So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Granny Gremlin]

I dunno what you're talking about, Uwe - sounds like jazz with cowboy hats to me.

Cool Firebird.

[Dave W]

That tune is Duke Ellington's Take The A Train.

[Rob]

 

That tune is Duke Ellington's Take The A Train.

[uwe]

I dunno what you're talking about, Uwe - sounds like jazz with cowboy hats to me.

Cool Firebird.

Sigh, ignorance is never worn with greater pride than on the shoulders of youth!

The Allmans are not just Jessica and Ramblin' Man, but had - especially in their early days - a penchant for lengthy and jazzy improvisations. Much jazzier than anything you would hear with, say, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Dickey Betts could do quite a bit of Django Reinhardt.

[uwe]

Rush never sounded more pleasant than here. Blood, Sweat & Tears beats Ayn Rand!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPiOuULemEA&list=RDCPiOuULemEA&start_radio=1

[Dave W]

This came up in my YT suggestions. Better put your Energy Dome on.

https://youtu.be/04pbtf5t_LU

[uwe]

In 1982 the Billy Squier band was shit-hot, that is how I remember them from opening for Whitesnake. They gave the main act a hard time. Kenny Aaronson was awesome, the band incredibly tight and joyous in their interplay, Squier's voice athletic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqiYBw8zPiM

[uwe]

Still one of the most infectious acappella intros ever. And Perry sure could sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atxUuldUcfI

When I first saw him as Journey's new lead vocalist I thought he had Native American blood! Everybody went "Journey now have this handsome 'Indianer' singing for them and he's really good." (AFN or American Forces Network radio played Journey in heavy rotation in Germany in 1979-81.) It must have been the hair and the chiseled features. But Herr Pereira is a Portuguese boy. OTOH, sailor nation they were, who knows where all that DNA came from! 

[westen44]

There are several Portuguese-Americans of prominence.  Among them are Daniela Ruah of "NCIS Los Angeles" and Bobbie Gentry.  Many more could be added to the list. Joe Perry, for instance, is also of Portuguese descent.  I used to keep up with Portuguese stuff a little years ago when I studied the language for a while. 

[uwe]

I didn't know (or had forgotten) that Bobbie Gentry had Portuguese roots. Via this forum, I have become a great fan of her and have by now all her recorded work. There is a very good boxed set out there that compiles all of it (it wasn't that much - six CDs -, she retired early from recording).

[gearHed289]

In 1982 the Billy Squier band was shit-hot, that is how I remember them from opening for Whitesnake. They gave the main act a hard time. Kenny Aaronson was awesome, the band incredibly tight and joyous in their interplay, Squier's voice athletic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqiYBw8zPiM

And later, he himself had a hard time with a fresh, young Def Leppard opening for him. His early stuff was cool in a more commercial Zeppelin sort of way. Talented guy.

[gearHed289]

Add Nuno Bettencourt as another Portuguese American of note.

[Basvarken]

Today is Blue Monday.

Always nice to play some King Karma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt7gyETzsYQ


Full album:
https://youtu.be/kmwiHhToeZQ

[4stringer77]

Not the first band that comes to mind with that song title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYH8DsU2WCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ2ISJFdXVA

[Basvarken]

it is for me