Marc F. Bellemare

“Improvisation N°1,” by Bryan Baker, Bob van Luijt, and Sebastiaan Cornelissen:

Their album “011 Amsterdam” can be purchased here from Amazon’s mp3 store.

Bryan Baker is one of the most — if not the most — creative and interesting jazz guitarist around these days. In my view, he is his generation’s equivalent of John Scofield. Along with the complete recordings of Django Reinhardt, his album “This Morning Day” was essentially the soundtrack to the last four months of my research leave in 2010.

Zombies in Durham? That can only be good.

“Professional Hater (Remix) feat. Toon,” by The Real Laww:

(HT: The incredibly creative and talented @kidethnic, who directed the video and is celebrating his 33rd birthday today.)

“309,” by Russian Circles:

Empros, Russian Circles’ new album, came out last week and can be purchased here.

The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields,” played instrumentally by Andy Timmons:

The Andy Timmons Band’s newest CD, Andy Timmons Band Plays Sgt. Pepper, came out this Tuesday and is available here.

“The View,” by Lou Reed and Metallica:

This might not be to everyone’s taste, but it is certainly innovative. I hadn’t enjoyed the 30-second teaser of the song that was posted a few weeks ago, but I really like the full song. At any rate, they are bound to sell many copies of this, given Lou Reed’s hip factor and how innovative this is.