While I am very familiar with some of this artist’s music, I was completely unfamiliar with the music on this record. The tunes are played with a really interesting juxtaposition between written music and improvisation using the musical theme of the first song on the...

I grew up just east of Cleveland. My dad took me to my first Browns game when I was ten in 1972 and I still watch games at the new stadium. I’ve been going to Indians and Cavaliers games for almost as long. There’s another Cleveland institution that brings back great...

This is not an album that was played often in the house. In fact, this is one of those albums I don’t remember my dad having at all. But after listening to it, I could understand why my dad had it in his collection. It’s that happy music that I talk about so much. So...

For the second time we turn to a Herb Alpert record. One of 12 my dad had in his collection. This album is filled with many familiar TJB tunes, including one that was used on a game show. So get ready for the upbeat and very cool sound that used to fill our home in...

We are returning to the Smithsonian collection the Greatest Jazz recordings of all time. This episode is record one of a four-record box set that features a piano player on each disc. So get ready for one of the original cutters in Volume 32: Jazz Keyboard Master Fats...

Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten pieces - plus a recurring, varied Promenade - composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It...

The title of this collection is a little deceiving. Yes, you will hear Bing Crosby singing, but you will hear several selections of the Longines Symphonette without him singing. I don’t have a problem with that, so let’s listen to some beautiful music and a beautiful...

We are once again featuring a non-music record from my dad’s collection. In fact, this is the second dive into this collection of six records. My previous life in radio made me really appreciate the history we are hearing on this collection. AND I get to share a...

It was a movie for the ages. Cinematic history in how it was filmed and how many extras were required. The 1959 epic had the largest budget, over $15 million, as well as the largest sets built, of any film produced at the time. And the score was just as large. So get...