Beck vs Charlotte Gainsbourg
Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg seem a strangely appropriate duo: America’s pop wunderkind of the 1990s teaming up with the daughter of one of France’s most famous performing artists. Heaven Can Wait is...
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Be Bop, Swing, Drugs and Fusion: Part I
Jelly Roll Morton and his band, discussing their new release BloodSugarSexMagix I received these by email a little while ago. They are (apparently) quotes from American students in a college jazz...
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Bebop, Swing, Drugs and Fusion: Part II
More student howlers, to round off the weekend… “Jazz has the technique of classical music, the feeling of blues, and the hope of children everywhere.” “I know what troubles musicians now when I watch...
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Saved in Lake Wobegon
Garrison Keillor – The News from Lake Wobegon, February 4th 2010 This is radio at its best: Garrison Keillor delivers one of the wittiest homilies on 1 Corinthians 13 that you’ll ever hear. Well worth...
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Paper Swords
I get a lot of messages in my blog inbox from bands and promoters wanting me to review and post their new music. There’s simply too much to listen to, and since this is not just a “music” blog, I tend...
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The Wilkis Polish
Every so often, it’s worth checking in with Alan Wilkis, an artist/producer who’s been featured several times on this blog . You can read a little more about his music in my previous posts here and...
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Eddie Palmieri live in Paris
It is a rare and exciting day when you hear a musician of the calibre of Eddie Palmieri in concert. One of the founding fathers of New York salsa and a great innovator in the Latin jazz of the 1970s,...
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This week’s musical interlude is courtesy of the Miguel Atwood Ferguson Ensemble, performing Donny Hathaway‘s Someday We’ll All Be Free. This video was shot live a few weeks ago at California Plaza in...
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I rather thought that this was a fabulous idea: a “flash mob” choir of 650, singing the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah in Macy’s department store in Philadelphia, surprising the early...
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Ugly, Nevada
I was fortunate to be sent to Las Vegas on a business trip. Fortunate, because I didn’t have to pay for the trip, or anything associated with it. Most places I travel to, I manage to find something...
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