Saturday, January 30, 2010

Three to Get. Ready?

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From the ridiculous (see previous post) to the sublime... Almost every fan of pop music (or jazz, or blues, or whatever genre) has his or he...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

Judicial Activism of "Our" Supreme Court

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I want to address in my own small way the goddamned stupid Court decision codifying corporations as equal to persons, and thus interfering w...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

King's Gon' to Trouble the Water

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I've been thinking lately about Martin Luther King, Jr., great leader and imperfect man--gone for decades but still a central inspiratio...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

What's in That Satchel?

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You has Jazz. That's the difference. Not the VistaVision color footage and Cole Porter sophistication of High Society versus the black...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Robbie and Ella, Guy and... Diz?

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Odd to think that one of the most popular New Year's Eve song renditions should be the version of "Auld Lang Syne" by band lea...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Merry Christmas, Baby

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It's Christmas week. I used to write that word stubbornly as "Christ Mass" just to make sure everyone registered the day of gr...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

JR and Flanagan... A Real Pleasure

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Tenorman JR Monterose always gave credit to pianists, starting with early Bud Powell, for the advanced harmonic sense he acquired... gradual...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Re Printing the Wyeth Family (II)

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Next week's piece will look at jazz greats JR Monterose and Tommy Flanagan, but first I decided to revisit the Wyeth family (see most re...