Monday, March 17, 2008

Harp is gone. Read all about it.

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Playing right now: a Classical mix to help Baby D sleep I got an email on Friday that Harp - the magazine that straddled the line between i...
Sunday, March 09, 2008

You never know who you'll meet....

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Playing right now: a musicbox that plays "Swan Lake" in the nursery In the previous entry here, there was a posting from Joy, the ...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

We are Time....and the time I'm thinking of is 1984

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I've always sneered at the idea of listening to nothing but music from a certain bygone period of your life. I mean, that mindframe seem...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Peter Cetera wants to kill me

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I'm sitting at work, getting ready to start the day and I'm hearing Chicago for the THIRD time this morning. As I was moving around ...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

A good shoe to gaze at

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Of all the bands that either played music that paved the way for shoegazer, and of all the bands on 4AD not to achieve some level of iconic ...
Saturday, February 16, 2008

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Playing right now: Marshall Allen with Lou Grassi's PoBand - Bird Symphony This is a 32-minute free improv blow-out which, if I remember...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Be still my beating heart

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Playing right now: something on satellite radio (i'm at work but haven't clocked in yet) A couple weeks ago I found that John Vander...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

Print Jazz

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Playing right now: Stephen Gauci's Basso Continuo (I'm reviewing this for JazzTimes so I won't comment on it here. Read it in pr...
Thursday, January 03, 2008

The music of my life, chapter 53

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I woke up on New Year's Day with a strange craving for Englebert Humperdinck. I was slightly hungover and had either "After the Lov...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Holiday music of a different kind

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The wife and I got some time to go out tonight without the kid so we went to Gooski's. Might sound like a squandered night out to some p...
Saturday, December 22, 2007

Coffee and jazz

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Playing right now: Brook Benton - It's Just a Matter of Time [is that the correct title?] Every Friday at work, I sample a different cof...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

A reunion show? I'm there

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Playing right now: Nothing but the gentle lull of the space heater in the baby's nursery. The last couple shows I attended were both reu...
Saturday, December 08, 2007

Jazz in prime time

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Playing right now: Dionne Warwick - I Say a Little Prayer (on WJAS-FM) Last night on CSI , they played "Very Special," a song from...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Steady diet of Monk

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Playing right now: Nothing. Earlier I was listening to a new CD by a bassist named Alper Yilmaz. It's a little electric, with a lot of r...
Saturday, November 03, 2007

88 keys and I still had to break through the window

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Playing right now: Paul Bley - Mondsee Variations (ECM) I'm downloading it, and the player that I have does downloads in reverse, so I j...
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...