096: Bill Evans (solo), ‘Easy To Love’

Evans, his pain, and the music: “I have always preferred playing without an audience.”
Read full postEvans, his pain, and the music: “I have always preferred playing without an audience.”
Read full post1966–when Paul Simon mistook Jeff for Art and gave away that unforgettable, bouncy ‘Red Rubber Ball’.
Read full postOn Holocaust Day we remember the incomprehensible persecution suffered by Moldovan/Polish/Russian Jewish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919–1996) at the hands of both the Nazis and the Soviets.
Read full postA fetching beauty with a catchy rock song in a first-rate jazz context. What more could one ask for?
Saxophonist Tim Ries toured extensively with The Stones, who sponsored his very fine, very varied Rolling Stones Project.
It’s Passover! Let’s sing a song of slavery!
Paul Robeson brought the Spiritual to the concert hall, singing the suffering and indignity of his own father in slavery. A remarkable life any standards.
Most of the little I understand of the female psyche I’ve learned from Joni Mitchell.
Read full postThis is what the kids call, I believe, a “mind-fuck.”
You hear it, you see it, but you can’t believe it.
Who da daddy of rap?
Who da grandaddy?
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