Mining the Audio Motherlode, Volume 64 (MP3s)

Give the Drummer Some's
Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere

Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)

"I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument, and an unsuspected yearning to learn to play on it, that are bound to wake up and demand attention some day. Therefore, you who rail at such as disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a fiddle, beware! for sooner or later your own time will come." — Mark Twain

Twilight Nuages  ~  "Twilight Nuages"
(Blog: Ezhevika Fields)
From the album: Life Goes On, Love Goes On (mp3)

Minor Basement Pop Miracle
Surely the coolest high school music teacher ever, William M. Lastomirsky gathered some of his students together in 1977 to record some songs he'd written. With zero pretension and a million miles of heart, this utterly beguiling collection of home-taped mini-masterpieces was the result.

Various  ~  "Beat Jazz: Pictures from the Gone World"
(Blog: Twilight Zone!)
From the album: Tick Tock Sick (mp3) by Jim Henson

Beatniksploitation
No grotto-lurking, bongo-spanking, non-sequitur-spewing hipster should be caught unmedicated without a copy of this madly suave tribute to swankness. While Corso, Rexroth and Kerouac flip their lips, Slim Gaillard, Moondog and Coleman Hawkins will make you shake your hips.

Carioca & Sua Orquestra  ~  Samba...Oba!"
(Blog: Toque Musical)

Put Fruit on Your Head and Shimmy
For this release in Imperial's Percussônica series, a studioful of top-flight blowers and bangers—under the direction of the vaunted conductor/arranger Maestro Carioca— produce a dozen brief but bodacious nuggets of big-band instrumental samba. Carioca was considered square by some during the Tropicália era. We link, you decide.

Tito Rodriguez  ~  "Back Home in Puerto Rico"
(Blog: Basement Rug)
From the album: Se Te Acabo el Jamón (mp3)

El Orgullo de Santurce
The clean, precise enunciation of vocalist Tito Rodriguez has always sent chills, whether fronting bands led by Noro Morales, Xavier Cugat or with his own all-star-infused orchestras. While on this 1962 album the instrumental star is a young Eddie Palmieri, Tito's singing is front and center, delivering the chart-toppers “Cuando, Cuando,” and “Cara De Payaso.”

Various  ~  "All Day Thumbsucker Revisited:
The History of Blue Thumb Records"
(Blog: Never Get Out of the Boat)

Can't Suck Enough
It didn't last much more than six years, but the renegade L.A. record label Blue Thumb lumbered far and wide across the musical landscape leaving a trail of highly satisfying if unprofitable records in its wake. All Day Thumbsucker Revisited is a two-disc retrospective of the label's idiosyncratic assortment of non-hits from the likes of Sun Ra, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Sylvester, and Captain Beefheart, whose Strictly Personal was the label's first release in 1968.

Dorothy Ashby  ~  "Dorothy Ashby"
(Blog: Arkadin's Ark)
From the album: Booze (mp3)

Toumani Diabate – Joanna Newsome = Dorothy Ashby
Long before settling into a comfortable life doing West Coast session work for artists like Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, and Earth Wind & Fire, jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby was an enormously inventive, deeply swinging improviser. At the time she made this record (released by Argo in 1962) Ashby was the host of a jazz radio show in Detroit.

Listen for music from these and other incredible finds on
Give the Drummer Some, Fridays on WFMU, 9 to Noon (ET).

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Comments

[lblnc]

A step above the normally high rung.

[icastico]

A couple of nifty posts from this evening

http://freedomblues.blogspot.com/2010/04/konono-no1-de-mingedi-lubuaku.html

http://globalgroovers.blogspot.com/2010/04/melome-clement-tp-poly-rythmo-de.html

[richard]

Can you post favorite downloads from my site?

Http://sesionfutura.blogspot.com

Thanks.

[The Basement Rug]

Thanks for including me in your listing here. That Mark Twain quote reminds me of his others regarding mechanical music and organ grinders. Speaking of "Giving the Drummer Some", be sure to check out this: http://basementrug.com/2010.

[Holly]

Lou Johnson's "Beat" is linked to Tito Rodriguez ... I love love love Lou, but would like to check out Tito! :-)

[Doug Schulkind]

Whoops! Thanks for catching that Holly. I create each week's Motherlode using the previous week as a template. Looks like I just forgot to delete that link. To make it up to you (and cause you asked with a smiley face), I've added an MP3 for "Se Te Acabo el Jamón" from the Tito Rodríguez album. Enjoy!