T-Bone Walker - Goin' to Chicago

Vladimir Horowitz live in Milano 1985 (Scarlatti, Schumann, Scriabin, Sc...

Willie Dixon & Walter "Shakey" Horton - My Babe!

J.-B. Lully: Ballet Royal de la Nuit

William Herschel (1738-1822) - Symphony No 12 in D major

Miles Davis - All Blues (Audio)

John Coltrane - Equinox (Original)

Louis Armstrong - Satchmo At His Best - Legends In Concert

Ready for The New Year

2017 JUST AROUND THE CORNER.  Get psyched up and back to nature (as Thoreau implied).  You guys let's vividly enjoy the new beginnings of the year 2017.

Count Basie

The Meaning of Christmas Day

ON THIS 2016 fine day one reflects on so many memories.  Such good times with family and friends but remembering most of all this day called December 25th is the birthday of Jesus Christ.  And this is so WONDERFUL!

Top 30 Songs Of Christmas 2016 || Best Songs Of Merry Christmas

Mulgrew Miller Trio and Stefano di Battista part 1

Yellowjackets Live at Java Jazz Festival 2016

Wynton Marsalis Christmas Jazz Jam

Unforgettable PEPPER ADAMS QUINTET

Christmas Eve 2016

CHRISTMAS EVE brings back many memories.  This signals the coming of Christ. This day is LOVE!

Michael Connelly

THE NEW MICHAEL CONNELLY novel, titled 'The Wrong Side of Goodbye' is a super book on the superb Mr. Bosch.  I find the Connelly books quite clever.  This brand new novel is a super cultural gem.

Josef Mysliveček Symphonies Nos.1-6

Max Bruch - Scottish Fantasy

LSU Day - Golden Girls

The LSU Tiger Marching Band on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans

LSU Day - Golden Girls

Christmas Is Great

I LOVE CHRISTMAS.  The excited faces of young and old are marvelous this time of year.

India greatness

PASSAGE TO INDIA movie on Turner was terrific last night.  The David Lean genius shone brightly in this film,

Freddie Hubbard Live at the Village Vanguard

The Jazz Life featuring Johnny Griffin at the Village Vanguard - 1981

T.G. Albinoni: Oboe Concertos [Il Fondamento - P. Dombrecht]

Bizet - Symphony in C Major

Raymond Chandler Really Rocks

TOUGH GUY writer Raymond Chandler make us all know how he represents an integral part  of our ersatz odd U.S. culture.  Chandler rocks so powerfully.  His books, 'The High Window" and 'Playback' prove engaging and feisty raw stories of the weird people among us.  Interesting guy this fellow known as Chandler.

Duke Ellington piano solo [Rarest of the rare recordings!]

Earl Hines Solo Montreux 1974

Chet baker in Milan - 1959 (Full album)

A. Scarlatti: "Penelope la casta" [Lautten Compagney Berlin]

'The Gambler'

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY is a sleek, vigorously engaging author. His works stun our minds...they propel us out of our horrid doldrums.  I read his cunning little novel, 'The Gambler' recently.  The work has profound overtones.  It has the aura of what it is...i.e. a work of genius.



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A. Vivaldi: «La Stravaganza» 12 Violin Concertos Op.4 [L'Arte dell'Arco]

Top classical music of French Baroque Concertos.1 Hour classical music. HQ

Sir Arthur Sullivan - Symphony in E Major "Irish" (1866)

Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Gerry Mulligan Quartet With Chet Baker [Full Al...

Eric Clapton - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2014

Mercy Mercy Mercy Buddy Rich Big Band

Jean Paul Sartre...The clever Soulnik

SARTRE remains a slick, clever guy oh Lord Yes.  When I feel odd I read the meandering but vigorously, terrific existentialism of the wild Frenchman, Jean Paul Sartre.  I know that the crafty tome of Sartre's entitled 'Being and Nothingness' is profane and yet a grand think piece on the contemporary human condition.  The poignant, mad piece de resistance 'Nausea' is also a bright, engaging and remarkable foray into the insane clever aspects of all us humans' lives.  Sartre proves a cunning delight just like the 'cool' Jean Paul Belmondo film way back there in 1959 and a part of that slick ethos of that particular time.

Cecil Barfield - Georgia Blues

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor, Op. 18 - HD

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 performed by Evgeny Kissin

Roy Haynes Trio - Heineken Jazzaldia 2009

Oscar Peterson Bossa Nova

Don Ellis - Bulgarian Bulge (1971)

Wynton Kelly trio, Wes Montgomery - Smokin' at the half note Full album

Bizet - Symphony in C Major

Brahms: 1. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Stanisław Skrowaczewski

Blue Greens And Beans Blue Gene 1958

Brahms, Symphony Nr 3 F Dur op 90 Leonard Bernstein, Wiener Philharm...

Allen Eager Quartet - Rampage

Ryukyu Dynasty Parade Dance Performance & Demostrations

Bobby Darin - Some Of These Days

Bobby Darin - The Great Performer - Legends In Concert

Tony Bennett - Legends in Concert

Johnny Griffin - A Monk's Dream

Miles Davis - Four - 1953 (Full album)

Chet baker in Milan - 1959 (Full album)

Georg Schumann - Symphony in B Minor (1887)

Georgy Catoire - Symphony in C Minor (1889)

Gabriel Faure's Requiem Op. 48 Complete (Best Recording)

Bela Bartok-Violin Concerto No. 2

Lennie Niehaus "The Octet #2 Vol. 3" 1955 West Coast Jazz FULL ALBUM

BEGIN Japanology - Ryukyu Kimono

Ryukyu Dynasty Parade 2016

Friedrich Ernst Fesca(1789-1826):Symphony Nº3,Op.13 in D major(1816)

Karl Goldmark(1830-1915):Violin Concerto Nº1 in A minor Op.28(1877).

Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt - Harp Concerto (1807)

William Herschel (1738-1822) - Symphony No 12 in D major

Anton Eberl - Symphony in E-flat major, Op.33 (1803) (MUST HEAR)

Camille Saint-Saëns - Symphony No.1 in E-flat major, Op.2 (1853)

Nancy Wilson - Full Concert - 08/15/87 - Newport Jazz Festival (OFFICIAL)

Sarah Vaughan - Hit Songs Collection

Sarah Vaughan, live at Mr. Kelly's, Chicago, 1957 (full album)

Darrell Simmons...Superb Man of The Atlanta Journal

DARRELL SIMMONS, a truly great man of The Atlanta Journal, passed yesterday.  I first met Darrell in the very early 1970s about the time that I too started working with the fine and passionate people of The Atlanta Journal.  For sure when I met the man we all called 'D' I was struck immediately with what a friendly, kind and strong under pressure gentleman he was.  He could organize and make pages in those good old '"hot type" days as good as most any man I ever saw.  He and the charismatic one Frank Hyland were always together.  They were like "brothers" in the frenetic, high pressure wild world of old-time newspapering.  I remember how there were so many super guys with the Journal back in those days.  Lewis Grizzard, Ron Hudspeth, and the super duo of Darrell Simmons and Frank Hyland were just super-fine men to be around.  I have so many terrific memories of the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Darrell Simmons.  And of course Mr. Frank Hyland (who passed last year) holds a special place in my heart, also.

Alexander Glazunov Violin Concerto In A Minor Op 82 HQ Meditation Concen...

Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas

The 6th WORLD WIDE UCHINANCHU FESTIVAL

6th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival Parade, Oct 26 2016

Frank Foster - Jazz lounge, bebop & swing, Frank Foster Live At the Nhit...

Pleasing Jazz Music

PASSIONATE Jazz music can make us feel joy.  And believe me joy is a good thing.  I love listening to Coltrane, Monk and Diz.  The sound of brilliant jazz enraptures me totally.  Eating good tomato sandwiches and for that matter any kind of grand vegetables produces in me a vibrant glow that brings so many enjoyable musical rhapsodies to my brain.

Georges Bizet - Symphony No. 2 "Roma" (1861)

Friendly Folks

LET'S GET FRIENDLY.  Lord knows we need more friendly folks in our culture.  Listen to Colbert and Fallon.  Laugh. Do not be puffed up.  Enjoy the vivid music of Lady Gaga.  Have fun,

B.B. King Jams with Slash and Others (6/6) Live at the Royal Albert Hall...

"Sweet Home Chicago" (Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Robert Cra...

Luther Allison - Live in Paris (Full Album)

Count Basie Live at Newport 1957: One O'Clock Jump

Max Bruch - Symphony No.3 in E-major, Op.51 (1887)

Brahms, Symphony Nr 3 F Dur op 90 Leonard Bernstein, Wiener Philharm...

Chicago Cubs and Our Culture

SUPER CHICAGO CUBS made grand cultural history yesterday.  This time represented a breakthrough.  Cubs pride has topped the 1945 deal from before.  So superb the way Chicago Cubs baseball stardom has unified all of us U.S. People

Moritz Moszkowski - Piano Concerto Op. 3 (1874)

The Boss Baby Official Trailer - Teaser (2017) - Alec Baldwin Movie

COUNT BASIE Swingin' the Blues, 1941 HOT big band swing jazz

Franz Schubert - Symphony No.4 in C-minor, D.417 "Tragic" (1816)

Jacques Offenbach -Barcarolle.HQ

The Interesting Karin Slaughter

KARIN SLAUGHTER produces books that sleekly encapsulate the bizarre world of Atlanta in the last several decades.  She is strong-minded and the female characters in her stories portray the thinking of modern Atlanta and Georgia women in a very clever way.  Her book titled 'Criminal' is an odd foray into the female police world.  It has a vigorous verbal approach that combines the zesty comic and the somewhat tough tones of contemporary women's thought patterns.  In many ways lyrical and strong Karin Slaughter dives into the deep water of the human experience.  Oddly, she brings to mind the sharp verbal thrusts like those orchestrated by the ultra-sophisticated Dorothy Parker and the bravado one...the one and only Patricia Highsmith.  Read Karin Slaughter and gain plenty of knowledge of our unique Atlanta and Georgia culture.

Sergei Rachmaninoff plays his Piano Concerto No. 2

Duke Pearson Trio - Witchcraft

GMG CD43102 - Chet Baker - Milano Sessions 1959

Schubert - Unfinished Symphony No. 8 (FULL)

Monty Alexander Trio - Jazz in Marciac 2011

Rued Langgaard - Symphony No.1 in B-minor, BVN 32 "Klippepastoraler" (1...

Archie Shepp - Blue Ballads (Full Album)

Sahib Shihab ‎– Sentiments (full album) 1972

GMG CD43103 Chet Baker and Bud Shank - Milano Sessions 1958-1959

Modern Jazz Quartet - Blues In C Minor

Sonny Clark - I Didn't Know What Time It Was

Saxophone Music Brings Us High Energy

SAXOPHONE music helps vigorously power the human brain.  The passionate tones of the alto, tenor or even the large baritone sax can produce super feelings in all of us humans.  Listening to fine saxophone artists like John Coltrane or Sonny Rollins gives us men and women delightful new dimensions in our lives.

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf - Symphony in C-major "La Prise de la Basti...

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Prince Albert (1955)

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, "One By One"

Johnny Griffin & Matthew Gee, "Mood for Cryin'"

Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No. 3 "The Divine Poem" (1902)

Oscar Peterson Bossa Nova

Traditional Japanese music - Honnō-ji

Azuma Kabuki Musicians Nagauta Music 1954 (with liner notes)

JapanFest On Saturday and Sunday

JAPANFEST starts this Saturday and Continues on Sunday. It will be at the Infinite Energy Center (formerly called the Gwinnett Center) at 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth.  We are so excited.  This is going to be a powerful celebration of the fabulous, unique Japanese culture.  There will be lots of Japanese food, marvelous martial arts, a Kabuki performance, Sanshin instrumental music and dances from Okinawa, the Japanese Prefecture, and a fine Anime Village.  Also JapanFest will feature fun for children and people of all ages.  Come to JapanFest on Saturday and Sunday and have a great time.

1 Hour of Japanese Instrumental Music

Jean Baptiste Lully - L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil

Hank Mobley - Recado Bossa Nova

JapanFest Coming 9-17, 9-18

JAPANFEST is coming in one more week.  The great event will happen next Saturday and Sunday (9-17 and 9-18) at The Infinite Energy Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth. JAPANFEST will be from 10 to 6 on Saturday and 10 to 5 on Sunday. The Infinite Energy Center is the former Gwinnett Center.  JAPANFEST will be a truly superb exchange of ideas and cultural, fascinating things will happen.  There will be many grand original dance performances, Kabuki theater shows and also unique displays of what Japanese companies are doing in the state of Georgia.  Also, there will be many fun things for children of all ages.  Come to JAPANFEST and have an exciting wonderful time.

P. I. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 (Fedoseyev)

Wayne Shorter - Yes Or No

1 Hour with The Best Of FRENCH CLASSICAL MUSIC (French Baroque Music) HQ

Baroque Music from The Netherlands

JapanFest Thoughts

THE 2016 JAPANFEST is coming on 9-17 and 9-18 at Gwinnett's Infinite Energy Center on 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway Duluth Ga....It will be great. Fantastic culture of Japan celebrated.

Louis Prima - Night Train

Paul Klee (Abstraction, Expressionism, Cubism & Surrealism)

HOROWITZ's Last recording of CHOPIN'S Nocturne Op55#2 in E-flat

Virgil Gonsalves "Jazz - San Francisco Style" 1956 West Coast FULL ALBUM

Bette Midler - Big Noise From Winnetka - The Showgirl Must Go On - 2008

Gene Wilder

SUPER COMIC MAN Gene wilder has passed.  His 'Young Frankenstein, ' 'Willy Wonka' and 'Blazing Saddles' were so remarkable.  Mr. Wilder personified GREATNESS!

Joachim Raff - Sinfonietta (1873)

2016 JapanFest

JAPANFEST 2016 is coming.  The big celebration will take place at the Infinite Energy Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, in Duluth, Georgia.  A great number of fine activities accentuating the unique culture of Japan will take place.  This is always a marvelous experience for everyone, Adults and Children.

Stanley Turrentine - Feeling Good

Culture Shock

U.S. POLITICS seems so weird now.  It jumps around madly like ancient mtv videos. George Orwell and H.L. Mencken would dearly love this rhapsody in fervent oddness.  It appears picaresque like an Archie Shepp vitriolic jazz solo.

John Scofield Uberjam Band - Sarajevo Jazz Festival 2013

Stanley Clarke Band - Jazz in Marciac 2015 || Full HD

Count Basie And His Big Band - 1965

Bill Evans Project with Dean Brown, Darryl Jones, Dennis Chambers - Esti...

Cesar Franck: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op 11, Martijn van den Hoek

Marcus Miller Live at Java Jazz Festival 2013

Maurice Ravel-String Quartet in F Major (Complete)

Kurt Atterberg - Symphony No.2 in F-major, Op.6 (1913)

Happyology - Yusef Lateef

Sonny Stitt - Blues Greasy

Sensational Jazz Trio with Female Vocalist

China Moses "Dinah's blues" (live)

Victor Feldman - Rio HQ

Zdeněk Fibich - Symphony No. 2 (1893)

Théodore Gouvy - Piano Quintet (1850)

CARLOS SANTANA w/ JOHN McLAUGHLIN Live MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL 2015 HD

Yellowjackets Live at Java Jazz Festival 2016

Brahms-Quintet for Piano and Strings in f minor op. 34 (Complete)

Ceora (live, disc 2) - Lee Morgan

James Joyce....Cultural Strong Man

JAMES JOYCE produced passionate culture-shock works..His mighty 'U' and the extremely provocative 'Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man' had so much literary depth.  When one consumes the prose of Joyce with its incredible intensity one gets a vibrant feeling in the blood marrow that feels fantastic.

Arnold Bax - Symphony No. 2 (1926)

The exciting cultural oddity named Erkskine Caldwell

ERKSKINE CALDWELL is a poignant, strange author of many decades ago.  His vivid novels, 'Tobacco Road' and 'God's Little Acre' are vibrant cultural studies of the maddening poor culture of the people of the Deep South.  Mr. Caldwell can really spin unique tales.

Maurice de Vlaminck

THE FRENCH PAINTER, MAURICE DE VLAMINCK  overwhelms us.  He along with Andre Derain and Henri Matisse were part of the passionate, strong art group. the Fauvists.....the Fauvists threw out regular art and went with moods.  Their works stagger us with blunt authentic styling.  

August Klughardt - Symphony No. 4 (1897)

The Great Jazz Trio by Hank Jones - Live at Tokyo Jazz 2008

Georges Bizet - Symphony No. 2 "Roma" (1861)

Wagner ~ The Ring - Forest Murmurs

Anton Reicha - Clarinet Concerto in G-minor (1815)

Norman Mailer's 'The Deer Park'

THE DEER PARK delves into the maddening violent arena of life in Hollywood and its environs.  This strong book by Big Literary Guy Norman Mailer burst profoundly on to the madcap American literary scene in the mid-1950s,  I find Mailer's Deer Park people profoundly unique.  It is a joy to find one's self literally engulfed in the odd, sensual and sly world of the mind of Mr. Norman Mailer.  Just like the notorious bad gentleman Henry Miller of the 30s and 40s Mr. Mailer packs a gigantic wallop of a story into this vitriolic koo-koo cornucopia of devilish goings on in the semi-modern abruptness contained in the N. Mailer scenario tagged 'Deer Park.'  Norman Mailer swings like a radical solo of John Coltrane.  The man Mailer proves boiling hot literary excitement indeed.

Bud Shank Plays Tenor 1960 West Coast Jazz LP FULL ALBUM

Aram Khachaturian - Symphony No.3 "Symphony--Poem" (1947)

The Modern Jazz Quartet - Space [1969] (Full Album, HQ)

Sahib Shihab - Sahib Shihab and the Danish Radio Jazz Group [Full Album]

The Wonderful Start of School

AUGUST IS GREAT!  I love this time of year when school starts.  It is exciting.  The children of our culture are at a high energy level.  The parents are so happy and so very proud of their daughters and sons.  It is a SUPER time...this thing we call August.

Joe Lovano Us Five - Heineken Jazzaldia 2009

Diana Krall - Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2013

Saul Bellow

SAUL BELLOW has made his mark on American culture in a huge way.  This author has produced terrific and so feisty novels.  I feel that his super modern books, 'The Victim' and 'Herzog' are monumental powerhouse literary achievements.

James M. Cain...shrewd one

JAMES M. CAIN had a virile passion deep in the veins of  his writing heart.  His fine novel...'Serenade'...was so very poignant and vibrant and slick.

Jim Thompson...Super Author

MARVELOUS JIM THOMPSON is overwhelming.  I read his wow, powerhouse books and I find them amazing.  The man has an uncanny ability to put together sly and profound plot lines.  I truly believe his novels...'A Swell Looking Babe' and 'The Grifters' are terrific examples of powerhouse writing.  We need more of this brand of good tough guy stories.  Like George V, Higgins, Mr, Thompson can spin a mighty interesting story line.

'Suits' TV Drama Is So Clever

'SUITS' is such a magnificent drama show on the feisty USA Network.  I love the crafty writing..the  plots and the masterful acting...especially the passionate character of Harvey on this program.  As a long-time editor and writer myself I sincerely appreciate the resounding and good screen writing that pops up on this high class show all the time.  God Bless the people of the grand 'SUITS.'

Rued Langgaard - Symphony No.1 in B-minor, BVN 32 "Klippepastoraler" (1...

Sans Souci - Art Farmer Quintet featuring Gigi Gryce

Barenboim: Mahler Symphony No. 5 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Koln Phil...

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi 12 Concertos for Violin & Oboe, Op. 7

Georg Friedrich Handel Concerti Grossi Op 6 N 1-12

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov - Fantasia on Russian Themes / Фантазия на русск...

Ow!

Stanley Turrentine - Sugar.avi

Béla Bartók - Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117 (Frank Peter Zimmermann - ON...

Vasily Kalinnikov - Symphony No.2 in A-major (1897)

Hans Rott - Symphony in E Major (1880)

Horace Silver - Señor Blues (Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell & Junior Cook)

Edgar Allan Poe

POE WAS A GENIUS!....I have always admired the incredible works of Edgar Allan Poe.  This gentleman who has been called the inventor of the modern detective story is a profound proponent of quite clever prose.  His two works...'The Fall Of The House of Usher' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart' are masterpieces.  I love the skillful way Poe puts his narratives together.

Raymond Chandler.....Strong Prose Artist

SHREWD...That's the word for Raymond Chandler.  His novels are chic and hit us on so very many levels.  His material is a fine ingredient of our unusual culture.  Two of his works...'The High Window' and 'Playback' are fun jewels in the Chandler ouvre.  I feel energized by Mr. Chandler for he comprehends the art of literary modernistic structure....just like a more recent writing guy, the sharp prose denizen, Mr, Joseph Finder.

Brahms-Pianoconcerto no. 2 in B-flat Major op. 83 (Complete)

Georges Bizet - Symphony no. 1 in C major, Charles Munch (conductor)

Chopin - Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 (60 MINUTES) - Classical Music Piano Study...

Chopin - Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 (60 MINUTES) - Classical Music Piano Study...

Victoria Justice ★ Hottest Tribute Ever! (Explicit)

Joseph Ryelandt - Symphony No.4 in E-flat minor, Op.55, WW 111 "Credo" (...

Mr. Crews

NEW BOOK on writer Harry Crews is engaging.  Fine writing by Ted Geltner.

Don't Stop the Carnival - Sonny Rollins - From "What's New?" (1962, w/ J...

Beyond Category Cyrus Chestnut

Sonny Rollins - There is no greater love

Smetana ~ Moldau

Toulouse-Lautrec

THE PROVOCATIVE ART of the engaging French painter, Toulouse-Lautrec has enchanted me for many exciting years.  His firebrand art vision of the tempestuous arena of France's clubs and entertainment centers proves a remarkable aesthetic achievement.  The archaic cultural absurdity we find ourselves enmeshed in now can get vastly bettered by letting ourselves enjoy massively the grand culture shock of the feisty French gentlemen of the incredible worlds of the past.

Independence Day

I HOPE all enjoyed the grand July 4th.

Barry Lyndon Film....Such Creativity

LAST NIGHT WAS BARRY LYNDON FILM GREATNESS. I enjoyed this 'Lyndon' film by the powerhouse  superman director, Stanley Kubrick so very much.  The performance of Ryan O'Neal in the lead role was terrific and meaningful.  There appear so many fine levels in this work of cinematic art.  Kubrick provides the brain so many zesty breakthroughs.  When Turner classic had this one on last evening I was so tremendously happy.

Earl Klugh Live at Java Jazz Festival 2013

Bela Bartok-Violin Concerto No. 2

Horace Silver - Filthy McNasty

Elmo Hope Mo Is On

Sir Arthur Sullivan - Symphony in E Major "Irish" (1866)

Giovanni Sgambati - Symphony No. 1 (1880) **MUST HEAR**

Joachim Raff - Symphony No. 7 "In the Alps" (1875)

Sibelius - Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 43 - Vänskä

Hancock, Shorter, Holland, Blade Tokyo Jazz 2004 Part 1

Count Basie "live in 1962", full, Jazz Icons, Freddie Green on Guitar, S...

WILLIAMS Star Wars, The Force Awakens: 4. Jedi Steps and Finale - "The P...

Dave Holland & Pepe Habichuela - Heineken Jazzaldia 2010

Georges Bizet - Petite suite d'orchestre. Jeux d'enfants

Bill Evans Trio - Without A Song

Dexter Gordon - Doxy

Doxy: Sonny Rollins

Charles Mingus Live in Berlin 1972 Part 1

Read Dickens...Get New Energy

CHARLES DICKENS remains genius personified.  Read Charles Dickens books 'Oliver Twist' and 'Great Expectations' and right away you will feel a burst of creative energy.  Your life and your writing will rocket upward.  Culturally, the Bristish and the French prove grand people, indeed. Let us remember that credo so cunning.

Charlie Shavers - In a Mellowtone Feb, 1970

Just Jazz - Art Hodes w/ Wild Bill Davison - Keeping Out Of Mischief.mpg

Philip Caputo

POWERFUL PHILIP CAPUTO is a wonderful man of words.  His super book...'A Rumor of War' is overwhelming.  All of us persons who dealt heavily with the odd world that was Vietnam can identify very heavily with Caputo's work titled 'Rumor' et. al.  I think Caputo's prose is divine for it encapsulates skillfully the horrendous tones of a war that was very strange indeed.

Saint-Saëns-Cello Concerto no 1 in a minor op 33 (Complete)

Franz Schubert - Symphony No.2 in B-flat major, D.125 (1815)

Schubert / Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, D. 485 (Mackerras)

Schubert-Symphony no. 9 in C Major D. 944-"The Great" (Complete)

Cecil Taylor - The World Of Cecil Taylor

Michel Camilo - Full Concert - 08/18/91 - Newport Jazz Festival (OFFICIAL)

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi 12 Concertos for Violin & Oboe, Op. 7

Lee Morgan - Charisma (Full album)

Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30

Claude Debussy - La Mer

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.3, Mov.1 by Argerich, Sokhiev, RAI-NSO (2008)

The Crusaders - Full Concert - 08/15/87 - Newport Jazz Festival (OFFICIAL)

Beethoven: Egmont Overture - Masur / Gewandhausorchester

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture Op.21 by Masur, LGO (1997)

Count Basie "live in 1962", full, Jazz Icons, Freddie Green on Guitar, S...

Coleman Hawkins – Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Brandford Marsalis Quartet - Mo' Better Blues.

Barry Harris plays Tadd Dameron (Full Album)

Georges Henri Roualt

ENGAGING and EXPRESSIONISTIC paintings by the sleek French art clever one, Georges Henri Roualt, tend to engulf us in the strongest sense one can fathom.  His inventive and intense clown paintings are wild and thrilling.  His mastery of the art genre of brittle fauvism seems an indication of bright psycho aestheticism indeed.

Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk

Stanley Clarke Band feat. Hiromi - Heineken Jazzaldia 2010

Wagner ~ Rienzi Overture

Mahler -- Symphony No. 2 'Auferstehung'

A. Vivaldi: Mandolin and Lute Concertos [L'Arte dell'Arco - F.Guglielmo]

Sahib Shihab - Sahib Shihab and the Danish Radio Jazz Group [Full Album]

W.F. Ranew, Novelist

'SCHOOLHOUSE MAN' is a well-written clever novel Atlanta man W.F. Ranew has produced.  The story is clever and it tells the journey of a  guy returning to his former environs in South Georgia.  This work has echoes of Harry Crews and Karin Slaughter and even the crafty Elmore Leonard.  Great read.

Lester Young - Blues for Greasy (1950)

Earl Hines ‎– Fine & Dandy (FULL ALBUM)

Mulgrew Miller - What a Difference a Day Makes

Stanley T. - The Return Of The Prodigal Son (full album)

Chopin Nocturne Op.9 No.2 (Arthur Rubinstein)

Wagner ~ Tannhäuser Overture

Georges Bizet - Les Pecheurs de Perles

Sonny Rollins Trio 1959 - Lady Bird

Benny Green Watermelon Man

Tenor Battle: Tina Brooks & David Fathead Newman with Ray Charles Orchestra

Hank Mobley - Soul Station (Full Album) 1960

The Blues

LISTENING to Blues men like Buddy Guy and Luther Allison really rocks.  What a perfect engaging experience.  Blues seems culture heavy.

Hank Jones' The Great Jazz Trio - Blue Note, Tokyo, Japan, 2009-02-18

Moanin' - Clint Ashlock's Jazz Messengers Tribute Sextet featuring Bobby...

Essential Gioacchino Rossini. 1 Hour Classical Music. Energetic Arias In...

STAN KENTON LIVE AT THE TROPICANA.

Georges Bizet - Symphony No. 2 "Roma" (1861)

Edvard Grieg - Symphony in C-minor, EG 119 (1864)

Debussy - La cathédrale engloutie

Chris Potter - Live at Blue Note (Milan, Italy - 2012)

Joey DeFrancesco Trio Live at Toronto Sky Festival July 2015

Celebrating Bird The Triumph of Charlie Parker

CHARLIE PARKER LIVE AT THE FINALE CLUB 1946 FULL ALBUM

STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY (1941) - Charlie Christian live in small club

when doves cry-prince(original)

Kenny Drew - Light Piano, Heavy Notes & Blues For Nica

1 Hour Classical Music - The Best of Erik Satie (Piano Masterpieces - Fu...

Dvorak

THE CULTURAL JOY that is the music of Dvorak overwhelms.  The fervent, sonorous sounds are amazingly articulate just like the music of Haydn.

Truls Mørk: Dvorák Cello Concerto in B minor Op. 104, 1-3 mvt. - 26.01.11

Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Jazzfestival Bern 1990

The Montgomery Brothers - Groove Yard [Full Album]

Beethoven 9 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Riccardo Muti

Cyrus Chestnut Trio: Jazz! Gospel! Latin!

Pat Martino "Just Friends"

Atlanta's George's

VIRGINIA-HIGHLANDS area of Atlanta is so very 'hip.'  I had a great lunch at George's place in the ATL North Highland Avenue today.  Such a marvelous burger there.  George's rocks.

Gabriel Fauré-Requiem op. 48 (Complete)

Stanley Turrentine - Sunny

Short Story Musings

FRANZ KAFKA AND J. SALINGER....such clever wordsmiths with the neuro-joy circus of short story creations.  The sleek story 'The Judgment' By Kafka bursts wildly into our brains.  The off-kilter story by Salinger entitled 'Just Before The War With The Eskimos' remains shrewd and really a contemporary masterpiece.

Arnett Cobb, Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Johnny Griffin in "Lester Leaps In"...

Gene Ammons "The Happy Blues"

John Coltrane - In A Sentimental Mood

Kenny Barron Quintet - Live at the Village Vanguard - Set 1 - 6/5/13

Tomaso Albinoni Concerti a cinque Op.10

Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos, Klaus Thunemann 1

Milt Jackson & Benny Golson & Art Farmer & NHØP - Whisper Not

Billy Wilder...The Cool One

VIVID AND STRONG...That is the writing and directing of Billy Wilder.  His powerhouse film...'The Lost Weekend' with Ray Milland is an edgy masterpiece.  Haunting films are engaging.

Jimmy Smith - The Sermon

Richard Wagner: The Best Overtures & Preludes

Wild Art of Magnificent Georges Braque

INSANELY PROVOCATIVE art of the vivid, profound one, Georges Braque, soars to dynamic heights of blunt estheticism and quite joyously brings us a sphere of engaging modernism that brighten's one's world with sharp intellectial experiences.  Braque, along with Picasso, conjured up the crazily ominous arena of art....cubism...what a passionate-flecked art conundrum that was.  The art of the intense man of France, Monsieur Georges B., produced so many levels of passionate artistic individual coloratura soul forces that us devotees of art shrewdness move rapidly into a state of remarkable, total reverence.  Cubism fascinates me with its intense myriad of unusual life joys and fervent intensities.

Benedetto Marcello 12 Concerti Grossi OP I

1 Hour Classical Music with TOMASO ALBINONI - Concertos for Oboe and Vio...

Antonin Dvorak /// Violin Concerto

�� Best of Chopin - Best Classical Music for relaxation - Best piano song...

Meade "Lux" Lewis - Six Wheel Chaser (Original Version)

Charles Mingus Live in Berlin 1972 Part 1

Armando Manzanero y Paquito D'Rivera - Clazz (2014) México

Nice April Day

FINE DAY now.  Reading Kafka.  The Eastern European was a genius. Yes, indeed.

Killer Joe By Art Farmer

Sinclair Lewis and 'Babbitt'

AMERICAN CULTURE is often hard to dissect.  Yet some writers like Sinclair Lewis do a marvelous job of telling an engaging, Americanistic culture-shock story.  The Sinclair Lewis novel 'Babbitt' is an amazing creative and robustly satiric story of a middle-aged man mired in the weird transitions of his life of proverbial ups and downs.

Schubert-Quintet in C Major op. 163, D. 956 (Complete)

Jacques Offenbach -Barcarolle.HQ

Easter 2016

HAPPY EASTER!  Indeed, Easter is a time of resurrection of true renewal for all people.  Let us all pray for more kindness and understanding so that beautiful essence will flow to all the world's nations.

Johann Strauss II - Waltz, Polka and Mazurka Pt. 37

Milt Jackson - At The Kosei Nenkin (1976).

Lou Donaldson Quartet - Rust, Germany, 2000-05-26 (full concert)

A Good, Warm Spring Day

THE WEATHER IS FINE NOW.  I love a really good Spring day like this one.  I am reading super John Keats poetry today and listening to the melodic man of Jazz, Mr. Stan Getz.

Samuel Barber - Violin Concerto

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F major Op. 10 CLASSICAL MUSIC HQ

M. Corrette: Concertos Pour Orgue et Orchestre Op. 26 [Ensemble Baroque ...

Jacques Offenbach - Grand Concerto for cello in G-major "Concerto milita...

Cyrus Chestnut Trio (Devin Starks & Neal Smith) Live at Dizzy's Club 201...

Haydn Symphony No 8 The Evening, No 45 Farewell , Horn Concerto, Trumpet...

G. Torelli: Complete Trumpet Concertos

Art Farmer (Usa, 1958) - Modern Art (Full)

Mystery Novelists

POWERHOUSE mystery writers like Mickey Spillane and Elmore Leonard are a super segment of American literary culture.  Reading Leonard is a marvelous experience.  Just like listening to B. B. King.

A. Vivaldi: 6 Violin Concertos Op.6 [Academy of Ancient Music-A.Manze]

Super Spring

BEAUTIFUL Spring days (like Now) are so wildly fantastic)..It is good to be rip roaringly alive.  Let's enjoy every moment.

Paul Desmond – Pure Desmond (1974).

My Faith and My Religion

RELIGION feels so fantastic, so marvelous to me.  I am older now and I realize my feelings of faith and indeed my religion happen to be what adds so much zest to my Southern man's life.  My love for God helps me keep my feisty motor running.  Listening to Chopin and J. Cash and Coltrane vividly brings so much to my religious, strong soul. Loving all the world's marvelous cultures is a tremendous experience.

Sigmund Freud and Dream Modes

INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS by Sigmund Freud rattles the synapses of the brain.  Freud has a brilliant, cogent, shrewd psychic capacity for articulate meanderings into the torpid arenas of what all of us are thinking.  Some loons cite his ideas as only so much psycho-babble but I beg to disagree.  The sensual and engagingly vivid sentences of Mr. Freud can assist us terrifically in grasping new minutes of esoteric and grand joys in our attempts at realizing more potent and sleek emotional higher depths of feeling.  The absurdity of crass simpleton thinking modes come spashing down in the torrents of high waters representing Freud's thinking modes.  When we study dreams as Freud admonishes then we develop a more cultured and imaginative point of view that can serve us well in this our rather chaotic panorama that is the shaking, silly horror of the 21st Century.  Grand is the elegance propounded by Freud in his dissection of weird foibles inherent in the lives of men and women.

Tony Williams Quintet / The Leaders - Jazzwoche Burghausen 1989

The Modern Jazz Quartet European Concert (1960).

Grant Green - Green Street (1961).

J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concertos 1 - 6, Claudio Abbado

A. Vivaldi: 6 Concerti Op.11 [The Academy of Ancient Music]

Sun Ra All Stars and the Sun Ra Arkestra with Archie Shepp Berlin 10/29...

roy hargrove quintet - starmaker

Georges Bizet - Symphony No. 2 "Roma" (1861)

Giovanni Sgambati - Symphony No. 1 (1880) **MUST HEAR**

G. Muffat: 12 Concerti Grossi [Capella Savaria-P.Németh]

Jennifer López - tribute to Celia Cruz (Live at American Music Awards 2013)

Jean Sibelius Symfoni nr 7 - Det Kongelige Kapel - Simon Rattle

Rafael Mendez - Jota Number 2

Bobby Hutcherson Quartet - Bologna, Italy 1977 TV

Jim Hall - Jazz Guitar |FULL ALBUM|

Bill Charlap - I'm Old Fashioned (2010) - (Full Álbum)

Tommy Flanagan The Trio (1983).

Wolfgang Puck Debuts His Oscars Night Menu

Leonardo DiCaprio Wants to Thank You For His Oscar (Yes, YOU!)

Jackie McLean - Abstraction

Blue Mitchell - Delilah

Ceder Walton 「Eastern Rebellion」 Bolivia

Frank Lacy Septet - Live at Zinc Bar, New York 2014

Offenbach 'Barcarolle' ("Tales of Hoffmann") - Stokowski conducts

Stanley T. - The Return Of The Prodigal Son (full album)

Cannonball Adderley - Cannonball's Bossa Nova (Full Album)

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (Full Album)

Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges - The Complete 1960 Sextet Jazz Cellar Session

Berlioz ：Symphonie fantastique

Mendelssohn: 4. Sinfonie (»Italienische«) ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Paavo...

Mendelssohn A Midsummer night's dream op.61 - d'Avalos

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse [Full Album]

Sonny Rollins Trio 1959 - Lady Bird

Benjamin Britten Classical Music HQ Phaedra Lachrymae Sinfonietta Sword...

Joey DeFrancesco & Bobby Hutcherson "Organic Vibes" - JazzBaltica 2007

Joe Pass - Virtuoso (1973).

Jimmy Raney - Live In Tokyo (1976).

Art Pepper - Sonny Clark Trio Live 1953 ~ These Foolish Things

A. Vivaldi: 6 Violin Concertos Op.12 [Academy of Ancient Music-P.Beznosiuk]

Stéphan Elmas - Piano Concerto No. 3 (1900)

Sigismond Thalberg - Piano Concerto in F-minor, Op.5 (1830)

Moritz Moszkowski - Piano Concerto Op. 3 (1874)

Duke Jordan Trio w/ Gigi Gryce 1955 ~ Oh Yeah

Gigi Gryce Quartet 1955 ~ Brake's Sake

impressionism

Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882

Piet Mondrian - A Journey Through Modern Art

David Oistrakh "Violin Concerto" Tchaikowski

Schubert "Serenade"

Dvorak - Romance for piano and violin, Op.11

Schubert: Piano Sonata In A Major, D 664 (Live Recording) by Carlo Balza...

The Best of Roy Eldridge

Fantastic Day

OH MY....This exuberant Georgian is having a marvelous, thrilling day.  Reading Joyce's 'Portrait of The Artist' and digging sleek sounds of Mr. Duke Ellington.

E.F. Dall'Abaco: 12 Concerti à più Istrumenti, Op.VI [Il Tempio Armonico]

The People of Georgia U.S.A.

GEORGIA PEOPLE are very strong.  There is a tremendous cultural passion deep in the souls of this state.  Fine writers have come from here.

Merle Haggard -- Okie From Muskogee

Trace Adkins - "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" | Live at the Grand Ole Opry | Opry

Duke Ellington at Newport - Full Live Album

Political Arena

POLITICS is so truly wild now.  The MSNBC people have done very nice work on the panoramic political ethos lately.

G.F. Händel: 6 Concerti Grossi Op.3 [Academy of Ancient Music-R.Egarr]

Clifford Brown & Max Roach (Full Album)

Miles Davis - Relaxin' with Miles Davis Quintet full album

Sonny Rollins - St.Thomas (Original) 1956

Patsy Cline -- I Fall To Pieces

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - Anthropology

Tough Guy Writers

THIS POST PRODUCES STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS VIBES:  I believe the tough guy writers like Elmore Leonard, James M. Cain and Dashiel Hammett are extremely invigorating.  Their rough descriptions snare us and rocket us to stratospheric levels of readers' delight.  The potent crackle of James M. Cain's little novel 'Serenade' is a prime example of this fiery prose vibrancy.  It is a need...a big one...in our culture...that we should possess strong prose artists.  Get us some writers who can develop seething, mean guys, folks who dig deep into the at times blah aspects of our weird American cultural life.  If a person reads Cain, he or she will be overcome with a brand of literary sensualism that is ideological and almost hits the Leo Tolstoy plane of psychic wildness.  Listen to Patsy C. and Charlie Parker and Coltrane and Vivaldi.  Go passionately into a gigantic, multi-level lifestyle.

A. Vivaldi: Concerti con Molti Strumenti [Ensemble Matheus-J.-Ch.Spinosi]

Modern Journalism Needs

UNIVERSITIES TEACHING MEDIA STUFF NEED TO BE CHANGED.  It is high time colleges started teaching men and women the concept of journalism that has a dose of reality. Get away from philosophical clap-trap. The abhorrent nature of gross big-ego thinking pounded into the brains of young people is absurd.  If you get courses in how to deal with regular folks it is better for our contemporary culture.  Stop the visceral garbage of moronic elitist media thinking.

Valentine's Day 2016

A TERRIFIC Valentine's Day to all.  This cultural mainstay can overwhelm us with memories.  When I was a little kid we gave little valentines to classmates...and it was a cultural amalgam of chaos...because some people didn't want to play this game.  V Day is weird....some like it and some do not.  There are so many oddball variables in American life.  It appears more and more difficult as we age...this keeping things socially smooth is often difficult.

Charlie Parker Quintet 1947 ~ Donna Lee ( Master Take 5 )

ANYTHING GOES (Broadway) - "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" [LIVE @ Letterman]

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra / 2001 Space Odyssey Opening T...

Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio (best live version)

Liszt - Harmonies du soir (Kissin)

Cecil Payne Quintet 1956 ~ Saucer Eyes

A Performance From DRUM TAO

Sir Arthur Sullivan - Symphony in E Major "Irish" (1866)

The Dave Brubeck Quartet Live 1954 ~ Out Of Nowhere

Charlie Byrd ‎- Blues Sonata [Full Album]

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba (Album)

Nerds, Eggheads and of course Squares

IT IS MORONIC how so many put labels on many of us.  One time years ago I was called a square....then they said egghead.  And now they say nerd.  It is absurd the way other mean and selfish ones want to demean us and humiliate us and say disgusting phrases like "don't have a pity party for yourself."  Tired of mean, nasty and selfish idiots.

Greg Osby at Birdland - Bud Powell's 80th Birthday Celebration - Full Co...

Grease

YES...GREASE is gonna be very nice on the telly this grand eve.

Leonardo D.

SO HAPPY, a terrific actor...Leo D....won another super award last night.

Thoughts About The Melancholy Ones

YOUNG guys have problems.  Growing up in a small Southern town was rough for so many. So many times the whole towns were sports obsessed.  If a male had very little interest in sports he was ostracized. Imbecilic stuff took place. Some people said things like "don't have a pity party for yourself."  Another thing... Lord help the guy who liked the arts or music or stuff like that.  Social life was horrendous in the wretched small town pseudo society..  Every time a poor guy worked up nerve to get a social thing going the heinous female would stomp the disgusting reject button   To quote the old saying...all these moronic loons wanted was the proverbial football hero and that was it.  The culture we exist in is abhorrent when a nice, somewhat shy soul does not stand a ghost of a chance.  After many moons of constant crap being put on someone a sure thing is the fact that a festering blister of appalling melancholy sets in.  And no matter how many self-help books or preachers the soul listens to not hardly anything can help.  Our culture tries hard to destroy creativity in good-hearted people and it is horrid, this stench of meaninglessness.

Count Basie April in Paris - complete album with new stereo sound

Jimmy Fallon

SUPER now.  That appears Jimmy Fallon style just now,  The man gets better and better.  Lots of 'hip.'

Oscar Peterson — The London House Sessions. 1961 . Part 1.

Red Garland - Groovy (Full Album)

RUBEN LOPEZ FURST - JAZZ ARGENTINO (Full Album)

Eric Dolphy - At The Five Spot, Vol. 1 (1961) (Full Album)

Yes Sir, That's My Baby (Frank Sinatra - with Lyrics)

Proverbs

POIGNANT and Super.  That's Proverbs, the great book in the Bible.  So Tremendously Helpful.

Dexter Gordon - Confirmation

Abbado, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Symphony No.4 "Italian" in A major Op.90

Ariana Grande - "Baby I" (Live in San Diego 9-9-15)

Jimmy Fallon & Billy Joel Sing "Beast of Burden"

Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce. Jazz Lab Quintet.

Cannonball Adderley Quintet 1957 ~ Porky

Pietro Nardini (1722-1793) - Sonatas for Strings

Andre Previn Trio 1957 ~ Zip

Stanley T. - The Return Of The Prodigal Son (full album)

I Had The Craziest Dream - Helen Forrest

Eric Dolphy - Oliver Nelson Sextet 1961 ~ Hoe-Down

Rachmaninoff plays Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2

Leighton Meester - Heartstrings

Lonnie Liston Smith - Astral Traveling (1973)