Playlist Dan - Johnny Pacheco - "Guajira Camará” - So slow and restrained. So tense and visceral. I hit on this, despite the terrible album cover - it looks more like an ad for dance lessons with 2 silhouettes of dancers. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality and then blown away by this song.… Continue reading Seshjawn Notes 3/19/26
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In The Stacks 3/21/26
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix New Icon - 😵💫 - Psychedelic Joan Armatrading - Show Some Emotion - A&M, 1977. 🪨🫧 🪩🗣️⎄ : I recall Mrs. Armatrading’s cassettes being in my parent’s, and their friend’s, collections and thus avoided her work. Listening now I’m impressed by her songs, her versatility and her distinctive voice. She features excellent… Continue reading In The Stacks 3/21/26
In The Stacks 3/11/26
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix 🦴- Ancient to the Future (The Old New!) - New Icon Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop - Zomba, 1989. 🎤⚰️🏋🏽 ⚒️: Education. These songs all focus on teaching something: the history of Hip Hop; rewritten/overwritten Black History; the history of Boogie Down Productions; police violence - without… Continue reading In The Stacks 3/11/26
Seshjawn Notes 3/8/26
Playlist Travis - Surprise Jazz trumpet dinner combo from Travis. I’m not sure he has ever been particularly Jazz forward at a Sesh. Weird Improv yes, Jazz influenced music and a hell of a lot of Funk and Fusion, but rarely something like this. Dreamy, and I think it is an original tune that is… Continue reading Seshjawn Notes 3/8/26
In The Stacks 2/25/26
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix New icon! 🥃 - Drunk ass music VA - Bossa Copa: Un Show de Bossa en Bossa Copa - Historia De la Bossa Nova, 1966. 🇧🇷 ❂ ✺🎟️: A collection of live Bossa Nova that appears as if it were a concert recording, but seems to actually be a sampler from the… Continue reading In The Stacks 2/25/26