what are you listening to right now?

[aamc]

[Steve James]

Got that '80s MTV groove going on .

[Giles]

Very nice: Smells Like (7 Nation) Jean Spirit, and it works! And most of all I like the singalong bit in the following piece at around 6:00. You can hear that there are lots of really young girls in the audience - maybe what we used to call 'teenyboppers' sometime before the Industrial Revolution - and they're singing along with their pop idol, who together with his real band is playing real, grooving music with a tasty bass line 100% live for them, and demonstrating his own passion and fun in the process. ...[wipes tear from eye]... Put a big smile on my face.

[everything]

Bruno is known for doing great covers of some other great artists. Wish I could go see his concert, but alas, when can we do that again?

[aamc]

[aamc]

[aamc]

[jimmy]

[jimmy]

[Dmitri]

https://youtu.be/6oWOConfUV8

[vadaga]

https://soundcloud.com/search?q=lounge%20house

Taking a month off from youtube. It ain't easy!

[jimmy]

[vadaga]

[jimmy]

[Steve James]

^^^ Cool video. In 1963, it's true that many Brazilian musicians were pissed that the music of a classically trained, cabaret jazz composer was becoming more influential than samba. Btw, they called it the "bossa nova" because it was the new beat --literally played at half the speed of most samba or choro. Anyway, the result is still that 90% of people in the US can name several bossa novas, but would be hard pressed to name Brazilian musicians who played samba or other forms. That's not a complaint. It's just a loss for those who don't get to hear them.

Here's someone from '62/63 singing a complaint that Brazilian samba is no becoming less pure. It's a beauty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f96W5ta2r0

And, imo, this is the best duo song ever done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rCsgegyfLo