This Is This (Free subscription) | yesterday
This from Clair of Moon In The Gutter 1. My uncle once: fault in the Second World War. 2. Never in my life: have I held a spider in my bare hands. 3. When I was five: I moved to the US. 4. High school was: Boring. Very, very boring. I was a bright kid, but was soooo bored. 5. [...]
Hindu (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Sharik Hasan Trio’s jazz performance led the audience through both jazz standards and original compositions
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
IT'S always nice when all-star tribute groups can actually muster some bona fide stars. Saxophonist James Moody and trombonist Slide Hampton both have considerable jazz re
The Sound Room (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
by Oliver Amnuayphol No vinyl hardware news this week, but if you're looking for great jazz vinyl on the cheap, check out OJC, the Original Jazz Classics label. For as long as I can remember, the folks at OJC have...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
WHO: Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan WHAT: SIRIUS' Pure Jazz channel will welcome jazz-influenced rock pioneers Donald Fagen and Walter Becker from Steely Dan. Fagen and Becker will each co-host an hour playing classic jazz favorites. They will also share their thoughts about artists who continue to inspire them, including Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie...
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Alice Cooper - Along Came a Spider Like School’s Out and From the Inside, Alice Cooper’s Along Came a Spider is a concept album. This time the central character is a spider-obsessed serial killer who has been beaten down by society and now lives by the arachnid code of “”You trap, you kill, you eat.” Slash [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
This month brings to the city two performances by pianist and composer Anthony Davis, who has been living in Southern California for the last decade. Prior to his immigration to the West Coast, Davis was active in New York and his return brings an improvisational voice sorely missed in the city where he made his home for so many years...
Deceptively Simple (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
On to the weekend. And that means Dizzy Gillespie, who never forgot to give the audience a good time even as he was breaking new musical ground and advancing trumpet technique. Here he is, on the Muppet Show, with a...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Chicago native Junior Mance doesn't sound like a man approaching his 80th birthday. The pianist, who credits Gene Ammons, Cannonball Adderley and Dizzy Gillespie with helping him grow as a musician, has led over 30 recordings of his own and made numerous appearances as a sideman during a lengthy career. An enthusiastic conversationalist with a great sense of humor, it's hard not to feel quickly at...
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 [...]
Ghost of a flea (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Now is the time at the Flea when we dance....
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Monterey Jazz Festival Records, in collaboration with the Concord Music Group, will issue the second wave of six never-before-released, archival live recordings taped on the Arena stage of the world-famous Monterey Jazz Festival. The releases are slated for August 5, 2008, seven weeks prior to MJF's celebration of its 51st annual presentation of world-class jazz, September 19-21, 2008...
Article Archive (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Enjoy The 42nd annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Enjoy a variety of music and more for free at Chandler Center for the Arts in the coming weeks at the Free Summer Concert Series.
This Is This (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
I’ve never understood this one. If something were too tight, why wouldn’t you mention it? “It’s OK, really. Maybe It’ll loosen up after a bit. Please don’t make a fuss.” No. You’d say something. Anyway, like I said last week, I’ve been checking my stats. It turns out I have been getting more stats than I thought because I [...]
