the central shaft (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
1. Nature Boy 2. Datura 3. Caravanesque 4. Wide Sky 5. Mevlana Duke 6. Secretly Happy 7. Poinciana 8. Sensuendo 9. Suite De Caravan 10. Estate (Summer) Jon Hassell (trumpet); Rick Cox (guitar, bass clarinet, samples); Ry Cooder (guitar); Rick Masterson, Rose Okada (tambura); Ronu Majumdar (Indian flute); Jacky Terrasson (piano); Joachim Cooder (drums); Jamie Muhoberac (zendrum). The ambient "water...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Chet Baker Strollin' Enja 2008 Chet Baker Broken Wing Inner City 2009 John Proulx Baker's Dozen MAXJAZZ 2009 As iconic as any jazz musician, {{Chet Baker = 3578}}'s gentle, understated playing and crooning ran counterpoint to his tumultuous life. Two late life recordings capture an introspective legend, voice ravaged by time, playing thoughtful and resonant solos. The third disc is a loving tribute...
Rene's Apple (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Harry James was a trumpet player with enough technique to play anything- he certainly could've been a great classical player had he chosen that route. Here he shows off those chops, and his great jazz skills, in a video from the Forties, I suppose. It wasn't that long ago that all sorts of bands were led by virtuosos of their instruments-James, Buddy Rich, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Maynard Ferguson,...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Sadly we only made it for the second half of this sparsely attended gig, everyone else was probably with Lance Liddle down at the Cluny. When Caz and I arrived we increased the audience by a good 40%! There is, however, something quite nice and intimate about nights like this. The attenuated band featured Dave (trumpet and vocals) Eric Stutt (drums) Barry Ashcroft (bass gtr) and Chris Finch (keyboard)....
Bubble Brothers (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
One of the drawbacks of being a flaky arts graduate is that you have to, or at least should, fight the urge to draw extended analogies between one bunch of human experience and another. Those big ‘ol nebulous comparisons just litter the place up, and generally aren’t either big or clever. But sometimes it’s in [...]
Miss at la Playa (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Someone must have put a curse on me. Everytime a famous person I really want to meet comes to Madrid, I don't know why, I miss it . And I can prove it. I wrote this post a month ago when I knew that Bruce Weber was coming to Madrid. I was so excited to meet him, but the tickets were sold out and I couldn't see him. Oh, and on my 15th birthday I wanted to go to a Greenday concert, I bought the tickets...
www.Stuartslondon.com .... FASHION BLOG (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Here's some more product placement by Luke 1977 . Pictured above are Andrew and Joy from Mr Hudson, who popped into Luke Towers to get kitted-out with the latest gear. Here's their profile from website All Music Guide (allmusic.com): Merging an unusual combination of genres, Mr. Hudson (aka Ben Hudson on vocals and guitar) applied his love for Chet Baker and Cole Porter to his skills in hip-hop production....
Late Nite Music Club's feed (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Title: Almost Blue Artist: Chet Baker (h/t Akeem) We're going to bring the room down for a little while this evening. Chet Baker's version of Elvis Costello's Almost Blue is sure to bring your pulse down and take you back -- or away to somewhere else. So kick back, grab a cuppa somethin' and relax...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The Orfeo Brass Band weaves magic with its music
Rene's Apple (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
This is "Birdland" (by MF alum Joe Zawinul) in the original Maynard band arrangement. Maynard is in full force of nature mode here, as throughout the 70's, even as record label Columbia (now Sony) increasingly commercialized his music. The band always kicked butt live, though. Eric Traub on tenor sax. Nice performance here by the MF band, if not ultra-clean. I don't know why I do anything...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
More on Soupy and the giants of jazz.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
David Allyn is a singer's singer. All jazz vocalists with a heart have a tender spot for David's warm, passionate baritone. Leading arrangers and jazz musicians from the 1940s and 1950s, including Johnny Mandel, Hal McKusick, Joe Wilder and others who came up during this era, also love David's voice and intonation. Before Chet Baker, before Johnny Hartman and before Jackie Paris, David pioneered the...
Moon River (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
LIZA Minnelli received her first standing ovation before she'd even sung a note.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will introduce a new feature for their Fall 2009 season: "After Hours." JOHN PROULX, the Grammy Award winning singer, pianist and composer, will kick off this exciting news series with a special after hours performance Sunday, October 18 at 10:00PM. JOHN PROULX just released his new CD Bakers Dozen: Remembering Chet Baker, which offers a fresh take on a number...
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