Jazz

    Ezra Collective - Dance, No One's Watching

    Straight off the plates at Bandcamp; the latest from the Ezra Collective.

    Dance, No One’s Watching.

    Auto-generated description: A lively jazz band performs on stage while a crowd of people dance energetically in a dimly lit venue.
    A lively jazz band - the Ezra Collective - performs on stage while a crowd of people dance energetically in a dimly lit venue.

    Useful algorithms

    I don’t generally like online algorithms that decide for you what you want to see (Facebook and Twitter, I’m looking at you). But I find the radio one Tidal plays once your playlist or album has finished to be a very good stab at what I want to keep on listening to. I can let them run for hours without getting bored. I’ve got a contemporary jazz one going now. There’s a bit of repetition, but I can live with that.

    🎵I’ve just been listening to a couple of old Jeff Beck albums, ‘Blow By Blow’ and ‘Wired’. I’d forgotten how jazz rock they were. Wired, in particular, has a real Mahavishnu Orchestra influence with Jan Hammer and Narada Micheal Walden playing on it.

    Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard

    🎵It’s been a long time since I listened to this, and like many of my old records, it’s hard to understand why I left it so long.

    It’s quirky and engaging. Jazzy and a bit sad in places.

    Record cover of the album 'Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard' by Robert Wyatt. The image is a painting of a man and woman in the foreground wearing masks and holding mirrors, with trees strung with laundry in the background.