Mikel's Record Bin

sharing bits of my passion for music

Posts tagged with: jazz

jazz

Tall and tan and young and lovely – Getz / Gilberto

Sure. Everyone knows "Girl From Ipanema." It's the track that launched Astrud Gilberto's career, but it's the entirety of the album that has you sipping your whisky sour and...

Leave Kanye out of this – Black Country, New Road

It's experimental and post-rock and Slint with klezmer and pushes back at the rock-band format.  The band gained notoriety from their first two singles, "Athens, France" and "Sunglasses."  For their...

Hard Bop with Legends – ‘Round About Midnight

It was his solo on Monk's track Round Midnight at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955 where Mike Davis was spotted and signed to Columbia Records. And what a debut...