The Glenn Miller Conspiracy: The Never-Before-Told Story of His Life -- and Death
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Laycock also worked for BBC London and the World Service and helped to set up the original Jazz FM Former BBC Radio 2 DJ Malcolm Laycock, who left the station earlier this year, has died. Laycock died on Sunday, his agent told BBC News. In a broadcasting career spanning more than four decades, Laycock also worked for BBC London, the BBC World Service, and helped set up the original Jazz FM in London,...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I'm going to do them alphabetically. Tonight I'm featuring June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006): In 1925, when she was eight, a dead tree branch fell on her while she was bicycling. Several bones were broken, and doctors said she would never walk again. She underwent months of swimming exercises, however, and ultimately regained her health. After graduating from a wheelchair to crutches...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Former BBC radio presenter Malcolm Laycock died on Sunday night, his agent says.
TimesDaily.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Fans of Big Band Era classics from Glenn Miller, Billy Holiday, Frank Sinatra and more, are invited to attend the Big Band Benefit Concert at 2 p.m. Sunday. "If you like big band swing, you'll love this concert," said Dr. Lloyd Jones, director of bands at UNA. "This promises to be an enjoyable afternoon of music for all in attendance."
La Voz Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The appearance of excessive force in the apprehension of San Jose State University student Phuong Ho, recorded by a another student with a cell phone, has elicited responses from lawyers and local media alike. According to Glenn Miller, one of the lawyers representing Ho in court on Nov.
the further adventures of boz (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
It's been a good while since I posted one up here, but every year I do a winter playlist for m'AYEpod. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because I like the cold and the way it makes me feel. All very melodramatic I'm sure but I do like swooshing through fallen leaves feeling morbid and gloomy. I have just completed this year's playlist, thanks to some help from The Twitterati and recent people on Teh Blogz....
jabblog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
This is Biddy, senior Jack Russell, taken about 20 years ago. Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away. I had only ever known this verse and didn't realise there was more to the poem. It goes on:- When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall I couldn't see him there at all!...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
'Songs That Won the War' is jammed with jollity tinged with a raw ache for peace. Rating:
UniqueDaily.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
“A disc jockey with a difference is taking the music world by storm – using two 1930s wind-up gramophones. Dave Guttridge, 48, is the UK’s only pre-vinyl disc jockey and uses two 70-year-old Picnic gramophones to pump out ‘old skool’ tunes – including old favorite The Teddy Bear’s Picnic – using Shellac 78 records. Known [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Over the last few years, {{Terry Vosbein = 18886}}, a Professor of Music at Washington and Lee University and a classically-trained composer of symphonies, operas, and chamber music (not to mention a former bassist with the {{Glenn Miller = 9402}} Orchestra), has been exhaustively researching the unrecorded scores from the {{Stan Kenton = 8330}} Collection at the University of North Texas. Now, thanks...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Stan Rubin, a giant of the swing era big bands, will be honored for his contributions to music.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Victoria: The Beltone Pops series offers six energetic programs of popular and familiar music that will get you moving in your seat.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Stan Rubin, a giant of the swing era big bands, will be honored for his contributions to music.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Victoria: The Beltone Pops series offers six energetic programs of popular and familiar music that will get you moving in your seat.
Northwest Navigator (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Navy Region Northwest’s big band “Cascade” performed for more than 250 veterans, service members and their families at the Naval Undersea Museum Keyport’s Jack Murdock auditorium for a free fall concert, Oct. 18. “The Navy band is a very popular venue for the military and the public community,” said Lindy Dosher, assistant director of Puget Sound Naval Museum. “We...
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