October 15, 2020

"Time of the Season" - Larry Goldings Trio

- Larry Goldings - organ
- Peter Bernstein - guitar
- Bill Stewart - drums
- Rod Argent, composer

October 13, 2020

Either-Orchestra Live at Alliance Francaise, Ethiopia

Opening night of the 2004 Ethiopian Music Festival.

October 13, 2020

Toshiko Akiyoshi Performs "The Village" (solo piano)

1965 broadcast on French television:

October 13, 2020

Kokoroko Afrobeat Collective - Colonial Mentality

Kokoroko Afrobeat Collective performing Fela Kuti's composition "Colonial Mentality" at Sofar London on July 29th, 2016:

October 13, 2020

Kenny Barron and Dave Holland: Billie's Bounce

October 13, 2020

Rabbinical School Dropout

October 10, 2020

In honor of Thelonious Monk on his 103rd birthday

"Blue Monk," Live in Stockholm 1961
Thelonious Monk - piano
Charlie Rouse - tenor saxophone
Larry Gales - bass
Ben Riley - drums

October 5, 2020

Al Franken's Ted Cruz beer glass

Heard this advertised on Al's podcast (which is excellent, by the way). He drew this caricature of Cruz while sitting across from him in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing!






This is just one of several nice tchotchkes available at https://store.alfranken.com/

October 5, 2020

No shit.

Lee "May-he-burn-in-hell/I-don't-give-a-flying-fuck-if-he-apologized-on-his-death-bed" Atwater gave us the grotesque spectacle of the Willie Horton ad and, I presume, the ridicule of Michael Dukakis for suiting up and riding in tank. (How is this any more ridiculous than George W. Bush donning a G.I. Joe flight suit and posing before a "Mission Accomplished" banner on an aircraft carrier -- when the only mission that had been accomplished was lying our way into a war that killed tens of thousands?)

Trump's clueless narcissism and heartless cruelty combine to create a toxic cocktail of depravity, on full display in this moronic joyless ride.

October 4, 2020

"Cantaloupe Island" -- Herbie Hancock live with an all-star band, 1985

Herbie Hancock: composer, piano
Freddie Hubbard: trumpet
Joe Henderson: tenor saxophone
Ron Carter: bass
Tony Williams: drums

Edited to add: This is from the film One Night With Blue Note, documenting a concert by Blue Note Records artists recorded live at Town Hall, NYC.