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Frank Sinatra: New York

Frank Sinatra Sinatra: New York Reprise 2009 The true icons of American music, and there are only a few, include {{Louis Armstrong = 3483}}, {{Bob Dylan = 16590}} and Frank Sinatra. Their art changed the way we listen to music, and probably more important, their personal style made a deep impression on American culture. Of Armstrong, Dylan and Sinatra, it is without a doubt Sinatra, "Ol' Blue...

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Not unlike dancing about architecture

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. Frank Zappa (quoted in the Chicago Tribune, Jan. 18, 1978) I'd extend that to nearly all writing about music of any kind-it's nearly always abysmal. For instance-a day or two ago I read a review of Norah Jones' most recent CD in a Philadelphia free "newspaper", in which the new CD is favorably...

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Reading list

A few of the books that are teetering precariously on the bedside nightstand: Terry Teachout, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (Houghton Miflin Harcourt) Robin D.G. Kelley, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press) Alan Walker, Hans von Bülow: A Life and Times (Oxford) Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of [...]

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'Comber fetes 50 years of live performances

Quick: Name the Boston-area club whose stage has been graced by Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Loretta Lynn, Tiny Tim, the Dropkick Murphys and art thief/rock singer Myles...

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Off to SBL

And I'm looking forward to getting up to no good. I will land at Louis Armstrong International, New Orleans, 15:52 tomorrow. If anyone is around at that time and wants to catch a Taxi to Sheraton Hotel, perhaps we could go together. To recognise me: I'll be the chap standing on chairs preaching in public, telling people to turn from the wickedness of Jazz to the righteousness of tamborines and popular...

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Conversation: Robert Kimball, Author of 'Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer'

On Wednesday, prolific songwriter and singer Johnny Mercer would have turned 100. In his lifetime, he worked with more than 200 collaborators and churned out lyrics for more than 1,500 songs for both Broadway and the silver screen, which were made famous by stars like Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Louis Armstrong.

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Jazz Artists Mural

Louis Armstrong and his Heavenly All-Star Band greet visitors arriving at the New Orleans Airport.

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TT: Such language, son!

As I mentioned a couple of months ago, I read two excerpts from Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong for...

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Sheer Genius: Sweet Child O Mine Performed Mano-a-Mano

Gerry Phillips is to hand farts what Louis Armstrong is to trumpets. What is amazing is that Guns and Roses did a version of Phillips’ masterpiece:

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The Downbeat 75th Anniversary Anthology

Downbeat: The Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary Anthology. Edited and Compiled By Frank Alkyer. In July of 1934 the first issue of DownBeat magazine hit newsstands in Chicago. For the next seven-plus decades and counting the publication has been synonymous with jazz. DownBeat has chronicled every facet of jazz; every trend; every new and emerging sound. They have charted the birth and rise...

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Magna Carta

Magna Carta is the new Aperitivo radio show , this week we will investigate the reasons to travel our all world, and beyond. With the help of a morrocan cover version of Nino Ferrer's Mirza, the post punk Flying lizards, the graceful Minnie Riperton, Louis Armstrong singing Pharoah Sanders (true, no mash up), Iranian soul sitar and a lot more groovy and unexpected delights. Kiss caress and more until...

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Interview: Harry Connick Jr, Singer, pianist and actor

Who would attend your fantasy dinner party? I'd invite Louis Armstrong, Jesus and my mom. I'd eat whatever they were serving.

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Illegal Sunday Overdub – Summerlove

Overdub – Summerlove [mp3] Avia – Love & Rise Ella Fitzgerald – Summertime (cover) + Louis Armstrong – Summertime (trompet) instant summer anywhere, anytime

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When It's Sleepy Time Down South

Louis Armstrong undoubtedly would not be politically correct were he still alive. But he was a great trumpet player and jazz performer and his signature song, which he recorded dozens of times, lately keeps running through my mind:"Pale moon shining...

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The Glow A Great Sound Makes

How do you know someone's just caught the jazz bug? According to Village Voice critic and "Jazz" author Gary Giddins, when Ken Burns started loving Louis Armstrong as a fan and not just a filmmaker, he got a "glow on his face" that "you can't fake." In an conversation that shared the passionate, improvisational spirit of the music he loves, Giddins's interview with Big...