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And the children dance to the pipes of Pan

by DougJ|  February 3, 201712:00 pm| 218 Comments

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One of the things I miss most about the ’60s and ’70s is the use of flute in songs on the radio. Perhaps the most memorable example is the awful but catchy “Windy”. I genuinely enjoy “Heard It In A Love Song”, “Never Rains In Southern California” and the great “Spill The Wine”. I could live without all of Jethro Tull’s oeuvre however.

There’s also some good jazz flute from back in the day, e.g. some Eric Dolphy.

What are your favorite songs with flute?

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  1. 1.

    Stan

    February 3, 2017 at 12:05 pm

    Fun fact: William Steig’s son, Jeremy Steig, was a noted Jazz flutist.

  2. 2.

    cosima

    February 3, 2017 at 12:07 pm

    I played the flute for years & years, and in spite of that (or perhaps because of that) my answer is ‘none.’

    Cello — I love what that adds to other genres outside of classical, which is why both our girls played. We still have Little Cosima’s 1/16 size cello, long long since grown out of.

  3. 3.

    Rob Roser

    February 3, 2017 at 12:07 pm

    Flute loop – Beastie Boys

  4. 4.

    The Moar You Know

    February 3, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    Oh, the conversations me and my musician friends have had about the flute and the absolute lack of appropriateness it has for any music outside of the classical oeuvre. We all came to the same conclusion a long time ago. Does not belong.

    Funny, because the ONLY concession I’ve ever been willing to make to violating that rule would be Tull. Anderson can actually rock a flute (most of my fellow musicians disagree). And even he usually fails dismally at it (Thick as a Brick, exhibit 1). But we can all live without Tull.

    No place outside the orchestra, final verdict.

  5. 5.

    joel hanes

    February 3, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    All of Suite For Flute and Jazz Piano, Claude Bolling w/ Rampal
    Much of John Barleycorn Must Die and Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, by Traffic
    ocarina solo, “California Dreamin'”, The Mamas and the Papas

  6. 6.

    burnspbesq

    February 3, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    “With You There to Help Me,” the opening track on Jethor Tull’s Benefit album.

    The sappiest rock song with flute is undeniably “You Are the Woman.”

    If you want to hear some spectacular flute playing, there is a recent album of C.P.E. Bach flute concertos featuring Emmanuel Pahud that will knock your socks off.

  7. 7.

    Zippy

    February 3, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    Bobbi Humphrey – Harlem River Drive.

  8. 8.

    Olivia

    February 3, 2017 at 12:09 pm

    Down Under
    One Night in Bangkok

  9. 9.

    Doug!

    February 3, 2017 at 12:10 pm

    @Olivia:

    Forgot about Down Under. That was epic.

  10. 10.

    Big Picture Pathologist

    February 3, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    “Supper’s Ready” by Genesis.

    The flute isn’t exactly *featured*, but its contributions to that song are short but sweet.

  11. 11.

    Yarrow

    February 3, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    Prokofiev — Peter and the Wolf

  12. 12.

    ? Martin

    February 3, 2017 at 12:12 pm

    I’ve always been a bit disappointed that Radiohead, to my knowledge, have no songs with the flute in them, especially given that they have used nearly every other instrument known to man.

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    February 3, 2017 at 12:13 pm

    @The Moar You Know:

    No place outside the orchestra, final verdict.

    Boling’s “Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano” would argue otherwise.

  14. 14.

    DesertFriar

    February 3, 2017 at 12:13 pm

    “Mighty Quinn” – Manfred Mann

  15. 15.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    February 3, 2017 at 12:13 pm

    (nervously) Um, I like Jethro Tull?

    @joel hanes: Oh yeah the Bolling Suite. I’m an amateur pianist and I’m frequently cajoling flautists to play that with me. Unfortunately, I’m an amateur CLASSICAL pianist so the jazz improv parts come off kind of meh.

  16. 16.

    Xig

    February 3, 2017 at 12:13 pm

    There’s a female-fronted retro-doom-rock band out of Toronto called Blood Ceremony where the singer also busts out flute solos. Super 70’s-sounding stuff.

  17. 17.

    Mark Field

    February 3, 2017 at 12:14 pm

    El Condor Pasa.

  18. 18.

    rawhide rawlins

    February 3, 2017 at 12:14 pm

    Jobim: Wave

  19. 19.

    tybee

    February 3, 2017 at 12:15 pm

    going up the country – canned heat

  20. 20.

    dedc79

    February 3, 2017 at 12:16 pm

    @Yarrow: Loved Peter and the Wolf. Growing up, we had a book that went along with the recording.

  21. 21.

    oldster

    February 3, 2017 at 12:18 pm

    I’m going to stick up for some Tull, too, even though it brands me as uncool in this group.

    Traffic–good point! The song “Glad” from John Barleycorn, for instance.

  22. 22.

    Yarrow

    February 3, 2017 at 12:19 pm

    @dedc79: Yeah, me too! I love it. And it’s a great teaching tool for kids and orchestra. Makes it come alive.

  23. 23.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 3, 2017 at 12:20 pm

    Kites Are Fun by The Free Design. A lovable children’s song with lyrics that make you wonder if it’s really about kites.

  24. 24.

    greennotGreen

    February 3, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    Uh, Irish music?
    Plus, do not dis Tull!

  25. 25.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    February 3, 2017 at 12:22 pm

    I’m a Tull fanatic – genuinely adore the lyrics and tunes. I’m less fond of the live show because of how weird the choreography and stagecraft seem to be, and really dislike the most passionate fans.

  26. 26.

    dedc79

    February 3, 2017 at 12:22 pm

    She Would Look For Me, from the recent Okkervil River album. Although all i can find is a live version that seems to omit the flute.

  27. 27.

    Immanentize

    February 3, 2017 at 12:22 pm

    Herbie Mann’s “Comin’ Home Baby” is one of the greatest jazz flute songs ever. What a great groove.

  28. 28.

    Immanentize

    February 3, 2017 at 12:22 pm

    Also, doesn’t “Fool on the Hill” sport a bit of flute?

    Oh yeah — and one of my oldest favorites — Undun by Guess Who has a flute solo after the break.

  29. 29.

    dedc79

    February 3, 2017 at 12:23 pm

    Favorite Tull – Skating Away

  30. 30.

    Brachiator

    February 3, 2017 at 12:23 pm

    Herbie Mann, Memphis Underground

  31. 31.

    Kenneth Kohl

    February 3, 2017 at 12:24 pm

    ‘Nights in White Satin’ – Moody Blues

  32. 32.

    Immanentize

    February 3, 2017 at 12:26 pm

    @Brachiator: I’m with you, brother!

  33. 33.

    Scott

    February 3, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    Legend of a Mind – Moody Blues

  34. 34.

    Reformed Panty Sniffer

    February 3, 2017 at 12:29 pm

    As far as flute music goes, I’m thinking Zamfir’s cover of “Eve of Destruction” was a precautionary tale for its time.

  35. 35.

    VOR

    February 3, 2017 at 12:29 pm

    I heard the mid-70’s song “Strange Way” by Firefall on radio yesterday.

  36. 36.

    les

    February 3, 2017 at 12:31 pm

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    I’m a Tull fanatic – …, and really dislike the most passionate fans.

    Well poo on you.
    Aqualung, obviously.

  37. 37.

    dexwood

    February 3, 2017 at 12:32 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:
    Don’t be nervous, you are not alone.

  38. 38.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 12:33 pm

    @Doug!:

    Huh! I was just thinking about this yesterday. I have been listening to the UNLV radio station while I’m out here in Las Vegas, and most of the day it’s heavy on good jazz. Heard a couple of songs with flute and was thinking about how that instrument is a bit out of favor these days.

    Caribbean Jazz Project, “Stolen Moments.”

  39. 39.

    Ryan

    February 3, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    You all remember the scene near the beginning of Bullitt in the restaurant with the band? Also after he totals the car and gets picked up by his girlfriend?

  40. 40.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    February 3, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    …Live without all of Jethro Tull’s oeuvre…

    Them’s fighting words. 70s Tull was great. Well, okay, there were a couple of clunkers in there and anything past the 70s wasn’t great. But there’s half a dozen Tull albums from the 70s that not only rocked but have held up well after all these years. Doug, don’t make us come over there and beat you with a rusty flute.

    I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned Hocus Pocus by Focus in terms of iconic 70s flute sound. In fact, that entire album is good.

  41. 41.

    jackmac

    February 3, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    @Roger Moore: Agreed. In fact, I really like a lot of Claude Bolling’s jazz-classical fusion pieces, but “Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano” with Jean Pierre Rampal really stands out.

  42. 42.

    Oatler.

    February 3, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    “i don’t record flutes.” Guy Stevens, when confronted with Ian Whiteman’s flute case

  43. 43.

    Aleta

    February 3, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE9SjAqPGsc
    Telemann 12 Fantasies for Flute Solo
    JP Rampal

  44. 44.

    dexwood

    February 3, 2017 at 12:37 pm

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage:
    Funny, you mention Focus… They opened for Tull at a show I saw in 1973 at the Baltimore Civic Center. Edgar Winter was the middle act. Weird fun all around.

  45. 45.

    MomSense

    February 3, 2017 at 12:37 pm

    @The Moar You Know:

    Do you like Copland’s Duos for piano and flute?

  46. 46.

    brendancalling

    February 3, 2017 at 12:38 pm

    Somewhere in the back of my record collection i have “Herbie Mann plays the Bossa Nova”. IIRC, it’s pretty good, and I’m not much of a flute fan.

    Although Marshall Tucker has a few good songs.

  47. 47.

    Phillydude

    February 3, 2017 at 12:38 pm

    King Crimson, “I Talk to the Wind,” https://www.google.com/search?q=king+crimson+i+talk+to+the+wind&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

  48. 48.

    p.a.

    February 3, 2017 at 12:38 pm

    6 Badass flute bands that aren’t Jethro Tull.

    Was a big Traffic fan, liked Tull too. These others were off my radar.

  49. 49.

    Yarrow

    February 3, 2017 at 12:38 pm

    @jackmac:

    “Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano” with Jean Pierre Rampal really stands out.

    One of my favorites!

  50. 50.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 12:38 pm

    @Immanentize:

    Great! I forgot “Undun.” Definitely worth a listen now.

  51. 51.

    humboldtblue

    February 3, 2017 at 12:41 pm

    The Marshall Tucker band has one of the great rock tunes that feature a flute.

    Heard it in a love song

    That Tucker tune is one of my favorites although I’m much more an Allman Brothers guy

    And here is Tedeschi Trucks rocking the flute a few years ago

    Ian Anderson tells the story of the one reason how he became a flute player — Eric Clapton. He knew he’d never be even half as good on guitar and therefore he learned to play everything else.

  52. 52.

    dollared

    February 3, 2017 at 12:41 pm

    Cuban music features flutes fairly frequently. Sometimes it is lame, but in the cha-cha-chas it’s pretty fabulous. E.g. Habana del Este by AfroCuban Allstars….Or the more traditional El Boduguero by Orquesta Aragon….

  53. 53.

    sherparick

    February 3, 2017 at 12:42 pm

    Enjoyed Aqualunge and “Thick as a Brick.” Of course I am sucker for Fairport Convention so my weakness for British Folk and Folk Rock runs deep. Problem for some people is that both Tull and Led Zeppelin get over overplayed on Classic Rock and fondness can turn into being nauseated at some point.

  54. 54.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 3, 2017 at 12:43 pm

    How anybody could mention Dolphy but omit Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Yusef Lateef is beyond me.

  55. 55.

    humboldtblue

    February 3, 2017 at 12:44 pm

    @jackmac:

    Holy shit me and my sisters wore that album out

  56. 56.

    Dupe1970

    February 3, 2017 at 12:45 pm

    Hey Aqualung!

  57. 57.

    Mike E

    February 3, 2017 at 12:46 pm

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Living in the Past, eh?

  58. 58.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 12:46 pm

    Yusef Lateef is a great jazz flautist. “The Golden Flute.”

    And I can’t resist posting the poignant “Love Theme from Spartacus.” Not flute but flute-adjacent (oboe).

  59. 59.

    humboldtblue

    February 3, 2017 at 12:47 pm

    And of course anything by the Chieftains

  60. 60.

    cosima

    February 3, 2017 at 12:47 pm

    I’m just going to drop this in here to ruin the good flute vibes. Sarah Palin playing flute for the Miss Alaska pageant talent contest.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FCl0b77qB1w

  61. 61.

    humboldtblue

    February 3, 2017 at 12:48 pm

    And don’t forget the single greatest jazz flute solo ever recorded when Ron Burgundy got himself some sweet, sweet lovin’ due to his supple lips

  62. 62.

    jeffreyw

    February 3, 2017 at 12:48 pm

    Push Push, but not for the flute playing.

  63. 63.

    greennotGreen

    February 3, 2017 at 12:49 pm

    @cosima: You should get hit with the ban hammer for that!

  64. 64.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 3, 2017 at 12:49 pm

    @cosima: I’m going to ask Adam to ban you permanently.

  65. 65.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 12:49 pm

    Yusef Lateef, “Eboness.”

    There are some good Yusef Lateef mix lists on YouTube.

  66. 66.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    February 3, 2017 at 12:50 pm

    So much great Tull flute from the 70s:

    Witches Promise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH9a7FYRDWE
    Life’s A Long Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSkwYxZmBvw

  67. 67.

    Cap'n pHealy

    February 3, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    You mention “Windy” and “pipes”…and no one’s brought up Rufus Harley?

    That’s right – jazz bagpiper Rufus Harley.

    You’re welcome.

  68. 68.

    humboldtblue

    February 3, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Flute adjacent? Flute adjacent?!?!

    Goddamn prima donna oboe players with their special-wrapped-and-tied-double-reeds and their front seat in the orchestra and their-duck-sounding squeaky-ass honking were the worst!

    Sax section forever! We weren’t just wind, we weren’t just brass, we were totally badass!

  69. 69.

    jl

    February 3, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    I couldn’t find what I was looking for on youtube, so, sorry.
    But I found a marching band flute-cam video!

    Amazing Flute Cam – October 11, 2013 – GoPro Hero 3
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATPJ0ivWkls

  70. 70.

    JCJ

    February 3, 2017 at 12:54 pm

    @cosima:

    You are evil!

  71. 71.

    humboldtblue

    February 3, 2017 at 12:55 pm

    @Rob Roser:

    That’s one you hit replay on like four times in a row

  72. 72.

    sukabi

    February 3, 2017 at 12:56 pm

    Pan flute…love pan flutes. Years ago there was a group of South American young men that would play around the pike place market… Wonderful, earthy music…pan flute brought chills.

  73. 73.

    Eugene Cipparone

    February 3, 2017 at 12:57 pm

    Joni Mitchell’s Free Man in Paris

  74. 74.

    mai naem mobile

    February 3, 2017 at 12:59 pm

    Forever Autumm – Justin Hayward

  75. 75.

    swiftfox

    February 3, 2017 at 1:00 pm

    Top 40 Bin:

    Hitching A Ride, Vanity Fair (recorders, not flute)

    Hijack, Herbie Mann; At least it was not standard disco

    For My Lady, Moody Blues

  76. 76.

    Larkspur

    February 3, 2017 at 1:01 pm

    @cosima: Oh, cellos. I played through high school and I loved it, but that was back in the olden days when schools had musical instruments you could borrow and take home for free. I couldn’t afford to buy one, and I knew I wasn’t heading for a music major or anything, so good-bye to cello-playin’. But cellos are so beautiful.

    Huh. I just remembered a thing about playing the cello in junior high school. We cellists got teased because we had to spread our legs. I’m sure flautists got teased for their whatchimacallit, embouchure? Kids are brutal sometimes.

  77. 77.

    Ninedragonspot

    February 3, 2017 at 1:02 pm

    Luisa Tetrazzini sings a flute-mad excerpt from Meyerbeer’s “L’Étoile Du Nord”

  78. 78.

    NotMax

    February 3, 2017 at 1:03 pm

    May not be rock ‘n’ roll, but rocks the piccolo.

    Procession of the Sardar.

  79. 79.

    Timurid

    February 3, 2017 at 1:04 pm

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    SPLITTERS!

  80. 80.

    Pappy G

    February 3, 2017 at 1:05 pm

    Yusef Lateef, yes! Juba Juba is a fantastic song.

  81. 81.

    Snarly

    February 3, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    Be In by the Charles Lloyd Quartet

  82. 82.

    low-tech cyclist

    February 3, 2017 at 1:10 pm

    I still remember where and when I first heard Aqualung. Don’t tell me Tull is crap.

    And in what way is “Windy” awful? Not exactly a classic, certainly, but it’s an enjoyable pop song.

  83. 83.

    NotMax

    February 3, 2017 at 1:10 pm

    Q: Why did Mozart get slapped?

    A: He asked a lady if she wanted to see his magic flute.

  84. 84.

    Snarly

    February 3, 2017 at 1:12 pm

    Oops Make that Love In

  85. 85.

    Pappy G

    February 3, 2017 at 1:13 pm

    So Flute – St Germain

  86. 86.

    Miss Bianca

    February 3, 2017 at 1:13 pm

    Almost anything with Matt Molloy, or Rashaan Roland Kirk. We’ll agree to disagree about Jethro Tull.

    True fact (as opposed to alternate fact): My first musical love with the flute, and I took up the violin only because I couldn’t form an embouchure worth a damn. So the world was spared another mediocre flute player only to gain another slightly-above-average fiddle player!

  87. 87.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 3, 2017 at 1:15 pm

    “Crazy on You” – Heart

  88. 88.

    Woodrowfan

    February 3, 2017 at 1:15 pm

    @VOR: Firefall had some good songs

  89. 89.

    James Powell

    February 3, 2017 at 1:16 pm

    @oldster:

    Who branded you as uncool? Jethro Tull was (and maybe still is) a great band. Martin Barre is one of the more underrated guitarists in rock. Anderson’s flute playings was more of an ornament than a core element.

    Two of my favorite flute-in-rock songs: Goin’ up the country by Canned Heat and Can’t you see by Marshall Tucker.

  90. 90.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 1:16 pm

    Always liked the flute in Stephen Stills’s “Cherokee.”

  91. 91.

    Miss Bianca

    February 3, 2017 at 1:20 pm

    @p.a.: cool article!

    I still can’t quite believe Ian Anderson’s gone bald…in high school I had a photo of him in my locker where he was sporting the most bad-ass nimbus of red-gold mane…that was back in my “I am seriously going to marry Ian Anderson one of these days” phase. But no, in Riff Randell’s immortal cry: …”I am not a groupie!”

  92. 92.

    Butch

    February 3, 2017 at 1:21 pm

    California Dreamin’.

  93. 93.

    Miss Kitka's Comrade Wayne

    February 3, 2017 at 1:21 pm

    Lalo Schifrin’s Mission Impossible theme.

  94. 94.

    lollipopguild

    February 3, 2017 at 1:22 pm

    I have a CD with various artists doing “Danny Boy”. James Galway(flute) does a version with the Chieftains that is wonderful. We need a bagpipes thread. “Scotland the Brave”!

  95. 95.

    the antibob

    February 3, 2017 at 1:22 pm

    Soel – Le Vicomte

  96. 96.

    Bobby D

    February 3, 2017 at 1:23 pm

    Dolphy on flute is good, though I associate him more with bass clarinet, from his masterpiece “Out to Lunch”, a gem from the 60s avante garde jazz movement. Had an 18yo Tony Williams playing on that album, and Dolphy died shorty after its release.

    Herbie Mann put out the best flute-dominated albums I’ve heard. Two in particular:
    Memphis Underground (1969)
    Push Push (1971)

    The latter had Duane Allman on guitar (and he rips it, as always)

  97. 97.

    WereBear

    February 3, 2017 at 1:24 pm

    Always enjoy the classic Hammond organ sound from the sixties.

  98. 98.

    SFBayAreaGal

    February 3, 2017 at 1:25 pm

    Low Down – Boz Scaggs
    Color My World – Chicago

  99. 99.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 1:25 pm

    Good flute in the Beatles’ “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away,” but I can’t find a viable YouTube clip.

  100. 100.

    inventor

    February 3, 2017 at 1:25 pm

    I think Herbie Mann’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” has got to be in consideration.

    My Jethro Tull Story: Back around 1979 or so Jethro Tull came through the college town of Lubbock, Texas. Unfortunately, they were booked during Christmas break so the 10,000 seat auditorium wasn’t even 1/3 full. Ian Anderson asked the croud to gather ’round near the stage and they proceeded to play for three hours, took a 20 minute break and played an encore for another hour. It was amazing how well they played. I have always had a great deal of respect for Ian Anderson and the rest of Jethro Tull. If there was ever a time to “mail in” a concert it was then. They could have done a cursory 1/2 hour and been gone but they played their ass off.

  101. 101.

    Marvel

    February 3, 2017 at 1:27 pm

    Re favorite song w/ flute: too many from which to choose. As an old (emphasis OLD) fluter, I’m fond of every sort of flute music.

    http://imgur.com/a/3acSf

  102. 102.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 1:27 pm

    Van Morrison, “Moondance.”

  103. 103.

    Miss Bianca

    February 3, 2017 at 1:28 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: there’s another Heart song where Ann is really rocking the flute, but I can’t remember which one – it’s not “White Lightning and Wine”, but I think it is one of the Dreamboat Annie numbers. Damn. Now I’m going to be scratching me head all day over that one!

  104. 104.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 3, 2017 at 1:28 pm

    @WereBear: The B3 has remained a jazz staple to this day.

  105. 105.

    Gus

    February 3, 2017 at 1:29 pm

    Going back to my hippie roots, Fat Mattress (Noel Redding of Jimi Hendrix Experience band) All Night Drinker.

  106. 106.

    Svensker

    February 3, 2017 at 1:30 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Um, I like Jethro Tull?

    Damn straight. WTF is wrong with DougJ?

  107. 107.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 3, 2017 at 1:30 pm

    I might note that Doug is always first rate with his post titles…this one a reference to the greatest rock ‘n roll mockumentary every made, This is Spinal Tap.

  108. 108.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 1:34 pm

    @Marvel:

    Is there music at that link? I couldn’t find any.

  109. 109.

    Shana

    February 3, 2017 at 1:35 pm

    @lollipopguild: Do you have Bertie Wooster’s version?

  110. 110.

    ThresherK

    February 3, 2017 at 1:37 pm

    “One Night in Bangkok”, the prelude and solo.

    (Yes, I’m in the cult of Chess.)

  111. 111.

    stinger

    February 3, 2017 at 1:38 pm

    A fast skim through 100+ comments seems to show that nobody’s mentioned Walk Away, Renee – The Left Banke

  112. 112.

    dexwood

    February 3, 2017 at 1:38 pm

    @Miss Bianca:
    You would have had to fight my wife. She met him at a small party he attended after a show in Albuquerque in 72 or 73. She still has his autograph and the pen he signed it with.

  113. 113.

    Yarrow

    February 3, 2017 at 1:41 pm

    @cosima: Ha! Speaking of Sarah Palin she filed with the Federal Election Commission to terminate her PAC. I guess the grifting just wasn’t good anymore.

  114. 114.

    jheartney

    February 3, 2017 at 1:42 pm

    Not one that gets heard of much, but Jade Warrior was a flute/guitar duo. Towards the end (about 20:20) of this one is a half-speed flute section – incredibly melancholy.

  115. 115.

    Triumph

    February 3, 2017 at 1:43 pm

    “Wild Thing” by the Troggs has the most incredible, crappy recorder solo.

  116. 116.

    TidyCat

    February 3, 2017 at 1:43 pm

    Kaori Kobayashi

  117. 117.

    cgordon

    February 3, 2017 at 1:43 pm

    One word: Saxophone.

  118. 118.

    cosima

    February 3, 2017 at 1:45 pm

    @Larkspur: Cellos are beautiful — and they add a lot to every genre of music. So versatile — provided you’re a good player. Little Cosima and I went to see Hozier last year and he had a cellist playing. She was amazing. I took lessons alongside Big Cosima (our oldest), and it is hands-down the most difficult instrument that I’ve ever tried to play (piano, flute, cello, guitar). Little C ended up having to change teachers when we moved, and the only one we found nearby was a very strict Russian lady, Little C had to keep asking me ‘what did she say?’ so we let her move to piano…. Big C still plays, though.

    What’s with all of the hating on the Sarah Palin flute?! A masterpiece! Besides, when was I ever going to be able to reasonably drop that into a thread if not into this one?

    True story: I once played a flute duet in a school concert with a friend who was dating……. Palin’s (now) brother in law. We were all much younger then, of course, my friend did not stay with him, and Sarah was not yet dating Todd.

  119. 119.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 3, 2017 at 1:45 pm

    @cgordon: “Born to Run”. Also, too, “Baker Street”.

  120. 120.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 3, 2017 at 1:46 pm

    Hari Prasad Chaurasiya – Song of the River

  121. 121.

    TidyCat

    February 3, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    @cgordon:

    Kaori Kobayashi usually plays the sax. Check her out

  122. 122.

    Doug R

    February 3, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    @Stan: Steig jr actually plays the flute as the pied piper in Shrek 4.

  123. 123.

    cosima

    February 3, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    @Yarrow: I lay a lot of the misery that the US is currently experiencing at her feet for her poisoning of the political well. So I hope she ends up starving in the streets, along with her evil children (not Trig, though). I am surprised, though, that given the current SCROTUS that there aren’t enough stupid people in the US to keep her grifting game going.

  124. 124.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    Loggins and Messina, “Angry Eyes.” (Flute at 5:25.) Damn, I could hear the riff but couldn’t think of the song.

  125. 125.

    lollipopguild

    February 3, 2017 at 1:50 pm

    @Shana: No I do not.

  126. 126.

    PPCLI

    February 3, 2017 at 1:51 pm

    The opening and closing themes to the CBC radio show As It Happens (the classic versions, not the recent remixes):

    Curried Soul

    Koff Drops

    Both by Moe Koffman.

  127. 127.

    TidyCat

    February 3, 2017 at 1:52 pm

    @cgordon:

    Kaori Kobayashi – Rock With You

  128. 128.

    GregB

    February 3, 2017 at 1:52 pm

    Has anyone mentioned Zamfir, master of the pan flute?

  129. 129.

    grumpy realist

    February 3, 2017 at 1:53 pm

    The soundtrack to “L’Homme Blond avec une Chaussure Noire” with Zamfir. (Go for the original movie in French, not the stupid U.S. remake.)

  130. 130.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    February 3, 2017 at 1:54 pm

    @Eugene Cipparone: This.

    And I have a fondness for Irish music. Joanie Madden is a flute goddess.

  131. 131.

    Stav

    February 3, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    Hello?
    Dan Fogelberg?
    Pop’s biggest selling flautist?

  132. 132.

    Bg

    February 3, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    y’all never heard of Nestor Torres?
    Sin Palabras is a good place to start

  133. 133.

    Raven

    February 3, 2017 at 1:57 pm

    @Scott: My friends sis is the Moody Flautist, Norda Mullen.

  134. 134.

    joel hanes

    February 3, 2017 at 1:57 pm

    @dedc79:

    Loved Peter and the Wolf

    just made for showoff bassoonists. all the bass parts are big fun

  135. 135.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    @GregB:

    No, thank God.

    Until one minute later.

  136. 136.

    NotMax

    February 3, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    @GregB

    Speaking of Pan fluting, some that got Barbara Eden hot and bothered.

  137. 137.

    TidyCat

    February 3, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    A gentle pushback on the Tull hate?

    Ian Anderson and Lucia Micarelli – Kashmir

  138. 138.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    February 3, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    @lollipopguild: Overheard at an Irish festival:

    Q. What’s the difference between uilleann pipes and bagpipes?

    A. Well, uillieann pipes are a musical instrument…

  139. 139.

    Woodrowfan

    February 3, 2017 at 1:59 pm

    @Stav: best make out music of the 1970s

  140. 140.

    Raven

    February 3, 2017 at 1:59 pm

    @Stav: Another homeboy, he was from Peoria but really got going in Champaign Urbana.

  141. 141.

    Barbara

    February 3, 2017 at 2:03 pm

    Have not seen any mention: There Is a Light and It Never Goes Out, by the Smiths. Flute and violin are great melody instruments because their range overlaps closely with the range of the human voice.

  142. 142.

    Aleta

    February 3, 2017 at 2:03 pm

    @TidyCat: Thanks !!!!!!!!!

  143. 143.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 2:03 pm

    Hubert Laws, “Gymnopedie No. 1.”

  144. 144.

    Lavocat

    February 3, 2017 at 2:04 pm

    All the Jethro Tull oeuvre.

    And the most hyperactive rock song ever written – inclusive of both flute and YODELING – “Hocus Pocus” by Focus.

  145. 145.

    Jacel

    February 3, 2017 at 2:05 pm

    “Phenomenal Cat” from “The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society”.

    Recently I listened to “Looking On” by The Move for the first time in decades. When it comes to rock-and-roll oboe, you can’t beat their “Open Up Said The World At The Door”. Nice tape-reverse drum solo, along with much more.

  146. 146.

    humboldtblue

    February 3, 2017 at 2:06 pm

    @lollipopguild:

    Let’s start with the massed bans at last year’s Edinburgh Tattoo

  147. 147.

    laura

    February 3, 2017 at 2:07 pm

    HR Puffinstuff!
    That ‘Lil flute was the best, I tells ya, the best!!!

  148. 148.

    TidyCat

    February 3, 2017 at 2:09 pm

    @Aleta:

    Yw! =^..^=

  149. 149.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 2:11 pm

    Bobbi Humphrey, “Harlem River Drive.”

    “Blacks and Blues.”

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    maurinsky

    February 3, 2017 at 2:11 pm

    Space Oddity by David Bowie

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    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 3, 2017 at 2:12 pm

    He’s briefly mentioned in the first comment but if any interest in flute and jazz and the 1960s, check out Jeremy Steig, in particular an album with the jazz legend Bill Evans. This stuff was just smoking, and Autumn Leaves actually contains my favorite Bill Evans solo of all time I think. Unique style, Steig, and he could really play.

    Same album: What’s New.

  152. 152.

    Mike J

    February 3, 2017 at 2:13 pm

    Big Star, India Song.

  153. 153.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 2:15 pm

    Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg, “Tell Me to My Face.”

  154. 154.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 2:18 pm

    Gil Scott-Heron, “Winter in America.”

    Especially appropriate for these times.

  155. 155.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    February 3, 2017 at 2:21 pm

    Anything by the Moody Blues. Of course, even better than flues are mellotrons. Mike Pinder, who played the mellotron for the Moody Blues wrote the book (almost literally; he worked for the business that made mellotrons when the band was in its first days) played it for the Moody Blues

  156. 156.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    February 3, 2017 at 2:27 pm

    Here’s a Tull goodie from the the “Stormwatch” album.

    Summarizes the potential civilization ending potential of a technical fuckup in the cold war. It pretty much summarized the fear that the idiocy of “launch on warning” systems could bring about mistaken retaliation.

    Fylingdale Flier

    Now that we appear to be headed back to stupid days, it seems appropriate.

  157. 157.

    randy khan

    February 3, 2017 at 2:28 pm

    @Butch:

    California Dreamin’.

    A fine choice.

    Not pop music, of course, but one must not forget Stars and Stripes forever. (Technically piccolo, but close enough.)

  158. 158.

    Mike J

    February 3, 2017 at 2:29 pm

    Nada Surf, Juliana Hatfield, Belly, Evan Dando and more set for ACLU benefit in Boston
    http://www.vanyaland.com/2017/02/03/nada-surf-juliana-hatfield-belly-evan-dando-set-aclu-benefit-boston/

  159. 159.

    Yarrow

    February 3, 2017 at 2:31 pm

    @cosima: I hope she ends up having to sell off her properties and her kids have to get real jobs. Her eldest daughter is now married to a Medal of Honor recipient so I guess they’ve figured out how to move beyond just her brand. I hope people she’s been paying to keep their mouths shut decide they aren’t incentivized in that direction now the money has stopped flowing in theirs.

  160. 160.

    Spinoza Is My Co-Pilot

    February 3, 2017 at 2:32 pm

    Another up-vote for Jethro Tull here. Caught them only once in concert, Cleveland’s Public Hall back in the fall of ’71. Wonderful concert.

    Also second Canned Heat’s “Going Up the Country” and King Crimson’s “I Talk to the Wind” with Ian McDonald on flute and the recently-departed Greg Lake’s sweetly beautiful singing voice. Still among my very favorite tunes from the long-ago time.

    And prog rock haters can suck it. I’ll take even the schlockiest Genesis or Rush (two of my least favorite prog rock outfits) over the lo-fi garage crap of the Ramones or Sex Pistols any day.

  161. 161.

    randy khan

    February 3, 2017 at 2:32 pm

    @Yarrow:

    Speaking of Sarah Palin, while my wife and I were moving from one DVRd show to another last night, we caught sight of her on Match Game, which I had no idea was back. And the host is Alec Baldwin. It was as strange as you might think.

  162. 162.

    Yarrow

    February 3, 2017 at 2:39 pm

    @randy khan: I had heard she was on that. Money must be getting short. Of course she loves that “celebrity” stuff. But I’d guess she also needs the money. Her son is up to his eyeballs in legal problems, has two kids with two different wives (now ex) and seems to have anger issues and possible drug/alcohol problems. Never mind the people she has to pay to keep their mouths shut about what they know.

  163. 163.

    Jeffro

    February 3, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    Pass on anything with flute, banjo, or fiddle, and most anything with acoustic guitar…usually if there’s not an electric guitar or two in it, I’m not gonna listen too long. I’ve tried listening to most everything, but the really loud stuff is just about the only music I like.

  164. 164.

    john fremont

    February 3, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    @Steeplejack: Also lI ike Charles Lloyd on Sombrero Sam.

  165. 165.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    February 3, 2017 at 2:42 pm

    Love this jazz version of Bali Hai.

  166. 166.

    NickM

    February 3, 2017 at 2:45 pm

    Three for the Fesival – Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Love it. The music is so much more than the gimmick it might seem; live version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h2HG9FFRlM.

  167. 167.

    NickM

    February 3, 2017 at 2:49 pm

    And Burning Spear by S.O.U.L — love the flute on this. Wish I had gotten here earlier!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0srvU3PiVI

  168. 168.

    Aleta

    February 3, 2017 at 2:50 pm

    “The Gold Ring” flute solo (old Irish)
    Grey Larsen
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldc0_dd_sns
    (Music starts at :40)

  169. 169.

    mr_gravity

    February 3, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    No one with a flute should be allowed anywhere near any form of amplification.

    Not even in an emergency.

  170. 170.

    phein55

    February 3, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    167 comments in, and now one has mentioned Horslips, Book of Invasions?

  171. 171.

    phein55

    February 3, 2017 at 2:56 pm

    Make that “no one”: Horslips: Trouble with a capital T.

  172. 172.

    mike

    February 3, 2017 at 2:58 pm

    “For once in my life” Stevie Wonder

    It’s not a solo or anything, but damn if the flutes in the orchestra don’t take it to the next level.

  173. 173.

    Millard Filmore

    February 3, 2017 at 3:04 pm

    Kites are Fun
    by The Free Design (1967)

    Bah! already done. that’s what happens when you come late to the party.

  174. 174.

    ChrisB

    February 3, 2017 at 3:08 pm

    I’m shocked to find no mention of PDQ Bach, many of whose works were rediscovered in the 1960’s and 70’s by Prof. Peter Schickele. They feature any number of flutes and flute-like devices including the unfortunately not soon to be forgotten left handed sewer pipe (with and without faucet).

  175. 175.

    LABiker

    February 3, 2017 at 3:10 pm

    “Honey Rider,” the last song on Va Va Voom, the debut album by Cinerama, has some terrific flute. I’m listening to it now, and so should you.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QgVDNfIEdE

  176. 176.

    greengoblin

    February 3, 2017 at 3:11 pm

    @Ryan: I thought of that movie as well.

  177. 177.

    ChrisB

    February 3, 2017 at 3:12 pm

    @ChrisB: Further research finds a PDQ Bach piece for the dill piccolo, best used for playing sour notes.

  178. 178.

    gbear

    February 3, 2017 at 3:13 pm

    There was a 70’s Dutch band called Focus that had one incredibly annoying hit instrumental called ‘Hocus Pocus’ but also had a lot of other really nice songs with flute as one of the lead instruments. Unfortunately, since those were also instrumentals, I can’t remember any of the song names right now.

    Thumbs up to the songs on Traffic’s “john Barleycorn Must Die’ LP. That whole album is a fave.

    Wnen I was in high school (1970-1972), Jethro Tull was my absolute favorite band but I can barely listen to them now. Everything sounds so mannered.

  179. 179.

    Aardvark Cheeselog

    February 3, 2017 at 3:15 pm

    @The Moar You Know:

    No place outside the orchestra, final verdict.

    J.S. Bach begs to differ.

  180. 180.

    ChrisB

    February 3, 2017 at 3:19 pm

    @gbear: A mostly but not completely sarcastic thank you for the reference to “Hocus Pocus,” which I now cannot get out of my head.

  181. 181.

    LABiker

    February 3, 2017 at 3:21 pm

    Also, this video of Cannonball Adderley in Germany and Switzerland in 1963 has some bits with Yousef Latif playing the flute that are sublime.

  182. 182.

    ThresherK

    February 3, 2017 at 3:25 pm

    @stinger: I would like to shameless glom onto co-sponsor your post.

  183. 183.

    joel hanes

    February 3, 2017 at 3:26 pm

    Fogelberg/Weisberg “Twin Sons Of Different Mothers”

    all good … “Tell Me To My Face” esp., and “Power of Gold” ain’t chopped liver.

  184. 184.

    joel hanes

    February 3, 2017 at 3:27 pm

    @cgordon:

    Saxophone

    You _do_ know the difference between a saxophone and a gas-powered lawn mower, right ?

  185. 185.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    February 3, 2017 at 3:29 pm

    @gbear:

    “Mannered” is a great way to describe what I dislike about Jethro Tull. Don’t actively hate them, but I do have to say that they gave the worst concert I ever went to. Jethro Dull. Maybe I caught them on a bad night. Sometime in the mid-’70s.

  186. 186.

    ...now I try to be amused

    February 3, 2017 at 3:30 pm

    Chicago, “Once Upon a Time”, from the “Elegy” suite on the Chicago III album.

  187. 187.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    February 3, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    @humboldtblue:

    Righteous rant, bruh.

  188. 188.

    Apost''fe

    February 3, 2017 at 3:36 pm

    @Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:

    Joanie Madden is a flute goddess.

    Love her and Cherish the Ladies. Saw them in Berkeley a few years ago.
    I tried to find a few videos, but YouTube isn’t playing for me right now. Matt Malloy of The Chieftains is great, too.

  189. 189.

    mai naem mobile

    February 3, 2017 at 3:39 pm

    Split Enz Six Months in A Leaky Boat. Nota hundred percent sure if it’s a flute or whistling.

  190. 190.

    ...now I try to be amused

    February 3, 2017 at 3:39 pm

    The The, “Uncertain Smile” (the 12″ version).

  191. 191.

    Death Panel Truck

    February 3, 2017 at 3:40 pm

    Pretty much any song by Traffic with Chris Wood playing the woodwinds, which means pretty much every Traffic song.

    He also played the flute live with Jimi Hendrix at the Albert Hall in February 1969, and on “1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)” on Electric Landland.

  192. 192.

    Origuy

    February 3, 2017 at 3:44 pm

    @Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:

    Joanie Madden is a flute goddess.

    Love her and Cherish the Ladies. Saw them in Berkeley a few years ago.
    I tried to find a few videos, but YouTube isn’t playing for me right now. Matt Malloy of The Chieftains is great, too.

    Reposted with the right nym.

  193. 193.

    Larkspur

    February 3, 2017 at 3:47 pm

    @Jeffro: Oh man, you’d hate my favorite Gillian Welch (with partner Dave Rawlings) – almost every album just acoustic guitar, banjo, uke…but no flute.

  194. 194.

    Gravenstone

    February 3, 2017 at 3:49 pm

    Even though it’s really just a splash as Oldfield is farting around amongst too many instruments, Tubular Bells brings a wee bit of flute to the party.

  195. 195.

    Brachiator

    February 3, 2017 at 3:51 pm

    @Immanentize:

    Herbie Mann’s “Comin’ Home Baby” is one of the greatest jazz flute songs ever. What a great groove.

    Just listened to this again. Loved it. And that rhythm section. Oh, man.

  196. 196.

    TidyCat

    February 3, 2017 at 3:54 pm

    @…now I try to be amused: yes. Yes. And yes! This song! Omg. My 12″ vinyl of this I miss

  197. 197.

    HinTN

    February 3, 2017 at 3:56 pm

    @low-tech cyclist: Aqualung was such a quantum leap from Stand Up, which I wore out!

  198. 198.

    A Ghost to Most

    February 3, 2017 at 3:56 pm

    Aqualung gave this crazy 16 year old all the rationale I needed to become a life long atheist. Ian Anderson made so much more sense than all the preachers I had listened to.

  199. 199.

    TidyCat

    February 3, 2017 at 3:57 pm

    @…now I try to be amused: The The – Uncertain Smile 12″

  200. 200.

    Death Panel Truck

    February 3, 2017 at 4:00 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): Jimmy Page once said that Jethro Dull should have recorded a live album called Bore ‘Em at the Forum.

  201. 201.

    A Ghost to Most

    February 3, 2017 at 4:06 pm

    @Jeffro:
    Musically, I try to live in the crack between rock and country. Lots of interesting people there.

  202. 202.

    AlbertZ

    February 3, 2017 at 4:10 pm

    Apparently if you ask him nicely, Ian Anderson will still play some flute for your garage rock stylings. See Jeff the Brotherhood: Black Cherry Pie (from yootoob)

  203. 203.

    Shalimar

    February 3, 2017 at 5:02 pm

    @Death Panel Truck: Says a man who thought playing a guitar with a violin bow live was entertaining.

  204. 204.

    waysel

    February 3, 2017 at 5:12 pm

    I’m with Doug re Tull, with the exception of Bouree. Donovan used it quite a bit, to nice effect. ‘Flute Thing’ by the Blues Project IMS. The Erik Satie theme on Blood Sweat and Tears 2nd album. Haven’t read all the comments, and yes, some of this probably only made 60s/70s FM oddball stations.

  205. 205.

    Taylor

    February 3, 2017 at 5:25 pm

    I could live without all of Jethro Tull’s oeuvre however.

    “I used to like Jethro Tull, until they sold out.”

  206. 206.

    The Dude Abides

    February 3, 2017 at 5:47 pm

    A Firth of Fifth, by Genesis. Introduction to Peter Gabriel’s flute solo begins at around 3:10. A piano solo and then an evocative guitar solo (5:45) from Steve Hackett follow. Right before Hackett’s guitar solo you get to hear some precision drumming from Phil Collins.

  207. 207.

    zhena gogolia

    February 3, 2017 at 6:25 pm

    Sorry I missed this amusing thread.

  208. 208.

    J R in WV

    February 3, 2017 at 6:49 pm

    OK, I’m gonna ask for some help. Not long ago, I found a copy of a CD labeled Coltrane-Monk as in John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk I don’t remember anything about where the CD came from. Playing it, it started with very melodic music, sax with Monk’s band, including some melodic jazz songs with flute, which sounded to me as if Coltrane was playing that instrument.

    As we listened deeper into the CD, the music gradually slid farther into the more typical Coltrane free jazz. No flute in that part of the album. Now I cannot find that CD anywhere!! Also, no clue as to what album that is, how I might relocate the sounds we heard on that anonymous blue CD.

    Anyone know what we were hearing that night? It was a great sounding album, even especially the flute songs. Suggestions as to what specific album that might have been welcome.

  209. 209.

    terben

    February 3, 2017 at 6:54 pm

    Fantastic bed flute solo on ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ by Kellyanne Conway.

  210. 210.

    drdavechemist

    February 3, 2017 at 6:56 pm

    @Stav: Actually, it was Tim Weisberg who was the flautist on the whole Twin Sons of Different Mothers album with Fogelberg. Fogelberg did all the vocals on that album and his Wikipedia page describes him as a “multi-instrumentalist,” though I think of him primarily as a pianist.

    Spousal unit was a huge Fogelberg fan in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Both of us will tear up if we hear Leader of the Band, which Fogelberg wrote for his father but reminds us both of my father who was also a music teacher and who died (way too young) right around the time that song hit the radio.

  211. 211.

    drdavechemist

    February 3, 2017 at 6:58 pm

    @Bg: Nestor Torres came up on one of my Pandora stations and earned a thumbs-up from me. Guess I need to explore more of his output.

  212. 212.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    February 3, 2017 at 8:26 pm

    @J R in WV:

    Is this what you’re looking for? Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (recorded in 1957, released in 1961). No flute that I can remember. Eric Dolphy usually played the flute with Coltrane.

  213. 213.

    Steeplejack

    February 3, 2017 at 8:38 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    It occurred to me that your CD might have been a compilation like this one: Mingus/​Monk/​Coltrane/​Dolphy. All of them are on there, just not in the same group.

    I got on the Google, did a light to medium search and can’t find anything with Monk, Coltrane and Dolphy all playing together.

    The reason I include Dolphy is because Coltrane didn’t start experimenting with the flute until late in his career, and there are only a couple of albums with him playing flute (and none with Thelonious Monk).

  214. 214.

    J R in WV

    February 3, 2017 at 10:38 pm

    Thanks, everyone, I could have just written the wrong guys on the CD with my Sharpie. It was my handiwork. Can’t believe I can’t find the darn CD again. It was on my dresser in the bedroom, where we put on a CD at bedtime. Big stack of loose discs, none have Coltrane/Monk on it.

    It helps with tinnitus – hearing sounds that aren’t there – they get overloaded with a symphony or concert, then when you’re asleep you’re good to go.

    @Steeplejack (phone): Now, listening to this Youtube – that sounds like the disk – I only listened to it the once, when I went after it again, it was gone!! Magic!!! The best disappear fast! Very lyrical to begin.

    Monk, Coltrane, [and Miles Davis, though not on this album] my favorite modern jazz voices. The old timers were good too.

    Thanks, Steeplejack!

  215. 215.

    Raven Onthill

    February 4, 2017 at 12:31 am

    @sukabi: I think they’re still around; turn up at Folklife every year in bright red Andean poncho-like garments.

  216. 216.

    Bonnie

    February 4, 2017 at 4:06 am

    Mozart’s flute and harp concerto in C Major

  217. 217.

    jt

    February 4, 2017 at 2:50 pm

    De-lurking to defend Tull. Each and every person who doesn’t love Ian Anderson is History’s Greatest Monster and also the Real Reason Trump Won.

  218. 218.

    Stately Plump Buck

    February 4, 2017 at 5:32 pm

    ‘Wasteland’ by The Jam.

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