All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
This week, our video lens is trained on singer Kurt Elling, who will be in town starting Wednesday, December 2 through Saturday, December 5 to perform at Jazz at the Bistro. Elling's sets during this trip to St. Louis will focus on material from Dedicated to You, his recent CD revisiting material fr...
NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Hugh Morgan Hill, the Storyteller Brother Blue, Dies at 88 By WILLIAM GRIMES Hugh Morgan Hill, who as the storyteller known as Brother Blue captivated passers-by on the streets of Boston and Cambridge, Mass., with his parables, life stories and idiosyncratic retellings of Shakespeare’s plays, and who became a fixture at storytelling conferences and gatherings in the United States and abroad,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
How much shit can one take? Well that depends. If it is being served by the quirky Polish trio 100nka--featuring guitarist Tomek Leś, bassist Adam Stodolski and percussionist Przemek Borowiecki--there may not be quite enough. Their music is rather undefinable, jumping and sneaking as it does into odd nooks and crannies. Much of it comes from being inquisitive; some of it has to do with the...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Thelonious Monk The Life and Times of an American Original Robin D. G. Kelley (Simon and Schuster; 588 pages; $30) In Michael Ondaatje's wonderful novel "Divisadero," the jazz of Thelonious Monk is likened to "imprisoned birdsongs." Leave it to a superb...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The most interesting thing in the NYT review about the Broadway musical Feli! ? Not this... True, this kinetic portrait of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, a Nigerian revolutionary of song, has taken on some starry producers — including Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith — and shed 15 or 20 minutes since it was staged Off Broadway last year. ...or this: For there has never been anything...
4488: A Ridge Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I’ll be out for the rest of the week, so in honor of the coming holiday, I’d like to offer a spontaneous list entitled “Things I’m Thankful For …” The twin loves of my life: my astonishingly wonderful missus Amy, and my magical, beautific daughter Clara Bay Our parents Our collective friends and relations The 1991 Monte Bello The music [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Ike Sturm JazzMass Self Produced 2009 Ask any jazz fans if he or she knows "When The Saints Go Marching In" or {{John Coltrane's = 5851}} anthem "A Love Supreme" and you will most probably get an affirmative nod. Those versed in the music's history might even know {{Duke Ellington's = 6521}} "Come Sunday" or his Grammy Award-winning piece "In The Beginning, God."...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
From one angle, the career of the saxophonist Steve Grossman might seem to have unfolded in reverse. He came onto the radar in 1969, playing state-of-the-art jazz-rock with Miles Davis; he was all of 18. From that sideman perch, among the most visible in jazz, he went on to play rugged, horizon-scanning postbop in the style of John Coltrane, notably with Coltranes former drummer Elvin Jones. Then came...
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The music legend talks Woodstock, tasty treats and the power of the King of Pop.
breath of life (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A week to give thanks. We open with newly re-mastered material from Nigeria's Fela Kuti. Then comes N'Dambi with one of the best Soul albums of 2009. And we close with majestic interpretations of "Wise One" by John Coltrane, Dwight Tribble, Archie Shepp, Conrad Herwig & Brian Lynch, Bobby Hutcherson, and Ravi Coltrane. Give mucho [...]
breath of life (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
What majestic music this is from Trane and what majestic music Trane inspires others to create when they perform Trane’s compositions.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day! LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes, featuring each artist's greatest love songs. Previously, Concord has issued For Lovers albums by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett,...
Your Pharmacist May Hate You (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
"Handing out a 30 days supply of Norco every 20 days time after time is a good way for me to lose my license. I'm sorry, I can't fill it sir" That's the most effective line in my arsenal most days. Lets the drug seeker know it's not personal. It doesn't work all the time though, and it wasn't working this time. Dude wanted his Norco . Ho-hum. Just another day in the happy pill room for me....
rogerbourland.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
This week in Music History, Culture, and Creativity, our students must compose, record, convert to mp3 and upload their compositions to the class website. Their compositions are to feature a drone (a sustained bass note throughout a section or an entire piece of music), or pedal (as in when an organ holds down a PEDAL, [...]
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
"Bhaiya," a Hindi word meaning "big brother," has remarkable nuance, depending on how it is spoken and to whom. Dave Prager catalogs some of these inflections in a recent article on his life-in-India blog, "Our Delhi Struggle." Jenny tasted the power of bhaiya while watching friends negotiate with autos, seeing housewives beat down stubborn vegetable wallas, observing...
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carriejones2009 | 10/29/2009
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domino75 | 08/10/2009
August with Josh Hartnett , Soundtrack, Lyrics and video August centers on two brothers fighting to keep their start-up company afloat on Wall Street during August 2001, a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Lyrics and video Sweetness (Fischerspooner) listen Double Bass (Gorillaz) listen Mu-Tron (Ladytron) listen Five (Lamb) listen The Night (Morphine) listen Pale Blue Eyes (The Velvet Underground)
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