It's #InternationalJazzDay so I've put in Ellington's Blanton-Webster Band and Black, Brown, & Beige, two 3-CD sets that changed my life 30 years ago. Later onaccounta the "international" I'll likely play Aquerela do Brasil by Elis Regina and Toots Thielemans or maybe Astrud Gilberto's 1st album. - ThreadSky

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gjmaupin.bsky.social • 2 days ago

It's #InternationalJazzDay so I've put in Ellington's Blanton-Webster Band and Black, Brown, & Beige, two 3-CD sets that changed my life 30 years ago. Later onaccounta the "international" I'll likely play Aquerela do Brasil by Elis Regina and Toots Thielemans or maybe Astrud Gilberto's 1st album.

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gjmaupin.bsky.social•2 days ago

I left home for a bigger city in 1998 and coincidentally almost immediately discovered Brazilian jazz, the perfect soundtrack for willful homesickness/saudade. The Regina/Thielemans LP, Elis & Tom, and lots of Astrud actively saved my mind, with kudos to that Costello/Bacharach album.

gjmaupin.bsky.social•2 days ago

And let's not front like I was vintage-jazz bin-diving: I got the CD soundtrack to Next Stop Wonderland, an indie filmed near where I was living that has an inarguably perfect soundtrack but I haven't heard anyone mention it in 20 years.

tcmwithatwist.bsky.social•2 days ago

I listen to it almost every week…

gjmaupin.bsky.social•2 days ago

The only reason I don't is that over the years (or probably over the two years after I got it) I think I acquired every album it pulled a song from so I have what amounts to a gigantic version of it.

tcmwithatwist.bsky.social•2 days ago

Same! But there a couple of nice bridges in the Wonderland track…

gjmaupin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Last week I saw my roommate from ca. 2000, the one who had the Bebel Gilberto album from right then, and now I wish I'd thought of all this a few days ago for purposes of reminiscence.

gjmaupin.bsky.social•2 days ago

I take that back: for some reason I don't think I ever got whatever Coleman Hawkins has "O Pato" on it. So I still have quests!

gjmaupin.bsky.social•2 days ago

And Astrud's Beach Samba? I mean, come on. There are few songs sexier than "Stay" and that's just the first track.

Anyway. Thanks, Creed Taylor.

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