Sunday, November 10, 2019

Stingray Music highlights LXXXI

Highlights from yesterday:

The Chill Lounge
  • Elevator-Jaffa (This throbbing, organ-anchored groove wouldn't be out of place in a smooth jazz station's playlist.)
Flashback '70s
  • Follow You Follow Me-Genesis (The band's first American hit, and still one of its most endearing ones; you'd have to be awfully cold-hearted not to be moved by these lyrics, which Phil Collins sings against one of Tony Banks's most accessible, memorable keyboard accompaniments.) 
Folk Roots
  • Dear Mary-Linda Thompson (Beautifully sung lyrics about not burning bridges.) 
Holiday Hits
  • Silent Night-Percy Faith and his orchestra (One of the most tasteful easy listening renditions of this carol, with its strings, chimes, and just the right amount of background vocals.)
Jazz Now
  • Seventy-Six-Kenny Wheeler Quintet (A contemplative midtempo piece for flugelhorn.)
World Carnival
  • Sowa-Fatoumata Diawara (A voice and guitar are all that's needed to convey the heart-wrenching reality of giving up children for adoption.)