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.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Look here.....

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.....Just discovered that the Vandermark review is up: http://www.jazztimes.com/reviews/concert_reviews/detail.cfm

Shanley reviews online

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Playing right now: Paul Chambers - Go (It's actually the Mosaic box set that compiles everything Chambers and Wynton Kelly did on Vee Ja...
Monday, February 05, 2007

New Wave Cabaret; Brian Allen CD

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Playing right now: Judy Henske - Little Bit of Sunshine...Little Bit of Rain Last night was the New Wave Cabaret; the first one in 5 years. ...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Hamilton, Joe Frank, Reynolds, Dewey, Cheatham & Howe

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Playing right now: Nothing, but I was playing Duke Ellington's Anatomy of a Murder soundtrack a little earlier. I've been away fro...
Monday, January 15, 2007

Losing two giants

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Playing right now: Nothing Woke up this morning and read that Alice Coltrane died on Friday. She was only 69 years old. She seemed like a re...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Tell me about Mabel Mercer

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Playing right now: Mabel Mercer - Midnight at Mabel Mercer's A few years ago, Mabel passed away and there was an article about her in th...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

addendum

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Playing right now: Duke Ellington - Money Jungle Followup to previous post: I was sitting on New Year's Eve, listening to a mix CD made ...
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Sunday, December 31, 2006

Last entry of the year

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Playing right now: Marty Krystall - Plays Herbie Nichols Looking back on 2006, we lost a lot of good music folks. Locally, WDUQ personalitie...
Friday, December 29, 2006

Catching up, with a look back....

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Playing right now: Charles Tolliver - With Love (It's a new album that Blue Note is releasing, but it's not out for a few more weeks...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

Sing a Kris Kringle Jingle

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Playing right now: Some anonymous Christmas Brass record that I had when I was a kid. This is a cassette I made of the album a few years ago...
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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Mysterious Mann song

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Playing right now: Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet - Here & Now While I was compiling the CDs last week for my parents' party, I wan...
Monday, November 27, 2006

And there ain't NOTHING I can do.....

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Playing right now: Paul Bley - Copenhagen and Haarlem I've always wanted to check out more stuff by Paul Bley, because he's always s...
Sunday, November 26, 2006

Music for a 50th Anniversary

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Playing right now: Art Ensemble of Chicago - Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City (Disc 2) Last night was my parents' 50th anniversary shin...
Sunday, November 19, 2006

The songs of my parents' courtin' days

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Next weekend there's going to a party for my parents' 50th wedding anniversary. I'm in charge of programming the music, so I bor...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Estate Sale Booty

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Playing right now: Vandermark 5 - A Discontinuous Line I bought this and the new Art Ensemble of Chicago album last week. I haven't gott...
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Sunday, November 12, 2006

The Yeh-Yeh Girl's second phase.

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Playing right now: Francoise Hardy - Loving I won this album in an auction several weeks ago and it finally arrived earlier this week. Franc...
Friday, November 03, 2006

Dispatch on the Fiery Furnaces

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Playing right now: Silence, which is good because I just had my ears blown out by the Fiery Furnaces. Luckily I found out before it was too ...
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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Flip a coin?

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These days, it takes a lot to get me out to see a show, unless it's at Gooski's, which is right around the corner from me. So today ...

music...........it makes me happy

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Playing right now: Odean Pope - Locked and Loaded Tenor saxophonist Odean Pope has shown up in my house twice recently, in the form of this ...
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Monday, October 30, 2006

Truth is Marching In

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Playing right now: Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost (disc 6) I often look at the beautiful Ayler box and think, "I need to listen to that more...
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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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