TT: From the horse's mouth
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Marc Myers, whose JazzWax has become one of the most widely read and influential jazz sites on the Web, interviewed...
King Oliver
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Beach Boys, Bob Marley Join Grammy Hall of Fame
andPOP.com News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Recordings by the Beach Boys, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, James Brown and the Doors are among the songs that have been named as the 2010 inductees to the Grammy Hall of Fame, reports rollingstone.com. Twenty-five recordings from various genres will be added to the Hall, which currently includes 851 songs altogether. Songs are eligible 25 years after [...]
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Beach Boys, Doors Recordings Join Grammy Hall of Fame
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Photo: Wyman/WireImage.com; Walter/WireImage.com Recordings by the Beach Boys, Bob Marley, the Doors, James Brown and Janis Joplin have been named as 2010 inductees to the Grammy Hall of Fame. Twenty-five recordings from a variety of genres will be added to the Grammy Hall, which currently includes 851 titles altogether (songs are eligible 25 years after release [...]
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Grammy adds to Hall of Fame
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Music News: Satchmo tunes jazz up 2010 roster -- The Recording Academy announced 25 additions to its Grammy Hall of Fame on Tuesday, adding to a roster of timeless tunes that now includes 851 titles.
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Telegraph Names '100 Best Jazz Recordings'
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
And what's No. 1? King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, for what it's worth, followed by the complete Bessie Smith, but the list is strictly chronological, not ranked. The dates range from 1923 to 2009; in a telling detail, fully one-third of the titles have been deleted from the catalogs....
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Ghoulish Nights in Boogie Down's Woodlawn Cemetery
Literanista (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx if offering three flashflights-required tours of sites associated with its most tragic guests. Oct 29, 30, 31st and Nov 1st: History and Mystery Tours – 6 pm - Jerome Avenue Gate Spend an evening in the cemetery learning the legends of Woodlawn. This perennial favorite takes you to the sculpture of “the Bride,” the graves of notorious figures and the...
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Keeping the Flame Burning for a Beloved Queen of Salsa
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Fans make their way steadily to Celia Cruz’s mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, where photographs of the Queen of Salsa change regularly and the space is kept clean.
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King Oliver
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Not a man known for blowing his own cornet, King Oliver Weindling (above) reflects on his contribution to UK Jazz in a new piece on his blog . Is someone else prepared to back me up, and to agree with me that the recordings he has instigated represent an achievement many many times greater than he gives himself credit for here? Or to differ?
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Poetry Break: Rebby Sharp's "Exquisite Corpse" Poetry?
Gypsy Scholar (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
"Lay me down in cuttlefish sepia" Rebby Sharp (Image from Rebby Sharp Drawings ) Yesterday, I blogged about the sung poem " Automatic Bifocals " and linked to a website by one of the poem's collaborators, Rebby Sharp. This morning, I took a closer look at her website , which sets the lines of her poetry not to music but to images like the one above. Or perhaps she first created...
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Magna Jazz Band with Denny Ilett
Isomatic UK Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
This evening we went to the Berrylands Hotel in Surbiton, to see The Magna jazz band with one change to the standard personnel; Denny Ilett (trumpet, pictured with hat mute). Favourite numbers were: 1. Snag It , written by Joe "King" Oliver and played by his band on this link. He recorded the song with his Dixie Syncopators in Chicago in 1926. 2. Climax Rag , composed by James Scott and played...
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Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Two
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Califone Chicago-based alt-art-rock quartette Califone is comprised of multi-instrumentalists/filmmakers Joe Adamik, Jim Becker, Ben Massarella, and Tim Rutili. Founded in the late '90s, the...
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The Imperial Roman Jazz, 1923King Oliver's Creole...
Locust St. (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
The Imperial Roman Jazz, 1923King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Chimes Blues.King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Snake Rag.Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Joys.Jelly Roll Morton, Wolverine Blues.Clarence Williams' Blue Five, Kansas City Man Blues.Mamie Smith and the Harlem Trio, Lady Luck Blues.James P. Johnson, Scouting Around.Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, The Dicty Blues.Bessie Smith, Jail House
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A Whole Freakin' Bunch of Music
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
From King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton & Washboard Rhythm Kings all the way through Little Richard, Shel Silverstein, and Dr. Hook, Twindowlicker has got a freakin' mess of music on the subject of freaks, freakiness, and their freaky ways. Freakish Man Blues, Call of the Freaks, Freakish Mistreater Blues.....you'll surely find something that'll help you get yer freak on.
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`Autumn Enjoys Itself'
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
“Naturally, there are those who enjoy autumn, but they’re generally the more contemplative types, who consider `loving spring’ child’s play, something for beginners, comparable to `loving dogs.’ It’s easy to love something that loves you, but as seasoned cat-lovers know, nothing beats love which – totally randomly – may or may not be reciprocated. I wouldn’t...
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EVENT: Jazz Greats of Woodlawn Cemetery Walking Tour
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
This Sunday, September 27, join the Friends of Woodlawn for a walking tour of the final resting places of the Jazz Greats of Woodlawn Cemetery. Among the notable musicians buried at the historic cemetery are: {{Duke Ellington = 6521}}, {{Lionel Hampton = 7376}}, {{Miles Davis = 6144}}, {{Coleman Hawkins = 7500}}, Bricktop, William Sonny Greer, {{W.C. Handy = 7388}}, Charles "Cootie" Williams,...