Skip's Spotify Sunday 5-5-13

Gary Burton "Like Minds" (feat. Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, and Dave Holland)

Gary Burton: vibraphone
Chick Corea: piano
Pat Metheny: guitar
Roy Haynes: drums
Dave Holland: bass

1. Question And Answer
2. Elucidation
3. Windows
4. Futures
5. Like Minds
6. Country Roads
7. Tears of Rain
8. Soon
9. For A Thousand Years
10. Straight Up And Down
11. Country Roads (bonus track)

The Bad Plus "Motel"

Ethan Iverson: piano
Reid Anderson: bass
David King: drums

1. Knowing Me Knowing You (Abba cover)
2. Blue Moon (Marcels cover) (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)
3. 1972 Bronze Medalist
4. The Breakout
5. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover)
6. Labyrinth
7. Scurry
8. Love Is The Answer

The Bad Plus "These Are The Vistas"

1. Big Eater
2. Keep The Bugs Off Your Glass and The Bears Off Your Ass
3. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover)
4. Everywhere You Turn
5. 1972 Bronze Medalist
6. Guilty
7. Boo-Wah
8. Flim (Richard D. James cover) *Richard D. James is a British electronic music musician.
9. Heart of Glass (Blondie cover)
10. Silence Is The Question

The Bad Plus "Give"

1. 1979 Semi-Finalist
2. Cheney Pinata
3. Street Woman (Ornette Coleman cover)
4. And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation
5. Frog And Toad
6. Velouria (Charles "Black Francis" Thompson cover) *Thompson is the lead singer from a band called The Pixies.
7. Layin' A Strip For The Higher-Self State Line
8. Do Your Sums/Die Like A Dog/Play For Home (medley)
9. Dirty Blonde
10. Neptune (The Planet)
11. Iron Man (Black Sabbath cover)

The Bad Plus "Suspicious Activity?"

1. Prehensile Dream
2. Anthem For The Earnest
3. Let Our Garden Grow
4. The Empire Strikes Backwards
5. Knows The Difference
6. Lost of Love
7. Rhinoceros Is My Profession
8. O.G. (Original Gentleman)
9. (Theme From) Chariots of Fire (Vangelis cover)
10. Forces

The Bad Plus "Blunt Object, Live In Tokyo"

1. We Are The Champions (Queen cover)
2. And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation
3. Guilty
4. Do Your Sums/Die Like A Dog/Play For Home (medley)
5. Heart of Glass (Blondie cover)
6. Flim
7. Silence Is The Question
8. My Funny Valentine - Excerpt (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart cover, from the 1937 musical "Babes In Arms") *Doesn't sound ANYTHING like the real version.  Kind of humorous.

The Bad Plus "For All I Care"

1. Lithium (Nirvana cover)
2. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd cover)
3. Fem (Etude No. 8) (Gyorgy Lieti cover: Lieti is a contemporary classical music composer)
4. Radio Cure (Wilco cover)
5. Long Distance Runaround (Yes cover)
6. Semi-Simple Variations (Milton Babbitt cover) *Babbitt was a music theorist, composer, and teacher
7. How Deep Is Your Love (The Bee Gees cover)
8. Barracuda (Heart cover)
9. Lock, Stock & Teardrops (Roger Miller cover)
10. Variation d'Appollon (Igor Stravinsky classical composition cover)
11. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate (The Flaming Lips, cover)
12. Semi-Simple Variations (Milton Babbitt gover), alternate version

The Bad Plus "Never Stop"

1. The Radio Tower Has A Beating Heart
2. Never Stop
3. You Are
4. My Friend Metatron
5. People Like You
6. Beryl Loves To Dance
7. Snowball
8. 2 Pm
9. Bill Hickman At Home
10. Super America

The Bad Plus "Made Possible"

1. Pound For Pound
2. Seven Minute Mind
3. Re-Elect That
4. Wolf Out
5. Sing For A Silver Dollar
6. For My Eyes Only
7. I Want To Feel Good Pt. 2
8. In Stitches
9. Victoria