Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Recently on Heliocentric Worlds

Since long before anyone ever thought of a "single serve Tumblr," StLJN's sibling site Heliocentric Worlds has been featuring one scrupulously selected online music video every day, drawing on genres including jazz, blues, soul, funk, classic rock, prog rock, experimental and more. The five clips most viewed there last month were:

Jerry Lee Lewis - "You Win Again"
Mose Allison - "You Call It Jogging"
Randy Newman - "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear"
Andrew Cyrille - "Laurent"
Dave Douglas Quintet - "Time Travel"

In addition, other recent posts have featured Thelonious Monk, Trouble Funk, Duke Ellington, Otis Redding, Buddy Rich, Sons of Champlin, Pharoah Sanders, John Hicks/Elise Wood Quintet, Jon Hassell & Maarifa Street, Anthony Braxton, Little Feat, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Rushing, Horace Silver, Bob Dylan, Henry Threadgill and the Society Situation Dance Band, Ray Charles, Life Time Experience, Max Roach Quintet with Abbey Lincoln, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Frank Zappa, Jack Mack and the Heart Attack, Wet Willie, Jefferson Airplane, Pinetop Perkins, Oliver Lake & Vijay Iyer, and Stanley Clarke.

You can see them all, plus thousands more carefully curated clips from the incomparable archives, by simply pointing the Internet-enabled electronic device of your choice at http://heliocentricworlds.blogspot.com/.

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