This is not a cover of the John Coltrane classic in a traditional sense, but Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin of the Mahavishnu Orchestra bring out the heart of the great master’s work here beautifully.
Seek out this album, as it’s a masterpiece.
Classic Rock
[Video] Los Dug Dug’s – Who Would Look At Me?
Los Dug Dug’s were the Mexican psychedelic answer to The Beatles. There needs to be a good retrospective done on how utterly amazing the Mexican rock scene was in the 1960s and 1970s.
[Video] Harry Nilsson – 1941
Few people could write a tune as beautifully as Harry Nilsson could. This is one of his forgotten gems.
[Video] Grateful Dead with Ornette Coleman – The Other One 2-23-93
I’m not a big fan of The Grateful Dead’s studio recordings. However, they were rather sublime live. And when they are paired with one of the giants of free jazz in Ornette Coleman, magic happens.
[Video] Amanaz – Africa (Full Album)
Thanks to Oded Fried-Gaon and Oddrocker Orlando Greenhill, who posted this originally. Amanaz produce amazing psych-fuzz, and hail from Zambia.
[Video] Spooky Tooth with Pierre Henry – Prayer
An updated version of this post, as an error by GoDaddy, who hosts this site, ate it. Hopefully, I have no more missing posts.
[Video] Firyuza – Firyuza (1979)
Firyuza were a prog-jazz-funk band from Turkmenistan. The album is a classic in the Soviet Rock world.
[Article] I like the Christian life: The Byrds’ Hillman talks about his faith
As it turns out, the legendary guitarist of The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and a solo artist of incredible renown, Chris Hillman, is Eastern (in this case, Greek) Orthodox by confession.
Hillman talks about his faith with Joel J. Miller at Patheos.com.
Lesley Gore, ‘It’s My Party’ and ‘You Don’t Own Me’ singer, dies at 68
The Los Angeles Times reports that Lesley Gore, the two-hit wonder, passed away today from cancer. She was 68. In her honor, here is the song that made her famous:
[Video] Czesław Niemen – Bema Pamięci Rapsod Żałobny
Czesław Niemen was quite an interesting character. He wrote a song Marlene Dietrich would cover, as well as one of the greatest protest songs in the history of Polish rock (“Dziwny jest ten świat” [Strange Is This World]).
This particular piece almost counts as something resting between liturgical music and something akin to Queen, with an almost gospel-like vocal feel to it.
