The Non-Classical 'I'm Currently Listening To...' Topic

Haven't listened to avant-garde jazz in close to a year. What a great disc (minus some explicit song titles)

1978

Playlist for a Thursday Morning

Stevie Wonder – Golden Lady (1973)
Stevie Wonder – Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing (1973)
Stevie Wonder – He’s Misstra Know-It-All (1973)
Tori Kelly - Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing (2017)


Three tracks (the 4th, 8th, and 9th) from Stevie Wonder’s 1973 album Innervisions, his sixteenth, which won Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Engineered Non-Classical Album in 1974


Golden Lady wasn’t released as a single, but received considerable radio airplay.



Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing, on the other hand, was the third single released from the album, in 1974, and reached number 16 on the US Billboard Pop chart, number 10 on the Cash Box Top 100, and number two on the R&B chart. Wonder sang all vocals and played all instruments except for some percussion instruments.



Wonder played all instruments except electric bass (played by Willie Weeks) for the last track on the album, He’s Misstra Know-It-All. It was released in the UK, where it managed to reach the top 10, peaking at number eight on the UK Singles Chart.



Tori Kelly’s cover of Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing is from the animated film Sing, where she played the part of the Meena the Elephant. Her vocal talents are extraordinary, as well they should be when attempting a cover of a Stevie Wonder song.

GRATEFUL DEAD
The Grateful Dead

Warner Bros. – Rhino

ALL WE ARE SAYING...
The Music of John Lennon
Bill Frisell - guitars
Greg Leisz - steel and acoustic guitars
Jenny scheinman - violin
Tony Scheer - bass
Kenny Wollensen - drums

Savoy Jazz

FLORATONE
Bill Frisell – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, loops, vocals
Matt Chamberlain – drums, percussion, loops
Lee Townsend, Tucker Martine – production
Viktor Krauss – electric bass, acoustic bass
Ron Miles – cornet
Eyvind Kang – viola

Blue Note

ID.Entity (Riverside, 2023)

ID.Entity is the eighth studio album of Polish prog rock band Riverside. Six of the seven predecessors received my "essential" stamp. First spin of this one. Sounds great. As always a second and probably third spin will be required to make up my mind, but so far, so good.