Oh, Baltimore

This happened just a few doors down from where I used to live. Charming news from Charm City.

Here's what a local landlord has to say about our student body too.


FMFM: Mr. Wilson and Mr. Gershwin. Sometimes simple pleasures are the best. As enamored as I will always be with Thelonious Monk's harmonic genius and sense of timing, with the dazzling speed of Art Tatum and his descendant Oscar Peterson, there will always be a place for Teddy Wilson's piano playing on my turntable. I've been enjoying his work in Benny Goodman's late-30s small groups too (pre-bop jam dates with Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton), but this is a playful trio songbook LP from 1959 that hasn't ever gotten old. Side one has the fast numbers and side two has the ballads, but Wilson's tempos are always spot-on, with just the right bounce. It sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday. Love the bowed bass too. Mysteriously given only three stars. Wrong again.