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I\'ll See You in My Dreams
For Howard Alden's birthday, one of my favorites...Now I'm in the mood to go home and watch Sweet and Lowdown.This is from a jam at the Ear Inn with Jon-Erik Kellso, which looks to also have included Chuck Redd (from my neck of the woods)....
Odds and ends
The AP catches up with Brian Setzer to talk about his new album, "Songs From Lonely Avenue." It comes out on the 13th. Listen to clips here.Simon Jay Harper has a series of articles appearing on allaboutjazz.com worth checking out:The Story of Jazz T...
Two topics for the price of one: Lawrence Lucie/Why lead a big band?
Despite the relative youth of jazz as a genre, the tendency is to look at anything prior to the swing era as so old as to be beyond the touch of our generation.But the fact is, that is simply not true. Take the case of Lawrence Lucie, a guitarist who...
Farewell, Les Paul
Stanley Jordan's birthday
A little something from Stanley Jordan......
Gardot thrills
The problem with the majority of modern jazz singers, in my opinion, is there is a basic lack of soul. Sure, all the notes are in the right places, but whether it be a tired rehashing of some old musical warhorse for the masses, an over-polished deli...
Fate
Huey Long, who, among other stops, played guitar for the Ink Spots, died at the age of 105. Chance lifted a shoe shine boy on an 80-year odyssey, making music with the greats.. Read about his amazing life here....
Gatemouth
Jazz? Jump Blues? Texas Swing? Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown defied categorization. How 'bout one hell of a guitar player? Others may get credit for the idea of having a guitar lead a big band, but Gatemouth had been doing it like nobody's business for ...
The case on Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery:Great jazz guitarist?Sellout?Google wes montgomery+sellout and you'll get a glimpse of this long standing argument, which begs the question... Do we have the right to blast someone for trying to make a buck? Maybe not if the artist is ...
Marty Grosz, entertainer
Happy Birthday to one of the great traditional jazz guitarists, Marty Grosz.Here he is with his Hot Puppies in 2005 doing one of my favorites, China Boy. Another fav, Randy Reinhart on cornet.He is also a first rate story teller and singer, who knows...
Happy birthday Jim Hall
Celebrate by reading a great interview with guitarist Jim Hall at jazz.com....
