Happy Monday, Stashers! Today’s music is a long windey jazz song that I wasn’t sure if I wanted to include on the Stash, since it, like many great jazz songs, is long — seven minutes long, to be exact. But on the other hand, it’s called “The Unabonger”! And maybe you think that’s a typo but no, if you listen to the song there’s a specific point near the beginning when you can hear them taking bong hits. Typo it is not.
Then I thought, maybe some of you have had a wild, exciting weekend, and that some of you have had a stressful, economy-stricken weekend. So I’m playing this song to mellow you out on both extremes — to get you back into the swing of things, if you will.
Bennett Paster, pianist, met Gregory Ryan, bassist, in 1993 as faculty members of the Stanford Jazz Workshop. At the same workshop, they met Cuban saxophonist Yosvany Terry Cabrera and percussionist Dafnis Prieto. They brought their wildly differnent styles of music together for this 2001 release.
You can find out more about this album on the Grupo Yanqui website.
Bennett Paster & Gregory Ryan
“The Unabonger” (mp3)
from “Grupo Yanqui Rides Again”
(Miles High Records)
