httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4
RIP Mr. Seeger. Your voice, creativity, and courage will be missed.
Tag Archives: RIP
Ray Price – For The Good Times
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ZKIX0ICZo
RIP Mr. Price. The good times will keep on rolling, but they won't be quite as good without you.
RIP Lou Reed 1941-2013
Chuck Klosterman wrote more eloquently than I ever could about the man. I'll just play a few clips, instead. You were a legend, Lou.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUUANzSB2Uc
I linked to this in the comments yesterday, but since this joint appears to be a ghost town, no one will notice. (The look Lou gives Antony at the end of this performance is just perfect.)
J.J. Cale – Crazy Mama
damn.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QTRH7JNRVk
Bobby Blue Bland – Ain’t No Love In The Heart of The City
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcF8Aos4XDA
Ain't no love because you aren't around. RIP Bobby, we'll miss you.
Slim Whitman – I Remember You
farewell, pardner.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH64weKPF60
Songs: Ohia – Farewell Transmission
2002
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Three To Get Ready
obligatory...
that said, dave brubeck, in all his incarnations, is (not was) one of my favorite jazz musicians. he seemed to have this mad scientist approach to jazz; this strange mathematical deconstruction of the music. an innovator in key structure and time signatures (i'm still not 100% sure which time this is in... 6/8?), he deserves all the credit he received and will receive in the coming days.
here's a cut from the quintessential brubeck album time out. you will be missed.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuPwLP8wGi4
1964
one of my favorite cuts after the jump...
Continue reading The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Three To Get Ready
The Austin Peralta Trio – Passion Dance/Untitled Original In D
with few details currently released, the promising career of austin peralta came to an end last week. here he is as a 16-year-old kid absolutely destroying the ivories with his equally impressive bandmates.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhpRdLEvcrk
2006
Eva Cassidy – The Autumn Leaves
I always said that if I ever do a week of this and I'm feeling lucid, I'm going to open with the late Miss Cassidy. I'm lucid tonight, so here's one from 1996 at Blues Alley.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07R5q4gxkk&feature=related