Mike Brecker, Joel Peskin on EWI and Nyler Steiner on EVI, written 3 weeks ago, This is a video from the 80's but I thought it was worth putting up for you to check out. Joel Peskin has got some great chops and great ideas. I think the overacting was part of someone's bad idea to bring excitement to...

Near Earth Objects: Hungry for a Sound, written 1 day ago, by Dean Christesenphotos by Lindsey PratherUpon arriving in Richmond in Summer 2001, bassist Nathan Goodwyn quickly made his move into the city's live music scene. Seeing groups like Devil's Workshop every Monday at Bogart's and Modern Groov...

Record Making WIth Duke Ellington, written 1 week ago, Found this 1937 promotional film online. Ellington & the orchestra are used to describe the record making process. We hear a bit of one of Duke's many train compositions as well as a brief vocal by Ivie Anderson.

Official Notice: Hiatus, written 4 days ago, As previously mentioned, the blog will be on a temporary hiatus until late November, just because I am so busy.I will be stopping in for little tidbits here and there, but not much of anything. To make sure you find out when I stop in, and when we are re-...

SQUARE DEAL—OCT 18—AUS—Miss Goldie—Bowman—Callum, written 13 hours ago,

Claire's Mix, written 1 day ago, We start out this show with Claire's excellent selections of jazz and fusion tracks, followed by music inspired from some recent live performances we attended in Hartford and NYC. We caught Mike Stern at one of our favorite NYC venues, 55 Bar. This is a tiny, intimat...

Tangleweed in Tennessee, written 3 days ago, Video footage of our performance in Knoxville, TN for the "Blue Plate Special," WDVX's live radio show. In this episode, Paul shows off his Howitzer-bass, Ryan and Scott warm up with "Sandy River Belle," and the band rips through "...

A middle-aged singer's perspective on the world of music, cabaret, singing, and the creative life.

Bob Dylan: She Belongs To Me, written 1 week ago, I have just finished reading Suze Rotolo's memoir A Freewheelin' Time and I feel like a little Dylan tonight. This clip is an outtake from the making of the film "Don't Look Back," released in 1967. The performance is from 1965, at London's...

UK Jazzetal: Django a la Creole, written 2 weeks ago, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akE8pHQBxTU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JsazOf3bWs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAMS_JCbimk and Clip at Jazzetal Lejazzetal produces tours and concerts and is committed to developing audiences through a progra...

Ahhhh the Cote d'Azur!!....Nizza!!!!!, written 5 days ago, Pictured here is the Chateau just above the famous Promenade Des Anglais in Nice......the only complaint from most people about the beach in Nice is the lack of sand!....it's actually large round stones....not the most comfo [...]

Fascination, written 1 day ago, By F.D. Marchetti & Dick Manning1932This song took quite a unique journey. It began its life in 1905 as a French tune by Marchetti and lyricist Maurice de Feraudy. Twenyy-seven years later, American lyricist Manning added English words, and the renamed song wa...

Billy Yeager has begun the pre-production for the film Jaco The Movie. Yeager began writing the script when he had a supernatural encounter with the artist in a NDE experiment. Yeager has already started scouting locations for his next feature film “

Anton Webern's "Five Pieces for Orchestra,Opus 10", written 3 weeks ago, Anton Webern (1883-1945), born in Vienna, was a composer who sculpted with sound and manipulated it to his way of hearing things. He was a well-studied composer who studied musicology and received his doctorate in the...

UNPRETTY, written 3 weeks ago, I have watched the vice-presidential a few times on television. Sarah Palin reminds me the Julia Roberts character "Pretty Woman." Ms. Palin has an "aw shucks y'all, I'm just a country girl" attitude about her life and circumstances. In the film &qu...

MASAHIKO TOGASHI & YUJI TAKAHASHI - TWILIGHT (1976)dawnli-huntwilightyuji takahashi (p,..., written 1 week ago, MASAHIKO TOGASHI & YUJI TAKAHASHI - TWILIGHT (1976)dawnli-huntwilightyuji takahashi (p, synths)ryuichi sakamoto (p, synths)yuji takahashi Jr (synths)masahiko togashi (perc)...

Lynn Hope & Clifford Scott - Juicy!, written 11 hours ago, It's time for a return to the tenor sax / King instrumental theme that has been prominent on the blog of late. This long out of print (but available at eye-watering "collector's" prices) Charly CD combines the 1960 sessions for...

Frameworkwill appear atMarket in the MiddleAsbury ParkNJSunday Sept. 28 12..., written 3 weeks ago, Frameworkwill appear atMarket in the MiddleAsbury ParkNJSunday Sept. 28 12 - 3 PM512 Cookman AvenueAsbury Park, N.J. 07712732-776-8886http://www.kitschens.com/

Looking back to the last six decades, from an uncertain era when many jazz musicians turned to rock, funk or other styles, Jazz music suffers “a kind of died”. So, in the Blogosphere, we aim to bring a lost era of Jazz to life.

Great Gig: Turn of the Century, written 2 weeks ago, Goodman Theatre in Chicago is hosting the premiere of a new romantic musical comedy by the same creative team that spawned the uber-successful Jersey Boys. Opening this coming Monday, September 29, Turn of the Century stars Jeff Daniels and Rachel...