Sunday, November 28, 2010

Ozzie Strays

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Now, a few words about a Jazz singer who has piqued my curiosity... Ozzie Bailey, later Fifties vocalist with Duke Ellington. The words wil...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

To the Moon, Alice!

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Everyone's gone to the moon... Moon, June, croon, tune... the putative foundation of all Tin Pan Alley lyrics--rhyming words mocked and...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Perk 'n' Richie: Part 2

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Once a band man always a band man. Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca played next to each other in a mid-Fifties Herman Herd as two among the la...
Saturday, November 6, 2010

All's Fair

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In the summer of 1962 I returned to Seattle after two years of college at Northwestern University (outside Chicago), and I came back just in...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Haunted

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Goblins and specters and scares, oh my! Since Hallowe'en is a time for ghost stories, here's mine: In July of 1966 I was cramming ha...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Bulletins from Bob and Olivia

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An interesting day... At the post office box, I found my eagerly awaited copy of Bob Dylan's latest official Bootleg Series release, Vo...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

Perkins and Kamuca: Two of a Kind

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Considering the popular acclaim accorded Stan Kenton's various orchestras during the Forties and Fifties, critics and Jazz historians si...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Jazz According to Hegel?

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The philosopher Hegel is still frequently credited with the theory described as "Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis"; but his version was...