ItS Intro/Key PlayMix *Notes: This PlayMix sounds like something I would have done when I had a few hours on my college radio station - except virtually none of this music I was aware of in 1993! I could also do all my chores to this PlayMix, or road trip! 🧴🚘 Banda Black Rio -… Continue reading In the Stacks 10/18/25
Tag: jazz
Seshjawn Notes 9/21/25
Play List Bart - VA - “Popcorn” - Gershon Kingsley - Lots of Moog Synth progressions over the years, mostly, the Steel Pan version rules. Bart starts with a “Song Hole” (when you start collecting a myriad of versions of a song on a playlist, click the VA above to access). I’ve heard the song… Continue reading Seshjawn Notes 9/21/25
In the Stacks 8/31/25
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Jorge Ben - Forca Bruta - Phillips, 1970. 🇧🇷 🆑🎗️🚘⚖️ ⚙︎: A Brazilian classic. Its not exactly Bossa more like relaxed Samba, with Rock influences and not as Psychedelic as some Tropicalia. Regardless of where you want to categorize this music, it is one of the great Brazilian artists of the post-Bossa… Continue reading In the Stacks 8/31/25
Seshjawn Notes 8/24/25
Play List Nawi - Pointillistic piano and then doubled with the Bass. The middle section it reminds me of Mary Lou Williams, but it also doesn’t feel like its actually arriving at improvisation. More that the piano is improvising around little sections of the song in a group context, never far from a melody, but… Continue reading Seshjawn Notes 8/24/25
In the Stacks 8/12/25
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of… - Chrysalis, 1992. 🎤💰: Re-listening to this brings me back 3 decades. I purchased this as a new and noteworthy Hip Hop album which seemed to draw from a similar well as De la Soul. Now I notice… Continue reading In the Stacks 8/12/25