#nubag

#themusicologist meets the #menahanstreetband with aSongForConZu.

Nubag #32 (a year in the life) Since Our Last Goodbye – the Menahan Street Band https://themusicologist.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/since-our-last-goodbye.mp3 ConZu..Until we meet again hold this piece…Every time I hear it I feel your presence.Dad xx “Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of stars, all solemn and…

Nubag #20 (a year in the life) Transcendental. Serenade Melancolique opus 26 - Zino Vinnikov

Nubag #20 (a year in the life) Serenade Melancolique opus 26 -Zino Vinnikov https://themusicologist.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/serenade-melancolique-op-26.mp3 This transcendental performance [of Tchaikovsky’s 1875 piece] by MASTER Zinnikov has been ‘taking me to the mountain’ since last we met. It is cuts like these that have and do help me make it through the darkest nights and authentically…

HEAVYWEIGHT Selection featuring Ethiopia's finest: Getchew Kass and the Soul Ekos Band.

Nubag #19 (a year in the life)  Getchew Kass & soul ekos band – Bey Lesenabetesh https://themusicologist.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/05-becc80y-lesecc80nabecc80tesh.mp3 HEAVYWEIGHT Selection featuring Ethiopia’s finest: Getchew Kass and the Soul Ekos Band.  

Nubag #18 (a year in the life) Trombone Shorty – Hurricane Season https://themusicologist.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/hurricane-season.mp3 First outing on themusicologist for the multi talented Troy ‘Trombone Shorty’ Andrews a cat who was BORN and RAISED with brass in his mouth. “So advanced was he that, at the age of EIGHT, a club in the city’s Tremé district, where he was born and raised, was…

Nubag #17 (a year in the life) Junior Delahaye –  Working Hard For the Rent Man https://themusicologist.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/04-junior-delahaye-working-hard-for-the-rent-man.mp3 Majestic piece from the mighty Lloyd ‘Bullwackie’ Barnes featuring the lilting, sufferers vocals of Junior Delahaye. Maximum respect due to all the sufferers, rebels, nuwave navigators and knowledge hustlers who…

HEAVYWEIGHT selection from a KING of improvisation and MASTER of the musical Arts.

Nubag #16 (a year in the life) Sidney Bechet – Jungle Drums https://themusicologist.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/jungle-drums.mp3 long time comrades in, (musical), arms of the ‘project/diary/soundtrack’ will know that for me Sidney Bechet is one of the GIANTS of improvisation/jazz/recorded music etc. One of the MASTERS of the art that I have been blessed enough to have stumbled across along ‘the…

African Funk selection...

Nubag #14 (a year in the life) Mind Your Business – Saxon Lee &the Shadows International https://themusicologist.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/mind-your-business.mp3 African Funk selection.. keep yer nose out me beeswax…  

Nubag #13 (a year in the life)  Jesus Child of America – Stevie Wonder https://themusicologist.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/jesus-children-of-america.mp3 a personal favourite for themusicologist, RICH in memories of exposure to this set, Innervisions, as an impressionable 5 year old in 1973. Stevie was one of the BIG hitters on the stereo in them early years and Innervisions is a testement to the…