Archive for February, 2007
This is the week of February 25th, 2007The weekend after Mardi Gras is traditionally the slowest weekend of the year in New Orleans. So, relax to some War, set your head a throbbing to some Adrian Sherwood, and wile away over an hour by listening to 16 versions of "Corcovado" featuring (in no particular order): Stan Getz, Antônio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, Everything But The Girl, Elis Regina, Regina Belle, Lyambiko, Ithamara Koorax, Sérgio Mendes, Luciana Souza, Sarah Vaughan, Jetro da Silva, Jerry Gonzalez, Vanessa Rubin, Nara Leão, Trio Esperanca, Peter Martin and Gal Costa. Yeah, yeah. We know, that’s over two hours of muisc and we shouldn’t have done it but it was Carnival and…, well, we’ll be back to normal by next week.
VANESSA RUBIN / “Corcovado”Sun, Feb 25th, 2007 | Posted in Cover | 2 Comments »
ADRIAN SHERWOOD / “Majestic 12”Sun, Feb 25th, 2007 | Posted in Contemporary | 2 Comments »
WAR / “Slippin’ Into Darkness”Sun, Feb 25th, 2007 | Posted in Classic | 2 Comments »
This is the week of February 18th, 2007
This week at BoL it’s reggae, rap and jazz. Dennis Brown, Al Green and Eric Donaldson are on the reggae train. Lil’ Kim and J*Star have got their lighters up. A jazz "Body and Soul" retrospective features Coleman Hawkins, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus, Betty Carter, Dexter Gordon, Cassandra Wilson and John Coltrane. All aboard!
BETTY CARTER / “Body and Soul / Heart and Soul”Sun, Feb 18th, 2007 | Posted in Cover | 5 Comments »
LIL’ KIM / “Lighters Up”Sun, Feb 18th, 2007 | Posted in Contemporary | 3 Comments »
DENNIS BROWN / “Westbound Train”Sun, Feb 18th, 2007 | Posted in Classic | 2 Comments »
This is the week of February 11th, 2007
Nina rides again. Nina Simone in a gospel mode. Plus a feature on jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves. And we round off the week with Chocolate Genius and Marvin Gaye doing Soul and Blues interpretations of Motown.
CHOCOLATE GENIUS / “Ain’t That Peculiar”Sun, Feb 11th, 2007 | Posted in Cover | 5 Comments »