Music of the Moment

Howlin Wolf - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ou-6A3MKow

Tom Waits - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfskVyTViJc

I'm going to a large music jam this weekend and every time I think of it can't get this song out of my head. I don't know why.

Hey Ho - Lumineers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCBSSwgtg4

Bruce Cockburn "Look How Far"

Charles Mingus "Goodbye Porkpie Hat"

Ornette Coleman "Sadness"

Jimi Hendrix "Up from the Skies"

Joni Mitchell "If"

Michael, Have you heard "Mingus" Joni Mitchell's tribute to Charles Mingus? 1979 on Elektra/Asylum...he died that same year. He wrote some songs for her and she wrote the lyrics...I like the record...but then I like both of them a lot. Wish I had more Ornette Coleman.

Judith Browning wrote:Michael, Have you heard "Mingus" Joni Mitchell's tribute to Charles Mingus? 1979 on Elektra/Asylum...he died that same year. He wrote some songs for her and she wrote the lyrics...I like the record...but then I like both of them a lot. Wish I had more Ornette Coleman.

Yes, I have the fine JM "Mingus" LP. I really wish I could find some space in our living cabin for my record collection and turntable. I have more than a few out of print recordings I haven't heard in years.

Mingus's The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady is for me, a very personal, "special" album. From Wikipedia:

The reception to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady has been generally positive. Indeed, Piero Scaruffi ranks it as the greatest jazz album of all time.[6] Richard Cook and Brian Morton, writers of The Penguin Guide to Jazz, award the album a "Crown" token, the publication's highest accolade, in addition to the highest four-star rating.[2] Steve Huey of Allmusic awards The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady five stars out of five and describes the album as "one of the greatest achievements in orchestration by any composer in jazz history."[3] Q magazine describes the album as "a mixture of haunting bluesiness, dancing vivacity, and moments of Andalusian heat..." and awards it four of five stars.[5]

Thanks for the information on that recording. We don't have much Mingus and not that one. We play vinyl all winter...when things slow down enough that we won't forget to flip the record...the arm doesn't return on it's own.

Taj Mahal "Recycling the Blues and Other Related Stuff" with the Pointer Sisters 1972 on Columbia KC 31605
try to find the record as a whole...it's pretty nice.

Rion, there's some good banjo on this.