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Ragan Whiteside
Ragan Whiteside - Thrill Ride (2022) "Thrill Ride is Ragan’s sixth career album to date and features eight songs and is largely produced by the acclaimed production team of Dennis Johnson and Bob Baldwin. The single is written and produced by Johnson, Baldwin, and Whiteside, and features guitarist Phil Hamilton and drummer Richard Harrison, also known as the artist RAH." ... The Thrill Ride single "peaked at No. 1 on five radio charts including Billboard’s Smooth Jazz chart, Mediabase, the Smooth Jazz Network, Radiowave, and the Groove Jazz Music chart. “Thrill Ride” is her second Billboard No. 1 single. Released on August 26, Thrill Ride is available on all digital download and streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes Store, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube, Pandora, and more." ~ Gwendolyn Quinn - Lee Bailey's eurweb.com

Links: Reverbnation, Website, Jazz Review Interview, Discography and DCBebop page.

MUSIC CD ARCHIVE: ONECD

Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin' Love (1975) "Roberta Flack certainly knew her way around a hook, and her first two #1 singles, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” managed to combine hooks with texture. But Flack’s third and final #1 was almost all vibe... The Feel Like Makin’ Love album, like most of the other albums from Flack’s early career, was a quiet triumph, full of these gorgeous excursions that drew as much from folk and jazz as they did from the soul music of the moment. "

Links: ~ Tom Breihan - Stereogum.com, Roberta Flack [Bio].

MUSIC CD ARCHIVE: DOUBLECD

Peter White
Peter White - Glow (2001) "More than most jazz lite artists, Peter White flaunts a restless improvisational sense, which is fully evident on Glow. Aside from a few incidental fills tossed into the breeze by this or that horn player, this is entirely White's show. His performance on all these tracks, typically over a backdrop of gauzy major-seventh string pads, provides a lesson in long-form jamming against a steady, sensuous backbeat, with octave passages and a buoyant rhythm feel that echo Wes Montgomery."   ~ Robert L. Doerschuk - AllMusic.com,  Discography, Facebook and Website.

Peter White - Good Day (2009) "This is truly a beckoning to all smooth jazzers to return to the Peter White of the 90s and early 2000s, to recall the images and good feeling his originals always conjured up. It is all here in abundance. Those of us who have waited for the guitar master's fascination with covers (great though they were) to subside a bit and for his return to that which fascinated us so fully over the years will definitely not be disappointed. The wait, the patience, and the undying allegiance to the man who has always offeredcontemporary jazz acoustic guitar with so much color and flair have truly paid off in immeasurable manner, and that's no overstatement. True, I have always admired the effortless, silky skills of the Londoner, but anyone who's into real smooth or contemporary jazz will have to admit to the appeal of this one.'."     Ronald Jackson, smoothvibes.com



Over the years, Peter White has maintained a reputation as one of the most versatile and prolific acoustic guitarists on the contemporary jazz landscape. Armed with an unparalleled combination of lyricism and energy, he combines elements of jazz, pop and classical guitar to create a sound that is singular and at the same time accessible to a broad audience. ~ PeterWhite.com [Bio], Wikipedia, Discography

MUSIC ARTS: SESSION

Music Arts session - Concert, Station, PBS, NPR and other live mini concert sessions and interviews. Respected Destroyer, Brandee Younger quintet
"Respected Destroyer" by Brandee Younger 1/12/14 at DROM, presented by Revive Music - A Tribute to Dorothy Ashby - Brandee Younger, harp, Rashaan Carter, bass, EJ Strickland, drums, Chelsea Baratz, tenor sax, Raydar Ellis, DJ, Sean Jones, trumpet

"Brandee Younger has performed and recorded with Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Jack Dejohnette, Charlie Haden, Common, John Legend, The Roots, Stevie Wonder and Lauryn Hill."
~ Sylvannia Garutch - TheJazzWord.com

Facebook, Wikipedia, and Website.

BOOK RACK: FEATURED BOOK

Elmore Leonard – Out of Sight (1996) "THE oldest unsolved mystery on the books, human love, is the case to crack in ''Out of Sight,'' Elmore Leonard's new novel, in which the cop is a lady with a gift for meeting Mr. Wrong and the robber is a guy who just might have been, in a different life, Mr. Right. It begins auspiciously with a prison break, a group of convicts tunneling out of the medium-security Florida pen where Jack Foley, a career bank robber, is doing time after his third major fall.... And here, for this reader at least, ''Out of Sight'' slides off the road into an Everglades of incredibility. For in order to accept the main action of the rest of the novel, we must now accept that both kidnapped and kidnapper -- a female Federal law-enforcement officer and the man who has robbed more banks than anyone in the F.B.I.'s computer -- experience in the trunk of a moving car a conversational intimacy that leaves them helplessly infatuated with each other, even as Karen Sisco conceals a .38-caliber pistol between her legs. It's a bizarrely relocated movie ''cute meet,'' and the busy scribes of Hollywood should be stealing pages from Elmore Leonard's book, not the other way around. "     ~ Ralph Lombreglia - New York Times. Link: KOBO Books and Elmore Leonard [Wikipedia]

Author: Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925 – August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Among his best-known works are Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Swag, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk, and Rum Punch (adapted as the film Jackie Brown). Leonard's writings include short stories that became the films 3:10 to Yuma and The Tall T, as well as the FX television series Justified. Source: Wikipedia

BOOK RACK: FEATURED SERIES

Dan Brown – Robert Langdon Series (2000~2017) "The Robert Langdon book series is named after Robert Langdon, the protagonist of the novels by American author Dan Brown. Langdon is portrayed as a Harvard University professor of religious iconology and symbology, a fictional field related to the study of historic symbols, which is not methodologically connected to the actual discipline of semiotics. Brown's novels that feature the lead character also include historical themes and Christianity as motifs, and as a result have generated controversy. Brown states on his website that his books are not anti-Christian, and that he is on a "constant spiritual journey" himself."  Wikipedia  Links:   Books: Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, Origin.   KOBO Books and Website

MOVIES: FEATURED MOVIE

Out Of Sight (1998)

"Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight" is a crime movie less interested in crime than in how people talk, flirt, lie and get themselves into trouble. Based on an Elmore Leonard novel, it relishes Leonard's deep comic ease; the characters mosey through scenes existing primarily to savor the dialogue. The story involves a bank robber named Foley (George Clooney)and a federal marshal named Sisco (Jennifer Lopez) who grow attracted to each other while they're locked in a car trunk. Life goes on, and in the nature of things, it's her job to arrest him. But several things might happen first." ~ RogerEbert.com   Link: Out Of Sight (1998) - Buy/Rent Watch online

CUISINE: FEATURED RESTAURANT


San Pancho Burritos Location: 7056 Carroll Ave Takoma Park, MD 20912 - "Their small storefront accomplishes two things at once. It fills the space previously occupied by the couple’s winning Mexican restaurant Cielo Rojo, which relocated to larger digs down the street this year, and it adds something fresh, from sunup to sundown, to the dining scene. Mornings bring burritos packed with fluffy scrambled (cage-free) eggs, poblano and onions. Lunch and dinner let customers also choose tortas and spirited Mexican drinks." Review excerpt - Washington Post,  Link: Website

A little Mission Burrito history...

*The most recent featured musicians and play lists from the five Music listings on DC Bebop.   A musician listed on a DC Bebop page with an intro, is featured for a few weeks with one of their songs.  Included in the play list are songs by nine other musicians in a table on DC Bebop. The songs are linked to a page (YouTube, Reverbnation or where ever the song can be heard). The play list is not a top 10 list. It features songs I liked and think perhaps others might appreciate the music as well.

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