fledged band has graced its wooden slats. Jeremy Messersmith, a Minneapolis-based indie-folk singer with an enthusiastic and gregarious band, stopped by The Big Chair last Sunday before the group's show at DC9 that night (playing with Keegan DeWitt. ) Despite the rain and bugs, the band played a few songs on the chair, including a lovely Magnetic Fields cover that [...]
HOMAGE TO CHARLES PARKER George Lewis Homage to Charles Parker Black Saint : 1979 GL, trombone, electronics; Douglas Ewart, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, cymbals; Anthony Davis, piano; Richard Teitelbaum, polymoog, multimoog & micromoog synthesizers. We're dedicating the next two weeks to providing an inside view of the music of the remarkable composer, trombonist, electronic musician, and professor George Lewis. As a young [...]
![congratulations Katie Curran (she is a Master [of the universe and music business])](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3469802_lg.jpg)
TheSteamCo took a little break. And now we're ready to come back ... with big new plans up our fashionable sleeves. But the break came with good reason, so I would like to say to the newest and mostly aptly titled master of music business katie curran: CONGRATUFUCKINLATIONS. you now deserve a v&t, a nap, and a small break before the real world breaks down your door. (folks, the real world has already been prepared for katie's awesomeness.) So here it is: A mini mix for you, Katie. "Cults - Go Outside" [...]
East Africa doesn't get enough love. As a connoisseur of music coming out of Africa from the 70's, sometimes I tend to get caught up on the western, Francophone countries - Nigeria, Benin Togo - and neglect the rest. Mulatu Astake's music - like a ringing bell - shows why that's a ridiculous position to have. Fusing elements of Latin Jazz with dark sax solos and a bit of that Ethiopian flare, "Mulatu," recorded in 1972, oozes like a funky snake reminiscent of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew or Herbie Hancock's Sextant . [...]
The 2011 New Orleans Jazz Fest has released its menu, and it's only fitting that the vittles will be as ambitious and eclectic as the rest of the line-up. The 10-day cultural mosh pit of musicians, cooks and artisans-inspired by gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and Duke Ellington's impromptu and legendary 1970 post-Louisiana Heritage Fair revelry-has cranked it up a notch this year. Scheduled for April 29-May 1 and May 5-8 with a motley crew of musicians like Arcade Fire, Willie Nelson, Maceo Parker and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, the fest is also hosting [...]
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