Shagtastic Voyage

…Overall, it was a good year for the sales side of the industry. Album sales were up and soulful trumped poppy. If you pay any attention to music, that’s no real surprise. People are leaning towards a more organic sound nowadays…

All Kooked Out… It kinda got lost in the mix until recently when I took the time to straighten out the ones I wanted but might never listen to and the ones that I just plain needed at my disposal – this was one of them

This is more like a three-fer! It’s the entire performance but I put it on here because A) it’s Bill Evans and he kills it throughout and B) Marc Johnson [bass] and Joe LaBarbera [drums] both play pretty nice solos, too. So… Enjoy!

Welcome to Solo Saturday!! Enjoy.

  Sometimes I hate writing these DIG posts because it’s so difficult to not come off like I’m reviewing a record. That’s the main reason I seldom do new albums. And, I seldom write about recordings I just bought. These are simply albums I am digging on and want to bring attention to. It basically [...]

A few days ago, I was going through the iPod and landed on Booker Ervin‘s 1964 release, The Space Book(Prestige). This is one of those albums I can leave in my car’s CD player for weeks and never get tired of it. Ervin (tenor sax) was only in the recording scene for for twelve years [...]

Rocket Science is everything a Flecktones album should be -complete with nostalgic art work

I looked through the archives and the newest video I have is a warm up- improvised tune from a rehearsal from last year.

…came across a video that was posted about four years ago. It’s a live performance of a tune off their 1996 album…

I mentioned in a previous post how I love a good “pianoless” trio or quartet. This video is a great example of how good a line up like that can sound. It’s Sonny Rollins‘ group from 1963 and it’s wonderful. The solos are great, the vibe is great, the head is great…hell, the entire thing [...]