March | 2012 | music clip of the day

Tuesday, 3/6/12

These folks I could listen to all day—tomorrow too.

Afel Bocoum & Alkibar, live, Netherlands (Hertme), 2010

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Part 2

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Monday, 3/5/12

Has there ever been a finer hour of jazz—of music—on TV?

The Sound of Jazz (CBS), 1957*

(A couple excerpts have been posted previously—here and here—but until the other day I’d never seen the whole show.)

*With Count Basie (piano), Thelonious Monk (piano), Billie Holiday (vocals), Jimmy Rushing (vocals), Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone), Ben Webster (tenor saxophone), Lester Young (tenor saxophone), Gerry Mulligan (baritone saxophone), Jimmy Giuffre (tenor saxophone, clarinet), Pee Wee Ellis (clarinet), Henry “Red” Allen (trumpet), Roy Eldridge (trumpet), Vic Dickenson (trombone), Danny Barker (guitar), Freddie Green (guitar), Jim Hall (guitar), Milt Hinton (bass), Jo Jones (drums), et al.

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Sunday, 3/4/12

going back home

Davis Sisters, “I Believe I’ll Go Back Home”
TV Gospel Time (introduced by Brother Joe May), early 1960s

More? Here. And here.

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lagniappe

Here’s a secular take.

John Lee Hooker, “I Believe I’ll Go Back Home” (That’s My Story: John Lee Hooker Sings The Blues, 1960)

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reading table

Home is never what you think it is.

Meaning lies in meaning’s absence. The mist
Is always just about to lift.

—J. Allyn Rosser, “Sugar Dada” (excerpt)

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Saturday, 3/3/12

only rock ’n roll

A lot of early rockers recorded in Memphis, in the 1950s, for Sam Phillips’ Sun Records. Some, like Elvis, became famous. Others, like this guy, didn’t.

Malcolm Yelvington, It’s Me Baby (1997)

Vodpod videos no longer available.

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“Drinkin’ Wine Spodee-O-Dee” (Sun 1954)