80 minutes to listen (Free subscription) | yesterday
Or, Music to get Married by. 1st June 2002. Yes, there was a Spider-Man theme, of sorts. No, Tim Sale did not provide the artwork. Camille Yarbrough Take yo praise Peggy Lee Fever Dianne Reeves & Grant Green Down here on the ground Perez Prado & Rosemary Clooney Sway Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto The girl from ipanema Dr John Mama Roux Mary Jane Hooper I’ve got reasons The Apollas Seven...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
EDMONTON, ALBERTA (MARKET WIRE) This July, there's something to suit everyone's taste on the Edmonton events calendar. For those who dig jazz, whether it's cool, slow and blue or red hot and hoppin', there's the Edmonton International Jazz Festival, which runs through Sunday, July 5th. Acts at the festival so far have included John Abercrombie Organ Trio and Branford Marsalis Quartet. Once the musical...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Nina Ferro (vcl), Grant Windsor (pno), Simon Little (bs), Martyn Kaine (dms). Difficult one to pigeonhole - a mix of jazz, soul and good old rock 'n roll. Nina has a powerful voice that brought to mind Gladys Knight - the Queen of the Pips - as she strode through a selection of originals and vintage poppers (She opened with the Everly Brothers "All I Do Is Dream".) Her own "Tossing and...
The Panic Manual (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
Toronto - The Downtown Toronto Jazz festival kicked off yesterday and will be running throughout the city from now until July 5th. It’s a fantastic opportunity to check out some great live music. The shows that occur during the day at Nathan Phillips Square are free. You can get the details here. Now, before I go [...] Related posts: Jazz in Review: The Sermon! – Jimmy Smith [Blue Note,...
The Jobbing Doctor (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
There is a lovely song cycle written by Franz Schubert called ' Die schöne Müllerin ' - the beautiful mill-girl. The song are set to some poems written by Wilhelm Muller. Whilst the poems have a degree of naif simplicity to them, there is a danger that they read as little more than doggerel. However, the music, the music! The high point for the narrator is when he thinks he has won the heart...
KK & R Music Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Bob Brookmeyer's early childhood was bleak--until he discovered music and jazz. Then he threw himself into learning the clarinet and trombone, quickly becoming a whiz sight-reader. By age 14, Bob was already a professional arranger and musician, rushing off after high school to play on local recording sessions. Not a fan of the slide trombone, Bob began playing valve-trombone, mastering the instrument...
The Countess (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
I'm going to spend my weekend finishing "Feral Heat" so that I may hand it in. I hope it gets accepted. It's my first attempt at werewolf erotica. I imagine one male character as looking like Hugh Jackman and the...
westcoastmusic (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Kenny Rankin appeared on The Tonight Show more than twenty times. Host Johnny Carson was so impressed by him that he wrote the liner notes to Rankin's 1967 debut album Mind Dusters, which featured the single "Peaceful." Helen Reddy would...
The Musings of Kev (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
... where are caek? . This year, especially the past few months, has been quite unusual, but at least "mah birfday" didn't start out as oddly as last year's , when I began my day in the air after numerous flight delays. Today should be much more chill, with only a few lessons here and there, so maybe I'll have time to catch up on the blog posts that are once again getting backlogged. Some...
iowahawk (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Had the opportunity Sunday to drop by an open house for the Ben Rose estate in Highland Park, IL, which many of you may recall as Cameron's house in John Hughes' classic teen flick Ferris Bueler's Day Off -- and...
Days of Transition (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
The title of this 1964 album, Getz Au Gogo , dates it, but the music is timeless. MP3 File
Visualgui.com (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Jazz has always been about collaboration. Even if the musicians have never played with each other before, they have to work together as a team to bring out the beauty and the liveliness of jazz. The most challenging aspect of jazz collaboration is not how well each individual play, but how well he plays with [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
An All-Star Benefit for Guitarist {{Joe Diorio = 6285}} With John Abercrombie, George Garzone, Vic Juris, Dave Stryker, Paul Bollenback, Ron Affif, Sheryl Bailey, Gene Bertoncini, Andreas Oberg, David Becker, John Beasley and many more to be announced... Tuesday, June 9 @ 8:30 and 11pm Music Charge: $25...
Stephen Bolen (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
I was busy on May 26th. I somehow found the time to update various online outlets 21 times. I have a friendly robot gather all of the information and place it into a nifty table, shown below. [...]
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