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Some more great sounds. Ms. Springs is also in another post on this page.


Kandace Springs

Run Your Race

https://youtu.be/5cU44fIuODc

I began developing an interest in Japan and its history, customs, films, food and more in my teens. While never ignoring its flaws, I was drawn to many things I found attractive. The Japanese film...

Marion Black

Who Knows

https://youtu.be/ChH_eisaf2E


The same song done by a great band.

Quantic Soul Orchestra

Conditions now require discipline and fortitude. It ain't easy. For some, music can help ease the angst, if only for a while. Here are some new sounds, and with the rest of Reminiscences, can add to...

Here are some cool and hot sounds for the changing seasons.


George Duke

T-jam

https://youtu.be/NoIh-WjhUl8

The search for interesting, beautiful and complex music will never end.


Gregory Porter

It's Probably Me

https://youtu.be/lSzICmwmRsA

I came across this group on PBS. That appearance had two violinists, a drummer and a DJ. Their musical influences are diverse so there is nothing quite like them.

Black Violin

We Dem Boyz
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Individual countries have distinctive instruments that make interesting and frequently beautiful sounds.There are even machines, real or imagined, that contribute their “music.”

I tried to use...

Continual research sometimes uncovers additional great music and can result in a desire to enlarge (and maybe move) an artist's selections from a different page (22 in this case) to their own as done...

What started out as adding a few tunes in different places along the way from a newly-found band has morphed into a large number of posts showcasing them because they are very good. Over time they...

This band says it plays music for your brain and your booty. I checked. It's true. Now, for your thinking and dancing pleasure here's...

Snarky Puppy

Young Stuff
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This is an extraordinary artist whose powerful performances also contain nuance and wisps of echoes past within her own unique and incredible style. There is no one like her.


Beth Hart

Caught...

Many years ago there was a program on local television in a major market that focussed on many types of emerging musical performers. On one special night the host, Rudy Oricek, had a new performer of...

Josef Erich "Joe" Zawinul was an Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer. He played with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet and wrote Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, which appears in post 225.

A prominent...

For anything that benefits from beautiful sounds, here is the superb...

Patricia Barber

Winter

https://youtu.be/LRnNOKDnCH0


Easy To Love (8/10/23 link repaired)

This song appears a few times in this thread, because, well, the melody and lyrics are irresistible. Now, there is a melancholy reason for posting a different and unique version of it again.

None...

Music from all over the world – what could be better?

Jamaica and Mali.

Good stuff.


Gregory Isaacs

Loving Pauper

This thread, Reminiscences, focuses on those tunes that made an impression on us; the ones we remember like it was yesterday.

Peter Frampton is not an unknown artist – except to those very young...

We have recently lost another great, Horace Silver. He was a sax player, later a pianist and a stellar composer. Two of his most famous elegant and swinging compositions follow.

Song For My...

Ten or so years ago I discovered the group 'Indigenous'. I liked their great bluesy-rock sound, and especially their lead singer, Matos', voice. I bought their then current CD.

Researching them,...

Throughout this thread I have tried to provide examples of great music regardless of genre. Because jazz is a wonderful expression of human creativity, I have added many jazz artists that others may...

I'm glad you enjoyed them.

They are fun - and very human in their own way.

A flash mob (or flashmob) is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse, often for the purposes...

Leading off are two songs from years past that have incredible hooks. Both have something in common and to another coming up in this post.

Ace

How Long (11/29/19 link repaired)
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It's Monday, a night known for being "blues night".

Many musicians took blues music and adapted it for themselves. One group that admitted it was the Rolling Stones.

Muddy Waters years ago...