Produver Orrin Keepnews on the making of Monk’s masterpiece album Brilliant Corners.
With thanks to Facebook friend Nelson Weaver.
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MONK’S TIME
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AN LP COVER FOR TODAY
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A CD COVER FOR TODAY
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TEN THOUSAND CATTLE STRAYING
This song, often collected in anthologies of cowboy ballads and identified as traditional, was in fact written by Owen Wister for the 1904 stage adaptation of his novel The Virginian. Wister, a classically trained musician, had seriously considered becoming a composer before turning to literature as his profession.
As a sidelight to this, in 1893, on a ranch in West Texas, Wister had heard a cowboy singing “Get Along Little Dogies”, which really was a traditional cowboy song. Wister wrote down the words and annotated the tune, and later supplied these to Alan Lomax, who believed this to be the first documented record of the song.
WHAT I’M SPINNING NOW
The pre-Spectorized Let It Be feels a little thin on CD. On vinyl it feels full and warm — like the no-frills, get-back LP The Beatles originally envisioned, perfectly realized.
U. S. A.! U. S. A.!
WHAT I’M SPINNING NOW
A reproduction of the two-EP set with booklet released in Britain. Very cool.
SEGUIN
RETRO GIRL
Hailee Steinfeld
SOME SOUNDS
. . . from Tyneside singer-songwriter and Internet pal Trev Gibb. Cool debut album with some great stuff on it. Check it out, download it, pay whatever you want:
A HUGER FOOTE FOR TODAY
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WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD
The last thing Louis Armstrong ever recorded — a mystical contribution to a mystical film . . .
[Note to PZ — lyric by Hal David.]
IGOR
Igor Stravinsky liked to present himself as an arty, classical dude, but he was totally funky — as out there as Smokey Robinson or Bob Dylan. He was always looking for the groove.
AN LP COVER FOR TODAY
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