Tag: Jazz

Tautochronous Hot Links


Moonlight Shuffle, Les Elgart & His Orchestra (1959)
After successful runs with several big bands of the 1940s, Les Elgart and his brother Larry formed their own orchestra with a distinctive brass-heavy sound. Their most recognizable recording, Bandstand Boogie, became the theme song to Dick Clark’s American Bandstand television show.

Ice.

Hi, fly.

Not funny.

Snow taffy.

Spud storm.

Infinity cube.

The sad truth.

Going down slow.

The blizzard of ’78.

Mean Joe & the kid.

Antique brass band.

Early indoctrination.

Afro-Caribbean vibes.

Masudaya Gemini X-5.

Rubber Chicken Museum.

The polar bears are doing just fine.

Bruce Lee vs. a Navy Seal instructor.

Ideal Astrobase [via Everlasting Blört].

The art of the hole [via Memo Of The Air].

New Hampshire and Maine prepare for war.

Calve’s Head dressed Turtle Fashion & other recipes
[via Thompson, blog].

Postcards of the Russo-Japan War [via Nag on the Lake].

[Top image: flipped Waffle found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Tom Waits, Masa Takumi & The Nimmo Brothers

From FB: Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing
In September 1988, fresh off the release of his concert film Big Time, Waits sat down with music journalist Chris Roberts in a London recording studio. Captured on a rare cassette recording amidst ambient studio noise, Waits takes us on a journey from Stonehenge and the streets of New York to a surreal Hawaiian nightmare.

Grammy winner Masa Takumi (a.k.a. Masanori Takumi) is a Japanese artist, composer, songwriter and producer. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, he learned trumpet at 8 years old, and by high school was playing drums, guitar, bass and piano.

In 1995 guitarists Stevie Nimmo and his brother Alan formed The Nimmo Brothers band in Glasgow. Performing here with Matt Beable on bass and Craig Bacon on drums.

Hope everyone survived the New Year’s festivities. We didn’t have as many fireworks or sirens as in previous years, and I take that as a good omen.
Porch season starts tomorrow and I plan to attend, rain or shinola.

Happy New Year’s Eve 2025 – End of Year Playlist

The end of a long year deserves a playlist to bring in the new one, so here’s a compilation of tunes that tugged on my earballs in 2025. Each set is in chronological order by date of recording.

Set 1 – January, February, March & April

Set 2 – May, June, July & August

Set 3 – September, October, November & December

I omitted seasonal tunes from the Halloween and Christmas  playlists. Last year’s playlist (2024) is here, and the 2023 EoY list is here.

And one more thing:
May You Have a Happy & Prosperous New Year!

[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

Christmas Eve Rock


A random selection of tunes to wrap presents by.

Bonus: Previously posted Christmas tunes can be found here.

[Caveat: No copyright infringement is intended; songs posted here are for entertainment purposes only.]

R. Crumb’s Jazz Record Find

Side A – Goofus, Slim Lamar’s Southerners (1928)Side B – Happy, Slim Lamar’s Southerners (1928) [R. Crumb‘s graphics found here via here.]

Grobianismic Hot Links

Eager Beaver, The Stan Kenton Orchestra (1956 version)  First recorded in 1942 by Kenton’s Artistry In Rhythm orchestra, this version of Eager Beaver features Vido Musso on tenor sax and Maynard Ferguson on trumpet.

This.

Opinion.

Głupi Cyklista.

Timesaving tip.

The Comments.

“Tell everyone!“

Invasive Species.

The Bunny of ’79.

Ten years overdue.

Easy as British pie…

The best audiences.

R.I.P. Robert Redford.

Cross like a pedestrian.

Coffee time in Paradise.

Selectramatonic Mouth.

Norty Blues Episode 134.

Scamming the scammers.

Yosemite, Bode and Jellyfish.

Ronnie Spector hid the Beatles.

Spin cycle [via Everlasting Blört].

Paper Loops [via Memo Of The Air].

Building a castle [via Nag on the Lake].

Fighting with clothes [more at My OBT].

Open Reel Ensemble [via Thompson, blog].

[Image at top: Roman mosaic from somewhere, found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Labor Day 2025

Random tunes to burn your weenies, burgers and buns by.


Caveat: I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.

[Image found in here.]

Saturday Matinee – Emmaline, The Teskey Brothers & Toby Lee

 “Quite Like Me” is a diss track that I wrote to my friend’s EX-boyfriend. Now, I don’t write diss tracks often, but this guy was the absolute worst, folks — and that’s putting it in the nicest way possible!”
Vocalist, violinist and songwriter Emmaline has won much recognition for her jazz / torch song recordings and performances both on stage and on screen. I think this is one of the prettiest f-u songs I’ve ever heard. [h/t Octo.]

Josh Teskey (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Sam Teskey (lead guitar) formed The Tesky Brothers in 2008.  Based in Melbourne, Australia, they faithfully resurrect the sounds of 1960s/70s soul.

Born in Oxfordshire England in 2005, Toby Lee played Zack Mooneyham in the New London Theatre production of School of Rock the Musical in 2016 and was named UK Young Blues Artist of the Year in 2018. Since then he’s shared the stage with the likes of Buddy Guy, Billy Gibbons, Peter Frampton, Slash, Joe Bonamassa, and Jools Holland, and has a number one record to boot.

We didn’t have any junebugs this year, but the julybugs made a good show. I found some barfed up catfood next to the trash bin, and the neighbor got a new roof and a Solatube. I was informed that the word picnic is racist for some made-up reason, and tomorrow is porch time. See you around  half past whenever.

Happy Independence Day!

Independence Day 1919 Washington D.C.

Have a happy 4th, and if you do the splody things, may you have the same number of fingers tomorrow – your hair will grow back, but they won’t. For those in the BBQ and beer crowd, here are some random tunes from the archives in no particular order.

[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of the recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

Saturday Matinee – The Courettes, The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio & Mia Dyson

Dubbed The World’s Greatest Two Person Rock ‘N’ Roll Ensemble, Flavia & Martin Couri, aka The Fabulous Courettes, are proof that Phil Spector lives.

The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio (aka DLO3) grooves it
Delvon Lamarr – Hammond B3 organ
Jabrille “Jimmy James” Williams – guitar
David McGraw – drums

Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist Mia Dyson was raised in a musical family near Daylesford and later Torquay. Influenced by her father, Jim Dyson, a blues guitarist and luthier who crafted her first guitar, she’s now considered one of Australia’s top 25 guitarists.

Got some unexpected good news this week, but you gotta wait a bit. I’ll do a brief write up soonish, or you can stop by the porch tomorrow and I’ll bring you up to speed. See you whenever.