All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010
Jimmy Wyble, 87, a guitarist of great range who played with country-western swing bandleader Bob Wills as well as with the Benny Goodman and Red Norvo jazz combos, died of heart failure Jan. 16 while under hospice care at his home in Altadena, according to his friend and fellow guitarist Larry Koonse...
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
When you look at the current music scene and see the various methods used to promote the performers, it would be easy to think that it’s a relatively new phenomenon, but it’s not. Historical precedents are varied and numerous. For example, Mozart’s father tirelessly promoted his son as a young genius and a musical prodigy [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Sunday from 5 PM 7 PM EST 90.1 FM WDCE Richmond Listen online via live webcast at www.wdce.org Archived shows uploaded at www.freedomjazzdance.net two days after each live broadcast. Greetings, people of earth! Tune in to Freedom Jazz Dance this Sunday for the unstoppable sound of freedom in the groove with the latest, greatest performers and rare recordings throughout the history of jazz. This week,...
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
This clip is from the fantastic " Screaming Mimi ," which TCM has been showing on occasion. Set your DVR for its next showing - it's a real oddity. Thanks, Pappy!
Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
. September 20, 2008 > Richard M. Sudhalter, 69, author and Jazz musician, Is dead > By DOUGLAS MARTIN > > Richard M. Sudhalter, who won wide respect as a mellifluous trumpet > player (cornet, actually- JD) and perspicacious jazz historian — and ignited controversy for > a book arguing that jazz was shaped by white as well as black > musicians [...]
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Bob Brookmeyer sent this message today: Bill Finegan passed peacefully on today with his son James and his daughter Helen by his side. He was a hero, a dear friend and one of the most gifted arrangers we have ever...
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
In 1957 the Miles Davis band were out on the west coast and Lester Koenig at Contemporary Records put the group's rhythm section together with the alto player Art Pepper – one of a very select group of saxophonists who were not blatant Charlie Parker ripoffs and had forged their own style (while acknowledging the debt). In his autobiography, 'Straight Life,' Pepper tells of how he had not played...
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