Chris Botti & Sting – Bourbon Street
An evening pause: As Danae notes, with a bit of Satchmo thrown in by Sting.
Tag: music
Tom Lehrer – The Irish Ballad
An evening pause: Recorded live, September 5, 1967, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Having some fun with the old folk ballads.
Hat tip Danae.
MTNS – Lost track of time
An evening pause: The song, which is really nice, is really just background music to a beautiful video of what it is like to fly fish in Montana. As always, I want to note the sophistication of the human engineering and design that makes this activity possible. It is as beautiful as the countryside and the music.
Hat tip Rocco.
Mark Knopfler – Last Exit To Brooklyn
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Don Henley – Take A Picture Of This
An evening pause: From his new album.
Hat tip Dane.
Ella Fitzgerald – Angel Eyes
An evening pause: Another nice B&W 1957 performance.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Joaquin Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez, 2nd movement
An evening pause: One of my favorite pieces of music, performed by Xuefei Yang and Barcelona Symphony.
Hat tip Danae.
Sounds of a Glass Armonica
An evening pause: Supposedly this is Ben Franklin’s favorite invention.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Nat King Cole – Red Sails In The Sunset
An evening pause: From a 1957 live performance.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Robert Tiso – Moonlight Sonata on glass harp
An evening pause: Something peaceful in these interesting times.
Hat tip DougSpace.
Auckland Symphony Orchestra – Angry Birds
An evening pause: I must admit I am entirely ignorant of what the Angry Birds game is. The music here and the playing however is stellar.
Hat tip to Danae.
Lou Reed and David Bowie – Waiting for the Man
An evening pause: How ’bout some good rock?
Gale Garnett – We’ll Sing in the Sunshine
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar. As he wrote me, “We need a little sunshine.”
Brandon Ridenour & Rachel Kudo – Fantasy Variations” on a theme by Paganini
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Earl Scruggs & Men with Banjos – Foggy Mountain Breakdown
An evening pause: And yes, that is Steve Martin playing on the left.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Al Stewart – Year of the Cat
An evening pause: A very nice performance. Hat tip Danae.
Glen Campbell & Flip Wilson ~ Rocky Racoon
An evening pause: Comedy meets the Beatles in this 1969 performance from the Glen Campbell television show.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
The Tokens – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
An evening pause: As always, it is enormously pleasurable to watch performers who clearly are having a good time.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason – Ashokan Farewell
An evening pause: A very nice performance of a very nice melody.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Alexander Rybak – Into A Fantasy
An evening pause: Rybak returns, this time performing live in 2014 his song for the animated film How to Train your Dragon 2 (2014). I normally don’t post videos made by audience members, but this time I make an exception because the performance is good and the videographer had the sense to soon ignore the dancers and stay focused on Rybak, who grabs the audience and holds them.
Hat tip Danae.