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🎶 The Official TTF Music Thread! 🎶

Some blues by Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson.

 
George Benson's version of "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, composed by their alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, from Benson's 1974 album "Bad Benson".

 
The Shoutbox discussion moved me to recommend Zander's Mahler cycle. One nice feature of the CD releases is that they include a separate disc where he gives an analysis of each symphony. These don't seem to be on YouTube, but here's one discussion of the Sixth:
The performance of the symphony itself is on YouTube; here's the first movement:
The others are available there too, though I have to say YouTube isn't the best way to listen to a lot of music, especially classical, and even more especially, Mahler.

Here's Dave Hurwitz on the Sixth, with his picks (Zander doesn't appear):
 
Life left you a broken boy, man
To fight the war an angry young man
Now it's time to be a shaman
Take these wings and learn to fly man

I lost my grip and took a trip
On a magic mushroom rocket ship
Rode the waves and didn't flip
The rainbow-flavoured astral trip


 
Haven't seen anyone post my boy Omar yet (not that I check in here that often tbf) but I'll take any chance to promote NPR's tiny desk performances 😎

Especially the first song "En El Olvido" is beautiful.
 
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