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• in TV
  PBS Offers Big Band Vocalists (My Music) in March
  Witness the greatest singers of the 1940s at the dawn of their careers.
  by missbobetier / on Feb 27, 2012
• in Entertainment
  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.
  by missbobetier / on Dec 16, 2011
• 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

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “louis armstrong”

 

• A SPY FOR DIXIELAND

  
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  Ian Fleming never gave me a thought.  I never had a specially-equipped car, dangerous gadgets.  But I was a spy for Dixieland. In a recent seminar with one of my mentors, Prof. Figg, he asked the question, “What are your secret guilty musical pleasures?” I think the Professor expected that I was listening to ...
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• QNYC Event Highlight: Swinging with the All Stars — Louis Armstrong and Baseball

  
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  Image Source: Louis Armstrong House MuseumBaseball was Satchmo’s favorite sport, and he was a longtime Brooklyn Dodgers fan who switched to the New York Mets in the late 1960s. His former Corona home — which is now the Louis Armstrong House Museum — has just opened Swinging with the All Stars, an exhibit on the ...
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• Some things that I love #8

  
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  Is it Friday again? Really? This week has had its ups and downs. I spent Monday frowning at Twitter and Facebook with all the tales and photos of bank holiday fun because it was a normal working day in Switzerland. However, I can get my own back as it was a national holiday here yesterday [...]
  1 week ago

• QNYC Event Highlight: Carol Sudhalter and the Astoria Big Band play tribute to Satchmo, Diz and Big Nick

  
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  Image Source: Sunnyside Reformed ChurchCarol Sudhalter plays flute, baritone sax and tenor sax, specializing in jazz, big band and chamber music. Not enough. She’s going to bring various members of the 12-piece Astoria Jazz Band to Sunnyside Reformed Church on May 11 to pay (and play) a proper tribute to three ...
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• Desserts In Style – The Sweeteasy

  
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  While we are all impatiently waiting for  The Great Gatsby  opening tomorrow (I’m curious to see if Baz Luhrmann will enchant me or make me love Robert Redford and Mia Farrow even more in the movie from 1974 ), I am pleased to show you one of my dessert tables with a Roaring 20′s feel – The Sweeteasy. I ...
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• Southwest adds new direct flight from New Orleans to Austin

  
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  Southwest Airlines is adding a new non-stop flight between New Orleans and Austin, Texas, starting in November. The service brings the number of direct destinations from New Orleans to 41, only one short of the pre-Hurricane Katrina number, said...
  2 weeks ago

• Stalingrad trailer Song What a Wonderful World composed by Angelo Badalamenti.

  
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  This is the film that will be released on October 2013 directed by Russian film director Fedor Bondarchuk while featuring Petr Fedorov, and it is the first trailer of “Stalingrad (Сталинград)”, the Russian war drama film. The song which was used in the trailer of “Stalingrad (Сталинград)” ...
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• ‘Daily Rituals’ Of The Brilliantly Creative

  
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  The Onion published recently called “Find The Thing You’re Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life.”The piece was satire, but it’s how many of us respond to the question Mason Currey raises in his entertaining new book, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. “How do you ...
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• Miles, Bird, Armstrong Simulacrum Kits

  
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  The marketing orgy  at Brilliant Corners Merch, Inc. marches on! Inspired by  t he Thelonius Monk  Round Midnight watc h , we provided SimulacrumKits@ for Louis Armstrong and Charley Parker  (see below). Once more, w e have forged an unholy metaheuristic liaison, this time with a coven of ...
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• International Jazz Day: Recalling Jazz Legends

  
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  The Toonari Post - News, Powered by the People! For jazz lovers, jazz musicians and jazz musician lovers, April 30 was declared “The international jazz day. “     Jazz music has been bringing people together in harmony for more than a century, starting with the “Blue Note” that served as a relief from ...
  3 weeks ago

• BOUNCING BUOYANCY at THE EAR INN: MATT MUNISTERI, DANNY TOBIAS, DAN BLOCK, NEAL MINER (April 14, 2013)

  
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  My title comes from a late-Thirties Ellington composition and recording, referring to his definition of swing.  What the Maestro described, the EarRegulars embody every Sunday night (8-11 PM, loosely) at The Ear Inn, 326 Spring Street, Soho, New York. Here’s some buoyant music from the April 14, 2013 session. The ...
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• Herbert Singleton/ Glad You Dead You Rascal You

  
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  Some of the first things I ever did artistically as a somewhat mature person were bas-relief  carvings.  In a way, it formed the technique that I adopted as a painter.  I suppose that’s why I am so drawn to carvings when I come across them.  There’s something very appealing to me in the idea of a flat surface ...
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• The Not So Shorty Trombone Shorty

  
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  The Toonari Post - News, Powered by the People! Troy Andrews, famous by the name of “Trombone Shorty,” is one of New Orleans’ current youngest and finest musicians .  A professional musician, a trombonist and a band leader only by the age of six earned him his nick name Trombone Shorty. Troy was born on ...
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• CATHERINE RUSSELL SWINGS! WE SWAY (April 25, 2013)

  
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  We hold these truths to be self-evident.  Catherine Russell is a serious creator of joy — part of the pursuit of happiness. She proved it again last night in her first set at Dizzy’s Club Coca C0la (part of Jazz at Lincoln Center, high above the Manhattan panorama).  Catherine had four of her friends in sweet ...
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• Mitch Landrieus Aviation Board nominee: not involved with failed Grand Theater project

  
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  Mayor Mitch Landrieu wants financial consultant and chairman of the New Orleans Region Black Chamber of Commerce Todd Francis to be his next nominee to the New Orleans Aviation Board as it embarks on a five-year, $826 million overhaul of...
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• The CLUB HANGOVER Archive, 1954-58

  
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  In the 1950s, Club Hangover was the place to go in San Francisco to hear Dixieland and New Orleans jazz. Thanks to tapes from KCBS being preserved and passed on, you can now listen to 25 complete and unedited half-hour broadcasts from Club Hangover , with recordings of Louis Armstrong, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Kid Ory, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Top 10 Tuesday of Groovy Tunes: Petula Clark knows a swingin place

  
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  Each week I feature 10 groovy tunes that have appeared on Billboards Hot 100 chart during the last 50+ years. You can vote for your three favorites, and the five with the most votes move on to the following week when five new songs will be added to the list. Last week the Mamas & the Papas claimed the top spot ...
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• WHAT HAPPINESS LOOKS LIKE — LONDON, 1956

  
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  Here’s a man entirely in alignment, as the life coaches say — someone who understood his true purpose early, worked at it, and derived the deepest joy from it (while improving the universe in his travels). A previously unknown candid shot taken in London, 1956, for sale on eBay.   Here’s  the information. ...
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• 1962 Louis Armstrong on the Mark Twain at Disneyland (by...

  
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  1962 Louis Armstrong on the Mark Twain at Disneyland (by LoreneFaith )
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