Now a River of Red Nose dreams!
Next up, Have any of you watched the new BBC1 production, The River on Netflix? Prepare yourself for this one. The material will bring you to the first sentence of a suicide note.
Now Entangled in the transition between Gabriel and Collins.
On the heels of Peter Gabriel’s departure from Genesis, Phil Collins came out from behind the drum kit to the front of the band. What did this do?
Now, Joni Mitchell’s jazz Hisses over summer lawns for you
Mitchell’s increasing fluency in jazz is all over this track, not just in her vocal phrasing but in the very bones of the arrangement. Chuck Findley’s muted trumpet and Bud Shank’s flute don’t solo so much as hover like ghosts over the composition, creating a lush and stifling atmosphere. John Guerin—drummer, co-writer, and Mitchell’s then-partner—lays down a whispering groove, a barely-there pulse that allows every other element to breathe.