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.

Monday, September 28, 2015

CD Review: Mike Reed's People, Places & Things - A New Kind of Dance

Mike Reed's People Places & Things A New Kind of Dance (482) www.482music.com "...[A]ll the music I assembled for this r...

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Television in Pittsburgh

Yesterday afternoon, a co-worker asked me how the Love Letters' show went this past Wednesday at Arsenal Lanes. Really well, I recalled,...

Monday, September 21, 2015

CD Review: Wes Montgomery - In the Beginning

Wes Montgomery In the Beginning (Resonance) resonancerecords.org This one has been out for a while, but it's worth another go-aro...

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Last Night's Dr. Lonnie Smith Show, in which Donny meets Dr. Lonnie

I took Donovan with me last night to see Dr. Lonnie Smith. It felt like a risk because the kid is not really a jazz fan, at least not yet. A...

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Television and Dr. Lonnie Smith - Here in Pittsburgh

I have two articles in Pittsburgh City Paper this week: a feature on Television , who are coming to town next week, on September 25; and a s...

Monday, September 14, 2015

CD Review: Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - The Conny Plank Session

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra The Conny Plank Session (Gr önland) Worlds are colliding here. Conny Plank, the Germa...

Sunday, September 06, 2015

Prepping for Dr. Lonnie Smith, two weeks of catching up, estate sales

Right now I'm listening to/sort of watching a live performance of Dr. Lonnie Smith on youtube. I'm interviewing the good doctor in a...

Sunday, August 16, 2015

CD Review: Kris Davis Infrasound - Save Your Breath

Kris Davis Infrasound Save Your Breath (Clean Feed) www.cleanfeed-records.com The cover of Save Your Breath features an underwater di...

Friday, August 14, 2015

CD Review: Jon Lundbom's Big Five Chord - Jeremiah

Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord Jeremiah (Hot Cup) www.hotcuprecords.com Another in a continuing list of albums that have been sitting...

Sunday, August 09, 2015

Remember Going to Estate Sales? or Things Ain't Like They Used to Be

When I started this blog nine years ago (geez oh pete), I was heavily into getting up early and checking out estate sales for records. I got...

Saturday, August 01, 2015

My Band Sucks or Your Band Could Be My Band

"Punk ain't no religious cult/ punk means thinking for yourself." It was during the winter of 1992-1993. Maybe the early mon...

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

CD Review: Henry Threadgill Zooid - In for a Penny, In for a Pound

Henry Threadgill Zooid In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi Recordings) www.pirecordings.com In Ashley Kahn's book A Love Supreme: ...

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Choices

I'm torn between trying to write a CD review tonight and trying to finish reading Your Band Sucks by Jon Fine. I think I'm going to ...

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Reviews of Miles Davis, Dave Douglas & Eleventh Dream Day on Blurt

Today (by the time you read this) is supposed to be the official release date of the next installment of the Miles Davis Bootleg Series, thi...

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

CD Review: Atomic - Lucidity

Atomic Lucidity (Jazzland) www.jazzlandrec.com The Scandinavian quintet Atomic comes on like a forward-thinking chamber group, all tra...

Friday, July 17, 2015

The In-Between Post

I'm in the midst of writing a feature for JazzTimes and while I could very possibly come up with a full length post about something els...

Sunday, July 12, 2015

The Day After Deutschtown

Coming down off of the Deutschtown Music Festival, which happened all day yesterday in the Deutschtown neighborhood on the North Side. Befor...

Thursday, July 09, 2015

Mudhoney in Pittsburgh

I didn't expect Mudhoney to play all the songs that I knew and loved from 25 years ago, but they did. Well they didn't play ...

Monday, July 06, 2015

Thumbscrew was here. Did you know?

Last night Thumbscrew played a show to cap off their two-week residency in Pittsburgh. The group consists of Michael Formanek (bass), Tomas ...

Saturday, July 04, 2015

It's the Fourth of July

Playing right now: the new Exploding Star Orchestra album I've been asked to write about Rob Mazurek, the leader of ESO, so I'm dig...

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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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