Music Musings and Miscellany (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. FAIRPORT CONVENTION – Si Tu Dois Partir / Genesis Hall (Island 6064 1969) In the period between the end of the sixties and punk, for the serious prog-rock, metal and folk-rock fan, the 45rpm seven inch single [...]
Book Nut (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
by Ann Haywood Leal ages: 10+ First sentence: "Winnie Rae Early followed ten steps behind me the entire way home from school." Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there ! Eleven-year-old Harper Lee Morgan loves to write poetry. It's possibly fate -- her mother named her after the author, after all -- but she thinks it's more that she just has words bubbling up inside her that...
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Download for $9.98. Listen to The Jazz Messengers performed at Newport Jazz Festival on July 4, 1959
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The name Marty Sheller may not ring a bell. But anyone hip to Latin-jazz is aware of his enormous contribution to the music. First, that's Marty's trumpet solo on Mongo Santamaria's 1962 hit recording of Watermelon Man. The single helped launch the boogaloo, a dance beat that merged Puerto Rican and Cuban rhythms with jazz and funk. The boogaloo not only influenced Lee Morgan and Art Blakey in the...
SeekingAlpha Retail Stocks (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
MONTEREY, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2009 Pinot Noir harvest is wrapping up in the Santa Lucia Highlands appellation, with winegrowers reporting potentially very high quality and normal yields. Some of California's finest vineyards call the S.L.H. home, with more than thirty winegrowers cultivating over 2,500 acres of Pinot Noir there.
Shadowscope (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
28-year-old Kristy Lee Morgan of Winter Haven, Florida was arrested back at the beginning of September. She has finally been charged with having sex with three teenagers in her backyard. I'm not real sure why it took them so...
Abby (the) Librarian (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Also Known As Harper by Ann Haywood Leal . Grades 4-7. Henry Holt, 2009. Copy provided by my local library. Because libraries rule and where would we be without them? Harper Lee Morgan loves words. It's a love she inherited from her mama, a lady so in love with To Kill a Mockingbird that she's read it at least 36 times and named her firstborn child after its author. Yes, Harper loves words, and she's...
Casa Valdez Studios (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Here's an article written by Aaron Johnson, one of the most talented students I've had in the past few years. Aaron recently moved from Portland, Oregon to NYC to study as a Jazz performance major at the Manhattan School of Music. Here I am, at a world-renowned conservatory in the greatest city in the world. I am sitting in a class with 15 or so other musicians, bright young artists from all over the...
Semicolon (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
In this post at Chasing Ray, Collen asks a group of authors for children and young adults the following questions: Do you think historic MG & YA fiction addresses socioeconomic status more effectively than contemporary titles? How important do you think it is for readers to identify with protagonists of their own socioeconomic background? Do you [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
You may not recognize Al Stewart's name. But back in the late 1940s and 1950s he was one of the most in-demand East Coast trumpeters in the big-band business. Over the past 55 years, Al has played trumpet along side the biggest names in post-War jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bobby Hackett, Lee Morgan, Charlie Shavers, Buck Clayton, Conrad Gozzo, Maynard...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
If mainstream jazz has what could be considered an ambassador in 2009, it's Wynton Marsalis. A member of jazz royalty practically from the moment he could hold a horn, Marsalis rolled into the sprawling Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza on Saturday night with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, a taut, 15-piece group he's directed since its inception in 1988...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Review of Steve Grossman/ Damon Brown Quintet by Frank Griffith (Pizza Express Dean Street, September 15th 2009) American saxophonist Steve Grossman , who has been resident in Bologna for 15 years, made a welcome return to London on Tuesday September 15th at the Pizza Express jazz club in Dean Street. Grossman's sideman credits include Miles Davis and Elvin Jones among many illustrious others. The...
Hip Hop Is Read (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
I'll admit it: it usually takes cool artwork for me to check out a mixtape. The cover art for this mixtape is sleek and has that jazzy feel to it - just like the music. These beats, produced by the beat bandit behind much of Black Star memorable tracks, walk the thin line between gutter and butter. Highly recommended (along with the rest of J. Rawls catalog). Tracklisting + (Rapidshare) Download Link...
Cobwebs and /Strange (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Not wholly unapreciated, but percieved in narrow terms, Lee Morgan played more than straight bop and soul jazz. He was an adept composer and adventurous performer. He just died a bit too young to work it all out. BLOGLOAD: Self Titled
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