Monday, June 15, 2015
Song of the Day - End of the Line
Friend Herman sent me this link this morning. And it just happened that, a few days earlier, I had cranked up a full Traveling Wilburys playlist from my music server to give my wife a listen while we shared cooking in the kitchen.
Friday, June 12, 2015
Ornette Coleman, March 1930 - June 2015, R.I.P.
The instigator of "free jazz". (Not that the tickets were free, referring to a story that Coleman tells of some early, mistaken fans, in an interview with Terry Gross (will link it if I can find it).
My strongest and earliest memories of this controversial but influential genius, surely, are of his "The Shape of Jazz to Come" album, his 1959 debut. Here's a great piece from that album, featuring some of his legend-to-be band members, like Don Cherry and Charlie Haden:
My strongest and earliest memories of this controversial but influential genius, surely, are of his "The Shape of Jazz to Come" album, his 1959 debut. Here's a great piece from that album, featuring some of his legend-to-be band members, like Don Cherry and Charlie Haden:
Monday, June 8, 2015
Kate Tempest: Everybody Down
Kate Tempest (remember her?) is the subject of new NPR Music feature piece this week:
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Friday, May 29, 2015
Friday, May 15, 2015
The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King, R.I.P.
B.B. King, September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015
See the official website: http://www.bbking.com/
Read more here, as one of zillions of tributes and news stories.
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