The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
“Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” — Billie Holiday Manhattan 1944. A smoky jazz band simmers. The lights come up on a regal, almost-too-calm woman in white. She seems as if she’s sat on that stool forever. The music swells past the intro she leans in [...]
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. Before I read Janis Ian's Society's Child: My Autobiography, I have to admit not being familiar...
Slaminsky (Free subscription) | yesterday
Comes a day when you realise you don't play your records anymore, they've been sitting in a cardboard box in a cupboard gathering dust, along with the speakers, the amp, the busted turntable... They've been superceded by CDs, by MP3s, probably next by a microchip you can slot directly into your brain or something.So, it's time for the great record clearout. Here, listed for your delight, are the entire...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Don't hate up and coming rock darling Nicole Atkins because she's beautiful in a way that would make your boyfriend leave you to stalk her after one live performance. Or cause her rich and throaty voice is sonic boom powerful, or because she possesses the self-assured swagger and sweet persona...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Music icon Miles Davis has long been revered as a jazz pioneer — but what exactly did he pioneer? To some purists, jazz music can be broken into two distinct eras: Before Miles and After Miles. A student and bandmate of Bebop legends Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, Miles’ musical education took place [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Michael Wolff plans NY trio dates for August and September. New CD in the works --more details will be announced soon... August 8, 2008 The Rubin Museum Michael Wolff Trio 150 W 17th St., New York, NY Tickets: $18 in advance, $20 day of. Box Office phone: 212.620.5000 x344. September 19 and 20, 2008 Knickerbocker Michael Wolff Trio 33 University Place, New York, NY...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
When detained and interrogated after World War II, Leni Riefenstahl did not claim she was "just following orders" in making films that were...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Legendary bassist Buddy Catlett keeps jazz alive in Seattle.
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Last night in New York, the Morrison Hotel Gallery opened its doors to showcase the first morsel of Sony BMG’s legendary archives. The newly released photographs, mostly taken by unsung music photographer Don Hunstein, reveal intimate details from Columbia Records’ 30th Street Studio recordings. Tony Bennett, in front of his own fulsome smile, noted, “These [...]
Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
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The Elegant Variation (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Per Petterson's magisterial Out Stealing Horses garnered no shortage of praise last year, culminating with its winning the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. John Banville, writing in the New York Review of Books called it "A subtle, richly wrought, and...
American Thinker (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
In politics the game always goes to the politician who can stick the blame on the other guy. Sometimes, like New York Senator Charles Schumer, you can even nudge a bank into receivership.
DCist (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
On April 20, 1939, Billie Holiday recorded the song Strange Fruit . Written by a Jewish schoolteacher, Abel Meeropol, it became an instant hit and to this day serves as a poignant protest song against injustice. It is also an example—along with images of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel walking arm in arm with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma—of one of the more celebrated characteristics of the peculiar...
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Billie Holiday died on this date in 1959. She was 44. Considered by many to be the greatest jazz vocalist of all time, Billie Holiday lived a tempestuous and difficult life. Her singing expressed an incredible depth of emotion that spoke of hard times and injustice as well as triumph. Though her career was relatively [...]
megfowler.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
(Remember — no “it depends” or “both!” or “neither”… you must choose!) Robert Redford or Paul Newman? Bill Murray or Steve Martin? Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley? George Clooney or Brad Pitt? Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday? Garrison Keillor or David Sedaris? Stevie Wonder or Al Green? Sophia Loren or Marilyn Monroe? Lawrence Welk or Percy Faith? Miles Davis or John [...]...
