Monday, March 20, 2017

Lost Worlds

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Hello, friends, confidants, and total strangers--anyone, I guess, who's been wondering if I am alive, or dead, or merely asleep at the ...
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Saturday, October 29, 2016

True Bru

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Matching the disposition of his Swiss forebears, my father rocked out to a gentler beat. When he thought "Jazz," he heard in his m...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Who's Left?

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Springsteen has a new autobiography out, titled Born to Run (not to be confused with the 35-year-old bi -ography of Bruce of the same title...
Monday, September 26, 2016

All(b)Lose

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My header up there claims to include Politics occasionally. With the Presidential debates upon us, and the election mere weeks away, I guess...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Jack's Back

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The small package in my mailbox yesterday held a welcome surprise, a brand new volume from the Library of America-- The Unknown Kerouac: Rar...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Who's That Writin'?

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April is not the bluesest month, except maybe this year... Idly internetting recently, I found and bought what are sure to be the two best...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

In Dublin's Fair City

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My wife and I live in a two-separate-wings house with our two oldest granddaughters and their parents--i.e., the McEachern family. Madelyn...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Garnered

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It's not much of a stretch to designate pianist Erroll Garner the Rodney Dangerfield of Jazz. From the Forties to--what?--the early Seve...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Justified

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I'm hip deep in a new Jazz post but struggling to find the time and energy to finish it. In the mean-between, here's a plug for th...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Fairport, RT, and Me

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It's been a weird Summer in the Pacific Northwest. After a mild Winter and a similarly drier Spring, we experienced very hot weather in ...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Red Garland, Bill Evans: Miles Apart

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I sometimes ponder Miles Davis's place in the popular history of Jazz. Leaving his music aside for the moment, first he battled heroin, ...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

Encore for Ozzie Bailey

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When I wrote tentatively about little-known Jazz vocalist Ozzie Bailey (revisit it Here ), somehow I touched a nerve. Both the Bailey essay ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Kurt Weill and Gil Evans

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As a new email from the Kurt Weill Foundation reminds us, that 65-years-dead composer's music still has surprises in store and even prem...
Monday, April 6, 2015

10 Ways of Losing Track of a Rock 'n' Roll Song

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This is a book review of sorts. I don't know Latin any more than I know German. Caveat lector . 1. "It's only as important a...