One of the true joys of running a jazz website is finding out what other jazz journalists consider to be the best albums of the year. It’s fun to compare notes, thinking things like “you really liked that album?!?”. It…
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SONGS TO LAST A CENTURY…
Boy, you listen to the radio, or youtube, or spotify, or WHATEVER, and you just simply wonder, “who wrote this stuff?”. It sounds like musical MacDonald’s, fast food that you forget about in 10 minutes. Has it always been this…
SUMMERTIME!
So, here we are in the midst of summer. There are NO holidays to celebrate in August, and the only time to do any physical activity out doors is before 10 o’clock or after 7, when the sun is thinking…
CELEBRATE OUR FATHERS
Let’s face it, if it weren’t for fathers, most of us wouldn’t be around. We’ve all had them, some of us are them, and some of us fathers have been called a “Mother.” Having said all that, the sign of…
LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER!!!
Sunday, May 8 is Mother’s Day. I’m willing to bet that most of you reading this had a mother at one time. If she has passed away, my prayer is that you have wonderful memories of her. If she’s still…
JAZZ FROM THE TRIBE THAT SHOULDN’T BE “PASSED OVER”
We’ve previously had an article about the roots of jazz coming from the Christian Church, but this time we’re going to get into the “root of the root,” namely Judaism. Not only did these chosen people give the world Montheism, the…
A SMOOTH RIDE!
Yeah, yeah! I’ve heard it all before from all you jazz snobs. “Smooth jazz isn’t real jazz”. Why does every art form have to be so elitist, and look down on others that are deemed (by who?) as “inferior”. Remember…
IT’S TOP TEN TIME!
As Dickens so wisely wrote, “It was the best of times, It was the worst of times” For concert performances,.2021 was definitely one of the worst years ever. Most clubs were either closed down for most of the year, or…
BASS INSTINCT
One of the first things I learned about jazz came from Jerryl Coker’s classic book Listening To Jazz. In it he recommends that you take multiple listenings to any song you want to learn about. First for the melody, and…
HOT FUN IN “SUMMER-TIME”
Yes, there are a plethora of songs about summer, from Nat “King” Cole’s “Hazy Lazy Crazy Days of Summer” to Mungo Jerry’s “In the Summertime” to Sly and the Family Stones “Hot Fun in the Summertime” and concluding with Eddie…