21. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
Is it bad that I had to wait 21 albums into this audio odyssey before I got to an album…
Quarkmonkey’s 1001 Album challenge
One man’s thoughts on the 1001 Albums he apparently needs to listen to before he dies
Is it bad that I had to wait 21 albums into this audio odyssey before I got to an album…
One of the first albums I bought when the iTunes store opened in 2004 and effectively emptied my bank account…
One of the things that gets me as I’m ploughing through these early days in the late fifties is that…
Sarah Vaughan was always the also-ran when sat alongside Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, and to be honest she’d mostly…
I guess one of the hazards of mining 55 years back is that the further back you go, the more…
THIS is why I started doing this 1001 Albums thing. I started doing this because I wanted to listen to…
Ah, the first flicker of the contemporary… Although Tito Puente died in 2000, from my point of view the first…
It’s kind of hard to really get a picture of just what Little Richard must have been for mainstream listeners…
These were truly the days of Mambo. Once more, I was way out of my depths with this one, but…
As you may have gathered from my constant moaning about it, jazz has never really been my thing. These bebop…
You’ve got a lot to answer for Fidel. You and your decades-old socialist fortress in the Caribbean… You and your…
More jazz? Well if you insist. Actually, if all the jazz albums I had to plough through were like this,…
Well, as far as jazz is concerned, I’ve made my point right? Fast Show arty ponce blah blah blah… Well…
Slipping? Well OK I missed a day, but now I’m back on top of it. Hey, there’s a lot of…
Ugh. Jazz. Well, undertaking to listen to 1,001 albums starting in the fifties meant that I was going to have…
More conventional than “In the Wee Small Hours” but magnificently packed with classics, this landmark album shows Sinatra at his swingiest.
Cheery, authentic and full of soul, Fats Domino’s debut says hello to rock and roll in style.
It’s all easy-to-digest Vegas swing with an Italian twist, but it’s hard not to listen without dreaming you’re in “The Sopranos”.
Even for country cynics like me, there’s a lot of charm in this old album of heartache, pain and Leadbelly covers.
Fresh, full of fire and ready to change the world. This is the man who would be The King in glorious purity.
Quarkmonkey begins his journey through a lot of albums with a look at this 1954 charmer from Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, Mr Frank Sinatra.
NOTE: This post first appeared on my now defunct personal blog. I’m a total bastard when it comes to blogging.…