Tom Waits
Blue Valentine
this is where the 'beatnikjazz waits' starts turning into 'wierd waits' 1978's 'blue valentines' is more stripped down than before still a couple of orchestrated cuts including the wonderfully gruff rendition of west side story's 'somewhere' with waits laying down cool but warped grooves on organ piano to spill his increasingly ambitious narratives over classics include 'red shoes' 'christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis' and the title track