Wednesday, April 27, 2011

CD Review - Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble - The Prairie Prophet

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Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble The Prairie Prophet (Delmark) http://www.delmark.com/ One of the best things about musicians assoc...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

CD Review: Kermit Driscoll - Reveille

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Kermit Driscoll Reveille (19/8) http://www.nineteeneight.com/ A few months ago I got a copy of Miles Davis' Live at the Fillmore East (M...

Remembering Billy Bang

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As I was getting ready to leave the house on Saturday to go to Paul's CDs (see previous post), my friend Toby texted me, telling me that...

What's up with that?

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Everyday, the review of the Bizingas CD that I posted in January gets a spam comment that's written in some language made up of symbols ...

National Record Store Day - A Recap

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I worked all weekend, and yesterday and today are my days to watch the kid alone. (He's on Spring Break this week.) So only now am I fin...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Watt Makes a Man Start Fires

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It’s been a week since City Paper ran my “5 Questions with Mike Watt” piece but when it did, I still thought there was a lot of good commen...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Weekend of Rock

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Just wrapped up a weekend in rock, with three very different definitions therein. Friday night, the Harlan Twins played at the Thunderbird C...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Charlie Parker Never Gets Old

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Last week I lucked into a used copy of the Charlie Parker 8-disc set that combines everything he recorded for Savoy and Dial, along with a f...
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Saturday, April 02, 2011

Formatting is Everything

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Jiminy crap, I've just spent the last 30 minutes re-formatting the last two CD reviews. I can't tell if I learned something or if I...
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CD Review - Endangered Blood

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Endangered Blood (Skirl) Little did this writer know that Skirl, the label whose CDs come in an oversized, 5"X8" soft-cover sleev...
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

CD Review: Weasel Walter/Mary Halvorson/Peter Evans - Electric Fruit

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Weasel Walter/ Mary Halvorson/ Peter Evans Electric Fruit (Thirsty Ear) www.thirstyear.com Talk about a meeting of the minds. Drummer...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Responsibility

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Playing right now: The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls In America (Not sure how I feel about this one. I keep imagining a sea of baseball caps....
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

More talk about bands and lives

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Since I wrote about Trotsky Icepick last week, a few things happened. I played Carpetbomb the Riff , which sounded three times as vicious as...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Trotsky Icepick Remembered or Our Life Could Be Your Band

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Playing right now: Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble - The Prairie Prophet (Delmark) (Love his this album has gone from consonant, n...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Work?

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The music editor of Pittsburgh City Paper wrapped up his tenure with the paper this week and it just so happens that a day or two earlier, I...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Tarana's set in Pittsburgh - or leave the house and hear music

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Saturday night around 9:45, I had finally put my son to bed and was ready to make a pot of coffee. (Having joe at that time isn't unusua...
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Friday, March 04, 2011

Where I'm at now

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Playing right now: Von Freeman - Doin' It Right Now (Atlantic) (Von is a real badass tenor player, who's still kicking out some soli...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Early Morning, as it rains

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My review of the Jake Fryer/Bud Shank CD is up on the JazzTimes website right now. Check it out here. I figured it might get a few more hit...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

I rocked then I got rocked

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Playing right now: Eric Dolphy - Last Date (Fontana) For some reason I thought Nathan Davis played on this session, but I think there was so...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

You're hearing George Shearing... no more

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I forget what night I saw it over the last weekend, but we were watching the news or the Grammys and they streamed info at the bottom of the...
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