Tuesday, September 25, 2007

What, no Paul Chambers?

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Playing right now: you mean in my head? I think it's Jimmy Giuffre.......one of those trio things. But not Free Fall . I bought that rec...
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Friday, September 07, 2007

They Only Come Out at Night - Here's why

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Playing right now: "Little Melonae" from the Miles Davis/John Coltrane box.... The following post was started almost a month ago, ...
Friday, August 17, 2007

"Joy Spring" not so joyful now.

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Playing right now: Anthony Braxton - For Alto Last night I had to drive to the CVS so when I got in the car I put the radio on. It was tun...
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Saturday, July 07, 2007

We lost another one, folks. I just talked to him.

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Playing right now: Miles Davis - Complete Plugged Nickel set As you might have guessed from previous entries, I get a little whistful or sen...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Stop me if you've read this one....

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I really like Lee Morgan. If you were to ask who was my favorite all time trumpet players in jazz, he'd probably rank either first or se...
Friday, June 01, 2007

How could I forget these?

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Of course, there were a few records that I got in the record hunt (see last entry) that I had neglected: Cecil Taylor - Indent Sam Rivers - ...

Dawn of the concept album

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There's an article in the Post-Gazette about today being the 40th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Ba...
Monday, May 28, 2007

The first big vinyl hunt of '07

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Playing right now: Miroslav Vitous - Universal Syncopations II (upcoming CD on ECM) This story happened about two months ago, but it was the...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

the weird 45 of the day that I loved in 1974

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Playing right now: WJAS-AM. "My Kind of Girl" which I think is by Steve Lawrence. When I visited my folks on Mother's Day, I g...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Where's Howard Devoto?

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Played a little bit earlier: Shelly Manne - Daktari Music inspired by, or from, the tv show of the same name - can't say which, because ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Andrew Hill RIP

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Playing right now: Ron Carter - Dear Miles, (Blue Note) The June issue of JazzTimes was in the mailbox this morning and I have about six re...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

There's such a lot of world to see....

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Playing right now: The Best of Mancini, specifically "Moon River" On Sunday afternoon, I played my son - who is five weeks old as ...
Saturday, May 05, 2007

writing writing writing

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Playing right now: Nothing, but the new Tanya Kalmanovitch/Myra Melford CD was going a little bit ago. And "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me...
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

I'm back....I mean, I'm still here

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Playing right now: in my mind, a song from Rahsaan Roland Kirk's Natural Black Inventions album. But nothing on the cd player or turntab...
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...