What are you listening to?

[Bluegrass Phil]

Darrell Scott & Blue Highway : "Bleeding For A Little Peace Of Mind" Recorder live at 2010 IBMA in Nashville. What a great song !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVXjBCyTZJk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[LizzieMaine]

Getting started on a day of transferring some radio programs with Fred Allen and company in the Texaco Star Theatre from May 28, 1941. This was during the height of the ASCAP radio ban, so there's plenty of music you never heard before and will never hear again. However, Mr. Allen does a fascinating interview with a horse dentist, which is also something you've never heard before and will never hear again.

 

[Edward]

At university, I was briefly in a band called The Horse Dentists (an obscure Father Ted reference), though we only lasted two rehearsals. Never did have a drummer.... heh.

This last couple of weeks I have mostly been listening to Imelda May's new album, Mayhem, interspersed with The Vaselines number I hate the 80s.

 

[Fletch]

Getting started on a day of transferring some radio programs with Fred Allen and company in the Texaco Star Theatre from May 28, 1941. This was during the height of the ASCAP radio ban, so there's plenty of music you never heard before and will never hear again. However, Mr. Allen does a fascinating interview with a horse dentist, which is also something you've never heard before and will never hear again.

More precisely, due to the man-made rat's nest of OTR rights issues, it's something we've never heard comma and will never hear period.

I did back out of my blackout a bit after posting last night, listening to some "paired takes" of Bix-era Whiteman on the Tube. Amazing how little space Bix, Tram et al got on some of those sides, yet how good they are anyway. I was taught as a kid, by old-school jazz writers, to listen only for the soloists. I'm glad I unlearned that.

 

[griffer]

RIGHT now?

Melotron.

 

[Wally_Hood]

I think you're right about the above. I just started listening to Big Band music again today, after a 3 week blitz of British Invasion Rock 'n' Roll (which I also love).

While I enjoy swing and big band, I also have various other genres on my player, such as surf guitar, lounge, almost any high energy rock 'n' roll (be it new wave, eighties junk, or something along the lines of Rancid or Elvis Costello). I tend to select the music according to my mood and the situation. It's not unusual to go from George Thorogood to Blues Travelers to Katrina and the Waves, with some sixties lounge via Cocktail Nation thrown in.

 

[OldSoul]

Right now I'm listening to The Urges and then iTunes says I will be enjoying some Muddy Waters.

 

[rue]

I'm listening to http://www.live365.com/ radio days. It's a mix of 30s, 40s and swing. I love all the stations they have

 

[Nik Taylor]

Ben Bernie Orchestra - "I'm Yours" 1930

-How can i
help

dreaming of you?

I love you

I'm yours


[video=youtube;KVFVj74C-Os]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVFVj74C-Os[/video]

^^^
This is a lovely tune

Ben Bernie, Fats Waller- I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling,1929

[video=youtube;tqqBunpTsAY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqqBunpTsAY&feature=related[/video]

 

[Chas]

Ella Fitzgerald mostly, these days. She is definitely creeping into my sax technique. I have played this 3 times in a row this evening. Driven we are, precious.


Ignore the bad video; concentrate on the music!!

[video=youtube;yp4diDrlfrI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp4diDrlfrI[/video]

[video=youtube;DEaDj6TXiQQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEaDj6TXiQQ&feature=related[/video]

 

[davidraphael]

The great Bernard Herrmann!

Although he's most famous for his Kane, Hitchcock and fantasy scores, I recently acquired some rarer stuff: On Dangerous Ground, Devil and Daniel Webster, TV work as well as some of his non-film work: Symphony no 1, The Fantastiks, Moby Dick cantata, sinfonietta, Jazz suites, etc.

[video=youtube;bjsPc2bEedU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjsPc2bEedU[/video]

 

[flat-top]

How fun is THIS?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-xd3NuWQI0

 

[dragonaxe]

im "listening" to my 12 year old daughter bleat on about how slow miniclip is on the laptop!!! Is infantacide REALLY illegal!!?? lol

 

[Edward]

Only if you get caught.

 

[Pompidou]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcjkA5ZAWQo

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Florence Foster-Jenkins played her farewell concert to a sold out audience at Carnegie Hall on this day October 25th 1944, she died a month later"

[video=youtube;qtf2Q4yyuJ0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf2Q4yyuJ0&feature=related[/video]


[video=youtube;m3v8mNwY4Y8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3v8mNwY4Y8&feature=channel[/video]

 

[Blackjack]

Artie Shaws version of Gloomy Sunday, that certainly was today...[video=youtube;dL-JDAdhjO4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL-JDAdhjO4[/video]

 

[Marla]

Guilty by Al Bowlly. What a voice... *sigh*
[video=youtube;CfSZARFUvnM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfSZARFUvnM&feature=related[/video]

 

[HadleyH]

It's Unanimous Now - Spike Hughes & Ork, 1930. Bunch of limeys doing a credible "New York Combo" style...that meant a semi-arranged small group doing the better pop/show tunes with crisp melodic statements and plenty of Hot. The startlingly good fiddle playing is by Stanley Andrews.

What a fine song!!! Thank you Fletch!

 

[Nik Taylor]

[video=youtube;Wtb4V6h-dh8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtb4V6h-dh8[/video]