1 Stone Roses – One Love 5:03
2 Quantic – Blackstone Rock 4:09
3 Eleventh Dream Day – Dream of a Sleeping Sheep 3:15
4 Radiohead – These Are My Twisted Words 5:31
5 Double Naught Spy Car – Someone’s Creeping In My Yard 5:20
6 Kings of Leon – Spiral Staircase 2:55
7 Ben Watt & Robert Wyatt – A Girl in Winter 03:43
8 Rain Parade – This Can’t Be Today 04:00
9 Grateful Dead – Cosmic Charlie 03:01
10 Henry Kaiser – Cold Rain And Snow 04:50
11 Kaleidescope – Taxim 11:23
12 Anton Fier – Bait And Switch 05:34
Mallard – Rockpalast 1974
13. Back On The Pavement 3:36
14. One Day Once 3:23
15. Reign Of Pain 4:39
16. A Piece Of Me 4:07
17. Mama Squeeze 4:08
There I was trying to figure out how to flesh out a CD started out with a 19 minute set from Captain Beefheart exiles Mallard. It was rendered 25 years ago and Mallard’s weird psych/pop isn’t much like anything around these days.
Eventually I started plucking post-rock and other stuff and ended up with the present comp. It hangs together as a 40 year longitudinal slice of post-rock and psych. (40 years given the presence of Kaleidescope and the Grateful Dead, circa 1968.)
1 Reverend Horton Heat – Jingle Bells 2:19
2 The Crystals – Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 2:33
3 Byron Lee and The Dragonaires – Winter Wonderland 2:32
4 Lolas – Little Drummer Boy 3:17
5 Davie Allan & the Arrows – Frosty The Snowman 2:23
6 Smithereens – Christmas (I Remember) 3:35
7 NRBQ – Christmas Wish 2:49
8 Huey “Piano” Smith – All I Want For Christmas
(Is A Little Bit Of Music) 3:03
9 Redd Kross – Mary Christmas 3:32
10 The Chevelles – Come All Ye Faithful Surfer Girls 2:21
11 Beach Boys – The Man with All the Toys 1:30
12 George Jones & Tammy Wynette – Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus 2:21
13 Fountains of Wayne – The Man In The Santa Suit 2:39
14 Loretta Lynn – To Heck With Ole Santa Claus 2:02
15 Lynyrd Skynyrd – Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’ 3:37
16 The Ravens – Blue Christmas 1:57
17 Syd Straw – (I’m Always Touched By Your) Presents, Dear 3:49
18 Imperial Drag – Please Leave Me Home For Xmas 3:27
19 Bruce Springsteen – Merry Xmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight) 4:29
20 Devil Dogs – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 3:39″ />
I Wish it Could Be Christmas Everyday – 2009 Holiday Mix by Dub Collision
All over the place blues, so cheap for you.
1 Jay McShann – Some Kinda Crazy 2:41
2 Bob Brozman & Djeli Mousa Diawara – Maloyan Devil 5:59
3 Kelly Joe Phelps – Little Family 3:57
4 Imperial Kings – Love Blues 4:20
5 Geoff Muldaur & The Texas Queens – Hard Time Killin’ Floor 4:19
6 Papa Mojo – Bunkie Boogie 3:01
7 Jim Dickinson & Chuck Prophet – Down In Mississippi 4:07
8 John Campbell – Lockdown 3:51
9 Tab Benoit – What I Have to Do 5:00
10 Joe Barry – Rollin’ Bones 2:15
11 Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood – Driftin’ 5:41
12 Better Days – New Walkin’ Blues 6:17
13-14 Robert Randolph – You Got to Move-Goin’ In the Right Direction 12:48
15 The White Stripes – Death Letter -> Motherless Children -> Death Letter 8:01
16 The Black Keys – When The Lights Go Out 3:13
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Years ago a fellow jazz fanatic asked me what my favorite instrument was ‘in jazz.’ I blurted out “saxophone.” He told me I had to narrow it down. I thought for a minute, and gave him the correct answer, “Piano!” What had I been thinking initially?
Still, I can’t narrow it, the saxophone, down. You wish for me to weigh preferences between Coltrane and Parker and Lacy? Nocando. . . .between David Murray, Jackie McLean, and Hamiett Bluiett? Idontthinkso.
SAX GLADNESS unissued live recordings
1 The Heath Brothers f. Jimmy Heath – Prince Albert 14:23 (Dec. 1, 1983, Tokyo)
2 Benny Golson – Whisper Not 9:34 (1988, Kyoto)
3 Lucky Thompson – On Green Dolphin Street 6:35 (Nov, 22, 1968, Rotterdam)
4 Dexter Gordon – Society Red 16:17 (Sept. 13, 1988, Tokyo)
5 Booker Ervin – You Don’t Know What Love Is 8:13 (Feb. 18, 1966, Hilversum)
6 Sonny Rollins – Night & Day 11:31 (1965, Stockholm)
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First new mix in 2 months. Reflecting on a departed friend and the anniversary of his passing, this musical meditation on mortality was slowly evoked.
1 OWEN TEMPLE – I Don’t Want to Do What I Do 03:14
2 JACKDAWG – Wild Night 04:01
3 JAMIE OLDAKER – Magnolia 03:56
4 THE BYRDS – My Back Pages 03:14
5 THE JAYHAWKS – Desperate Serenade 03:42
6 DONNIE FRITTS – Adios Amigos 02:52
7 NEKO CASE – Poor Ellen Smith 02:07
8 ELVIS COSTELLO – Heart Shaped Bruise 04:07
9 DOWNHILLS HOMES – Pluto’s Blues 04:11
10 DAN PENN – Rest of My Life 03:47
11 TOMMY TALTON BAND – On Your Way Down 11:00
12 MARKOWSKI – Magnolia 04:38
13 BERNIE LEADON – God Ain’t Done With Me Yet 04:59
14 GOSDIN BROTHERS – One Hundred Years From Now 02:48
15 DIANE IZZO – Oh Death 04:54
16 JORMA KAUKONEN – A Walk With Friends 04:30
17 THE EVERLY BROTHERS – Not Fade Away 01:58
18 THE BYRDS – Willin’ 03:24
Country and folk rock–mixing up old and mostly new, and, with a handful of musical survivors too. For example, Tommy Talton has been at it for 40+ years, since his days with associate Scott Boyer in Cowboy, one of the early 70’s most distinctive and little heard bands. In the main, it’s about continuity of sweet heart soulfulness.
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Jamie Cohen (1953-2008) and Mark H.
1 04:15 Marcen Oles – Law Years
2 11:20 Billy Harper – Insights
3 12:02 Amina Claudine Myers – Blessings
4 16:03 Arthur Blythe – Miss Nancy
5 09:55 Harry Miller – Family Affair
6 11:11 Art Ensemble of Chicago – Ancestral Voices / Old
7 02:09 Sun Ra – You’d Better Mind What You’re Saying
8 10:33 Joe McPhee & Po Music – Pithecanthropus Erectus
Jazz. Old friends except for opener. Mostly live sources; mostly unreleased. There’s a genre called ’spiritual jazz.’ This seems to be a term coined to deal retrospectively with certain styles of aspirational, overtly mystical jazz. Since I predate that turn, all I can say is that this mix captures something of what this would mean for me, except that the daring implicit in composing in the instant moment trumps a narrow term. Yup, all jazz is spiritual jazz to me.
One of my closest musical confidants was surprised to be asked if he had the Booker T. & Priscilla record from the early seventies. He didn’t anticipate the appeal the record might hold for me. I told him ‘it’s in the genre of down home rhythm and blues I can’t get enough of for 30+ years.’
“You know, like Bobby Charles.”
A brief discussion ensued through which my friend once again was reminded that I want to hear every last note of some artists, Charles being one of many, and this may end up–to my friend–inexplicable in specific cases.
Back in the period between 1969-1974, after the big and medium size labels had snapped up every rock band and singer-songwriter they deemed worthy, the attention of some of labels turned to side-persons and to a handful of musical communities, such as those in L.A. and New York and Woodstock, NY. Soon enough those players began recording, and so for a very brief spell of time, records came out that were as much about the music making process as they were about self-contained bands.
The prototypical examples were the spin-offs from Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Soon enough, there came Leon Russell. From different directions, there came Delaney & Bonnie; Geoff & Maria Muldaur.
My friend doesn’t understand it at all, but among my favorite records in this genre of down home white soul gettin’ down ’cause we love to play music were the first two records of Taj Mahal’s lead guitarist, Jesse Ed Davis. Search ‘em out.
It’s easy for me to clump this activity into a genre of music: the music tends to be communal, joyous and soulful, unpretentious, and rootsy. In a word: modest. In my terms, this genre reached its highest height with The Band. Yet, The Band couldn’t actualize the kinds of bonds and generosity that sustain the wandering music-makers exemplified today by Mahal, Russell, Charles, and Maria Muldaur, David Lindley, many more, and, heck, The Fleet Foxes, as much as one era and genre they throwback to is the very one I’m considering!
For pure feel, I’d point you, dear listener, to Motel Shot by Delaney & Bonnie, and, yup, the dazzling eponymous Bearsville one-and-only from gulf coast singer -songwriter Bobby Charles. I could go on and on. I just like hearing that feel, every last note!
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I must have been in a mood when I quickly tossed together some ethno-jazz, afro and afro-blues, a couple of syncretists, a couple of nu-jazzers, a live track from the master drummer from South Africa, and a chestnut amped by a celebrated big band’s brass playing leader. It ends up a rare blend reaching for a spiritual or danceable tip. Take your pick. Enjoy.
1 Irene Schweizer – Yaad 5:16
2 Taj Mahal & Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar – Catfish Blues 6:22
3 Philip Tabane – Vhavenda (Revolution Rmx) 5:49
4 F. Robert Lloyd – True Man Coyote 3:41
5 Kip Hanrahan – Stealing The Boogaloo 2:54
6 Kora Jazz Trio – Goree 3:02
7 Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu – Magical World 8:55
8 Examples of Twelves – Part 2 The Madness? III 4:56
9 Louis Moholo-Moholo – Sondela 8:50
10 Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra – Body And Soul 7:13
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