I need movie and music recommendations. Just looking for new things. I love the blues in terms of music, jazz as well as country. Movies, weird independent movies are great but really anything. And Podcasts, open to that as well. Thanks!
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Ok, here's a sleeper...and I don't mean one you'll sleep through...I believe it's Kim Catrall's first movie...with Timothy Hutton, an all-star cast and a fun story...might be hard to find from 1985 but worth it..."Turk 182"......................................Of course if you want nightmares...Betty Davis and Joan Crawford..."Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" "I didn't bring your breakfast...because you didn't eat your din-din"
lerlo
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Sep 3, 2019
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R&B...Are you familiar with Delbert McClinton or Marcia Ball?
Country...The Derailers and The Mavericks
Are you familiar with Leroy Parnell? He does both country and blues. What kind of jazz do you like, big bands, or jazz combos and trios? Old jazz or modern jazz?
Sticks48
Level 9
Sep 3, 2019
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Love Delbert McClintom. Old jazz more than new. Love big bands!
Look for a Spanish movie called "Butterfly", in Spanish, "La Lengua de Mariposas". It is about a small boy growing up in the shadow of the run-up to the Spanish Civil War . . . . with the church becoming ascendant and atheists being literally put to death for supporting the Republic. Don't expect an American ending.
Archeus_Lore
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Sep 2, 2019
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Sorry for the long comment. However, there is a lot of jazz and blues history.
[mensjournal.com]
[swinginblues.com]
[hagerty.com]
Jazz & Film Noir. [jive-talk.com]
Fortunately there is a huge vault of key scenes and band scenes on youtube and the like. Scroll down for the big list of historical favorites.
AnonySchmoose
Level 8
Sep 2, 2019
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Movies- Anything by directors David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Coen Brothers, Farrelly Brothers. There is a new Dark Crystal series on Netflix, The Haunting of Hill House, Ash vs. the Evil Dead is pretty entertaining too.
Music- Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart, Unholy/Holy Modal Rounders, The Woods, Devendra Banhart, Jolie Holland, Sunset Rubdown, Crass.
All challenging stuff, but worth the time you put into it. I can't spend my time on anything, if it doesn't slap me in the face first.
nastynifty
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Sep 2, 2019
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A very good and very unusual movie I can recommend is an Indian movie called PK. You can get it on NetFlix. P. K. is a comedy of ideas about an alien who lands on Earth, who asks questions that no one has asked before. They tell him, "God only knows." So, he goes on a quest to find god. But in India there are many gods! He ends up exposing the local religious charlatan. [imdb.com]
As for Blues, I'm digging Albert King these days. He plays straight up, traditional, Chicago style.
dare2dream
Level 7
Sep 2, 2019
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I watch a few (or several) O'Keefe Music Foundation videos weekly. O'Keefe Music Foundation is a group that does quality videos for kids and young people for free. This is just one example and there are many different genres and styles. I just find them to be really fun videos.
SonnyBubba
Level 6
Sep 2, 2019
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Thanks! I will try them out.
Roxy is a good film
LeighShelton
Level 8
Sep 2, 2019
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this is brilliant and Gina is sexy and can for real kick some ass
much of what i recommend may be difficult to find, and i am not limiting myself to newly released things because i am (perhaps incorrectly) assuming you're looking for things that are new to YOU, not necessarily new to the universe. anyway, here goes (with additional identifier if a title may refer to more than one entity):
movies:
the fixer (dir john frankenheimer)
dog day afternoon
one day in the life of ivan denisovich (with tom courtney)
the first circle (with gunther malzacher but there is another version i haven't seen which is probably also good -- read the book if you can!)
we're not dressing (bing crosby, carole lombard, burns and allen)
the upside (newish movie)
the green book (newish movie)
if beale street could talk (newish movie)
i, tonya (newish movie)
can you ever forgive me? (newish movie)
the post (sort of newish movie)
music:
i have nothing new to recommend except anything you can find by esperanza spalding. older stuff:
check out every version you can find of the 12th-century provençal bitter love song kalenda maya.
in my own dream -- paul butterfield
all blues -- both miles davis' and julie driscoll's (with brian auger and trinity) versions
seven ate sweet -- kaleidoscope (the american group, not the british one of the same name)
mr. dave (album) by david lindley
el rayo x (album) by david lindley
more fun in the new world (album) -- x
workingman's dead (album( -- the grateful dead
live dead (the red album that begins with dark star -- at least the first three sides of the four) -- the grateful dead
american beauty -- the grateful dead
sweet potatoes (album) -- geoff and maria muldaur
pottery pie (album) -- georr and maria muldaur
private astronomy (album) -- geoff muldaur's futuristic ensemble
sanctus -- missa luba
pretty little girl with the blue dress on -- the carolina chocolate drops
anything you can get your hands on by the klezmatics but particularly jews with horns (album)
more where that came from but that's a start eh?
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genessa
Level 8
Sep 2, 2019
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Last week we were on holiday in Spain and for my Son's birthday we went to see a magic show. Whilst waiting for the show to start the background music caught my ear. I just had to SoundHound it, to find out more about the artist. Been listening to the album "Swipe Right for Vintage" for for the past couple of days. You might like it too.
This is what was playing...
MattHardy
Level 7
Sep 2, 2019
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Love this! Thanks!
The Legend of 1900. Trust moi. Great music movie... a twofer!
MoonTigerII
Level 7
Sep 2, 2019
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Thanks! I love movies like that.
Have you seen the film Whiplash. It’s about an aspiring and gifted jazz drummer and his abusive but brilliant tutor.
I have to say one of the most captivating and psychologically orientated films I have seen in any genre.
Geoffrey51
Level 8
Sep 2, 2019
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No but on my list now.
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