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from December 2, 2002
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The Soundtrack you hear in your head as you hand the toll collector your last dollar and drive tentatively into the lonely tunnel toward the arms of Morpheus. But like, who's playing that crazy organ?
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December 2, 2002: Big Stars, little stars, blowing through the night
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| Nino Rota |
Rosa aurata
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Giulietta Degli Spiriti | Showtime: Three to Six a.m. Fillin for Jefferson. | |||||
| Katyna Ranieri |
Juliet of the Spirits
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Fellini's Movie songs | Milan | CD | ||||
| Rolling Stones |
Backstreet Girl
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Between the Buttons (British release) | London | CD | Also on "Flowers" | |||
| Neils Van Hoorn |
Strange Dream
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Colours | CD | Based on riff from A Love Supreme | ||||
| Albert King |
Walking the Backstreets and Crying
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I Wanna Get Funky | Stax | LP | King continued to perform until his sudden death in 1992, when he suffered a fatal heart attack on December 21. | |||
| Uri Caine / Gustac Mahler |
Funeral March from Symphony #5
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Primal Light | CD | A classic album, already. | 1997 | |||
| Lalo Schifrin |
Shifting Gears
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Bullitt soundtrack | CD | Fine music, but total time: 38 minutes. | ||||
| Herbie Hancock |
Death Wish Main Title theme
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Death Wish Soundtrack | LP |
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| Susie Ibarra Trio |
Passing Clouds
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Songbird Suite | Tzadik | CD | 2002 | |||
| Lonnie Smith |
Spirits Free
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Afro-Desia | Groove Merchant | LP | with Joe Lovano, Ron Carter. No phony Dr. prefix, no turban. | |||
| Tipsy / World Standard |
Papaya Freeway
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Remix Party | CD | |||||
| King Crimson |
Waiting Man
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Beat | CD | |||||
| Beautiful People |
Happiness in the Wind
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If 60's Were 90's | CD | Hendrix sampled into new songs. | ||||
| Abida Parveen |
Ishq na derda mot kolon
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Mystic Poets from the Hind & Sind | CD | She's a lovely Pakistani singer & composer. "Ordinary people pray five times a day, lovers pray any time." | ||||
| John Cage (1948) |
Dream
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Just West Coast: Microtonal Music for Guitar and Harp | Bridge | CD | Performed by John Schneider, Guitar and Amy Shulman, Harp | |||
| Erik Satie |
Sonneries de la Rose Croix (1892)
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Caresse | Arte Nova | CD |
John White, Piano
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| Grace Braun |
Sent Ahead
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I'm Your Girl | CD | |||||
| Cath Carroll |
Leaving Song
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Real)
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The Gondoliers of Ghost Lake | CD | |||||
| Neil Young |
Change Your Mind
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Sleeps With Angels (With Crazy Horse) | CD | Long, almost low key electric cut. Album is still under-rated. | ||||
| Tara Jane O'Neil |
Bye Bye
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TJO-TKO | CD | Irresistable name. | ||||
| William Duckworth |
Cheerful
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Southern Harmony | Lovely | CD | Gregg Smith Singers. | |||
| Lotte Lenya |
Lost In the Stars
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Real)
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Sings American Theater Songs | Columbia | CD |
Recorded 1957. 
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| Thelonius Monk |
Jackie-ing
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San Francisco Holiday | Milestone (Riverside) | CD | That was in 1960. In April 1961 he recorded this in Paris with Charlie Rouse, John Ore, & Frankie Dunlop. | |||
| Brazil '65 with Sergio Mendez Trio & featuring the "Sunny, refreshing voice of Wanda de Sah" |
Berimbau
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Brasil '65 | Capitol | CD | Before they signed to A&M on the condition that Herb Alpert's wife join the band. A great pop LP. | |||
| Grant Green |
Western Union Man
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Alive! | Blue Note | CD | Recorded at the Cliche Lounge, Newark, NJ, 1970. Wish I'd been there. | |||
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