Wednesday, May 19, 2010

What the thought of death brings out in me

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It's been a strange week. And it's only Wednesday. I was driving around yesterday when I heard on the radio that Hank Jones died. Al...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

CD review: Rempis/Rosaly - Cyrillic

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Rempis/Rosaly Cyrillic (482 Music) Horn and drum duo sets can explore any number of different formats: balls to the wall honking, screechin...
Thursday, May 06, 2010

Love Letters latest show

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Just got back a little bit ago from a Love Letters gig. We played at Rock 'n Bowl, which takes place at Arsenal Lanes in Lawrenceville. ...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Tonight in the jukebox

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Playing right now: Hafez Modirzadeh - Dandelion (bought it at his show last week.) Tonight's listening pleasure included: Liz Phair'...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

CD Review: Mike Reed's People, Places & Things: Stories and Negotiations

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Mike Reed's People, Places & Things Stories and Negotiations (482 Music) Even when some of those Chicago guys pay homage to past mas...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Part two

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There was an article in the Post-Gazette previewing the ElSaffar/Modirzadeh show, where ElSaffar mentioned that most of the suites that he a...
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Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh

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On Saturday night the Andy Warhol Museum presented a performance by trumpeter Amir ElSaffar and tenor saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh, two amaz...

Record Store Day, after the fact

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Playing right now: Dave Holland Octet - Pathways I missed Record Store again this year because I had to work on Saturday, per usual. At 6 p....
Sunday, April 11, 2010

Another crazy record from my past

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Last night there was a record fair, of sorts, at Belvedere's in Lawrenceville. It reminded me of the record fairs that I attended in the...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Dig - it's Harry Babasin!

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Sometimes I get the idea in my head that I need to find a certain record (it's usually a record; rarely a CD) for no other reason than I...
Monday, April 05, 2010

...and while we're speaking of the Verlaines

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In the time that I didn't blog over the last month, I've had more and more cravings for albums that I listened to 20-some years ago....
Sunday, April 04, 2010

On being a writer

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Playing right now: Satoko Fujii's Mado - Desert Ship I was emailing with a fellow music writer a few days ago. This is a guy who's b...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

CD review: Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord - Accomplish Jazz

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Jon Lundbom& Big Five Chord Accomplish Jazz (Hot Cup) "Truncheon" starts off Accomplish Jazz with an opening line th...
Saturday, March 06, 2010

Last Week - Part Four: Allison Miller & 2 Degrees of Separation

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I'm sitting here trying to figure out an opening line for a review of John Lundbom & Big Five Chord's Accomplish Jazz CD and it...
Friday, March 05, 2010

Last week - Part Three: ESP and vinyl problems

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Playing right now: Vijay Iyer - Historicity So after buying the two CDs mentioned in the last entry (one of which is playing right now), ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Last Week Part Two - Vijay Iyer & Magnetic Fields

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Playing right now: Milksop Holly - Milkweeds (Shimmy-Disc) (One of Kramer's final releases, and a mighty fine one. Trippy , sleepy and d...
Monday, March 01, 2010

Last week Part One - St. Vincent

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Playing right now: Nels Cline Singers - Initiate (Prepping for a review so no observations here.) Last week was the Week of Music for me. So...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

How Sesame Street shaped me, installment #46

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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...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Playing on the radio and a new old Monk album

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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?

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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...
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