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"Changes" - Yes (Live)

Jon Hendricks & Company - Bright Moments A nice vocal take on a Rahsaan Roland Kirk song

"Gimme That Wine" - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

Some real fine New Orleans Funk by the Meters. A band deserving of more mainstream recognition. Besides for their solo cuts have done extensive back up work for many NOLA rockers. Looka-Py-Py - The Meters

Pigeon - a bird. This song is consistently rated among the top 10 all-time worst rock and roll songs ever recorded. We do this at certain gigs and the audience loves it. Surfin Bird - The Trashmen

Thanks for the tip for the next verse It's a gig-less Friday, I'm sittin' here all alone It's a gig-less Friday, I'm sittin' here all alone I'm gettin' awful hungry, hopin' an agent will phone Saturday's comin' Things ain't gonna improve Saturday's comin' Things ain't gonna improve The rent is overdue I got no place to move Weeks keep passin' And no gigs have I Weeks keep passin' And no gigs have I I'm in isolation 'cause I don't wanna die

Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega

It's a gig-less Friday, I'm sittin' here all alone It's a gig-less Friday, I'm sittin' here all alone I'm gettin' awful hungry, hopin' an agent will phone Saturday's comin' Things ain't gonna improve Saturday's comin' Things ain't gonna improve The rent is overdue I got no place to move well, it's a start

Before Little Richard became a rock star IMO he was a top notch Rhythm & Blues singer (in the traditional meaning of that term), and here is an example: Get Rich Quick - Little Richard

Another Friday without a gig. This feels weird. A fish out of water. This COVID thing can't end too soon.

Bobby Goldsboro - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore triple word score ?

IMO three of the best jazz colleges in the US are (in no particular order) Berklee, University of Miami, and University of North Texas State. Here are the Texans doing a Ray Noble classic. These kids are hot, and so is the guest soloist. Cherokee - University of North Texas State One O'Clock Lab Band

Here in South Florida, the endlessly popular Mr. B. We do this one but I made a Reggae arrangement of it. Son of a Son of a Sailor - Jimmy Buffett

Doing a Billy Strayhorn composition. Billy supposedly wrote this in a hospital bed. Billy wanted to be a classical composer, but it was back in the days when a black man couldn't get into any college that taught classical composition. So he became a jazz composer, and IMO a great jazz composer at that. I feel sad that he couldn't chase his dream but glad that he left so many great jazz tunes. An Stan was an amazing sax player. Instead of hearing his monster chops, all you hear is melody so nice it could have been composed and revised for days instead of the fact that it was improvised on the spot. Blood Count - Stan Getz

"Curtains" - Elton John

Wannabe - Spice Girls (Vintage "Andrews Sisters" Style Cover) - Postmodern Jukebox

Sweet Rain - Stan Getz

Baltimore Oriole - George Harrison Singing the Hoagy Carmichael jazz standard. I was looking for the Mark Murphy version which I have on CD but can't find on UTube. While searching I came across George Harrison. I've never heard this version before, so here goes... ... ..

Circular breathing is very difficult on the flute because there is no resistance to the air flow. Hubert Laws is one of the few people I know that can do it. Tell me how many breaths you hear him take in this one: Romeo & Juliet - Hubert Laws

"Killer Joe" - Jorge Dalto and the Interamerican Band doing his take on a Benny Golson song

"Street Life" - The Jazz Crusaders featuring Randy Crawford

"Little Sunflower" - Freddie Hubbard

One good Tchaikovsky deserves another: Capriccio Italien - Piotr Tchaikovsky - Antal Dorati conducting the Minneapolis Symphony

"Neon Moon" - Brooks & Dunn