Popdose (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Bend It Like Bender! – Devin Townsend Project from Addicted (2009) Blue Cheadle – Cheer-Accident from Fear Draws Misfortune (2009) Cruisin’ With The Deuce – Quarterflash from Quarterflash (1980) Elegy – Bob Belden from Black Dahlia (2001) Hard Shoulder – Mark Knopfler from Get Lucky (2009) Love’s Got A Lot To Answer For – Nick Lowe from At My Age [...]...
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Download for $9.98. Listen to The Modern Jazz Quartet performed at Newport Jazz Festival on July 3, 1959
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The Hot Club of San Francisco turns Christmas onto the gypsy jazz genre with remarkable success.
The Alcoholian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Posted by johngl A long-time friend called me last weekend while the most glorious spousal unit and I were down in San Marcos, TX — home of more outlet stores than one city should have — doing some rainy-day birthday shopping. It was about two in the p.m. and I had just emerged from Johnny Rockets [...]
Digital Meltd0wn (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Stephane Grappelli...born January 26, 1908 in Paris, France. Stephane was the son of a philosophy teacher of Italian origin. He first worked as a pianist, accompanying silent films in a cinema to help his father pay the bills. Outstanding jazz violinist with a swinging, sweet-toned style, great technique & finesse, very tasteful. He studied as a classical violinist early in his career & turned...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
I took note of the revival of "Gypsy jazz" sounds when I reviewed CDs by the Hot Clubs of Detroit and San Francisco in this column last year. I have often attended the {{Django Reinhardt = 10635}} festivals at Birdland and monitored the "invasion" of large numbers of French musicians at concerts in New Orleans and other cities. And when I arrived in London awhile ago, I became inundated...
Prime Objective Blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
A few weeks back I went on a little road trip around Devon with the fantastic TG Collective , an incredibly talented gypsy jazz band, heavily influenced by the music of Django Reinhardt . My task was to film them performing at their live gigs and also shoot footage of them performing in interesting outdoor locations around Devon. They’ve just uploaded one of the location videos to their Vimeo...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
By Tad Hendrickson...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Lost at Sea is fun enough, but it mainly serves as a placeholder until the band's new material sees the light of day. When the Squirrel Nut Zippers emerged from Chapel Hill, North Carolina in the mid-'90s as the unwilling face of the swing revival, they also found themselves at the center of a debate between fans, who found the band's take on '20s and '30s hot jazz to be refreshing, and purists, who...
enrevanche (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Aimee Mann Andrew Bird Ani DiFranco Art Tatum Avett Brothers The Beatles Bettye Lavette Big Joe Turner Big Star Bill Evans Bill Hicks Bill Monroe Bill Withers Billy Bragg Biz Markie Bo Diddley Bob Dylan Bobby Timmons Booker T Jones, with or without MG's British Sea Power Bruce Springsteen Buck Owens Bud Powell The Carter Family Charles Mingus Charlie Parker Chet Atkins Chet Baker Chic Coleman Hawkins...
Aurgasm (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
electro swing // gypsy django party If you can judge a group by its influences, try these out: Django Reinhardt, Vitalic, Cab Calloway, Justice, Lionel Hampton, Daft Punk, Billy Holiday. The Paris-based group has been touring since they broke out at the Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival in 2007. They deliver an old gypsy swing, but through [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The liner notes imply that this is the Christmas album {{Django Reinhardt=10635}} and {{Stephane Grappelli = 7175}} might have made, had they made one. Certainly the The Hot Club of San Francisco is a virtuosic group that specializes in conjuring that era (see their masterful Bohemian Maestro for a recent example). But there's a wealth of delicious humor here that goes beyond anything that legendary...
Toxic Web Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Last week in music history - October 9th to November 4th - with who was born and who died.
Bjørn's blog (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Woody Allen is a strange phenomenon. I've seen close to thirty of his movies, and still I have fun watching another one. This time, Sean Penn is Emmet Ray, a jazz guitarist that is considered the second best guitarist in the world - only being overshadowed by Django Reinardt. Sadly, being second best feels like a curse for him - he likes to brag, but can't say how good he is without mentioning Django....
Page 300 (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Lylas - Do You Believe In Blood? Lylas has always been a band for all seasons. They've recorded spring songs, summer songs, and two EPs full of Christmas songs. But perhaps the time of year their music is most appropriate for is Halloween. Even when they aren't name dropping the October holiday in their songs (something they do twice on their new album), their music has long been full of themes appropriate...
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