Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
Hannah Yun and I have already started working on Part II of our interview, but I wanted to elaborate here today on one of my questions to her. I had been thinking about how I would revise my criteria for LPGA success post from September 2008, which suggested that if you were on another tour, you should try to enter LPGA Q-School if your scoring average was near 72, you were going under par at least...
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
Playlist Depeche Mode - Remixes 81-04 Lee Morgan - Various LPs on Shuffleplay Freddie Hubbard - Various LPs on Shuffleplay Art Blakey - Various LPs on Shuffleplay John McLaughlin - Various LPs on Shuffleplay Genesis - Mail on Sunday Promo Two new CDs have arrived in the mail yesterday and today, the Depeche Mode and genesis CDs mentioned last week... The Depeche Modfe disc contains some cracking remixes,...
breath of life (Free subscription) | 01/18/2010
This week we honor the great jazz vocalist Leon Thomas, and then check out contemporary music from Haiti featuring Emeline Michel and Boukman Eksperyans. We close out with a meditation on the song "You Go To My Head" featuring Sarah Vaughn, Clifford Brown, Chet Baker & Paul Bley, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass, [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/18/2010
Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie , the Modern Jazz Quartet , Lee Morgan , and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz. Yet he has always maintained his Philadelphia roots, and is and has been a regular at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in that city for many years. Still active as a drummer and a mentor, he has witnessed and been part...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 01/18/2010
Bassist David Certain sends word that he's put together a trio show with guitarist and St. Louis native Marvin Horne ( pictured ) and drummer Greg Bandy for Sunday, March 14 at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups . Born in St. Louis in 1953, Horne has worked with Chico Hamilton, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, The Dells, Nancy Wilson, Billy Eckstine, James Spaulding, Jack McDuff and many others. He can...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 01/07/2010
Blue Note’s release, via Billboard : “As Chairman Emeritus, Lundvall will continue to work in an A&R capacity by finding and developing artists. He will also consult on product and catalog development related to Blue Note’s vast jazz repertoire, which includes such Jazz icons as Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver, Art Blakey,...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 01/06/2010
Art Blakey led many great bands as boss of the Jazz Messengers for more than thirty years, but perhaps none so potent as the this group. Together for only a short period of time, yet miraculously captured in high quality black and white during this concert in Belgium in 1958. Along with Blakey on drums are Benny Golson on tenor saxophone, Lee Morgan on trumpet, Bobby Timmons on piano and Jamie Merrit...
Abby (the) Librarian (Free subscription) | 01/03/2010
Cybils time is an intense time, I know. For the past three months, you've been reading nothing but what's nominated in your category. Well, now the Cybils shortlists have been posted and you can relax and possibly pick up, say, a Middle Grade Fiction title. Of course, you should check out the shortlist we came up with - seven absolutely fabulous books - but it's no easy task to narrow the 100+ nominees...
normblog (Free subscription) | 12/24/2009
On Christmas Eve an old classic is called for, don't you think? (Though, while we're on that subject, what is the origin and meaning of 'classic'?) A suitable candidate is 'You Go To My Head'. It's sung here in turn...
Cool-Mo-Dee (Free subscription) | 12/13/2009
As a Beatles cover fanatic I had to get this one (and share the link). This one has a nice setlist: 1. Howard Roberts - A Hard Day's Night 2. Stanley Jordan - Eleanor Rigby 3. Bobby McFerrin - Drive My Car 4. Grant Green - A Day in the Life 5. Lee Morgan - Yesterday 6. George Shearing -The Fool on the Hill 7. Bud Shank - Michelle 8. Richard Elliot - Imagine 9. Mel Torme - She's Leaving Home 10. Roy...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
I haven't done a podcast in a while, so here goes: the usual melange of jazz, blues and rock 'n' roll. A sampling of the music I have been listening to over the past several weeks. Stream or download it here . Song/Artist/Title: 1. Gingerbread Boy/Dexter Gordon/Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard 2. Shake Your Boogie/Big Al Calhoun/Harmonica Blues 3. Specifica/Chad Taylor/Circle Down 4. Panic...
The 'Spill (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
I've been listening to quite a lot of jazz recently and as I'm feeling utterly uninspired by the carnivorous theme set for us this week, I felt that a little diversion might be in order. So here is, what I hope will be the first in a long-running series, which I'm calling, Regular 'Spillers Post Music That You Wouldn't Really Expect From Them, Knowing Their Musical Tastes A Bit As You Do *. Catchy,...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Albert Ayler - Greenich Village (Universal Japan/Zoom ) Amanda Martinez - Amor (Phantom ) Anita O'Day - Sings Winners (Universal ) Anita Spring - Let Them Talk (Phantom ) Art Blakey - Jazz Message (Universal ) Art Sherrod Jr. - Seasons (Pacific Coast Jazz ) Benny Carter - Further Definitions (Universal Japan/Zoom ) Bernie McGann - Solar (Indies Aus/Zoom ) Bill Evans - With Symphony Orchestra (Universal...
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...
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