Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas is an album of Christmas music by guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded in 1966 and released on the Cadet label. It peaked at #15 on Billboard's Best Bets For Christmas album chart on December 7, 1968.

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars in a review by Michael G. Nastos that stated "With pensive, meditative, precise playing, it's a must-have and features a definitive jazz hit version of "Little Drummer Boy". - Wikipedia

When still working in an office as opposed to at home, we still had Xmas work dos (which I do not miss at all). We were asked for contributions to an Xmas playlist. Mine were all instrumental jazz versions of the well-known tunes like those on this LP. They were not played!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b18nqdQCikQ&list=OLAK5uy_nHz822LyM0mz9LXwBn_o5CbQjeAaEmhfY

#KennyBurrell #JazzGuitar #Jazz #Music #RichardEvans

Paul Winter // #PaulWinter //

album Warren Bernhardt - A Salute to Warren Bernhardt [2022]

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#buzzingroom #music #bandcamp #PaulWinter #WarrenBernhardt #DickWhitsell #JayCameron #ChuckIsraels #BenRiley #CecilMcBee #FreddieWaits #JohnLewis #RichardEvans

link bandcamp: https://paulwinter.bandcamp.com/album/warren-bernhardt

Ended yesterday and greeted today after my swim with What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David an album by saxophonist Stan Getz which was released on the Verve label in 1968.

Stan does Burt and Hal with an all star cast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mfOOr2eiQY&list=OLAK5uy_kUxboxkTH9CctVTDjKubpGBu_Kz6aJctU

#StanGetz #JeromeRichardson
#ChickCorea #HerbieHancock
#KennyBurrell #JimHall #PhilUpchurch #RonCarter
#RoyHaynes #RichardEvans
#CharlesMcCracken #burtbacharach #haldavid #1968inmusic #ververecords #jazz

Macanudo is an album by jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal of performances by Jamal with an orchestra conducted by Richard Evans. It was recorded in 1962 and released on the Argo label

Simon Sweetman, writing for Off the Tracks, called the album "wonderful" and praised "the way [Jamal's] lines just coast so easily, effortlessly across the rhythm of each piece". He concluded: "A class act, of course. And something a little different within his vast, impeccable canon of music."

A writer for Ambient Exotica described the album as "something truly special" and "a gem", and commented: "Macanudo... has it all: Latin duskiness, a string-fueled magnificence, brass-infused heterodynes as well as true-to-form Jazz flavors... The album just feels great." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1_-BAV0syA&list=PLdsmS601QPS78OdJR4nm5AVXjNEPrW5K4&index=1

#ahmadjamal #exotica #jazz #richardevans #argorecords #macanudo

Richard Evans explores AI and human vulnerability on new album 'Quantum' #RichardEvans

https://www.side-line.com/richard-evans-explores-ai-and-human-vulnerability-on-new-album-quantum/

Richard Evans has a new single out, 'Born Perfect' #RichardEvans

https://www.side-line.com/richard-evans-has-a-new-single-out-born-perfect/

Richard Evans's HITLER'S PEOPLE, which came out last year, is not a supererogatory coda to his largely excellent Third Reich trilogy. Rather, it is a remarkably useful reframing of the people in the evil bastard's inner circle, showing us how personality details led them to react in differing ways. Helpful given Trump's present clown car Cabinet. It is almost the top-level counterpart to Milton Mayer's THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE (which I strongly recommend).

#books #antifascist #richardevans

Richard Evans back with new single & video: 'Aidoru' - Out now #RichardEvans

https://www.side-line.com/richard-evans-back-with-new-single-video-aidoru-out-now/