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Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025
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Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
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Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
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Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
December 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
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Playing this has become an annual tradition
Christmas Jambree :: A Vintage Jamaican Yuletide Mixtape, Vol. 1 & 2
aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/12/20/c...
... Yuletide sails into Jamaica each year on what the locals call the Christmas Breeze, a slightly crisper air that tends to waft through the island come December.
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... Yuletide sails into Jamaica each year on what the locals call the Christmas Breeze, a slightly crisper air that tends to waft through the island come December.
December 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Playing this has become an annual tradition
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The Kate Bush Christmas Special feat. Peter Gabriel (1979)
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Amongst the plethora of classic televised Christmas specials are lesser-known outliers that haven’t become ubiquitous holiday viewing. Case in point: The Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979).
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Amongst the plethora of classic televised Christmas specials are lesser-known outliers that haven’t become ubiquitous holiday viewing. Case in point: The Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979).
December 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Kate Bush Christmas Special feat. Peter Gabriel (1979)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/12/21/t...
Amongst the plethora of classic televised Christmas specials are lesser-known outliers that haven’t become ubiquitous holiday viewing. Case in point: The Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979).
aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/12/21/t...
Amongst the plethora of classic televised Christmas specials are lesser-known outliers that haven’t become ubiquitous holiday viewing. Case in point: The Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979).
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Fripp & Eno... Evening Star at 50
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The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
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The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
December 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Fripp & Eno... Evening Star at 50
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...
The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...
The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
The Kate Bush Christmas Special feat. Peter Gabriel (1979)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/12/21/t...
Amongst the plethora of classic televised Christmas specials are lesser-known outliers that haven’t become ubiquitous holiday viewing. Case in point: The Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979).
aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/12/21/t...
Amongst the plethora of classic televised Christmas specials are lesser-known outliers that haven’t become ubiquitous holiday viewing. Case in point: The Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979).
December 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Kate Bush Christmas Special feat. Peter Gabriel (1979)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/12/21/t...
Amongst the plethora of classic televised Christmas specials are lesser-known outliers that haven’t become ubiquitous holiday viewing. Case in point: The Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979).
aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/12/21/t...
Amongst the plethora of classic televised Christmas specials are lesser-known outliers that haven’t become ubiquitous holiday viewing. Case in point: The Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979).
Fripp & Eno... Evening Star at 50
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...
The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...
The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
December 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Fripp & Eno... Evening Star at 50
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...
The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...
The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
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John Zorn :: A Dreamers Christmas
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When Zorn’s eclectic combo applied their considerable skills to classic holiday fare in 2011, they managed to make one of the greatest and grooviest Christmas albums of all time.
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When Zorn’s eclectic combo applied their considerable skills to classic holiday fare in 2011, they managed to make one of the greatest and grooviest Christmas albums of all time.
December 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
John Zorn :: A Dreamers Christmas
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When Zorn’s eclectic combo applied their considerable skills to classic holiday fare in 2011, they managed to make one of the greatest and grooviest Christmas albums of all time.
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When Zorn’s eclectic combo applied their considerable skills to classic holiday fare in 2011, they managed to make one of the greatest and grooviest Christmas albums of all time.
Nana Vasconcelos and Collin Walcott - 1980-03-21, Public Theatre, New York, NY
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Nana Vasconcelos and Collin Walcott - 1980-03-21, Public Theatre, New York, NY
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December 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Nana Vasconcelos and Collin Walcott - 1980-03-21, Public Theatre, New York, NY
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Grateful for the opportunity to write about 50 years of Fripp & Eno's EVENING STAR for the wayward travelers at @aquariumdrunkard.com. 🙏
It's that time of year. 💫
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It's that time of year. 💫
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Fripp & Eno :: Evening Star - Aquarium Drunkard
The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975. Fifty ye...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Grateful for the opportunity to write about 50 years of Fripp & Eno's EVENING STAR for the wayward travelers at @aquariumdrunkard.com. 🙏
It's that time of year. 💫
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...
It's that time of year. 💫
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...
Fripp & Eno :: Evening Star
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...
The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...
The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
December 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Fripp & Eno :: Evening Star
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...
The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...
The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
Dave Palmer Trio – Happy Holidays! :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
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We caught up with with Palmer about the making of Happy Holidays!, his favorite Christmas albums, jazz artists he’s been digging, and the Philadelphia music scene.
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We caught up with with Palmer about the making of Happy Holidays!, his favorite Christmas albums, jazz artists he’s been digging, and the Philadelphia music scene.
December 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Dave Palmer Trio – Happy Holidays! :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
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We caught up with with Palmer about the making of Happy Holidays!, his favorite Christmas albums, jazz artists he’s been digging, and the Philadelphia music scene.
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We caught up with with Palmer about the making of Happy Holidays!, his favorite Christmas albums, jazz artists he’s been digging, and the Philadelphia music scene.
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🎵bless'a my spirit🎵
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas :: Unsanctioned Soundtrack (1977)
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It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.
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It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🎵bless'a my spirit🎵
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas :: Unsanctioned Soundtrack (1977)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/12/07/e...
It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/12/07/e...
It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.
December 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas :: Unsanctioned Soundtrack (1977)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/12/07/e...
It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/12/07/e...
It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.
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West Indies Christmas (A Mixtape)
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With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/w...
With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.
December 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
West Indies Christmas (A Mixtape)
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With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/w...
With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.
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The 10 best music blogs of 2025: Aquarium Drunkard, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus, and more. Real human curation that beats Spotify's algorithm every time. buff.ly/XKBZc2V
December 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The 10 best music blogs of 2025: Aquarium Drunkard, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus, and more. Real human curation that beats Spotify's algorithm every time. buff.ly/XKBZc2V
Dollar Diamonds :: Holiday Edition
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/d...
Sadly, the sled has sailed for $1 Xmas albums. For all you non-believers, here’s this month’s Dollar Diamonds that are not Christmas albums, but “sound” like Christmas albums (if you don’t think about it too much).
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/d...
Sadly, the sled has sailed for $1 Xmas albums. For all you non-believers, here’s this month’s Dollar Diamonds that are not Christmas albums, but “sound” like Christmas albums (if you don’t think about it too much).
December 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Dollar Diamonds :: Holiday Edition
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/d...
Sadly, the sled has sailed for $1 Xmas albums. For all you non-believers, here’s this month’s Dollar Diamonds that are not Christmas albums, but “sound” like Christmas albums (if you don’t think about it too much).
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/d...
Sadly, the sled has sailed for $1 Xmas albums. For all you non-believers, here’s this month’s Dollar Diamonds that are not Christmas albums, but “sound” like Christmas albums (if you don’t think about it too much).
West Indies Christmas (A Mixtape)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/w...
With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/w...
With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.
December 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
West Indies Christmas (A Mixtape)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/w...
With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/w...
With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.
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Those are fantastic....dive in
Christmas Jambree :: A Vintage Jamaican Yuletide Mixtape, Vol. 1 & 2
aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/12/20/c...
... Yuletide sails into Jamaica each year on what the locals call the Christmas Breeze, a slightly crisper air that tends to waft through the island come December.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/12/20/c...
... Yuletide sails into Jamaica each year on what the locals call the Christmas Breeze, a slightly crisper air that tends to waft through the island come December.
December 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Those are fantastic....dive in
Christmas Jambree :: A Vintage Jamaican Yuletide Mixtape, Vol. 1 & 2
aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/12/20/c...
... Yuletide sails into Jamaica each year on what the locals call the Christmas Breeze, a slightly crisper air that tends to waft through the island come December.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/12/20/c...
... Yuletide sails into Jamaica each year on what the locals call the Christmas Breeze, a slightly crisper air that tends to waft through the island come December.
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Christmas Jambree :: A Vintage Jamaican Yuletide Mixtape, Vol. 1 & 2
aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/12/20/c...
... Yuletide sails into Jamaica each year on what the locals call the Christmas Breeze, a slightly crisper air that tends to waft through the island come December.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/12/20/c...
... Yuletide sails into Jamaica each year on what the locals call the Christmas Breeze, a slightly crisper air that tends to waft through the island come December.
Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 36
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Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/17/a...
Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading.
December 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 36
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/17/a...
Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/17/a...
Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading.
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Gene Ammons :: Nice an’ Cool (1961)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/g...
Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/g...
Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Gene Ammons :: Nice an’ Cool (1961)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/g...
Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/g...
Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.
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Eberhard Weber on ECM: Primary Colours
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/15/e...
ECM may exist without Eberhard Weber, but it wouldn’t be ECM as we know it. From his 1973 debut through decades of collaboration, it’s a body of work that rewards exploration. Here’s one path among many.
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ECM may exist without Eberhard Weber, but it wouldn’t be ECM as we know it. From his 1973 debut through decades of collaboration, it’s a body of work that rewards exploration. Here’s one path among many.
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Eberhard Weber on ECM: Primary Colours
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/15/e...
ECM may exist without Eberhard Weber, but it wouldn’t be ECM as we know it. From his 1973 debut through decades of collaboration, it’s a body of work that rewards exploration. Here’s one path among many.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/15/e...
ECM may exist without Eberhard Weber, but it wouldn’t be ECM as we know it. From his 1973 debut through decades of collaboration, it’s a body of work that rewards exploration. Here’s one path among many.
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The latest installment of one of my favorite AD regulars, courtesy of Eric Hehr (currently on a mean tear!).
Gene Ammons :: Nice an’ Cool (1961)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/g...
Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/g...
Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.
December 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The latest installment of one of my favorite AD regulars, courtesy of Eric Hehr (currently on a mean tear!).
A John Waters Christmas (2004)
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Christmas provides the perfect setting for Waters to juxtapose with his subversive authorship: taking something cheerful, domestic, and sentimental and gleefully deforming it into tawdry anarchy.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/a...
Christmas provides the perfect setting for Waters to juxtapose with his subversive authorship: taking something cheerful, domestic, and sentimental and gleefully deforming it into tawdry anarchy.
December 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A John Waters Christmas (2004)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/a...
Christmas provides the perfect setting for Waters to juxtapose with his subversive authorship: taking something cheerful, domestic, and sentimental and gleefully deforming it into tawdry anarchy.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/a...
Christmas provides the perfect setting for Waters to juxtapose with his subversive authorship: taking something cheerful, domestic, and sentimental and gleefully deforming it into tawdry anarchy.
Gene Ammons :: Nice an’ Cool (1961)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/g...
Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/g...
Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Gene Ammons :: Nice an’ Cool (1961)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/g...
Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/g...
Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.