Midnight Serenade: Leading the Glenn Miller Orchestra: 1949-50 Historical Recordings from the Big Band Era
jabblog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
This is Biddy, senior Jack Russell, taken about 20 years ago. Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away. I had only ever known this verse and didn't realise there was more to the poem. It goes on:- When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall I couldn't see him there at all!...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
'Songs That Won the War' is jammed with jollity tinged with a raw ache for peace. Rating:
UniqueDaily.com (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
“A disc jockey with a difference is taking the music world by storm – using two 1930s wind-up gramophones. Dave Guttridge, 48, is the UK’s only pre-vinyl disc jockey and uses two 70-year-old Picnic gramophones to pump out ‘old skool’ tunes – including old favorite The Teddy Bear’s Picnic – using Shellac 78 records. Known [...]
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Stand aside Judge Jules, move over Paul Oakenfold, there's a new kid on the decks.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Over the last few years, {{Terry Vosbein = 18886}}, a Professor of Music at Washington and Lee University and a classically-trained composer of symphonies, operas, and chamber music (not to mention a former bassist with the {{Glenn Miller = 9402}} Orchestra), has been exhaustively researching the unrecorded scores from the {{Stan Kenton = 8330}} Collection at the University of North Texas. Now, thanks...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Stan Rubin, a giant of the swing era big bands, will be honored for his contributions to music.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Victoria: The Beltone Pops series offers six energetic programs of popular and familiar music that will get you moving in your seat.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Stan Rubin, a giant of the swing era big bands, will be honored for his contributions to music.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Victoria: The Beltone Pops series offers six energetic programs of popular and familiar music that will get you moving in your seat.
Northwest Navigator (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Navy Region Northwest’s big band “Cascade” performed for more than 250 veterans, service members and their families at the Naval Undersea Museum Keyport’s Jack Murdock auditorium for a free fall concert, Oct. 18. “The Navy band is a very popular venue for the military and the public community,” said Lindy Dosher, assistant director of Puget Sound Naval Museum. “We...
Switched (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
With over 2,000 children reported missing every day , police authorities have had to develop new techniques to more effectively disseminate information about those who disappear. Among the most basic and traditional techniques, of course, is distributing a simple photo across everything from milk cartons to post offices. The terrain becomes trickier, though, when a child goes missing for several years,...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Normally known as the Ned Kelly’s Big Band, this approx. 14 piece band has been meeting here under the idiosyncratic direction of ex-Geordie Colin Aitchison for longer than even he would like to recall. But it’s as fresh and as much fun as it’s ever been, with an array of truly exceptional musicians from across the Hong Kong area, lined up in traditional Big Band format. Not only...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Ahmad Jamal - Quiet Time (Phantom ) Amanda Carr / Kenny Hadley Big Band - Common Thread (Orig. Music Service ) Ashling - Sweet Feelings (San Francisco Records/City Hal ) Bamboos - Step It Up (P-Vine Japan/Zoom ) Billy May - May Time (Montpellier ) Billy May / Rico Mambo Orchestra - Maytime ( ) Billy May / Rico Mambo Orchestra - May Time ( ) Billy Orchestra May - Maytime (Montpellier/City Hall ) Bobby...
Bad Attitudes (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
I was doing some casual reading about the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and ran across an article trying to prove that the author of that work was Jack the Ripper . In doing so, I found a quotation that applies particularly to the homo sapiens population of the Republican Party in today’s world (although we progressives are not immune either) such that I thought I'd share these...
What On Earth Is That Smell? (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
(Yes, I know. Weird.)This morning, as I was driving home from Bri's bus stop, listening to sweet little Paula Abdul's sprightly chirping of "Forever Your Girl," I, being an 80s teen, sang right along, feeling happy.Then the thought - "I wonder what Hattie thinks of this song" - came from completely out of nowhere. If, as Joseph Smith taught, our ancestors (like my great-great grandmother...
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