We’re getting into the Christmas spirit with the Robert Shaw Chorale and this excellent rendition of the Episcopalian classic.
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[Music] Kashmere Stage Band – Take Five (The Dave Brubeck Quartet Cover)
This is easily the funkiest take on a jazz standard I’ve ever heard. Apparently, the Kashmere Stage Band were famous for making funky sounds which were the equivalent of the JB’s and the Bar-Kays during their peak in the 1960s. Really amazing stuff.
[Music] James Brown – Santa Claus, Go Straight To The Ghetto
Let yourself have a funky ass Christmas with James Brown.
[Music] Vince Guaraldi Trio – O Tannenbaum
San Francisco’s Vince Guaraldi’s contribution to Christmas is this evergreen, O Tanenbaum, part of the soundtrack to “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
[Music] Nat ‘King’ Cole – The Christmas Song (1961)
No need to introduce this one. Let Nat ‘King’ Cole croon to you.
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Although there is the potential today for historically reconstructing The Incredible String Band as a folksy psychedelic sideshow, the core group of Mike Heron and Robin Williamson were among the most imaginative and deeply schooled of the musicians emerging out of Britain’s folk revival in the late 1960s. Succored by Joe Boyd and Elektra records, the band […]
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[Music] Bing Crosby – White Christmas (Full Album)
After launching with Bing and David Bowie, here’s the King of the Crooners singing traditional Christmas tunes.
[Music] Janko Nilović – Funky Tramway
One of the 70’s greatest funk albums didn’t come from the United States, Great Britain, Germany, or even Africa, for that matter. This gem came from Montenegro, which was then part of Yugoslavia, and it came from a very fruitful period Janko Nilović had from 1968 to 1978.
[Music] Leonard Cohen – Closing Time
A fittingly appropriate song, as the wonderful Leonard Cohen left this mortal coil today. Rest in peace. You left a legacy that will stand the test of time, like Martin Codax or Josquin Des Prez.
[Music] Pink Floyd – Julia Dream
I’m not much of a fan of later Pink Floyd, but the Syd Barrett-era is very, very hard to beat.
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