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.
(2 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)
Loading... 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.)
Continue reading RIP Lou Reed 1941-2013
(6 votes, average: 8.17 out of 10)Loading... damn.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QTRH7JNRVk
(3 votes, average: 8.33 out of 10)Loading... httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcF8Aos4XDA
Ain't no love because you aren't around. RIP Bobby, we'll miss you.
(6 votes, average: 9.17 out of 10)Loading... farewell, pardner.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH64weKPF60
(5 votes, average: 9.20 out of 10)Loading...
2002
(5 votes, average: 9.20 out of 10)Loading... 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
(6 votes, average: 9.67 out of 10)Loading... 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
(4 votes, average: 9.00 out of 10)Loading... 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
(3 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... so far this season, i feel shame and need morphine.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnp09K_b8lI
(okay, this was more an excuse just to play some morphine)
(6 votes, average: 7.83 out of 10)Loading...