Showing posts with label 50s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 50s. Show all posts
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
Duke Elligton Review / Muddy Waters Preview (Album 32)
This was some seriously good jazz music. At least that is the label I would give it; some combination of jazz and big band. Anyways, it was really good. It was hard to tell exactly what was Duke Ellington, but on some of those songs the horns get blazin'. The trumpet and clarinet and trombone is so amazing, they don't make music like this anymore folks. My favorite song was the one where the showcase a bunch of the muscians in one song are wonderful. And there is aparently one of the best solos of all time on this album, by one Paul Gonsalves on the saxaphone. I hope it's the solo on Festival Junction, because that song is amazing.
Favorite Songs:
Festival Junction
Favorite Songs:
Festival Junction
Album: Muddy Waters at Newport
Artist: Muddy Waters
Release Year: 1960
"If this album simply represented the moment when live blues invited itself into suburban homes, it would still be remembered. If it were only the album that acquainted the likes of Jimmy Paige and Eric Clapton with America's urban sound, it would be a landmark. But after 45 years of consistent sales, Muddy Waters at Newport is, at its essence, a testament to the magnetism and soulfulness of raw blues at it's best." - Matthew Oshinsky
(This is, again, the remastered 2001 version tracklist)
01 - I Got My Brand On You
02 - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
03 - Baby, Please Don't Go
04 - Soon Forgotten
05 - Tiger In Your Tank
06 - I Feel So Good
07 - Got My Mojo Workin'
08 - Got My Mojo Workin' (Part 2)
09 - Goodbye Newport Blues
10 - I Got My Brand On You
11 - Soon Forgotten
12 - Tiger In Your Tank
13 - Meanest Woman
Stream: Radio3.net
iTunes: Muddy Waters
Spotify: Muddy Waters at Newport
Skip forward 6 years and you have another one of the biggest names in jazz and blues shakin things up yet again.
~mfm
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
M.J. Cole Review / Duke Ellington Preview (Album 31)
I don't know where the term 'house music' came from. It must have something to do with the 80s and the music was made 'in-house' so to speak. Like they had their own DJ up there mixing beats up in Studio 54 or something. Anyways, it's an interesting sound. If you don't mind the same thing...for almost an hour. Each song on it's own is good. But it's all the songs together that kind of wear on you a little bit. Each song it probably over 4 minutes each too...which doesn't really help anything. Anyways, some of the beats are good. Some are ok, some are meh.
Favorite Songs:
Slum King
Sincere
Hold On To Me
Favorite Songs:
Slum King
Sincere
Hold On To Me
Album: Ellington At Newport
Artist: Duke Ellington
Release Year: 1956
"After a spell in the doldrums when swing bands went out of fashion, Duke Ellington's performance at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 7, 1956, heralded a dramatic resurgence in his popularity...The resulting album is a patched together-fusion of live recordings, studio retakes, and canned applause. It became the biggest selling record of Duke's career." - Will Fulford-Jones
(You may notice right away that there are 2 very different versions of this album: the original 1956 version, and the updated 1999 version. The only real difference is that the new version is cleaner and has filler tracks of him talking and whatnot. Anyways, I will be listening to the new updated version.)
Disc 1
01 - The Star Spangled Banner
02 - Black and Tan Fantasy
03 - Tea for Two
04 - Take the 'A' Train
05 - Part I - Festival Junction
06 - Part II - Blues to Be There
07 - Part III - Newport Up
08 - Sophisticated Lady
09 - Day In, Day Out
10 - Diminuendo In Blue and Crescendo In Blue
Disc 2
01 - I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
02 - Jeep's Blues
03 - Tulip or Turnip
04 - Skin Deep
05 - Mood Indigo
06 - Part I - Festival Junction
07 - Part II - Blues To Be There
08 - Part III - Newport Up
09 - I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
10 - Jeep's Blues
Stream: Radio3.net
iTunes: Duke Ellington
Spotify: Ellingnton At Newport (This is the old version, they don't have the new version.)
Your tracks won't be the same, I took out all the in-between parts when I listed the tracks. Still though, it's the same essentially.
~mfm
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Fats Review / Jimmy Smith Preview (Album 26)
Fats Domino was not was I was assuming. It was pretty good. It was this combination of Frank Sinatra with more soul and less sad. But that's cool. I can dig it. All of the songs were really short. Which doesn't bother me, in fact it shouldn't even be a problem. I think that we expect songs to be between 3:30 and 4:00. If it's any longer our 'short attention spans' fail us and we lose the song or change the radio station. If it's too long we don't want to listen to because it doesn't say what it has to say soon enough. Or something like that. Anyways, I liked Fats. I thought he would sound less mature than he did. He sounded older than the picture that they show of him in the book:
Just a cheery looking baby-fat-having gentleman. But he sounded way more exciting than that. it was good.
Favorite Songs:
Honey Chile
La-La
The Fat Man's Hop
Favorite Songs:
Honey Chile
La-La
The Fat Man's Hop
Album: Back At The Chicken Shack
Artist: Jimmy Smith
Release Year:: 1960
"Back At The Chicken Shack is arguably Smith's greatest album, relentlessly grooving, harmonically sophisticated, and earthy as the Delta mud... Smith transformed the organ's lamentable image with his soulful synthesis of bebop, blues, and gospel, creating a powerfully grooving new sound. He spawned a new style of music - soul jazz - and a host of disciples who took up the Hammond B3 [compact organ] and formed combos." - Andrew Gilbert
01 - Back At The Chicken Shack
02 - When I Grow Too Old To Dream
03 - Minor Chant
04 - Messy Bessie
05 - On The Sunny Side Of The Street*
*Apparently, this song was not part of the original album, but released with the album as part of the CD later.
Streaming: Radio3.net
iTunes: Jimmy Smith
Spotify: Back At The Chicken Shack
Only 5 songs long, I expect to have the next one up rather soon.
~mfm
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Bebel Gilberto Review / Fats Domino Preview (Album 25)
(Bebel preview here) What an interesting album. It was more jazz-samba then I was expecting, but it was still good. It sounds like the kind of music that you would hear in a movie during a rainy love-making scene. In Mexico, obviously. She has a very pretty calm voice, and it goes very well with the slight drums and guitar and such. I like it, but its something that I would only listen to while I was trying to nap or seduce someone... I think that it may be early in a scene in the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith (musically similar to this, but not the same: Mr. & Mrs. Smith Mondo Bongo Dance ).
Favorite Songs:
Samba Da Bancao
So Nice (Summer Samba)
Close Your Eyes
Favorite Songs:
Samba Da Bancao
So Nice (Summer Samba)
Close Your Eyes
Album: This Is Fats
Artist: Fats Domino
Release Year: 1956
"While selling some 65 millino records in the decade [50s], Domino was arguably the man most responsible for bridging the gam between R&B and rock, although Little Richard might despute that claim. What is beyond debate is the influence of the singer's 1950s work, which has run and spread through popular music and influenced everyone from Pat Boone to The Beatles. This Is Fats, the singer's third full-length album on Impereal, was released at the height of Domino's career and remains the most powerful portrait of his artistry thanks to such boogie-woogie beasts as "Blue Monday" and "Honey Chile" and such mournful masterpieces as "So Long" and "Poor Poor Me." - Jim Harrington
01 - Blueberry Hill
02 - Honey Chile
03 - What's The Reason (I'm Not Pleasing You)
04 - Blue Monday
05 - So Long
06 - La-La
07 - Troubles Of My Own
08 - You Done Me Wrong
09 - Reelin' And Rockin'
10 - The Fat Man's Hop
11 - Poor, Poor Me
12 - Trust In Me
Streaming: Radio3.net
iTunes: Fats Domino
I couldn't find him on Spotify, but I found this instead: Playlist
Looking at some more 50s grove. I'm excited to hear Fats. He is a name that I have always heard but never listened too.
~mfm
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Louis Prima Review / The Everly Brothers Preview (Album 20)
(Louis Prima preview here) Jazz jazz jazz jazz jazz...It's so silly. I like jazz, but I don't think that I will ever be able to rap my head around it. Especially if there doesn't seem to be a cohesive sound or melody or tempo. It's all very confusing. Anyways, that's mostly what I feel about Louis Prima. Skills: yes. My understanding of his creative venture: no. A couple of his songs reminded me of The Jungle Book, and when Baloo seems to go all be-bop.
Favorite Songs:
Melody: Basin Street Blues - When It's Sleepy Time Down South
Favorite Songs:
Melody: Basin Street Blues - When It's Sleepy Time Down South
Album: A Date With The Everly Brothers
Artist: The Everly Brothers
Release Year: 1960
"It would have been reasonable to expect the cupboard to be bare, and the first tracks recorded, "Lucille" and "Baby What Do You Want Me To Do," suggest that material was in short supply. But the radical reinterpretations showed the Everly harmonies could refresh the most familiar songs." - David Hucheon
01 - Made To Love
02 - That's Just Too Much
03 - Stick With Me Baby
04 - Baby What Do You Want Me To Do
05 - Sigh, Cry, Almost Die
06 - Always It's You
07 - Love Hurts
08 - Lucille
09 - So How Come (No One Loves Me)
10 - Donna, Donna
11 - A Change Of Heart
12 - Cathy's Clown
Streaming: Radio3.net
iTunes: A Date With The Everly Brothers
Spotify: The Everly Brothers
This looks like a 60s version of a boy band. Also it's weird, in the book they usually have strange pictures (at least not what seems to be the most common picture) for an album. Weird Britts.
~mfm
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Ryan Adams Review / Louis Prima Preview (Album 19)
(Ryan Adams preview here) So yes, this was a heartbreak album. This album caught me off guard with how good it actually was. I'm not really sure what I was expecting, I guess more broody angst country music. But it wasn't that. It was actually mostly rock with acoustic...goodness. I like it, I'm not in the breakup mood though usually. Listening to people's songs who sing about breakups is usually pretty interpersonal. This album stays true with that belief.
Favorite Songs:
To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
Amy
Bartering Lines
Favorite Songs:
To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
Amy
Bartering Lines
Album: The Wildest!
Artist: Louis Prima
Release Year: 1956
"A popular nightclub singer / trumpeter in the 1930s and '40s, initially in his native New Orleans and then in New York, Prima found work had dried up by 1954...[Later] success came immediately, this sparkling half-hour, cut live in the studio in April 1956, iced the cake. Jazz hounds often dismiss Prima as just an Italianate Louis Armstong impersonator...But that is to miss the point: this is simply irrepressible music that more than matches its glorious cover show." - Will Filford-Jones
01 - Medley: Just A Gigolo - I Ain't Got Nobody
02 - (Nothing's Too Good) For My Baby
03 - The Lip
04 - Body and Soul
05 - Oh Marie
06 - Medley: Basin Street Blues - When it's Sleepy Time Down South
07 - Jump, Jive, An' Wail
08 - Buona Sera
09 - Night Train
10 - (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You
Streaming: Radio3.net
iTunes: Louis Prima
Spotify: The Wildest!
Jazz jazz jazz jazz jazz...
~mfm
Monday, March 5, 2012
Louvin Brothers Review / Miles Davis Preview (Album 15)
(Louvin preview here) Country Music. I don't know, I suppose that they tell you to listen to this album because it must be the first country album...But I don't think that is true. There has got to be country music from before this. Either way, I just can't find myself ever ever ever listening to this. It's not that its bad necessarily, it just doesn't do anything for me. Ever. I've tried. I listened to the whole thing. Some of the songs were fun for sure. This is country music at it's finest, the two voices are so...country. There is no other way to say it.
Favorite Songs:
Let Her Go, God Bless Her
Back to my favorite decade.
Favorite Songs:
Let Her Go, God Bless Her
Back to my favorite decade.
Album: Bitches Brew
Artist: Miles Davis
Release Year: 1970
"Recording sessions for Bitches Brew began at 8 a.m. on August 18, 1969, a few hours after Jimi Hendrix had demolished "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, and it is Hendrix's incendiary voice that haunts this double album...Bitches Brew sold half a million copies within a year and made Miles "relevant" in a way that he had not been in more than a decade. He had reclaimed his crown as the king of jazz, something he retained until his death 20 years later."
01 - Pharoh's Dance
02 - Bitches Brew
03 - Spanish Key
04 - John McLaughlin
05 - Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
06 - Sanctuary
Streaming: Radio3.net
iTunes: Bitches Brew
Spotify: Bitches Brew
A free form improv jazz session from one of the greatest in the game. Should be exciting. Also a bad-ass name for an album.
~mfm
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