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Tag Archives: saxophone
Manu Dibango – Soul Makossa
It's cold out, but let's get up and get moving.
Bleachers – Modern Girl
I always forget this guy still has an actual band (besides whatever that "fun." thing was)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Twa5RuswE
Subatomic Sound System – Babylon Soon Fall
I found this by accident. But it's fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIkgTCxwHY4
The Mountain Goats – Clean Slate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ltDQxvE00o
Robbie Robertson – Shake This Town
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band – Independence Day
The War on Drugs – Harmonia’s Dream
Haven't played any WoD in a while
Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock – Memory of Enchantment
Two longtime friends & collaborators, live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, playing a track the recorded for their 1997 duet album 1+1. The venue for this performance, the Hague’s Statenhal, was demolished four years after this recording. Only Hancock remains.
Wayne Shorter Quartet – The Three Marias (from Emanon)
Welcome to Wayne Shorter Week! When I saw the lamentably late, legendary virtuoso genre alchemist had not been featured here before, I knew I should dedicate a my guest-hosting week to the many facets of his career.
Here we have a performance of a movement from Emanon, a three-disc concept album that Shorter recorded at 85. His quartet at the time included drummer Brian Blade, pianist Danilo Pérez, and bassist John Patitucci, all of whom play in this performance. The album included a graphic novel co-written by Shorter about an eponymous hero (a hat tip to Dizzy Gillespie’s “Noname”) whose adventures traverse a multiverse and reflect aspects of Shorter’s Nichiren Buddhist spiritual philosophy.