post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
First, we here at BlueNotes World Headquarters hope you all had a happy Turkey Day -- at least happier than the turkeys had it. I myself enjoyed a nice, tender steak. But at least, among many other things, we have the blues to be thankful for. And, of course, welcome to Black Friday. If you want to shop, buy someone a blues CD. The blues needs a stimulus, too. You can kick off the holiday season with...
Hellbound Alleee (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Thanksgiving noms with NPR. Playlist Thanksgiving Cooking Tips Alleee1 Dizzie Gillespie * Hey Pete! Let's Eat Some Meat Benny Goodman * Stealin' Apples Bing Crosby FDR Thanksgiving Eric "Two Scoops" Moore * Big Buffet Louis Armstrong * Struttin' with some Barbecue Liquor Turkey Guy Clark * Homegrown Tomatoes Berenstein * Candide Mincemeat Pie Guy Davis * Shortnin' Bread Prokofiev 5, 2nd Movement...
Music For Maniacs (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
- What-ho, Maniacs! The tuxedoes and evening gowns are back from the cleaners, the martinis are mixed, and our soirée is ready to begin. Why simply everyone will be here. I'm sure it will be the gayest event of the year! - Excuse me, sir... - What is it, Jeeves? - I'm afraid the orchestra won't be able to make it. Their motor-car ran into a tree. - Dash it all! Whatever will we do without music?!...
What the world does not need (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I'll be reading throughout the Thanksgiving break. Have to finish Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong and Devil's Dream . Reviewing both for Belles Lettres . So next year I'll be published in a porn magazine, Unzipped , and a literary magazine. Strange and kooky.
Knowledge Is Necessity (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
You really need to play this video. I think it is safe to say that what Louis Armstrong did for the trumpet, Earl Scruggs for the banjo, and Les Paul for the electric guitar, the brilliant young Hawaiian Jake Shimabukuro is doing for the ukulele. Thanks to my good friend Louise, I had the chance to hear Jake play to a sold-out auditorium in LA this weekend. Otherwise, I would still be living
Mae West (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
A motion picture comedy starring MAE WEST will be screened for free in Florida shortly. • • “ Every Day’s A Holiday ” [1937] will be shown at the Fort Pierce Library at 2:00 PM on Friday, 4 December 2009. • • Set in New York City during the 1890s, the movie's musical numbers include " Jubilee " (written by Stanley Adams and Hoagy Carmichael and sung...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Recording Academy on Tuesday added songs by James Brown, Bob Marley, the Beach Boys, Louis Armstrong and others to its Grammy Hall of Fame, bringing the total number of titles in the collection to 851.
rssblogstory.com Music (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Reuters - The Recording Academy on Tuesday added songs by James Brown, Bob Marley, the Beach Boys, Louis Armstrong and others to its Grammy Hall
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Books of The Times The Voice That Helped Remake Culture By Michiko Kakutani. in The New York Times. Published: November 23, 2009 Louis Armstrong, a k a Satchmo, a k a Pops, was to music what Picasso was to painting, what Joyce was to fiction: an innovator who changed the face of his art form, a fecund and endlessly inventive pioneer whose discovery of his own voice helped remake 20th-century culture....
Letters in Bottles (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Louis Armstrong International must be trying to prep me for a return to the cold. The air here in the terminal is freezing! I'm very excited to be heading home for Thanksgiving this year - the first time I've been able to swing it in my law school career. Although I'll be working for much of the week, it will be a welcome change of scenery. I'm very much in need of a break.
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
This is a little off our usual topics, I guess, but not by much. Great blues and jazz have lived under the same roof for decades, sharing a toothbrush and an attitude about expressing human emotion with music. I was reminded of the shared history of all that music when I read a New York Times article earlier today about a new biography of one of the most important musicians of the 20th century --...
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
If you haven't seen Michiko Kakutani's New York Times review of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, go here to...
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong got a rave from Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times: With "Pops," his...
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
My friend Laura Lippman sent me this snapshot of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong on display at a bookstore...
Today In the Sky (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Airport traffic jumped by about 9% at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International in October, continuing the airport's gradual post-Katrina recovery. The Associated Press says concert-goers, conventioneers and football fans were a big factor in the increase. AP writes "statistics released...
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