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Tune of the Day

"Blue Rondo a la Turk"  on the Two Generations of Brubeck album.  Wow.

There are many fine versions of this tune, but this one gets me dancing, clapping, fist-pounding, whatever, every time....and it's not easy to dance in, what, 9/8?  I love tunes that grow, build, develop, and move through changes.  This one just picks me up and takes me right along with it.  Great melding of jazz and rock idioms, too.  It's fun to imagine Dave Brubeck setting the groove and then sitting back to hear where his kids and their friends take it. 

You can continue exploring Dave and the kids on Two Generations of Brubeck, "The Great Spirit Made Us All".  And Chris Brubeck's rock/jazz band Sky King on "Secret Sauce".

For extra credit, give a "spin" to Chase, "Bochawa" from their last album, Pure Music.

Anyway, that's my two cents today.




77jovian
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"The Truth, the Whole Truth, Nothing but the Truth" Ian Hunter
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@bdp24 ,

It's the 1992 Reprise/UK/ made in Germany

Get this version!!
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@bdp24,
A second vote for Slaw's recommendation on Little Village. The 1992 UK import (Reprise WX 462) is THE VERSION to own.

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"My Only Child" The Highwomen"
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Thanks @slaw and @tubegb, that LP is now in my search for notebook.

Now here's one for ya'll: Nick Lowe is of course a member of Little Village, and in 1980 was a member of another super-group, Rockpile. I consider the lone Rockpile album (though the same group appeared on a number of Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds solo albums The 2nd guitarist was Billy Bremner---briefly in The Pretenders, the drummer Terry Williams---formerly in Man, later in Dire Straits.) much better than the Little Village. It was released on Columbia Records in the U.S.A., and on F Beat Records (get it? ;-) in the UK. A great, great album!
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