Bettye Swann – Make Me Yoursfrom the album Make Me Yours on Money (1967).
Smith – Baby It’s Youfrom the Death Proof Soundtrack on Warner Brothers (2007) and originally from A Group Called Smith on Dunhill (1969).
Greetings loyal ear fuzz listeners/readers. It has been ages since I connected with you for some music and thoughts. [...]

A Beautiful Mind (Instrumental) – Aceyalone & RJD2from the album Magnificent City Instrumentals on Decon (2006). Also appears on The Mad Men Season One Soundtrack on Manhattan (2008).
Little Willy – Sweetfrom the album Sweet on Camden (1973).
Saying that commercial radio is far from a good place to discover new music is undoubtedly preaching [...]

Birk’s Works – Kenny Burrellfrom the album On View At The Five Spot on Blue Note (1959).
Scotch Blues – Kenny Burrellfrom the double album Blue Lights Volumes 1 & 2 on Blue Note (1958).
My obsession with all thing Tina Brooks continues. I got into Brooks’s backstory in my post on his albums as [...]

Clifton Anderson – P.G. (From Whom All Blessings Flow)from the album Landmarks on Milestone (1995).
Sonny Rollins – Where or Whenfrom the album Without A Song: The 9/11 Concert on Milestone (2005).
There are few absolutes in life, rules that have no gray area or wavering. One of mine is no matter what whenever Sonny [...]

Elmer Snowden Quartet: It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) and Twelfth Street Ragfrom Harlem Bango on Riverside Records (1960).
I had the good fortune of visiting with my best friend recently and we spent a lot of time talking and sharing music. He is cultivating a nice collection of [...]

The Way You Look Tonight – Tina Brooksfrom the album Minor Move on Blue Note (1978).
Miss Hazel – Tina Brooksfrom the album True Blue on Blue Note (1960).
Back To The Tracks – Tina Brooksfrom the album Back To The Tracks on Blue Note (1978).
David The King – Tina Brooksfrom the album The Waiting Game on [...]

West Coast Smack and Can You Do Without?from the album Lyfe ‘N’ Tyme on Priority / All City (1995).
Following up the recent post on The Nonce with an even greater album from the same era, today I’d like to provide you with two tracks from the legendary Lyfe ‘N’ Tyme from The B.U.M.S. (the capitalizationally [...]

The Nonce: Mix Tapes, Good To Go, and On The Road Againfrom the album World Ultimate on Wild West Records (1995).
For a long time the post-Common’s Resurrection, pre-Jurassic 5’s Quality Control period of the late 90s was a hip hop waste-land. While I still find that time frame to be a real dry [...]

Preludium Cis Mollfrom the album Variations On Classics on Supraphon Records (1982).Also appears on the compilation Strange Breaks and Mr. Thing on BBE Records (2008).
All The Things You C# – Charles Mingusfrom the live album Mingus At The Bohemia on Debut Records (1955).
After spending 10 years in my youth playing classical piano, you [...]

Thanks to Junior for getting us back online. Way back in January I was exploring my inner obsessive nerd and compiling “best of” lists for all the most important categories: album, movie, book, science paper, etc. So while I get some more posts in order and inspired by Matt W’s mix from [...]