Day 113 - Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man
Great jazz funk fusion by Herbie Hancock, expect the other three track on this album to apear on this site before it reaches the 10.000 limit. This track has percusionist Bill Summers blowing in a beer bottle, propably the only time a beer bottle was used as an instrument in a recording studio.
Day 93 - Moondog - Lament I, Bird’s Lament
I love the music that My Morning Jacket is using as intro music for their Evil Urges tour so I used google to find out what it is. The answer: Moondog with Lament I, Bird’s Lament.
Moondog is a self taught composer, who was born as Louis Thomas Hardin. He became blind at the age of 16. He lived in New York till 1974 as street musician and poet. In 1974 he moved to Germany which was, as he believed, the holy land with the holy river (the rhine). An amazing life, and amazing music.
YouTube: Lament I, Bird’s Lament, original recording with some photo
Day 81 - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin’
Another Moanin’, this time written by Jazz Messengers pianist Bobby Timmons.
Day 80 - Charles Mingus - Moanin’
Great tune by Charles Mingus, realy nice big band music.
Day 35 - Masada - Beeroth
Joey Baron is one of the greatest drummers alive, here you can hear and see him playing in John Zorn’s Masada quartet. Amazing!
About this/me
About this:
Inspired by Tuuur, who was inspired by Glenn Case, I will be posting some song of the day posts over here. This blog is written in (poor) English, but since I’m from the Netherlands there will be some Dutch songs and/or lyrics passing by.
About me:
I live in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, a short train ride from Amsterdam. I like open source software, open-minded people and bars open all night.
