Glenn Miller-In The Mood

I like it!

Me too, one of my all time favorites, even though it was written before I was born, I still heard it on the radio quite often as a kid.
I wish Big Band would make a come back, C)rap they call music today, can't hold a candle to composers of yesterday.

Here's a Q-for-2-Pack. Same classic New Orleans jazz classic, with different but equally superb musicians. Bechet and King Oliver both played this song long before it entered the general repertoire in the 1920s days of acoustic (megaphone) microphones. I'll spare you that and get a bit closer into the modern age of recording.

"Tin Roof Blues," Sydney Bechet, and a 5-star back-up (1949). Includes the wild man of coronet, Wild Bill Davison

Sidney Bechet, "TIN ROOF BLUES" (1949)

Now the incomparable Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars, same song, slower tempo. Trummy Young on trombone, and Billy Kyle right-and-tight on piano...

Louis Armstrong - Tin Roof Blues

You can do a whole lot worse than this for today's musical ear worm.

Never been a Blues kind of guy, though, these were true musicians that actually played their own instruments.

I fear music is about to change forever, with the advent of the computer, a person never needs to learn to play an instrument, only be able to program a pooter.

I never get tired of Motown music.  It's amazing what great music came out of "Hitsville USA" on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit.

Quote from: AmericanFlyer on November 17, 2010, 06:57:56 PM
I never get tired of Motown music.  It's amazing what great music came out of "Hitsville USA" on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit.

It's more amazing the antics of the fans there at that museum, the day Micheal Jackson died.

I got banned by the Detroit Free Press opinion forum just for posting the photos I did.

Quote from: quiller on November 17, 2010, 10:19:35 PM
It's more amazing the antics of the fans there at that museum, the day Micheal Jackson died.

I got banned by the Detroit Free Press opinion forum just for posting the photos I did.

Oh, please, do tell what happened at Hitsville the day MJ died! 

Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Take 5

Quote from: Cryptic Bert on November 25, 2010, 08:57:55 PM

Take 5

Excellent selection!
That Brubeck piece is timeless and will be around a thousand years from now. 8)

Jimmy Smith "Hi Heel Sneakers" (1965)
Jimmy smith - got my mojo working extended part 1 & 2 verve records promo

And then there is the man who invented a new sonic vocabulary....

Miles Davis - Spanish Key (1/2)

Miles Davis - Spanish Key (2/2)