Recordings by the Beach Boys, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, James Brown and the Doors are among the songs that have been named as the 2010 inductees to the Grammy Hall of Fame, reports rollingstone.com. Twenty-five recordings from various genres will be added to the Hall, which currently includes 851 songs altogether. Songs are eligible 25 years after [...]
Photo: Wyman/WireImage.com; Walter/WireImage.com Recordings by the Beach Boys, Bob Marley, the Doors, James Brown and Janis Joplin have been named as 2010 inductees to the Grammy Hall of Fame. Twenty-five recordings from a variety of genres will be added to the Grammy Hall, which currently includes 851 titles altogether (songs are eligible 25 years after release [...]
Power and Style, in the Ring and the World By Dwight Garner, The New York Times Published: November 24, 2009 SWEET THUNDER The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson By Wil Haygood Illustrated. 461 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. US$27.95. In the late 1930s, when he was still an amateur fighter, Sugar Ray Robinson began lugging an old Victrola record player around with him on the road. He’d bring a stack...
Music News: Satchmo tunes jazz up 2010 roster -- The Recording Academy announced 25 additions to its Grammy Hall of Fame on Tuesday, adding to a roster of timeless tunes that now includes 851 titles.
Patrick Jarenwattananon at A Blog Supreme has thrown down the gauntlet once again, this time asking which jazz albums should be included in a list of the decade's finest. Jazz has always been a great musical sponge, from Jelly Roll Morton's idea of the "Spanish tinge" to today's multi-culti improvisational stew. But the jazz that meets different music on it's own terms and maintains it's...
NEXT STOP CHICAGO--TWO BIG ROCKPILE EVENTS!! ROCKPILE Symposium--Music and Poetry: The Art of Poetry Collaboration. Tuesday, November 17th 5pm to 8pm Columbia College Chicago, Ferguson Hall 600 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605 +1 312-663-1600 About: Since Kenneth Rexroth and Langston Hughes first collaborated with jazz musicians (but then Jelly Roll Morton claimed to have collaborated with...
Check out a rather awesome clip featuring John Royen playing Jelly Roll Morton's Kansas City Stomp at the Mardi Gras Jazz Club, Daventry, Northants, UK. October 2008
Aimee Mann Andrew Bird Ani DiFranco Art Tatum Avett Brothers The Beatles Bettye Lavette Big Joe Turner Big Star Bill Evans Bill Hicks Bill Monroe Bill Withers Billy Bragg Biz Markie Bo Diddley Bob Dylan Bobby Timmons Booker T Jones, with or without MG's British Sea Power Bruce Springsteen Buck Owens Bud Powell The Carter Family Charles Mingus Charlie Parker Chet Atkins Chet Baker Chic Coleman Hawkins...
(I think BLimpy's posted this video on the 'Spill before, so I'll try to think of something else, but it is very vimmy) Elmore James - Rollin and Tumblin Isley Brothers - Shout Herb Alpert - Taste of Honey Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers - Hyena Stomp Lee Perry - Soul Fire Carlos Malcolm - Bonanza Ska Dick Dale - Miserlou Twist Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the...
Not what one might expect, but Jelly Roll and his Chicago ensemble cranked out some fine, old tyme dance tunes. Some are more sultry than others…you know… BLOGLOAD: Birth of the Hot (The Classic Chicago Red Hot Peppers Sessions)
A direct quote from a certain application on Facebook: "iLike will alert you by email when Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, or another artist you like announces a concert near you."
In his blog I Witness, Ed Leimbacher muses about the pervasiveness of Thelonious Monk as a model for or influence on other pianists. In an essay packed with album citations, he acknowledges 18 pianists from Jelly Roll Morton to Keith...
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All About Jazz is celebrating Jelly Roll Morton's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jelly Roll MortonThe city of New Orleans has the distinction of being the a€~birthplace of jazza€(TM) so its appropriate that in New Orleans in or around 1885 to 1890 would be born the self-proclaimed a€oeinventor of jazza€ ... more...
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