Lexicon Devil (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
The great LOUIS JORDAN has been somewhat of a small-time obsession of mine the last six months. Everyone should have some Louis in their life. The guy was a megastar performer, hitmaker, songwriter and even filmstar throughout the 1940s and early '50s, his list of truly great songs almost staggering. I have a 56-track 2CD on the JSP label covering his '50s material and there ain't a dud in it. His...
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Here's a real find if you're craving some music in the tradition of Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, and the King Cole Trio--the swinging small group hipness featuring Steve Gibson and the Red Caps .
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
There's not much better than beans and cornbread—or spaghetti and meatballs, or lox and bagels. Foods know the virtue of cross-tribal elective affinities, even if so many people can barely tolerate their next-door neighbors, much less the folks who live down the lane or on the other side of the veld. In "Beans and Cornbread," the great Louis Jordan invites us to contemplate what happens...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
In celebration of February's Black History Month, Nordstrom will offer customers a new compilation CD entitled Big Swing: African-American Legends of the Big Band Era. The Nordstrom-exclusive CD will feature handpicked jazz songs recorded by iconic "big band" swing performers including Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Jordan and Billie Holiday. Beginning Feb. 1, the CD...
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
(Cleve R. Wootson Jr., cwootson@charlotteobserver.com) A Statesville man has been charged with armed robbery and kidnapping after police there say he took two women from a church and drove them to ATMs to retrieve money on New Year's Eve. Adam Joe Louis Jordan III was charged Friday with four counts of armed robbery, two counts of first-degree kidnapping, two counts of second-degree kidnapping and...
Kendra Steiner Editions (Free subscription) | 01/07/2010
Going through the documents on my computer hard drive while printing up copies of K.M. Dersley’s MANY SEPTEMBERS and A.J. Kaufmann’s VAGABOND VACANCY, I found some reviews I did for Ugly Things magazine a few years ago of UK reissued of classic 40s/50s R&B by some of the masters: Tiny Bradshaw, H-Bomb Ferguson, and Louis [...]
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 01/06/2010
Here's a great example of what we used to call the Folk Process at work. With, frankly, quite astounding avant-garde results. We begin, from 1951, with bandleader Tiny Bradshaw 's original version of "The Train Kept A-Rollin." To be honest, I had never heard Bradshaw's take until I downloaded it over the weekend, but I was rather amazed to find (as you have doubtless noted by now) that it's...
I Hate The Media (Free subscription) | 01/06/2010
So many freezing ass, record cold and record snow stories we can't cover them all.
The Earl Okin Show (Free subscription) | 01/01/2010
To download, click HERE (1) Baby, It’s Cold Outside - .ELLA FITZGERALD & LOUIS JORDAN. (2) LE CID – Massenet. Pleurez, Mes Yeux. FÉLIA LITVINNE. (3) West End Blues – Oliver. KING OLIVER. (4) West End Blues – Oliver. LOUIS ARMSTRONG. (5) My September Love - Evans/Mullan. THE GOONS. (6) SADKO – Rimsky-Korsakov. Berceuse. NINA KOSHETZ. (7) Daddy – Bennett....
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 12/28/2009
Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five... Stone Cold Dead In The Market (He Had It Coming) (1946, Decca 23546 .mp3 audio 02:39). Written by Wilmoth Houdini, the 'King of Calypso.'
Maybe Expectant (Free subscription) | 12/24/2009
I have a crazy amount of things to say, but I have so little time I feel like to say them. However, in a fun attempt on a Christmas Eve Eve, before I have to go back to work again, here's a little meme, via MFA Mama . I swear I did not cheat. Just the uncool nature of some of these answers will prove that beyond a doubt. 1. Open your music library (iPod, iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, etc) 2. Put it...
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 12/21/2009
Okay, this is yet another self-indulgent childhood story, but I hope you'll stick with me even though I've told a version of it before. Trust me -- there's a couple of audio kickers at the end that will make it worth your while. So, as I've mentioned on a previous occasion or two, I was one of the gazillion kids back in the mid-Sixties who took a gawk at The Beatles on TV and thought, hey, that looks...
even*cleveland (Free subscription) | 12/20/2009
AppShopper.com: Price Changes (Free subscription) | 12/16/2009
BigBand 1.0 Category: Entertainment Price: $1.99 -> $0.99 ( iTunes ) Description: The Big Band App is devoted to rare visual clips of musical legends of the Swing and Big Band era such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Billy Eckstine, Lionel Hampton, Nat King Cole, Gene Krupa, and many more. It consists of the earliest versions of music videos produced in New York,...
MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
THE Bb BENDERs About New Orleans and Clarinet Players "...Those were happy days, man, happy days. Buy a keg of beer for one dollar and a bag full of food for another..." "...There were two thousand registered girls and must have been ten thousand unregistered. And all crazy about clarinet players..." Alphonse Picou. Retrieved by Pat Darnell and Friends [ HERE ] | Response to PRIBEK.net...
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