Miles Davis, Blue Christmas (1983) The title track used to crack me up – I could spot Bob Dorough’s voice a mile off (as I said here). But this is a decent comp all up, even with that near-novelty song to wrap things up. All of the material has been released – in some form [...]
Bob Dorough, Yardbird Suite (1956) I used to listen to this album – and I thought it was bonkers. And then I bought this Miles Davis tape for about $4 (a cheap compilation) – and at the end of the tape it had this song that went “merry x-mas…” with this cartoon-type voice. (The song [...]