FRIDAY MUSIC: Dave Brubeck, by JD

This week’s music comes from the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

David Warren Brubeck was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a foremost exponent of cool jazz, Brubeck’s work is characterized by unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities, and combining different styles and genres, such as classical, jazz, and blues.

In the early Sixties Brubeck ‘invaded’ the pop charts with his single “Take Five” which became the best selling jazz record of all time. In the late fifties Brubeck was experimenting with unusual time signatures in two albums; Time Out and Time Further Out.

The following selection is not all by his Quartet but helps to illustrate the influence he has had on subsequent musicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brubeck

https://www.davebrubeck.com/

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (Live In Germany, 1966)

Jon Lord - Unsquare Dance (Dave Brubeck)

Jon Lord was keyboard player with Deep Purple and left the band because of the touring which was too tiring. He then concentrated on writing and recording new music. He also adapted existing music and recorded his own variations on themes including Unsquare Dance and I think it is better than the various Brubeck versions available on YouTube.

Brubeck: Koto Song | The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Live in Belgium 1964

Dave Brubeck - Golden Brown

Of course that was not Dave Brubeck playing Golden Brown by The Stranglers and it was not put together with AI. It was assembled before AI by Laurence Mason using tape editing etc as explained here -

A couple of people have asked how I made this video so here we go -
I took a clip from a 1964 live version of Take Five ( • Dave Brubeck - Take Five ) and made the drum loop by chopping up the intro and turning it from 5/4 into the 3/4 - 4/4 groove that Golden Brown has. The upright bass sound is sequenced from Logic, and the piano part was played in using one of the piano sounds from a Nord Electro 5D. Then I played the sax part over the top (I play a King Zephyr alto and for this I used a hard rubber Yanigasawa mouthpiece rather than my usual bright Guardala).
The video was then edited using the clip I’d taken the drum loop from.

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take the “A” Train (Live In Germany, 1966)

That should set your feet tapping!

Thieving babies, singing cats and robo-rabbits

A girl toddler steals from the baby and scams her brother…

Pedro Miguel@PedroMiguel9521

Para los que no entienden por qué las mujeres dominan el mundo...

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Cats just have to be the centre of attention. Watch how the girl’s face changes from thunder to sunshine.

Wholesome Side of 𝕏@itsme_urstruly

A woman was filming herself singing a vocal piece when a cat suddenly barged in, crossing right in front of the camera, and started singing in a voice tone exactly like the woman's, as if saying "I can sing well too, you know!"...

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Scientists invented animatronic rabbits to lure pythons fom the swamp but things developed from there…

FRIDAY MUSIC: Jelly Roll Morton, by JD

Last week Mr Sackerson asked me how many musicians adopted the name Jelly Roll. I don’t know and I don’t suppose anyone else does. But I do know the most well known one was Jelly Roll Morton who famously claimed to have invented jazz. That is probably an exaggeration but he was certainly one of its first ‘superstars’ to come out of New Orleans which is certainly the home of jazz in the late 19th and early 20th centuries combining African rhythms with European folk music.

“Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American blues and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. Morton was jazz’s first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential characteristics when notated.

“Jelly Roll Morton got his famous stage name from a combination of an adopted family surname and a risqué musical moniker. Born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, he took the last name Morton as an anglicized version of his stepfather’s surname (Mouton) while playing piano in his teens. He adopted the nickname “Jelly Roll”—which was common early 20th-century sexual slang—while performing piano in the brothels and red-light districts of New Orleans.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton

Doctor Jazz - Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers - 1926

The Crave - Jelly Roll Morton

Original Jelly Roll Blues - Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers - 1926

Jelly Roll Morton - Tiger Rag

Pearls

Tank Town Bump

FRIDAY MUSIC: Jason “Jelly Roll” DeFord, by JD

Singer-songwriter Jelly Roll is known for hit songs like “Need a Favor,” “Save Me,” and “I Am Not Okay.” Unafraid to embrace an underdog persona, he overcame a tumultuous adolescence and early adulthood that included several stints in prison and drug addiction before achieving his music dreams. This turbulent past has helped inspire some of his most famous songs. Although he started in rap and hip-hop, the Tennessee native has emerged as a country music star. In November 2023, he was named the CMA’s New Artist of the Year and was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards.

https://www.biography.com/musicians/a45530830/jelly-roll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Roll_(singer)

Jelly Roll - Liar (Official Music Video)

Jelly Roll – God Never Let Me Stay Down | New Country Gospel Song 2026

Jelly Roll ‘How Do I Say Goodbye’ | Lyrics Video

Jelly Roll - Thorns (Official Music Video)

Jelly Roll -God, I’m Sorry | Draw back to God with this song|

I think it is Channel4 which shows The Grand Ole Opry on sunday nights and I saw him on there a few months ago and liked his style more or less immediately.

"Economical with the actualité": the BBC and three dead women

 “Three people were found dead aboard a small boat early on Thursday after launching from Dunkirk,” says BBC News online. There was a fourth in a separate incident: “One man died after a vessel capsized.”

The three “people”, as the BBC does not say, were women.

La Dépêche du Midi, a newspaper based in Toulouse, France reports (auto-translation):

“According to initial information gathered by Delta FM, three of them did not die by drowning… An investigation will be opened to determine the circumstances of these deaths.”

Dubai-based National News reports

“French authorities have said… three women suffered heart attacks after their boat launched…

“The women, reportedly aged about 20, 30 and 50, were brought ashore by the French emergency services, but attempts to resuscitate them failed, and all three were declared dead.

“They were on one of the so-called taxi boats operated by human-trafficking gangs that were sailed along the coast to pick up people at designated spots before attempting the crossing.”

The BBC merely says that “three unconscious people” were “found dead.”

Our national broadcaster may think it is being responsible by omitting and glossing over facts, perhaps to prevent inflammatory speculation by “far-right” commenters but as we saw with the Southport murders committed by Axel Rudakubana if the public feels it is being deceived the speculation is intensified.

Already the questions must mutiply.

Had this incident occurred on a boat travelling from Dover to France one might have expected all the surviving travellers to be arrested by British police pending investigation into suspicious deaths. Instead the French appear to have simply taken off the corpses and allowed the other migrants to proceed towards England; and to have diagnosed “heart attacks” in advance of post-mortems.

Little wonder that public trust in authority and established institutions is eroding. We cannot safely allow them to be, in Alan Clark’s 1992 phrase, “economical with the actualité.”

FRIDAY MUSIC: Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra, by JD

This is what my parents’ generation listened to on the radio; Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra. I’m not sure but I think Hall might have been the man who introduced an element of whimsy into the music of the dance bands of that era which makes it easy to see why he occasionally provided music for the Goons or for Ted Ray as well as Kenneth Horne’s Much Binding in the Marsh.

Hope you enjoy his bit of time travel and leave behind the cares of this mad modern world!

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Every generation has its ‘own’ music which is usually incomprehensible to previous and/or subsequent generations. My own musical generation lived at the time of the ‘beat boom’ of the sixties. My parents did not criticise ‘my’ music, in fact they liked some of it. Their generation would listen to the music played on the BBC’s Light Programme. They never claimed that it was better than our modern ‘rubbish’ just that it was different. One of the names that cropped up in conversations was Henry Hall and I just listened and nodded and thought that’s probably what I may have listened to had I been born in that era. But curiosity led me to look for and listen to a selection of the music of Henry Hall.

“The BBC Dance Orchestra, led by Jack Payne, made its first official broadcast on 12 March 1928. The band had proved its popularity as The Cecilians, occasionally broadcasting from the Hotel Cecil. Given the title Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra, Payne moved his 10-piece band to the studio at Savoy Hill. His regular radio performances ensured his success, and made his signature tune, “Say it with Music”, a hit.

The BBC Handbook of 1929 acknowledged the importance of dance music on the radio and called it “the voice of something very typical of ourselves and of this post-war age”. Radio dancing lessons were all the rage, and the listeners’ appetite for dance music was huge. The BBC Dance Orchestra was soon receiving 10 thousand letters a week.

Jack Payne left the BBC in 1932 and was replaced by Henry Hall, who continued the success with another line-up of the BBC Dance Orchestra. Hall was followed by Billy Ternent and then Stanley Black, until 1952. The orchestra provided the music for many hit programmes, including The Goons, Ray’s a Laugh and Much Binding in the Marsh.”

https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/march/first-broadcast-by-the-bbc-dance-orchestra

1934 Vintage - The BBC Dance Orchestra dir. by Henry Hall

I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones - Henry Hall Lyrics

Henry Hall with the BBC Dance Orchestra ‘The Sun Has Got His Hat On’ Original 1932 78 rpm

The Teddy Bears’ Picnic - Henry Hall

Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?

1936 Vintage - The BBC Dance Orchestra directed by Henry Hall

FRIDAY MUSIC: Eric Shi (Chinese bluegrass), by JD

Eric Shi hails from what one might consider the least likely place to find bluegrass music. He was raised in China’s Zhejiang Province, and he currently calls Dali in Yunnan Province home. After beginning his study of traditional three-finger bluegrass banjo in 2010 under the tutelage of Sab Watanabe, an accomplished Japanese musician, he had opportunity to meet Bill Keith three years later while Keith was on tour in Japan. His study of banjo methodology was further nurtured after that meeting. It was only two years after that — in 2015 to be exact — when he wrote his first Chinese banjo instructional book, which was published in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China. In 2021, his second book was published and distributed in mainland China exclusively.

https://bluegrasstoday.com/bluegrass-beyond-borders-eric-shi-brings-bluegrass-to-china/

jambalaya-Chinese bluegrass band Erhu and banjo

Amarillo By morning - Bluegrass Cover

Hard Times Come Again No More|Bluegrass Arrangement by Eric Shi

Turkey in the Straw Breakdown-Top 1 Chinese Favorite Bluegrass Song

Chinese Bluegrass band-Can Can dance ,Filmed in Dali, China

Alan Jackson-Chattahoochee Bluegrass Cover(by Eric Shi)