Today’s Rhapsody is the prologue to Las Vegas Rhapsody by Theo Bleckmann by Fumio Yasuda
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This week’s Rhapsody is Meshell Ndegeocello’s American Rhapsody from his Comet, Come to Me album.
This weeks Rhapsody is the Brazilian Rhapsody by Jean Absil.
I was beginning to start working on a Christmas playlist to start later this week and I started by starting to look for Duke Ellington’s version of the Nutcracker Suite when out of habit I searched for a Rhapsody instead[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s Christmas Music we have one of my all time favorites, Tom Lehrer. Regrettably I couldn’t find a live performance of this (if anyone in one is interested, Hong Kong Tenor David Quah, does a pretty good version of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anytime you can sneak Miles Davis into a playlist is a win for me so here he is this year’s Christmas Playlist with Blue Xmas (To Whom it May Concern) along with Bob Dorough! It’s nearly as cynical as Tom[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s always fun what you find when you’re researching. I’d never heard of this one until recently and it is so funny! So here is Surabaya Santa from Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for A New World featuring Mrs. Claus singing about her…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided to take a brief break from my countdown of cynical christmas music and go with something a little bit light hearted with Snoopy’s Christmas by The Royal Guardsmen. I’ve always liked the Snoopy vs the Red Baron songs and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So here is on that I have been looking forward to doing, Duke Ellington‘s version of the Nutcracker Suite. I just love the way he has Tchaikovsky’s original melody drifts around the piece at first almost a subliminal accent behind Ellington’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay for today’s selection I’m going to drop my search for all things in Christmas cynicism and go for something completely soppy. With “It Feels Like Christmas” from the Muppet Christmas Carol. As a lover of both the Muppets and adaptations[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…