What are you listening to?

[The Brain]

Alleylife - Out With The Old

[The Minsky Moment]

James P Johnson - Classic Sessions Disc 1 (1921-1927)

Harlem stride piano master - this is a collection of his earliest recordings.  The solo piano is still incredible after almost 100 years.  The rest of the this disc is Johnson accompanying singers of variable abilities.  On the down side, the obscure Lavinia Turner reminds me of Edith Bunker, but on the up side is his work with legendary blues singer Bessie Smith.

[garbon]

Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way
Liz Phair - Fuck and Run

[Delirium]

Lester Young and the Oscar Peterson Trio, 1952.

[garbon]

Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red
Sade - Smooth Operator

[Josephus]

Goblin--Suspiria soundtrack

[CountDeMoney]

Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red

  Oh dear God, high school prom flashbacks.  THEY BURN

[Eddie Teach]

I guess she wasn't dancing with you?

[Eddie Teach]

Childish Gambino- Redbone
The Weeknd- Starboy

[Josephus]

Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red

  Oh dear God, high school prom flashbacks.  THEY BURN

Sad thing is Chris De Burgh is actually a great singer songwriter, but he'll always be remembered for this pap

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJ6e06eYcM

The Fendertones perform Sloop John B.

20 average looking suburban dudes do eerily precise Beach Boys covers.

[Liep]

Saw Gorillaz in concert tonight, great band but the whenever they played a hit without the guest vocal present it fell kinda flat. The warm up and feature artist Little Simz stole the show though and I don't even like grime.

[mongers]

Saw Gorillaz in concert tonight, great band but the whenever they played a hit without the guest vocal present it fell kinda flat. The warm up and feature artist Little Simz stole the show though and I don't even like grime.

[Barrister]

By weird circumstance I came to listen to Quebec punk rockers Les Dales Hawerchuk: named after arguably the best Winnipeg Jet player of all time.

Pretty good, actually.  Even if I only understand a quarter of what they're singing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbZqFTVozzs

[The Minsky Moment]

Fats Waller - V Disc Recordings (1944)

During much of WW2, the American Federation of Musicians had a recording strike.  Back then unions actually counted, and the strike was effective - recording came to a virtual stop for more than two years.  That left the boys overseas without any new records to play so someone had the bright idea of making special edition records just for the troops overseas: the V Disc program.  Most of the big stars of the era signed up.  After the war all the records were destroyed, although a few sets  and some of the metal stampers survived. A bunch have been reissued despite the unclear legal status decades later, the Sinatra ones in particular are an important period in his discography.

Fats Waller did some V Disc records - they turned out to be last recordings he made before his death at age 40.  Legend has it he showed up for the session with a couple bottles of whiskey and left with empty bottles, about half the takes were unreleasable.  What was released though shows him on form, playing a good selection of his hits for the last time on record.