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, February 16, 2010

How Sesame Street shaped me, installment #46

Playing right now: Liverball - Bullet Burn (a CD comp of two EPs released in the early '90s by a band that features Buck Knauer, who pla...

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Playing on the radio and a new old Monk album

Playing right now: Thelonious Monk - Monk in Europe I never knew that this was an album that Riverside released while Monk was still under c...

Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Grammys? Who cares?

On Sundays, the Retro TV Network shows back-to-back episodes of Mike Hammer , a delightfully dated show with Darren McGavin in the title rol...

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

CD Review: Bobby Previte - Pan Atlantic

Bobby Previte Pan Atlantic (Rank Hypocrisy/Auand) I admitted last week that I couldn't come up with a complete Best of the '00s, bu...

Friday, January 22, 2010

A week of Rege Cordic; Hypnolovewheel

This week, I experienced two great mementos of my late uncle, Rege Cordic. Wednesday night, intent on heading to be early to make sure I was...

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

CD Review: Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown - Varmint

Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown Varmint (Cuneiform) Wasn't sure exactly when this came out, as it came in the mail sometime around early...

Friday, January 15, 2010

Looking back at the 00s, a limited glimpse

My dear friend and former bandmate Sharon "Mama" Spell was back in town this week, cleaning out her old house of stuff that has a...

Monday, January 11, 2010

CD Review: David Murray & the Gwo Ka Masters - The Devil Tried Kill Me

David Murray & the Gwo Ka Masters The Devil Tried to Kill Me (Justin Time) It's probably been about 15 years since I've...

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Richard is Stranger than Ruth?

Playing right now: Nothing, and I'd like to play the new Jason Adasiewicz album, but if I did, I wouldn't get this entry done. My di...

Saturday, January 02, 2010

CD Review: Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens

Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens Two Cities (Delmark) On one hand, the Fast Citizens operate under a crazy premise, but in terms of name exp...

Monk leads me astray, again

Woke up early today, intent on writing another review. Then I got sidetracked looking at the NPR site, in hopes of finding the Fresh Air int...

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

I've made the big time at last

This week The Village Voice published their poll of the best jazz albums of the year, and I was one of the writers asked to submit their lis...

CD review: Wadada Leo Smith - Spiritual Dimensions

Another installment of something I want to talk about before 2009 is over. Wadada Leo Smith Spiritual Dimensions Cuneiform This two-disc set...

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

CD catchup capsule: Rez Abbasi - Things to Come

(Another in a pile of albums that have been lying around that I've meant to write about over the past few months) Rez Abbasi Things to C...

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

CD review: Seabrook Power Plant & Jeremy Udden

There are some CDs that have been sitting around that I swore several months ago I would write about. Now that the end of the year is comin...

Sunday, December 13, 2009

The Love Letters' holiday highlights, overdue

At this point, it's been two weeks since Thanksgiving. Two days after the holiday, the Love Letters climbed onto the stage at Gooski...

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Where I was last Saturday

Playing right now: Nellie McKay - Normal As Blueberry Pie (A Tribute to Doris Day) It's kind of a strange introduction to Nellie McKay -...

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

I've been remiss....

Tonight I was standing at work thinking that a lot of musical events have happened in the past couple of weeks, and I've blogged about ...

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

My two sonny boys

This picture was taken a few weeks ago. Brisbane was never to sure about Donovan, but on this day he knew better.

A Real Gone Cat is Gone

This might not seem like a music entry, but it will be by the end. On Saturday night my cat Brisbane left his bowl of Fancy Feast almost ful...

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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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