Nightly Ramble: Sample, Lying in the Bed You Made, And a Few Other Things

*The Music: Joe Sample’s “Spellbound” (1990)

You’ve heard Joe Sample before, most likely when he was playing with the Crusaders.  But this album is a pivotal work in his recorded history.  With the help of Al Jerreau and Michael Franks,

* If we’re supposed to be suffering under global warming, please explain to me why I’m wearing a sweatshirt and the heavy jeans and still freezing my ass off. We’re not even supposed to make it out of the thirties

Good Friday. Ken Collins explains why it’s called “Good”. As a boy, I can recall being restricted to the house between noon, the time mentioned when the sun was blotted out of the sky, and 3pm, the time our

The Music: Koinonia, Celebration;

Released in November 1984, and recorded in Stockholm and Gothenburg the March before, this was released originally in Europe then Japan, then finally, the ‘states. I happen to have a copy from Japan still on

It was 65 around here today. Pitssburgh, to our south, caught an 80 degree day, I hear. Between now and the weekend, we’re supposed to get snow. Go figure.

*The Music: WAR; Platinum Jazz

Actually, it could be ANY

The Music: The Turtles 20 Greatest hits

Before there was Flo and Eddie, they were known as Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman.  Their producing talent included the legendary Bones Howe, Chip Douglass and Ray Davies. Add to that a flat

* The Music: David Lanz: Cristofori’s Dream.. The original Windham Hill pressing, not the Narada Remaster.

Laid down at Miramar Studios in Washington State, back in 1987 and released in 88, this album held the number one position in the

The Music: Passport, Looking Thru, 1974, (CD release, 1994.  )

Hailing from Germany, they were Germany’s best progressive jazz group, back in the day.  I have something of a personal history with this album, it got used quite a bit

Road trip today, and I don’t know when I’ll be back tonight, so, I’ll post this a bit early, today:

The Music: Lighthouse: One Fine Morning, 1971

This was their fourth album, released in July of 1971.  Their first three

* Getting warmer around here; we actually made it up to 67 today.  I’m starting to think about hauling the trailer back up here from the storage location, 60 miles south.  The snow was mostly gone, except where the snowplows

* The Music: Today is the birthday of Johan Sebastian Bach. So, today’s choice is a natural: Switched On Bach. Recorded by Walter Carlos, who later became Wendy Carlos (I suppose we are dealing with Todd Rundgren called “the Tourtured

I’m going to start with something new, tonight, in the hopes I can turn you on to what Music I’m listening to at the moment. My musical taste, after my broadcast years, became somewhat eccentric; I’m usually listening to something

Tonight’s Ramble is going to be short and sweet.

Well, short.

The reason is fairly simple; yesterday afternoon, I ended up making a hurry up trip to the hospital. My younger boy , Alex, was being transported there.  He was

* I took the boys out for a rail photo run on Sunday… We quickly saw that nothing was moving… and quite by chance, stumbled onto why. The picture, here, is taken from one of our favorite sitting spots… and

* I see that the print media’s answer to Air America, The New Republic has been sold.
Actually, or rather predictable outcome , particularly given the direct line comparison to Air America.  Seems that the new majority holder, is Canadian