Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar: A Modern How-to-Play Jazz and Hot Guitar, Book 1
Spread the Good Word! (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Had a good Halloween ? Mine was perfect ! It’s always good to hear the neighbours the next morning saying ‘Did you hear the chainsaw and the screams at 4 am ?’… Anyway, back to action, let's shake some dust ! Yeah, Mickey Baker and Sylvia Vanderpool !!! This popular duo began recording together in 1956 and enjoyed an US R&B chart-topper that year with ‘Love Is Strange’,...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
Recorded between 1953 & 1959. Includes liner notes by Leo Sacks & Billy Vera. This is not just a terrific greatest hits package. It's also a revelatory look at the astonishingly rapid development of Ray Charles' music between 1954 (when he signed with Atlantic after a few previous years as a Nat "King" Cole wannabe) and 1960, when he departed for ABC-Paramount for what was at the...
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
How many songs do you own that have alley in the title? I have 15: Across The Alley From The Alamo - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra Across The Alley From The Alamo-Johnny Rodriguez & Ray Benson Allen's Alley - Art Pepper Alley Cat - Bent Fabric Alley Cat - Chet Atkins Alley Flowers - Jolie Holland Alley Music - Mickey Baker Alligator Alley - Gregg Karukas Cotton Alley - 10,000 Maniacs Eadle Alley...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Photo of Cheeta, former star of Tarzan movies, and now the oldest chimp in the world. NSFW shower pic of Kitten Natividad. Scarcer than hen's teeth photo of reclusive R & B guitarist Mickey Baker (also of Mickey and Sylvia fame). Jim Herrington's photoblog is PCL worthy, indeed.
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
Alain Resnais - Portrait In Music (Pid ) Alien Cafe - Chloe Says (Blue Flame ) Blowing Free - Sax Moods (Pid ) David & High Spirit - Love Songs For Dog Lovers (World Wide Success ) Ella Mae Morse - In The 50's Razzle Dazzle (Rev-Ola Bandstand ) Elvin Jones - Elvin Jones: Jazz Machine (V.I.E.W Video) - DVD-Video Enders - Dome (Inu ) Ethel Ennis - This Is Ethel Ennis (Phantom Sound & Vision )...
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 12/16/2007
Sylvia “Pillow Talk” (London Records) “Pillow Talk” held the number one R&B spot for two weeks and made it to number three pop on Billboard's charts in 1973. “You can't find love on a one-way street…” Check out the sexy lyrics here! And check out her performance on Soul Train!! Here’s [...]
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