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  Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
  Fodor’s New Orleans 2012 is a comprehensive guide to the Big Easy and all its attractions.
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• in Music
  Music Review: Mac Gollehon - Mac Straight Ahead
  A brilliant tour de force for virtuoso trumpet man, Mac Gollehon.
  by fcetier / on Jan 2, 2011
• in Music
  Book Review: Stereotypes in Black Music: The African-American Crossover Compromise by Alan Kurtz
  Find out what Biggie Smalls had in common with Al Jolson, Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix, and Prince.
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “louis armstrong”

 

• THE NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH

  
  BoogieDowner — Authority: 420
  Here is an educational post related to Black History Month detailing landmarks with particular significance to the African American community. Please note you can suggest additional locations as mentioned below. Gregory ********* In February, The New York Landmarks Conservancy honors Black History Month by ...
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• LET’S ALL GET TOGETHER AND CHIP IN, SHALL WE?

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 115
  How about purchasing an autograph book? No, not my fifth-grade one where cute Suzanne DeVeaux signed her name and then wrote “Yours till bacon strips,” which was not the declaration of love it might have seemed to be, alas. But THIS autograph book is something special — even given the twenty thousand dollar ...
  4 days ago

• Planned Parenthood vs. Komen: Money and Mob Rule

  
  Kelly Mclaughlin Page — Authority: 145
  Margaret Sangers Parliament of Population (Population Congress). In an article titled "My Way to Peace",(From the Sanger public documents archive) she wrote the following: Second, to have Congress set up a special A new biography of Margaret Sanger fails to confront the Planned Parenthood founders ideological ...
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• Beat of the Day

  
  Bronx Banter — Authority: 473
  Happiness is…this: [Collage by Louis Armstrong]
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• What is the happiest song of all time?

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 610
  A rather spurious poll has declared REM’s Everybody Hurts “the saddest song of all time”. Given that there were only twenty songs to choose from, none of which were by Elliot Smith, I’m not sure how seriously we can take it. I have country albums that are more depressing than that entire list (note to [...]
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• JAZZ PARADE AT PISMO (October 2011) with the AU BROTHERS JAZZ BAND and GUESTS

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 115
  The family that plays together . . . creates beautiful music.  Here are some more performances by the Au Brothers Jazz Band from their October 28, 2011, appearance at the Pismo Beach “Jazz Jubilee by the Sea”: for this occasion, the band was Gordon Au, trumpet; Justin Au, trumpet; Brandon Au, trombone / English ...
  3 weeks ago

• January 18: The Met hosted a jazz concert for the first time (1944)

  
  Memento mori - Express thoughts of the day as we enrich our mortal lives — Authority: 110
  The Metropolitan Opera House in New York city hosted a jazz concert for the first time in its history. The performance was named as Esquire Jazz Concert since Esquire magazine sponsored the concert and the concert featured jazz giants of the time: Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy ...
  3 weeks ago

• GRATITUDE IN 4/4 (Part Three): GRAND DOMINION JAZZ BAND at the 2011 SAN DIEGO THANKSGIVING DIXIELAND JAZZ FESTIVAL (thanks to Rae Ann Berry)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 115
  More wonderful music from the 2011 San Diego Thanksgiving Dixieland Festival, proving that gratitude is a year-round phenomenon. Here are eight gratifying performances by the Grand Dominion Jazz Band, recorded on November 24-25, 2011, and made available for JAZZ LIVES through the generosity of Rae Ann Berry, whose ...
  3 weeks ago

• GRATITUDE IN 4/4 (Part Four): THE YERBA BUENA STOMPERS at the 2011 SAN DIEGO THANKSGIVING DIXIELAND JAZ FESTIVAL (thanks to Rae Ann Berry)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 115
  Good for stompin’, to quote Oran Page.  Here’s some truly heartfelt hot jazz from the 2011 San Diego Thanksgiving Dixieland Jazz Festival — thanks to Paul Daspit, who brought these glorious musicians together and made sure everyone on and off the stand was beaming, and more of the same to our own ...
  3 weeks ago

• CINEMA STUDIES: LOUIS, SEPT. 30, 1938: HEARST METROTONE NEWS

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 115
  Uwe Zanisch, whose blog SATCHMOTUBE ( satchmotube ) chronicles the appearances of Louis Armstrong on television and film, let me know about this marvel — three minutes of amazement. But the real Onlie Begetter is the jazz-on-film scholar Franz Hoffmann, who specializes in Red Allen, J. C. Higginbotham, and their ...
  3 weeks ago

• Louis Armstrong - Chapel Hill 1954

  
  BEEHIVE CANDY — Authority: 95
  This is Louis Armstrong performing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, way back on the 4th May 1954. During the 1950s Louis Armstrong and His All Stars undertook a considerable amount of touring. Also his recordings Satch Plays Fats, all Fats Waller tunes, and Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Weather Bird

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 416
  Time to try countering the melancholy mood that has settled on me over the last few days. I just heard this track on the radio and coincidentally it came up on a random play on my iPod on Friday too. Clearly someone up there is telling me to share it with you. This gem, recorded in New York city in 1928, is a duet ...
  3 weeks ago

• GRATITUDE IN 4/4 (Part Two): THE 2011 SAN DIEGO THANKSGIVING DIXIELAND FESTIVAL: THE REYNOLDS BROTHERS (with thanks to Rae Ann Berry)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 115
  More wonderful music from the 2011 San Diego Thanksgiving Dixieland Festival, proving that gratitude doesn’t require roast turkey. Here are four delicious selections by the Reynolds Brothers, made available for JAZZ LIVES through the generosity of Rae Ann Berry, whose handiwork can be seen in two places (if you ...
  3 weeks ago

• THEMES AND VARIATIONS: THE 2011 WHITLEY BAY CLASSIC JAZZ PARTY

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 115
  Now that I have posted about eighty video performances here — thanks to Flemming Thorbye, Elin Smith, Jonathan David Holmes, and Michael Stevens — I can write a few lines about the Classic Jazz Party in general, and why it was such a remarkable experience. It wasn’t a formal occasion by any means — in fact, ...
  4 weeks ago

• “MR. TRUMPET: THE TRIALS, TRIBULATIONS, AND TRIUMPH OF BUNNY BERIGAN” by MICHAEL P. ZIRPOLO

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 115
  Even people who know little of jazz or the Swing Era have probably heard trumpeter, singer, bandleader, and mythic figure Bunny Berigan (1908-42) in some context. His Victor recording of I CAN’T GET STARTED is used in film soundtracks and elsewhere as a quick way of summoning up days gone by.  Other touchstones ...
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• Put A Clamp on Cloud Music? Village Voice Insists Yes

  
  CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing Information — Authority: 512
  Put A Clamp on Cloud Music? Village Voice Insists Yes Music writers have rung in the New Year with cloud complaints. A recent edition of New York City’s “Village Voice,” America’s largest weekly newspaper, finds head music columnist Maura Johnston picking away at premium music-listening services for the dearth ...
  4 weeks ago

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