Spread the Good Word! (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Had a good Halloween ? Mine was perfect ! It’s always good to hear the neighbours the next morning saying ‘Did you hear the chainsaw and the screams at 4 am ?’… Anyway, back to action, let's shake some dust ! Yeah, Mickey Baker and Sylvia Vanderpool !!! This popular duo began recording together in 1956 and enjoyed an US R&B chart-topper that year with ‘Love Is Strange’,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
When Franklin Cohen, the principal clarinetist of the Cleveland Orchestra, was to be featured playing Mr. Shaw's Concerto for Clarinet, he listened to Mr. Shaw's recording of the work and said he found his playing unbelievable. "Shaw is the greatest player I ever heard," he said. "It's hard to play the way he plays. He makes so many incredible shadings...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
From America's heartland, Glenn Patrik sings and plays the kind of blues that made Kansas City a hub where musical pioneers met and exchanged ideas about swing, rhythm, blues, and being spontaneous. It was shortly before World War II and just about the same time that bebop was getting noticed in New York, when Kansas City began its parlay with the blues. Give {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} credit for much...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 20/04/2009
Douglas Henry Daniels, One O’clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006, 274 pp.) Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix, Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop—A History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005,...
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 22/02/2009
Just a quick question. If I asked you who comes to mind when you hear the nickname ‘Hot Lips’, wouldn’t you think of Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan, the character in M*A*S*H? To be honest I’d probably think of her too, but there was a real ‘Hot Lips’ who not only wasn’t a sexy, kooky blond, [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 16/02/2009
Jack Walrath not only displays tremendous trumpet playing, a rich and varied approach to composition and wonderful band, he also puts something into this fantastic CD that's missing from too much new jazz: a sense of fun and humor. That's not to say that it isn't sensitive and touching at times--"An Hour Blessed" is arguably as gorgeous as anything ever recorded...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page Todd Bryant Weeks Hardcover; 320 pages ISBN: 0415990777 Routledge 2008 Almost any book on trumpeter Hot Lips Page (1908-1954) would, of course, be welcome in the library of jazz scholarship, but beyond filling that role excellently, Todd Bryant Weeks has authored a compelling narrative about one of America's hard-working, unjustly overlooked...
Honey, Where You Been So Long? (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
I’m happy to present So Young, So Cold, So Fair: The Saint James Infirmary Blues, a collection of songs of loss and love regarding The St. James Infirmary. Honey was established over four (!) years ago around the idea that it was too hard actually listen to pre-war blues without buying out of print or [...]
Honey, Where You Been So Long? (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
I hadn't heard of Mosaic Select until the other I heard a story on Fresh Air about a new Boogie-Woogie Box set released released by them. Mosaic appears to be somewhat like an American grown Bear Family records specializing in box sets of jazz artists - especially of well known jazz artists little known recording [...]
Mondo Diablo (Free subscription) | 20/04/2008
Starring: Pastor Deacon Fred Bible Stories-the story of creation Fred Phelps Rev “Budd” Spriggs from “What the Bible Says about Flying Saucers” Little Marky Charles Manson Billy Bob Neck Marcy Tigner The Motels Ken Wallace Pierre Raymonde CNN You Tube For Heaven’s Sake! I Religios Exstas The View Yan Tregger Alan Parker & Mike Moran Steve Taylor Hot Lips Page The Phelps...
Honey, Where You Been So Long? (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
Okay here is the list as of 3/29. the years are marked where noted - i need help with dates (It’s hard on some discs to determine when the actual recording took place, those i’ve marked with the release date of the disc and a ?) and of course more songs. Big thanks to everyone [...]
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 16/12/2007
Sylvia “Pillow Talk” (London Records) “Pillow Talk” held the number one R&B spot for two weeks and made it to number three pop on Billboard's charts in 1973. “You can't find love on a one-way street…” Check out the sexy lyrics here! And check out her performance on Soul Train!! Here’s [...]
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
If you had been a young man living in Oklahoma City in the nineteen-thirties – not a place and time often recalled with fondness -- this is what you remember: “In those days I lived near the Rock Island roundhouse, where, with a steady clanging of bells and a great groaning of wheels along the rails, switch engines made up trains of freight unceasingly. Yet often in the late-spring night...
RightWingBob.com (Free subscription) | 29/09/2007
This week’s edition of “Theme Time Radio Hour with your host, Bob Dylan,” on XM Satellite Radio, was centered around the themes of youth and age. My own thumbnail of the show: ( Bob begins by reading the entire “All the world's a stage” speech from William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” all the way [...]
Visions of Dylan (Free subscription) | 28/09/2007
Smells Like Teen Spirit-The Bad Plus Young Man's Blues-Mose Allison Small Fry-Hot Lips Page Like Young-Linda Lawson I Dont Want To Grow Up-The Ramones Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)-Guy Lombardo Enjoy Yourself-Prince Buster Separation Line-Laura Lee Older Guys-Flying Burrito Brothers Young Fashioned Ways-Muddy Waters We Live A Long Long Time To Get Old-Jimmy Murphy Old And Only In The Way-Charlie...
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