Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas

Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas

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Track Listing
1. Jingle Bells
2. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
3. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
4. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
5. Sleigh Ride
6. The Christmas Song
7. Good Morning Blues
8. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
9. Winter Wonderland
10. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
11. Frosty The Snowman
12. White Christmas
13. The Secret Of Christmas
14. Medley: We Three Kings Of Orient Are/O Little Town Of Bethlehem
15. Christmas Island
16. The Christmas Song
17. White Christmas
18. Frosty The Snowman

The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

In 2009, the band performed at South by Southwest, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Glastonbury Festival and the Newport Folk Festival. Their album Oh My God, Charlie Darwin was named Album of the Month by Uncut. They are nominated for the 2009 Uncut Music Award

Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

1. Charlie Darwin

2. To Ohio

3. Ticket Taker
4. The Horizon Is A Beltway
5. Home I'll Never Be
6. Cage The Songbird

7. (Don't) Tremble
8. Music Box
9. Champion Angel
10. To The Ghosts Who Write History Books
11. OMGCD
12. Ohio Reprise

The Decembrists - The Hazards of Love

Rolling Stone

The Decemberists are devoted anachronists. So with the pop album completing its evolution into iPod shuffle–mix fodder, it's the right time for the Portland, Oregon, band to release an old–fashioned prog concept record. True to form, The Hazards of Love brings the glorious excess: There's strummy British folk rock and heavy–metal thunder, orchestral strings and a children's choir. Guitarist Chris Funk, like Yes' Steve Howe, deploys every stringed instrument in the showroom, from mandolin and autoharp to pedal steel.

The Hazards of Love

Trilok Gurtu - jazz percussionist

Wikipedia

Trilok Gurtu (born in Mumbai) is a percussionist and composer, who has also "crossed over" into jazz-rock fusion and world music genres.

He has released his own albums and has collaborated with many artists, including Terje Rypdal, John McLaughlin, Jan Garbarek, Joe Zawinul, Bill Laswell, Maria João & Mário Laginha, and Robert Miles.

His web site is here







Massical

Nellie McKay: The Dog Song

Nellie McKay singing "The Dog Song".





Normal as Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day

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Nellie McKay @Amazon.com

TrioVD - Fill It Up With Ghosts

Review from the Guardian 2008

Most of the groups operated at the extreme edges of improv, noise, experimental funk and mind-bending volume, but the Leeds-based trioVD - guitarist Chris Sharkey, saxophonist Christophe de Bezenac and drummer Chris Bussey - offered some of the most focused and intricate yet thrilling music. They specialise in a fast, tight and awesomely expert conjunction of staccato and spiky high-energy compositions, uninhibited sax and guitar improv and machine-gun drumming. Sharkey (who also plays with Acoustic Ladyland saxophonist Pete Wareham in the Final Terror) is at the cutting-edge of contemporary improv-fusion guitar technique, colliding headlong free-jazz phrasing with roaring thrash metal riffs and ghostly electronics.

Newest Album - Fill it with Ghosts
1. Returns
2. Kesh
3. Sixes and Sevens
4. To Whom-
5. Fill It Up With Ghosts
6. Rash
7. Cow Dun

Few videos about but these give a taste





Fill It Up With Ghosts

Ceu - Vagarosa

A reviewer at Amazon is very articulate in his/her comment -

Ceu is one of the new wave of Brasilian female vocal talents and two years after her 2007 debut comes another collection of well-crafted, lazy, occasionally edgy, soulful grooves. The album title actually translates as `slow, easygoing and leisurely' so you get the idea, it's more sofa than party time.

The album kicks off in mellow acoustic style with Ceu extolling the joy of the invisible chemistry of love accompanied only by the distinctive Brasilian sound of the cavaquinho before the mood darkens slightly with `Cangote', her sweet vocals sitting on a jazzy dub reggae rhythm as turntable scratches, melodica and organ snippets swirl around the song's extremities to great effect giving us our first hint of Ceu's adventurous musicality.

Vagarosa

Mick Flannery - White Lies

Stan Tracey Quartet: Senior Moment

Guardian

This album is dedicated to 82-year-old pianist Stan Tracey's wife, Jackie, who died in August. She helped guide his career and anchor his sometimes unstable life, so it's fitting that this album both revisits past compositional landmarks and presents his family-­celebrating Grandad Suite for the first time.

Senior Moment

Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster

Joyous new album -








The Fame Monster (UK Deluxe Edition)

Rosanne Cash featuring Bruce Springsteen — Sea Of Heartbreak

Leonidas Kavakos plays Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor; Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2

Spiritualised - Ladies and Gentlemen

Their vision was to release this album as medication. Packaged as a giant pill in its own foil bubble-pack, with accompanying instructions about how to take the medication, the packaging - all too often missing these days, but still seen in Spiritualized's records - immediately told us what to expect: here was an album about swamping the harsh realities of life, about escaping from the day-to-day humdrum, about getting out of it to escape the pain.

Originally released in 1997 it is being re-released in the UK this month



1. Space (I Can't Help Falling In Love)
2. Come Together
3. I Think I'm in Love
4. All of My Thoughts
5. Stay With Me
6. Electricity

7. Home of the Brave
8. The Individual
9. Broken Heart

10. No God Only Religion
11. Cool Waves
12. Cop Shoot Cop




Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space

Colour me Free - Joss Stone

She ticks my boxes in so many ways - comes from Cornwall for one







Colour Me Free

Colour Me Free

Steve Martin - The Crow

Actor and comedian Steve Martin, known for his films including Roxanne and Father of the Bride, is also a long time fan of bluegrass music. First seen with his banjo in his early 70s stand up shows, this year Steve has released his first album. The Crow is a collection of songs for the 5 string banjo which features among others Dolly Parton and banjo maestro Earl Scruggs. He is making his UK TV debut as a musician with his band The Steep Canyon Rangers.







This will be on my Christmas List
The Crow