Another Friday, another ten, except that it’s eleven with *’s by the ones I’ve seen live…
- “Riff Raff” – Helle’s Belles* – We Salute You
- “Never Here” – Elastica – Elastica
- “Stepping Into Tomorrow” – Donald Byrd – Stepping Into Tomorrow
- “Foreign Exchange” – The Burnside Project – The Networks, The Circuits, The Streams, The Harmonies
- “Wilson (Live)” – Phish* – A Live One
- “Merry Christmas from the Family” – Robert Earl Keen – KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 6
- “What We Did Last Summer” – Eighty Mile Beach – Om Lounge
- “Sanctuary” – Miles Davis – Black Beauty: At Fillmore West
- “Lose Control” – Missy Elliott – The Cookbook
- “Oran” – Cal Tjader – Soul Burst
- “Autumn Sweater” – Tortoise* – A Lazarus Taxon
This one opens with Hell’s Belles, my cousin’s killer all female AC/DC tribute band. I’ve seen them twice and both times, well, they rocked and I saluted them. I wrote about their shows at Stubb’s and Antone’s (links go to my posts) and hope they come back to Austin soon.
Donald Byrd flies off in the third track reminding me why I have all his electric albums, and we close with Tortoise, a band I saw at ACL Fest a few years ago and would love to see again. Based on the members of that band and all the other bands they’re in (Gastr Del Soul, The Sea and Cake, Chicago Underground Trio, Isotope 217) I suspect the Chicago music scene must be something to behold.
Continuing last week’s tradition of looking in wikipedia for today’s musical anniversaries, I find that Ron Carter was born in 1937. Carter played bass in Miles’ second quintet, the better of the two, in my opinion, though he fled when Miles discovered electricity and told jazz to go funk itself.
James Brush is a teacher and writer who lives in Austin, TX. He tries to get outside as much as possible.
Haven’t thought about Ron Carter in awhile. When an undergrad my roomie was completely into jazz and I was completely into rock and we both had large, for 18-year-olds, record collections but the two were completely different. That’s when I learned something about jazz, which I like but have kept at arm’s length as I don’t need ot buy even more CDs. Still, I fondly recall Ron Carter’s album Piccolo…worth checking out if you don’t know it.
That’s kind of how I feel about classical music.