The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Although his drumming was at the heart of jazz, Bobby Durham will perhaps best be remembered as one of the very few musicians that Duke Ellington actually fired (Charlie Mingus was another). Continuously in demand throughout his career, Durham appeared on more recordings than almost any other drummer, and was at his most eminent in his time with the Oscar Peterson Trio.
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
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NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
… of Jerry Leiber. He’s 75. Leiber and partner Mike Stoller are in the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. By the time they were 20, in just three years of working together, their early songs had been recorded by a collection of true all-stars in the rhythm and blues genre including [...]
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
Have you noticed that record stores are going out of style? Today would be a good day to support your favorite shop because it's Record Store Day. Hundreds of independently owned record stores across the country are participating by offering discounts and entertainments all day long. What is your favorite record store that's still open? I go for Crypt Records in Brooklyn. But I also must mention Wuxtry...
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
in post Happy Record Store Day from WFMU's Beware of the Blog .
IGN (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Guitar Hero III: Aerosmith (X360) 25 'Smith tunes that need to be on the upcoming expansion pack.
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
I've offered a Bull Moose Jackson "best of" before, but now you can get the complete 1989 collection of music by the 1950s R & B king Moose on the Loose , including "Big Ten-Inch Record".
Adam Curry (Free subscription) | 12/17/2007
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CURRY.COM (Free subscription) | 12/17/2007
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The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 11/30/2007
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/09/2007
'FIFTEEN cents," a teenaged Benny Golson answered when his mother asked how much money he'd made at the night's gig. It was the late '40s in North Philly, and the young tenor saxophonist and his friends, then-alto saxophonist John Coltrane and pianist Ray Bryant, had been hired to play a neighborhood concert with the promise of taking home all the money from the door.
