The good folks at Test Pressing posted the above image of Herbie Hancock at the controls of more vintage synths than anyone has a right to play with and coupled it with the accompanying diagram below.

 

Goodbye to the funky drummer.

The title below speaks for itself -

 

Not everyone will notice the passing of Charlie Haden but then again, not everyone noticed him when he was alive. That is the role of the bass player, and the better you are sometimes the less you are noticed.

I don’t know what to say. Horace Silver is dead.

It wasn’t that I’d seen him play in a while or noticed it, even if he was good when you saw him.

And it isn’t like I can’t listen to his records any more. You certainly should if you have not had the good fortune to do so already.

The Preacher (arguably the first “soul jazz” record) is still there and will be forever featuring maybe the swingingest horns ever put to vinyl.
 

There was a time when you couldn’t get the record below with its super cool Mad Men sleeve. Some sort of complexity between the record labels for Jimmy Scott (the singer) and Ray Charles (who “musically supervised” the record for his label Tangerine).

 

A bit ago we were in love with this record by the Portico Quartet from England.

 

One of THE albums we’ve been anticipating the most in 2014 is set to drop later next month - BADBADNOTGOOD’s III

We’ve shown our love for them around these parts before and I don’t think a week day goes past where they don’t get a run in the communal office playlist.

Click on the image above to see an interactive infographic showing the evolution of western dance music over the last 100 years in under 20 seconds. Cool stuff. 

via USA Today

When I was 9 years old, growing up in Denver in the 1960s, I’d spend hours listening to my friend’s mother’s record collection.

via Elmattic