shanleyonmusic

I'm what you'd call a music enthusiast. Not one of those obsessive people, but definitely fanatical about it. This blog began as a forum for whatever I am listening to throughout the day but I'm also trying to include full-blown CD reviews too.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Loss of Another Friend

Death is a natural part of our day-to-day existence. We get older, our bodies don't work like they used to. All that carefree living cat...

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

CD Review: Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Blue

Mostly Other People Do the Killing Blue (Hot Cup) www.hotcuprecords.com I once attended a local jazz competition, where three groups w...

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

I Almost Died Last Week

Well, maybe that's a slight exaggeration but there were a few scary moments last Friday. Throughout the week I had been dealing with a b...

Monday, October 13, 2014

CD Review: Trio 3 with Vijay Iyer - Wiring

Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer Wiring (Intakt) www.intakrec.ch To call Trio 3 a supergroup affixes an overused label to the band. But at the ...

Friday, October 10, 2014

CD Review: Wadada Leo Smith - The Great Lakes Suites

Wadada Leo Smith The Great Lakes Suites (TUM) www.tumrecords.com Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has recently been composing large scale w...

Monday, October 06, 2014

CD Review: The Group - The Feed Back

The Group The Feed-Back (Schema) www.ishtar.it/ Sometime around 1970, soundtrack maven Ennio Morricone and a group of musicians known...

Friday, October 03, 2014

CD/LP Review: John Coltrane - Offering: Live at Temple University

John Coltrane Offering - Live at Temple University (Impulse! - Resonance) www.resonancerecords. org/johncoltrane It's all Allen G...

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

My Trip to Chicago

Last week, the family had to go to Chicago for a wedding. It was the furthest west I've ever traveled in my life, and for that reason al...

Saturday, September 20, 2014

The Mail, Matthew Shipp, the Love Letters

Yesterday was a banner day for the mail. I received the October issue of JazzTimes (which has my profile of Sean Jones in it), a TIAA-CREF c...

Tuesday, September 09, 2014

The Oliver Lake Big Band at City of Asylum

Each September the organization City of Asylum hosts an event on the North Side that combines poets (who are usually exiled from another cou...

Friday, September 05, 2014

CD Review: The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers

The New Pornographers Brill Bruisers (Matador) www.matadorrecords.com A review of the New Pornographers on this blog - it's like ...

Saturday, August 30, 2014

CD Review: Lee Konitz/Dan Tepfer/Michael Janisch/Jeff Williams - First Meeting: Live In London Vol. 1

Lee Konitz/Dan Tepfer/Michael Jansch/Jeff Williams First Meeting: Live in London Volume 1 (Whirlwind) www.whirlwindrecordings.com Lee...

Friday, August 22, 2014

J.J. Wright In Pittsburgh

Listening to WDVE-FM right now, relieved that Randy Baumann is back on the air today. I was starting to worry that his "vacation" ...

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Uh Oh, Jazz is Dead Again...Wait - It's Not. But WJAS Is

Originally the title of this post was going to stop at the ellipsis, but I didn't get to post it in time. The last week included a weddi...

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Sonny Rollins - Our Guru

Last night Sonny Rollins went live online to speak about the New Yorker piece that appeared last week, consisting of made-up quotes by him....

Sunday, August 03, 2014

Sonny Rollins Didn't Say That

On Friday, Sonny Rollins tweeted the following: "Hey, folks, this is some guy's idea of a joke." No explanation, no anger, jus...

Friday, August 01, 2014

CD Review: Steve Lehman Octet - Mise en Abime

Well, a lot of encouraging reaction came after the previous post about music streaming, but now I'm back to the esoteric jazz albums......

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

What's Wrong with Music? Well, I'll Tell Ya....

It's been hard to write. Not only finding the time, but finding the energy. I don't feel like I should be Pollyanna-ish with this bl...

Saturday, July 19, 2014

CD Review: Kyle Bruckmann's WRACK - ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire

Kyle Bruckman's WRACK ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (Single Speed) www.singlespeedmusic.org Full disclosure: I haven...

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Charlie Haden Remembered

The anticipation that I feel before doing an interview often has a debilitating effect on me. Bad connections, bad recording devices - both ...

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About Me

shanleymusic: UPDATED - 3/1/24. (This update is LONG overdue!) I've lived in Pittsburgh all my life. It's a good town. Come and see it. Although most of my writing here covers jazz - in particular, the more avant-garde or envelope pushing type - I've played bass in indie rock bands and like to write about that kind of music too. Currently I'm in the Harry Von Zells, Our album, Play It Backwards, came out in Spring '23. Beyond that, I won't list my whole musical past but I should mention my first band, Bone of Contention because I occasionally hear from people who are trying to find the song "Barbie Likes to Die" from our first album - which was rereleased digitally. Our whole catalog (and the HVZ album) are on Bandcamp on the Igor Records page. As a music scribe, I've contributed and edited for nearly every alt-weekly in town. Nationally I contribute to the New York City Jazz Record and spent about 20 years at JazzTimes. I am also a member of the Jazz Journalists Association.

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