Miles Davis : My Funny Valentine [ purchase ] What makes a standard a standard? Clearly, there has to be something timeless about t...

purchase [ Witch Fire ] Herbie Hancock? ... I had a vinyl copy of one of his albums way back at the end of 60's. It was so lon...

Let's get this straight, tea is so not my cup of tea. I can't stand the stuff, being an avowedly (instant) coffee man. Yet it is ...

  Sting : Shadows In The Rain (studio version) [ purchase ] For those who remember 2012, I mentioned in a post that one of the first...

Well it is, isn't it? And it would have, anyway, because everything changes, that's a fact, to paraphrase Bruce Springsteen. Which i...

Herbie Hancock and Tina Turner: Edith and the Kingpin Herbie Hancock and Melody Gardot: Edith and the Kingpin Herbie Hancock and Elvis ...

[ purchase ] This week’s theme gives me the chance to deal with a pet peeve. River is not a Christmas song. It is a winter song. Speci...

[ purchase ] This week’s theme is an experiment. We will be presenting songs in a variety of formats, and I mean that both in terms of...

Herbie Hancock : Watermelon Man [ purchase ] Billy Jonas : Old St Helen [ purchase ] As we have seen all week, human beings have b...

Peabo Bryson : Pretty Women [ purchase ] Welcome to our Song Chain theme. This is a musical version of the old word association game, w...

Image from Inga Scholes Herbie Hancock, ft. Luciana Souza : Amelia [ purchase ] Dianne Reeves : River [ purchase ] Cassandra Wilson : For...

Herbie Hancock, ft. Wayne Shorter : Both Sides Now [ purchase ] Paul Desmond : Song to a Seagull [ purchase ] Joshua Redman : I Had a Ki...

Joni Mitchell: River [ purchase ] Herbie Hancock with Corinne Bailey Rae: River [ purchase ] "Society is like a large piece of froze...

Johnny Zamot: Fat Mama [ out of print ] Herbie Hancock: Fat Mama [ purchase ] Two trips to the titular totem, a perfect pair of paeans matc...

Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man [ purchase ] It's interesting that the first year prompt that I've been here for is 1973. 1973 mar...