Tommy Dorsey: The Music Goes Round and Round

terrific, the definitive version of this song, an all-time big band classic..

Duffy: Smoke Without Fire

from the end credits of the film AN EDUCATION - brilliant vocal!

Soft Machine: We Did It Again (audio)

From the first Soft Machine lp, when they were opening for Jimi Hendrix Experience - an amazing and innovative band, about 20 yrs ahead of their time and so much better than Pink Floyds elevator muzak.. According to Rolling Stone, drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt could sing along to any John Coltrane solos!

Ricky Lee Jones - Rainbow Sleeves (audio)

my favorite composition of Tom Waits, done as no one else can..

Lyrics:
You used to dream yourself away each night
To places that you'd never been
On wings made of wishes
That you whispered to yourself
Back when every night the moon and you
Would sweep away to places
That you knew
Where you would never get the blues

Well now, whiskey gives you wings
To carry
Each one of your dreams
And the moon does not belong to you
But I believe
That your heart keeps young dreams
Well, I've been told
To keep from ever growing old
And a heart that has been broken
Will be stronger when it mends

Don't let the blues stop you singing
Darling, you've only got a broken wing
Hey, you just hang on to my rainbow
Hang on to my rainbow
Hang on to my rainbow sleeves

Miles Davis: Water Babies

from the outtakes of the IN A SILENT WAY sessions, this is a great Wayne Shorter composition, which he also recorded on his on first lp release.. this is classic for both, and the Miles Davis Quintet

John McLaughlin: Marbles

audio track of McLaughlin's rockin-est composition.. that's actually Buddy Miles (listenable for once) on drums..

Santana: Written in Sand

great lost song of Santana's.. audio only

Blossum Dearie: How Do You Say Auf Wiedersehn

beautiful, poignant, and melancholy

Laura Marling: The Captain and the Hourglass

Laura Marling: Looking Back

Singing a song written by her father, Charles.. beautiful acoustic rock

Be Bop Deluxe: Crying to the Sky

Bill Nelson's beautiful tribute to Hendrix

Bill Nelson: Contemplation (2007)

Beautiful rock song from the guitarist/leader of Be Bop Deluxe

Photek: T'rainon

PHOTEK did the awesome soundtrack for the 2006 film Dreamland, which I haven't been able to find online (the soundtrack cd that is.. the film is pretty good but the music would be played a lot more in my house)

Tuxedo Junction: Begin the Beguine

A little pop perhaps, but an interesting big band version of the Cole Porter classic, with a Brazilian beat.. (or is it a rhumba, therefore Cuban?) [hey - are Astaire and Powell making fart sounds with their hands in the film still shown above?? LOL..]

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