#140 Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears is one of those bands I have never heard before yet they had a number 1 album and won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. I am confused because I thought it was going to be rock music, but it is jazz rock. “Variations on a Theme By Erik Satie” […]

1001 Albums #19

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book is a total surprise. I read that she was a scat singer and I hate scat singing. I did not know of her music at all. The only thing I knew about the Gershwin Brothers was that Donna Summer sang that she wanted “to have […]

1001 Albums #16

I think I do not like the beginning of rock and roll. It was too simplistic for me. At first I thought I do not like old music, but I realised from listening to Billie Holiday and remembering that I love classical music that is not the case. I actually prefer Holiday’s 50s voice over […]