Did I ever mention how wonderful Regina Spektor’s voice is? Human of the Year gets more and more powerful everytime I hear it. A morning of concentration and I’m free for summer. The new Wordpress release is nicknamed Getz, in honour of the tenor saxophonist who took every opportunity to chat up [...]
Great selection of lyrics at the BBC:
Oh, don’t call me funny bunny
I’ll blow your money, money
I’ll get you to my bad ass spinning for you.
Gotta tease you nasty guy
So take it don’t be shy
Put your cherry on my cake
And taste my cherry pie.
Sounds hot?
This is the Ukrainian entrant:
Righto.
PS. Seems to have become a BBC [...]
By Sidsel Endresen and Bugge Wesseltoft, two Norweigan musicians. If you like Portishead, shades of Massive Attack, the trippy side of life, then take a listen. It’s too good not to share.
Chanced upon it on a compilation of Nordic jazz. If you’re subscribed to eMusic the whole album is currently free.
Plenty of crackers and good for the summer:
Lemon Jelly – Page One (lemonjelly.ky)
Felix Laband – Whistling in Tongues (Dark Days Exit)
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra – Sister (Who is This America?)
Acoustic Ladyland – Iggy (Last Chance Disco)
Jaga Jazzist – I Could Have Killed Him in the Sauna (The Stix)
Jimmy Smith – The Cat (The Cat)
Rodrigo y Gabriela [...]
I was going to write something about friends in Portsmouth and Gloucester and how my last week was awesome, but then I ran most of the way home from the pub and my chest decided to hate me. THEN I turned on Masada’s Live in Sevilla and was completely caught out by the utter [...]
Lovely little collection of jazz quotes at photomatt.net .. some of my favourites being:
Playing bop is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
(.. implying that you need to get rhythm down to score well?)
Those songs to me don’t exist, you know? “So What” or Kind of Blue, I’m not going to play that shit, [...]