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• THE 20.10: Bird Bands (A 20 Watts Thanksgiving Special)

  
  20 Watts — Authority: 143
  Phoenix Thanksgiving. For years it’s brought people together to feast on turkey. In honor of this joyous American holiday, 20 Watts has decided to elucidate you, fine reader, on the many bands named after a variety of fowl. We bring you our very special Thanksgiving 20, based on artists named after a variety of ...
  2 days ago

• Miles Davis In Paris

  
  SoulSummer.com- Catch the latest entertainment news, pictures, and videos of your favorite Soul artist and celebrities — Authority: 145
  By Miles Marshall Lewis The So What Band ambles on stage with a cool saunter worthy of Reservoir Dogs gangsters, dressed in downscale suits less Brooks Brothers than JC Penney. But as welcoming applause rises and falls from the crowd, the sextet kick into “So What” and make it clear that they didn’t come ...
  5 days ago

• *Jazz 101- A Booklet/CD Review

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 148
  Click on title to link to a "The Boston Sunday Globe" book review of the new jazz primer, "Jazz" by Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux. Markin comment: My interest in jazz is sporadic and tends to the old classics that seem to predominate in this CD/book combination. Nevertheless one cannot talk about the blues, as ...
  5 days ago

• Masters of American Music DVD Series Launched on October 27

  
  Naxos Blog — Authority: 123
  OCTOBER 27 RELEASES PROFILE JAZZ IMMORTALS CHARLIE PARKER, BILLIE HOLIDAY, THELONIOUS MONK, AND “THE STORY OF JAZZ” The award-winning Masters of American Music series was the first historical documentary series produced about Jazz – not only America’s, but also the worlds, greatest art form of the ...
  5 days ago

• In my CD player today…

  
  THE BLARG — Authority: 135
  …are these five albums: 1) Disc One of Bob Marley’s “Songs of Freedom” four-CD collection 2) Charlie Parker’s “Yardbird Suite: Volume 2″ 3) Radiohead’s “Kid A” 4) Nina Simone’s “Nina Simone Sings the Blues” 5) That Handsome Devil’s “That Handsome Devil” What are you ...
  1 week ago

• LOVE’S OLD SWEET SONGS (Nov. 15, 2009)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  Sunday night at The Ear Inn, the performances that moved me the most were three love songs — interspersed with up-tempo romps on I NEVER KNEW, LINGER AWHILE, WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS, and THERE’LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE.  The EarRegulars were Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet and moral guidance; Mark Lopeman, ...
  1 week ago

• Listening to Charlie Parker This morning

  
  A Day in the Life of a NOBODY - NYC Street artist TMNK — Authority: 126
  Began my day with a hot cup of coffee, (Dunkin Doughnuts -Im addicted) and listening to Yardbird. And so…
  2 weeks ago

• JAZZ MERITOCRACY. GONE?

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  No, it’s not a Jimmie Lunceford original.  But I just read a newspaper profile by Rachel Swan devoted to the drummer Donald Bailey (whose work I know from recordings he made with Jimmie Rowles) where he spoke about being a young player in Philadelphia.  These words leaped out at me (italics mine): Bailey ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quotes # 95

  
  Caldeirada Rica — Authority: 126
  Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.Charlie ParkerWhen youre creating your own shit, even the sky aint the limit.Miles Davis If they act too hip, you know they can’t play shit!Miles DavisDon’t bullshit… just play.Wynton Marsalis
  3 weeks ago

• Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  From The Guardian websites 50 great moments in jazz : Miles Davis, a dentists son from St Louis, came to New York in 1944 to study music, but dropped out of college when he met Charlie "Bird" Parker. Like most jazz-obsessed kids his age, Davis fell under Parkers spell, becoming entranced by the revolutionary ...
  3 weeks ago

• Quotes # 94

  
  Caldeirada Rica — Authority: 126
  I am a devout musician.Charlie ParkerI am a servant of the music...if I get caught up in ego, Ill lose everything.Eric ClaptonMusic is my religion.Jimi Hendrix
  4 weeks ago

• PETRA and ANDY REWARD US

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  One of the many pleasures of the 2009 Jazz at Chautauqua was hearing Petra van Nuis and Andy Brown perform in front of a live audience, and I think the performance clips I’ve posted are solid evidence of their talents.  I was hoping that the duo’s new CD would provide the same experience.  Sometimes, of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Review: The Unquiet

  
  Bermudaonion's Weblog — Authority: 554
  Rebecca Clay hires private investigator Charlie Parker because a man is stalking her.  When Charlie approaches the man, Frank Merrick, he is told that he means Rebecca no harm -  he just wants information about her father, child psychiatrist Daniel Clay, who is missing.  It turns out that Dr. Clay treated ...
  5 weeks ago

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