Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Lester Bangs, the singer

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Playing right now: Lester Bangs & the Delinquents - Jook Savages on the Brazos Yes, Lester Bangs was one of the most original voices is ...
Friday, August 25, 2006

I Like ! You Like?

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Playing right now: Human Sexual Response - In a Roman Mood I thought about this album because one of the bands that played at the Repunk Thr...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

I'm still here

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Playing right now: Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free (Found this at a yard sale over the weekend. It was really really beat with what l...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Sebadoh III First installment -- the show

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Playing right now: Nothing, but Francoise Hardy's self-titled Reprise LP is on the turntable. I won it in an auction and it finally arri...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Hey...I'm in a band....

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Playing right now: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (see my reply to the last posting) Old news: The name of the Nothing Painted Blue album mentio...
Monday, July 31, 2006

Weekend dispatch

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Playing right now: Hank Mobley and His All Stars (When I first started this blog I was on a Hank kick, but it's actually been awhile sin...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Moving beyond Tottenham at last

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I haven't written in.....how long has it been? 10 days? I know it's been more than a week. I'm not able to do a full-blown music...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

In defense of the Tottenham Sound

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Playing right now: The Verve/Philips Dizzy Gillespie Small Group Sessions (on Mosaic!) (Mosaic is a label that specializes in boxsets that s...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Meditations in the morning - on original Impulse

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Playing right now: John Coltrane - Meditations I wonder if my neighbors can hear the music coming out of the window, which is near one of th...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

Beaver O'Lindy's 16 tons of Cut out Witches

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Playing right now: Nothing, because I can't decide what I want to hear. And I'm hoping this'll just be a quickie entry so there...
Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Fourth of July listening

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Playing right now: Johnny Cash - At San Quentin Tonight, I went to put on a record downstairs and the Andrew Hill record that I listened to ...
Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Now about Henry Grimes

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Playing right now: Bud Powell - Portrait of Thelonious I took a pile of albums purchased at an estate sale to Jerry's today. Last week h...
Sunday, July 02, 2006

We Love Our Audience

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It's Sunday and I'm working. Today is usually my day off but I took off on Friday to go see Bauhaus, and they put me on the schedule...
Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Last week: Squier; worst band; jazz in Sq Hill

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Playing right now: Booker Ervin - That's It! I went to Jerry's Records yesterday and even though I had a boatload of albums that I w...
Thursday, June 22, 2006

Matthew Shipp - One

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MATTHEW SHIPP One (Thirsty Ear) Pianist Matthew Shipp might not be a household word, but his accomplishments have done a good deal to keep t...

Gutbucket - Sludge Test

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GUTBUCKET Sludge Test (Cantaloupe) While the rest of the word contemplates whether Gutbucket is a punk rock band that plays jazz or a jazz b...
Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Thinking about Gerry Mulligan

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Finally found a way to change the time. So from here on out, hopefully it won't look like I'm posting three hours before I actually ...
Thursday, June 15, 2006

The Sugar Bears and what they mean to me....

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Damn.....as this screen was popping up, there was a clock and I could've changed the time so that it wouldn't look like I'm post...

Erin Boheme - What Love Is

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ERIN BOHEME What Love Is Concord Jazz With a stylish look that would fit in on American Idol, 19-year-old Erin Boheme bucks standard convent...

Andrew Hill - Time Lines

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ANDREW HILL Time Lines (Blue Note) Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note Records, regarded pianist Andrew Hill as a creative voice in the sa...