Alasdair is home and we’ve spent a lovely evening listening to some music together. Here’s a bit of the mix that we’ve listened too…
The Specials lead singer Terry Hall sadly passed this week and I was keen to play something by this great band…
There’s an excellent Japanese girl band called Tokyo Groove Jyoshi – here performing Miles Davis’ So What…
…I only discovered them because Alasdair played me Cowboy Bebop from one of his Anime shows and YouTube’s algorithm seems to have found a correlation between my listening to that and my pre-history of jazz and blues to point me this way! And I have to admit… Juna Serita, playing the 5-string bass, also gets my male hormones going – ok, that’s embarrassing😅
We’ll stay with the bass and the funky – anyone remember Bootsy Collins? Viewed as one of the great Funk Bassists though you’ll not hear too much evidence in this track released a couple of years back – still, it’s fun, which is what Bootsy is about😎👍
I’m still finding my way presently in my posts. I haven’t shared any music, that Alasdair and I have shared, with you for a long time. So let’s have a couple of tracks. Alasdair introduced me to Olivia Dean via a live session at the Jazz Cafe. It’s available on YouTube and that’s 35 minutes of great music!
He’s my Son and I know he will always listen to new music with a keen ear. We’re still following the career of Fox Stevenson and maybe this track perhaps tells a story of mental health…
It’s funny how looking for one type of song on YouTube can result in you finding something else that you enjoy. Never heard of Nao Yoshioka until now and I’m glad I found her!
Alasdair came home for a short 3 days over Easter but we got some music in together. Al loves some of the sounds associated with his Anime TV shows and shared this Bebop Jazz…
…and this pretty piece…
I found a piece of classic Blues by Alvin Lee…
…Once with the band Ten Years After. And I also shared a very old David Bowie song…
I’m sure that at least the last one of those tracks is well known but, did any of those them capture your imagination? Let me know 😀👍
Images from Finchley 