(photo by Brooke Smith) Bonobo - "Stay The Same" Because: This is very much the most perfect song at this point in time. Mr. Little Jeans - "Oh Sailor" (ft. The Silverlake Conservatory of Music Youth Chorale) Because: I wouldn't mind a class of kindergarteners having my back when times get rough. Small [...]

Bib - Take My Heart Taken from the Keats Collective Vol. 3 . Enjoy your Sunday!

Paris 1958 by Jean-Pierre Leloi
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So from the looks of this 6 minute mini-doc on 11 year old MaeYa Carter Ryan, we have a prodigy on our hands right here in Chicago. " The sixth grader belts out, tears into, and soars through the music of the classic performers to whom she's constantly compared: Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone..." states The Reader, after recently publishing a feature on the Bronzeville native. Watch the clip below and be sure to check out her feature in The Reader today. MaeYa Carter Ryan: Singer, Age [...]
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xxyyxx is magical and it's hard to believe a 16 year old can produce music with so much soul. This track samples Sarah Vaughan's Stardust and is an aural delight. In somewhat sad news, Marcel Everett aka the genius that is xxyyxx announced that he'll be taking a break and working on a side project at the end of the year. Albeit bad news it could be the beginnings of something wonderful and new and in the meantime we always have plenty of time until the [...]
It was my birthday this week and I regressed. Dug out a couple of old MUZIK mixes, DFA's Disco Punk and Erol Alkan's One Louder, both from 2003. 2003! I was horrified but then I danced and didn't care. Another thing from 2003 popped into my head as I was going to bed, out of nowhere came Ifrane's Just A Little Lovin', a Sarah Vaughan sampling broken beat belter that Gilles Peterson used to hammer on his midweek Radio 1 show. I'm getting old but I don't care.
Filed under: News , R.I.P. , Music Appreciation Dan Kitwood, Getty Amy Winehouse , in excerpts from a previously unbroadcasted interview published by the Guardian to mark the anniversary of her death, spoke of her favorite Shangri-Las song "I Can Never Go Home Anymore," which she deemed "the most depressing ever." This inspired us to track down some of the other songs that had made a similarly [...]

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. Loving tenderness abounds for all from the darkest to the most eminent one beyond the stars, - Hildegard of Bingen . " Afternoon Easter 2012 " 01. Anouar Brahem - Eté andalous Le Voyage De Sahar (ECM, 2006) 02. Art Tatum - Lover Body and Soul (A Jazz Hour With, 1996) 03. Sarah Vaughan - Easy [...]

Sorry I'm so late in getting this guy up today, I had to travel back to school yesterday and it got all caught up in the hullabaloo, then today was my first day back in class and what not, so that didn't leave much time for you, dear listeners. So hopefully you managed to have a depressing enough day without my help. (Also, I'm running out of songs from my initial list that I've been selecting these playlists from, so if any of you listening at home have a suggestion for future Melancholy Mondays, you can shoot me [...]

Last month I announced the end of the In Memoriam column. The reaction, by comments and messages via email and Facebook, surprised me. I had been under the impression, acquired by the few comments they received and the very average hits recorded, that the feature was only mildly popular (which serves to stress the importance to comment on posts in features you enjoy). The labour required for the In Memoriam feature remains prohibitive, but by cutting out what really took a lot of time – researching and collating the music and pictures – I can still provide a [...]
A budget-priced collection of informative, well-produced jazz documentaries.
The jazz legend's final album saluted her love of Brazilian jazz, including this underrated performance.

It took me half of a Sunday to do it, but after I had hatched the idea of a punning collection of last songs by various composers of popular music , * I racked my brains (and the Internet) and came up with four decent last songs by popular music composers. Actually, I managed to find eight, so that's two volumes of four last songs. Here's the first. I'm posting them in chronological order of composition. [...]

To those who thought the Beatles couldn't be covered, I am offering a sampler of tracks - one representing each album - in the hope that it might win you over to the virtues of this downloadable 15-album collection of cover versions! From Sandie Shaw to Lord Sitar, from Ruben Blades to Swan Arcade, this CD-length collection hints at the wonderful range of covers available on each album. NOTE: Skip the following preamble if you have no objection [...]

A common scene in movies and TV shows is when a parent - usually a dad - gets up in front of his kid's classmates and explains what he does for a living. It's usually handled as a comedy scene, and if he does something that's perceived as cool, the kid basks in reflected glory. If not - well, you know the rest. I'm not commenting on the right or wrong of it, or even whether it really happens that often in real life, but I'm pretty sure that we never did anything like that when I [...]

All that indie rock coverage of last week really put me in the mood for some solidly brilliant old timey shit. Enter: Sarah Vaughan. Here's a controversial statement about Sarah Vaughan that I hold true: I think she's as good as Ella Fitzgerald (who she opened for at The Apollo in 1943, after winning one of their famed amateur nights). Some music fans would probably consider physically harming me for that one, but there it is. Don't get me wrong, she's completely different. But she's [...]