Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 23/03/2025youtu.be/ag1rDB6ZVKsyoutu.beDanceYouTube video by George Benson - Topic 020
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 11/03/2025McCoy Tyner’s place in the 1960s avant-garde is undisputed but he knows his way around a standard! I think this is from 1964’s “Today and Tomorrow” - I figured the YouTube clip with the artist’s name misspelled on the opening slide was least likely to show you an ad. youtu.be/2YLMJGbqa9oyoutu.beMcCoy Tyner - You'd Be So Nice To Come HomeYouTube video by Victormemjazzman62 030
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Jazz tapers! This has a tape-flip cut in one song so you know it’s legit! Apparently had a real reissue on Japanese label Solid last year. Also, note to self, why have you been sleeping on Woody Shaw? 010
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Keep Honking! I’m listening to “Dark Star” live at RFK Stadium 6/10/73. But I have questions - the very low-pitched bass sounds that come in at the 20’ mark - Lesh, I guess? Don’t recall him doing anything so farty. 130
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 03/03/2025The lads in their Northeastern university show era. 130
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Vesuvius denialism getting its day - Big Lava doesn’t want you to know the truth! 000
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 23/02/2025@bourgwick.bsky.social all online sources for the “Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead” release say it is drawn from shows on April 25-29, 1971 at the Fillmore East, but also all online sources say the Fillmore East closed on April 27th, 1971 and the Dead last played there in March! 320
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Will freely admit the band name had me a little unsure what to expect but this is good! Kind of a Tall Dwarfs feel. 020
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I generally regard Braxton as fairly cerebral - he really shreds on a lot of this. 050
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Would have been great if I found about this when it came out, instead of 15 years later - at the 40+ mark, still fascinating. 030
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Tempting to use some cliché like “this flew under the radar” - not even sure what radar we’d be talking about. Anyway it’s from 2021 and it’s good! 040
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Finnish garage-rock trio with a “going straight on the mix-tape” stroke of genius. Pronouncing “cello” as “sello” compounds the whimsy: youtu.be/5_lHLVzU88Iyoutu.be22 Pistepirkko - Don't Play CelloYouTube video by siirtola 040
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 22/12/2024The kitchen is getting the kind of cleaning it is lucky to get once a year. Thought I was being brave getting through a 4-CD ZZ Top comp in one go, but the 13-CD Ya Ho Wha box is what’s on as I finish the cabinets and brace for the floor - “Now Flexing”! 050
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 21/12/2024youtu.be/kzDjJ3Kyjmo?...youtu.beJohn the BaptistYouTube video by Matt Krefting - Topic 000
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Listening to Zoot Horn Rollo’s 2001 “We Saw A Bozo Under The Sea.” Were I blindfolded and told it was a late 70s Allan Holdsworth record, I don’t think I’d have doubted. 020
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 13/12/2024William S. Fischer - “enigmatic” is easy to overuse but he’s been on 200 albums with no easy career summary. Lived in Europe for a year or so mid-60s but I’m not sure how this Basque folk song-inspired 1972 LP (with almost no credits) fits in. Library music vibe. Also NYC Public school teacher! 040
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 03/12/2024thesceneisnow.bandcamp.com/album/whirly... You can just click one button and listen to six excellent songs! Plus, they keep playing on your phone even if you pop over here to BlueSky. Vinyl coming sooner or later.thesceneisnow.bandcamp.comWhirlygigs, by The Scene Is Now6 track album 181
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Kuupuu - Yökehrä (Dekorder, 2006) LP compilation drawn from some of Jonna Karanka’s many self-released CDrs - beautifully abstract home made electronic sound. 240
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 02/12/2024"Spider" John Koerner & Willie Murphy - Running, Jumping, Standing Still (Elektra, 1969) Elektra edging into the “anything goes” era on the strength of the Doors income. I’ve always thought of Koerner as sort of a midwestern Peter Stampfel - steeped in the folk revival but with a lot of twists. 050
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Listening to Gary Peacock's "Tales of Another" - did anyone ever invite Keith Jarrett for a session and say "I love your playing but could you not do that weird singing along with your solos thing?" 010
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Are you really playing bluegrass if you're doing "Way Downtown" and get to the "It was late last night when Willie came home \ I heard him a-rapping on the door" line and the bass player doesn't do three quick knocks on the body of the instrument? 030
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Doing kind of a Tim Buckley “deep dive” (15 albums in 3 days, NBD) but a new takeaway - significant Richie Havens influence that I never thought of before. Also entirely 12-string on those “Live In London” recordings? 030
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Have spent little time with Yule V.U. - has its moments but distractedly listening on headphones at the grocery checkout this evening, I had a moment of “wait, am I listening to Leon Russell?” 020
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Always intrigued by bands whose members have no Discogs credits besides their sole LP, in this case Philadelphia's Thunder And Roses. The closing track on their 1969 LP "King Of The Black Sunrise" is top-notch Jimi worship. 130
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Debuting here with a few music posts - check out the fine discography link just added to my bio. 020
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 13/11/2024James Moody killing it on flute: youtu.be/OTWjxy0n_is?...youtu.beDizzy Gillespie, 'Samba de Uma Nota Só' (Tom Jobim)YouTube video by Alex Suzano 010
Bob Bannister @bob-bannister.bsky.social · 13/11/20241970 sessions not released until 1974 and then the late 90s CD added three tracks with mostly different personnel - Andrew White switches to oboe, Hubert Laws and Gary Bartz step in on flute and sax - overall brilliant, a bit orchestral at moments with all the winds. 020
