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Boy, the way Glenn Miller played. Films D.W. Griffith made. Whites could call a Spic a Spade. Those were the days. Can't afford no welfare state. Rich Lowry has to masturbate. Beat your kids and slap your mate. Those were the days. And you know who you were then. Jews were Kikes, blacks 3/5th of men. Mister, vote for me if you want Herbert Hoover again. You could drink and drive all day. Asians were...
by Michelle Lentz When Brian first asked me to write about Mufin, I was a bit surprised by the name. Who would name a music service after a baked good? Mufin, however, is a shortened version of Music Finder. See, it all makes sense now. At its heart, Mufin is not an internet radio station like Pandora, [...]
Blues guitarist James Wheeler was born in Albany, GA, on August 28, 1937. His earliest musical influences were the big bands of the time, especially Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, and his first idol, Louis Jordan. Following his older brother Golden, Wheeler moved to Chicago in 1956. Golden had started playing harmonica in the clubs, becoming friends with many blues musicians, including Little Walter....
New York tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci's first trip to Stockholm is documented on these hard-hitting Ayler releases in a double-disc set and an mp3 download. Between the two releases, most of the music recorded by this newly formed aggregate on Jul. 9th-10th, 2007 at the Glenn Miller Cafe is captured in vivid if slightly constricted sound...
September 10, 2008 signified the century mark for the birth of composer and inventor Raymond Scott, and just 20 years ago it would have been hard to find anyone who had even heard of him. This was despite the fact that he had spent eight years as a fixture on a Top 10 television program [...]
If you ever doubted that the Borders was the centre of the known world, then doubt no more. Because on Friday 26th September The Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of Ray McVay is at the Tait Hall in Kelso. Ray's an old friend and I can tell you that if you like big band music then this will be a fabulous night. It's a twenty piece band and they are terrific. They have no box office at the...
I had though of calling British bandleader Ray Noble the musical Forrest Gump because he seemed to have a way of being in on some significant moments in musical history, but it’s probably more accurate to call him the musical Kevin Bacon (as in ’six degrees of’). During his career Noble had connections with a [...]
While there’s been some grousing about the accuracy of iTunes 8’s new Genius feature, I’m getting a kick out of playing with it. Sure, it’s not always spot-on (though Apple says that will change over time as their database grows and the matching AI improves), but that lends a certain entertainment value to the playlists [...]
Amilcare Del Governatore, 89, of South Philadelphia, who as Al Governor was the band leader at the Hawaiian Cottage and the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill in the 1960s and '70s, died Thursday at Methodist Hospital.
Barron's: "It's Almost as if Obama Wants to Repeat the Mistakes of Herbert Hoover." They're not the first to notice--Orrin Judd sounded three (Bronx) cheers for Obama/Smoot '08! last month, and Amity Shlaes made the connection in March. Speaking of...
One of the intriguing things about the new podcasting platform is the new life given to some of the stalwarts of the Golden Age of radio broadcasting. This week's Podcast Friday is all about nostalgiacasting. Some of my favorites include: Big Band Serenade-From classics like Glenn Miller and the Andrews Sisters to long faded singers like Cleo Brown, this podcast is a treasure trove of swing and jazz...
Hafdis Huld Singer/songwriter, ukulelist, and actress Hafdis Huld is from Iceland. By the age of 15, she'd helped form indie-electronica band GusGus, which toured...
