Musicians On the Backlot - Nat Lefkoff
Mon, 08/22/2011 - 12:55pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and let’s jump in
1) Swimming Pools, Thao 2:08
2) Swimming in your ocean, Crash Test Dummies 3:50
3) Janglin, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros 3:50
"Archaic Torso of Apollo"
by Rainer Maria Rilke
translated by Stephen Mitchell
We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,
gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.
Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur:
would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.
4) Convince Me, Lucinda Williams 5:46
5) Mama Told Me Not To Come, Three Dog Night 3:20
6) Searching, Cecily Raine 5:42
Way past time for The Grapevine to have a little Soul Shakedown Reggae party. Tune in to the Dirt this Thursday at 7 p.m. PST and hear true heart classic reggae by the masters from Jamaica. Heat got you down? Been thinking too hard? Your soul needs to be set free? Then this is the place!
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Count Basie *
Clyde McCoy *
Duke Ellington *
Coleman Hawkins *
Lester Young *
Wes Montgomery *
Yusef Lateef *
Oscar Peterson Trio *
Boots Randolph *
Stan Getz *
Dave Brubeck *
Chico O'Farrill & Clark Terry *
Ella Fitzgerald live! *
Tony Bennett & k d lang *
Earl Hines
Bix Beiderbecke *
Duke Ellington *
Django Reinhardt *
Tommy Dorsey *
Charlie Parker *
Louis Armstrong *
Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond *
Clifford Brown and Max Roach *
Sarah Vaughan *
Wes Montgomery *
Eddie Jefferson *
Ella Fitzgerald *
Earl Hines *
Gerry Mulligan *
Chaka Khan *
Stanley Turrentine
Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, Egypt
was built in the year 550 by the Byzantian Empror Justinian to protect the ancient well of Moses and The Burning Bush.
For the past 17 centuries, the Monastery's monks have taken great care of its ancient manuscripts, art and icons. The Library of St. Catherine's is famous because it has one third of the world's ancient manuscripts that were written more than 1000 years ago. It's museum is equally famous, because only 2000 icons in the world have survived from the Byzantine times; half of them are at St. Catherine's Museum.
We were very privileged to interview two monks from the monastery: Father Justin talked to us about how he digitizes the library's ancient manuscripts and why Sinai is a place of Peace. Father Gregory talked to us about the monastery's ancient art, icons and mosaic art. Father Gregory shared with us his views on how art can save the world and his vision to establish a School for Mosaic Art in Sinai.
Sidney Bechet *
Fats Waller & His Rhythm *
Gene Krupa *
Coleman Hawkins *
Count Basie *
Nat King Cole *
Woody Herman *
Ella Fitzgerald *
Herb Alpert & Hugh Masekela *
Eubie Blake *
John Klemmer *
Rahsaan Roland Kirk *
Piano Connection
Seven decades of jazz!
Miles Davis (intro) *
Frankie Trumbauer * 1924 *
Bix Beiderbecke and The Wolverines * 1924 *
Duke Ellington * 1928 *
Lester Young * 1943 *
Doris Day/Les Brown * 1944 *
Thelonious Monk Quintet * 1951 *
Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond * 1952 *
Joe Williams with Count Basie * 1958 *
Nancy Wilson * 1961 *
Cannonball Adderley * 1961 *
Paul Desmond * 1963 *
Paul Desmond * 1963 *
Eddie Jefferson * 1965 *
Cal Tjader/Carmen McRae * 1982 *
Manhattan Transfer * 1985 *
Jerry Garcia, David Grisman & Tony Rice * 1993 *