Spending the day at home with my daughter sounds like a great idea to me, and what could be better than that and putting a little jazz on the stereo? No rain and a little sunshine wouldn’t hurt. Anyhow, here are a few classic tracks from the likes of jazz greats like Thelonious Monk, Bobby Hutcherson, and Booker Ervin that were part of our playlist yesterday.
Its strange though. I don’t remember when I actually started to like jazz music so much. Hell, I don’t even know what it is about jazz that I like. Call me ignorant or unknowing, whatever. All I do know is that there is a lot of great jazz music out there that just sounds really good to my ears. I mean, I still love stuff like Converge, Black Dice, or Killswitch Engage as much as the next guy, but yesterday was just a jazz sorta day.
MP3 | Thelonious Monk – Bye Ya Monk’s Dream
MP3 | Bobby Hutcherson – Tin Tin Deo Ambos Mundos
MP3 | Booker Ervin – Boo That’s It
i also love Mon’s solo piano albums. one is called Monk and the other is called Thelonoius alone in San Francisco or something like that…..it has a picture of him hanging out of a cablecar….anyway good album selections.
Albert Ayler’s The Truth is MArching In is also a greta record for a saturday afternoon…a little more intense than the 3 you mentioned, but still very awesome and very fulfilling…lots of energy.