I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this. Fingerbanger 1 : The Little Dippers - Forever (don lowed) -- Fingerbanger 2 : Jimmy Cliff - Struggling Man (don lowed) -- Fingerbanger 3 : The Monochrome Set - Inside Your Heart (don lowed) -- Fingerbanger 4 : The Hombres - Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) (don lowed) [...]
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ALTO 1 Kaoru Abe Solo 1972 PSF : 1994 KA, alto sax. Dear C, No doubt you've heard how blisteringly hot it is here. The asphalt bubbles up from the streets and sticks to your soles. Our air conditioner blew a fuse, so we sweat it out in the apartment with fans aimed at our foreheads. There's noise in the city, but lately it isn't loud enough. [...]
Let's get back to the misery, shall we? To continue with my theme following Forbes 20 most miserable cities in the US, we are up to #14. 14. Rockford, Illinois Finding a postcard of Rockford ain't easy. I used to pass through Rockford when driving from St. Louis, MO, to Madison, WI. I didn't even stop there to pee. Population of around 150,000, with a metro area of roughly 300,000. 16.9% Unemployment. Lots of closed and outdated [...]
Number 9, number 9, number 9... It´s Wild Weekend time again. Musical revolution. As an alternative to all them discjockey types polluting the airwaves out there, we´ve got the iPod on shuffle. Once more it spins an eclectic six pack of tunes for the music-hungry masses, so tune in. This just might be on your wavelength. Have been playing a lot of Kristofferson lately. So it´s only fitting that the ghost in the machine picked one of his classic songs to start off this edition. To Beat The Devil [...]
Time for another version of Wild Weekend , where the shuffle function of my iPod decides the contents of a sixpack of songs. What did the ghost in the music machine line up for you this time? You´re about to find out. Let´s get warmed up with the legendary Motor City Five, and a track from their killer second album Back In The USA . "Felt like screaming out loud..." Sharp soloing by brother Wayne Kramer here. Next up is something completely different, as it should be: allegedly the most [...]
Although King Of The Tenors was the title given to Ben Webster's classic 1953 album, making that type of pronouncement probably provoked an argument, as it would now. But even though Webster was certainly one of the best of the early jazz saxophonists, the title of the album was probably not his idea anyway. In fact, he was usually known as "The Brute" - but more later about that. Webster was a native of Kansas City, a city with a rich legacy in jazz, and it was there that he began to play professionally around 1930. [...]
Jimmy Rushing, Count Basie, Ben Webster "I Left My Baby" Tweet this video ___ Share on Facebook ___ Bookmark on delicious Extrait de "The Sound of Jazz", diffusé le 8 Décembre 1957 sur CBS, voici Jimmy Rushing, Ben Webster (sax), COunt Basie (piano) et le grand orchestre de ce dernier, dans une émission à laquelle participa ce qu'on pourrait qualifier de "dream-team" du jazz des années 1930, la [...]
by Chris O' Leary . It's the first and only record I ever heard of that all the squares dig as well as the jazz people, and I don't understand how and why, because I was making notes all the way. I wasn't making a melody for the squares. -Coleman Hawkins "Body and Soul," jazz standard of standards, turns eighty years old in 2010. It is jazz's benchmark, warhorse, rite of passage, litmus test: I can't think of a single major jazz musician, post-1930, who hasn't taken it on, from Roy [...]
...come back to me. Featuring three very different versions of this wonderful standard, written back in ´28 by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II for a Broadway show called The New Moon . Lady Day sings it like only she can: ´Every road I walk along I walk along with you...´ Big Ben shows he didn´t get called King of the Tenors for nothing, while Trane drops the comma in the title and takes it all to soaring heights. ´And while I´m waiting [...]
Remember that one from Music Man (one of my favorite Broadway shows)? My wife is the theater director at the local high school; she's considering doing Music Man next fall so she can cast our 8-year old, Skyler, as Winthrip. (Eat his dust, Ronnie Howard.) They're doing Pippin in a few weeks in which Sky is playing Theo. He's gonna rock and I will be a proud papa. Did I mention that we had band practice out in the Buddha Barn again this past Monday? Have I mentioned that we still suck? [...]
Feel like playing some jazz today, so here goes. Ben Webster has long been one of my favorite tenors. He was every inch as good as his slightly better known contemporaries Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins, the latter also being his main influence. Webster could honk with the best of them, but it´s his ballad playing that really set him apart. His rich, warm and tender tone really shines when the tempo is slow, the room is smoky and the hour gets late. Ben Webster (born 1909 in Kansas City) started out professionally in movie theatres, playing the piano to [...]
1960 Ben Webster, Renaissance Blues. John Coltrane, Like Sonny. Eric Dolphy, Les. Ornette Coleman, The Tribes of New York. Ornette Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. People. Four saxophonists in the year of Kennedy and Greensboro, in the autumn of jazz's official golden age: older men, young men, established men, ruthless men. The master Ben Webster, 51 years old, rumbles through "Renaissance Blues."
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