Honey, Where You Been So Long? (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
If you remember the brief lived blog “Workbook” that was linked from this blog (back when I still had links) or if you were the guy who wrote that blog, please contact me, regarding one of the mixes you posted a few years ago. I started this mix a few years ago, and just got around [...]
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
Your birthday today: You are light-hearted, exuberant and fond of gaiety. You like people around you ; like to please them and are enthusiastic over new friends. Sometimes passionate and excitable, you are friendly irresistible and lovable. No old friends or new friends have had their names written into the book so perhaps you might find a little gaiety among these other birthday notables: Prince Koreyasu...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
May 25: Jimmy Hamilton (1917-1994), Marshall Allen (1924), Gary Foster (1936), Christof Lauer (1953), Wallace Roney (1960)...
Havering On (Free subscription) | 21/03/2008
In the early 1920s most of the major record companies recorded the women Blues singers in New York, during the periods that artists lincluding Bessie Smith, Ma Rainy, Ethel Waters and Ida Cox worked the city's theatres. It was OKeh, an independent label started in 1918, that released Mamie Smith’s Crazy Blues (OKeh 4169) in November 1920; rather than one of the big two labels, Columbia and Victor....
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 15/03/2008
Coleman Hawkins was the first important tenor saxophonist and he remains one of the greatest of all time. A consistently modern improviser whose knowledge of chords and harmonies was encyclopedic, Hawkins had a 40-year prime (1925-1965) during which he could hold his own with any competitor. Coleman Hawkins started piano lessons when he was five, switched to cello at age seven, and two years later...
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 16/11/2007
It's the birthday of Maggie Gyllenhaal (30), Lisa Bonet (40), and Diana Krall (43). Burgess Meredith, like Oklahoma and Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, was born 100 years ago today. Meredith was twice nominated for the best supporting actor Oscar — at the age of 68 and 69 — The Day of the Locust and [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/09/2007
Paul Slade on the most sexually explicit lyrics in the history of popular music.
