Friday, December 18, 2009

Miles Davis: So What (live/tv, 1959)


Miles Davis, live on CBS tv, 1959, with John Coltrane - this is historical stuff and as good as Miles ever played.. it's hard to believe that this was a television show!

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Vince Guaraldi/Peanuts: Skating


Unreal jazz from Vince Guaraldi, hilariously used as the soundtrack for Snoopy's skating fantasy at Rockefeller Center..

Police: Message in a Bottle, live Synchronicity DVD



Police, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, live from Omni, Atlanta, the "Synchronicity Concert" dvd, directed by Godley and Creme from 10cc..

Police: Driven to Tears (live, France)

Awesome live performance by Police of Driven to Tears, France, 80's - they disabled the embedding: here is the link to YouTube

Drummer Stuart Copeland is amazing on this.. actually, he drives all their best songs

Police: King of Pain, Synchronicity concert DVD



Police, KING OF PAIN, live from the Omni, Atlanta, 1980, the Synchronicity Concert DVD, dir by Godley and Creme of 10cc..

Uncle Earl: Streak O Lean, Streak O Fat


Total Insanity! Irish jig kung fu gang fight in Chinese restaurant.

Thanks to "pigeatinginfidel", we have the CHinese lyrics translated:
"Braised fatty meat
Some like it, some say No
I love me some braised fatty meat
Don't forget to drink a little liquor
Cup by cup we all get drunk
Dance til the break of day
She dances like a crazy mother in law
She's freakin crazy
She plays that thing like she's starting a revolution
Bring on the braised fatty pork
And don't forget the liquor
Cup by cup we all get drunk
Living like this, how can we go on?
Today we drink, today we're wasted
Long live braised fatty meat!"

Abigail Washburn and Sparrow Quartet: Captain


live studio recording, and with Bela Fleck on banjo

Uncle Earl: The Last Goodbye

Capercaillie: Mi le m-uilinn Gaidhlag


Beautiful song, in Gaelic by the Scottish band Capercaillie

Anuna: Cormacus Scripsit


This is truly ethereal - amazing singing and the video fits the sound as well, shot in some 12th century ruins - a superb work of art

Anuna: In Performance


Video sampler of Anuna live in a cathedral - stunning vocals

Pink Fuzzy Yeti: Original Christmas Music


nice acoustic guitar music, altered on a sound card, set to Charlie Brown videos

Vince Guaraldi/Peanuts: Christmas Time is Here


The beautiful Christmas song from Vince Guaraldi for the Peanuts tv special

Philip Aaberg: The Gift


Aaberg's solo piano composition is used for video of an ice storm in Lexington, Ky 2009

Carol of the Bells: Belmont Univ Percussion Ensemble


aka Ukrainian Carol - telecast on PBS, good video quality.. amazing sound, this is very difficult stuff..

Friday, December 11, 2009

Brian Auger: Beginning Again from Straight Ahead


Great jazz rock, terrific keyboardist, very nice drum and congas solo at the song's end..
Note: Audio only

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Nobel for Medicine 2009: Carol W. Greider's speech

Carol W. Greider's acceptance speech - this is really a scientific lecture of a summary of her genetic work, and runs 50 minutes.. her work in discovering and naming "telomerase", the enzymes in DNA/RNA that relate to aging, rejuvenation, and will help cure cancer by stopping it's telomerase from working by aging them rapidly and killing them by reversing the new growth process.. She's the Stephen Hawking of genetics, and her work will be more ground-breaking than Curie's or Einstein's over time.. the entire biotech and stem cell industry would not exist in present form without her work..

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Original Composition: Gone (for Piccolo)



Written for a musician friend named Mandi who was leaving town, and who plays flute, recorder and pennywhistle. This used the piccolo on my Yamaha Digital Grand. When she said it sounded like film music, I put it on a video I made for them called "A Year in Pine Mountain"

Original Composition: Awakening (Midi Version)



Awakening: This was my first composition, done in three hours the day I got my Yamaha Digital Grand synthesizer. This is the original midi file from the keyboard with no alterations, just as I played it myself, errors intact.. I've never had music lessons and can't read or write music notation. I think I was maybe a little too excited by all the instruments available (650 total).

Original Composition: Eulogy (For Angie)



Originally written for the passing of my mother, my 3rd composition, done 2 weeks after getting my Yamaha Digital Grand synthesizer. I renamed it for a rock singing girlfriend who thought it was my best composition. It originally was done with strings and horns, then I ported it into Cakewalk and changed the instruments into guitar and piano so it could be easily performed onstage by a duet.