All this time, I have been writing in this blog about Good Music without being tied down to a specific definition. I haven’t really needed to define “good” music. I just know it when I hear it. All Good Music has some things in common, like standing up to repeated listening, usually being emotionally moving... Continue Reading →
College Albums 3 : Time Out
The third album I imagine was standard issue for a 60's college student trying to look collegiate would be the famous Time Out from The Dave Brubeck Quartet. With this album, Dave and the guys showed us you could swing in all sorts of uneven time signatures. The most famous tune from the record is... Continue Reading →
College Albums 2 : Sketches of Spain
The second album I am imagining an early 60’s college student would have would be the 1960 collaboration between Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Sketches of Spain. If the Goldberg Variations was to show our student to be intellectual and enraptured by music, Sketches of Spain was to give a sense of the exotic and... Continue Reading →