Providing Musical Distractions for our Sick, Sad World
Video of the Day: The Buckinghams – Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Apparently we have a sort of a Chicago theme going today. (Yeah, but, what’s with the Union Jacks in the background of this video?) Anyway, here’s some classic Pop-Rock from The Buckinghams. Bonus: Mercy, Mercy Mercy was written in 1966 by keyboard player Joe Zawinul …
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Song of the Day: Stark Reality – All You Need to Make Music From the 1970 album NOW. Like we said this is a weird one. The album started as a project initiated by Hoagy Carmichael’s son to introduce children to his father’s music (see more here). All You Need to Make Music is …
Charles Mingus – west Coast Ghost We here at Infinite Jones are BIG Charles Mingus fans. This is from his 1957 album East Coasting. West Coast Ghost moves deftly from soothing to exhilarating and is a great example of how Mingus allows his players freedom to improvise within a composition. Enjoy. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who is Leon “Ndugu” Chancler you say (no doubt badly mispronouncing his name)? Well you may not have heard of him but, you definitely have heard him. He was the drummer on Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, among countless others. He passed away Saturday. See Rolling Stone for further details.
