Every once in a while, I feel like sharing the music I’ve been listening to lately on this blog. Even in this age of iPods, I still believe music is meant to be enjoyed socially. So I’m sharing a few things here and would love to know what you think of them for better or worse.
This first set is a handful of videos from people I’ve seen live recently and have enjoyed or who are recent discoveries. Let me know what you think.
Saw Jamie Cullum at the House of Blues and he was brilliant. Much more of a showman than I thought he’d be, and much more of a piano virtuoso, too. HOB was a terrible venue though, at least in my opinion. Stupid rules about where you can stand; constant distractions from staff moving people around, according to the rules, yet being inconsistent about it; ATMs with $4 fees; terrible, cold concession food that is only available on the 1st floor which folks from the upper floors are not allowed to go down too except when the food is ready. It’s the most un-Rock and Roll rock Rock Rock Club that I have been to in a long time.
Saw this bad live at Great Scott. They are a lot of fun to see live, a real party band. Great Scott is a a real Rock and Roll venue.
A lot of fun! She opened for Jamie Cullum.
Bruce Robison wrote Travelin’ Soldier, the song the Dixie Chicks made a hit. He’s written a lot of hits for others. This is “My Brother and Me,” wonderful song. This is not the best recording, but I’m using it because it is from the tour I went to. He’s on stage with Robert Earl Keen and Todd Snider. I discovered Todd Snider at that show. He’s a new favorite.
Todd is as much a storyteller as he is a musician. He’s also very political, which always gets you points in my book.
Ryan Bingham is everywhere these days, thanks to the movie Crazy Heart and his Oscar winning song from it, The Weary Kind. But he’s far from a one hit wonder.
This is from someone I WISH I had seen live. I had reservations to see her at the Blue Note in New York, but it was toward the end of her life. The show was cancelled and she died before I was ever able to see her. Sassy is the artist through which I discovered, well, everything. She was the first Jazz singer I fell in love with. It was through her I discovered the songs of Gershwin (I knew the orchestral pieces from Woody Allen’s Manhattan), or at least that just how powerful they could be. And it was in the search for others like her that I discovered all the leading ladies of Jazz, and then WBUR out of Newark, which led me to a whole world of Jazz, vocal and otherwise. When I won a set of tickets to see a live concert, from WBUR, I saw my first Jazz concert. It wasn’t to be my last. In fact, you might say that Sarah Vaughan is partially responsible for my student loan debt burden. Not everything I borrowed when to education related expenses and I’d have kept some of it in my pocket had Sarah Vaughan, still among my 5 favorite artists of all time, not initiated that chain of events that eventually meant I spent to much money on Jazz. That’s ok, though. I could never stay mad at her!
Finally, here is a Lala playlist of 10 songs from my iTunes library. I set it on shuffle and played songs. These are the first 10, totally randomly selected. Below that is an Amazon widget. If you like any of these songs and want to purchase the album, do it through that and a small percentage of our purchase benefits the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies.
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Jamie Callum is playing here at the Fillmore on the 23rd. I was unfamiliar with his work until I heard it in the film “Gran Torino.” As with Bingham, that may have been his introduction to the public. It was certainly mine, and now he’s a favorite.
I wanted a visit with my friend Sian before she left for Dubai and then to Afghanistan on a mission to educate women and girls. We walked around and found ourselves at Yoshi’s, a jazz club based in Oakland that opened up a new place here in San Francisco. It was closed, but we walked around it, like kids in front of a closed ice cream shop, eyeing the restaurant and lounge where just a few hours later musicians would be entertaining an audience of fans. I saw a poster for Madeline Peyroux, and decided then that would be my first show. I will get tickets soon.