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The New Low Down: TNLD Podcast 01: Andrew Connor of Ghosty
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TNLD Podcast 01: Andrew Connor of Ghosty. Drum roll, please…. Introducing the premier of The New Low Down podcast. Podcast 01 features a chat with Andrew Connor of the band Ghosty. Specifically we chat about the track "Dumbo Wins Again" from Ghosty's most recent album Answers. While "Dumbo" may not be "a song about heartbreak and failed relationships," as reported by NPR Music. It is a delicious and shiny pop jewel. It's also - another drum roll, please -. TNLD's Song of the Year! Notes on TNLD Podcast.
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The New Low Down: Review: Sakamoto Brings the Noise
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Review: Sakamoto Brings the Noise. If you find yourself in possession of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s new album Out of Noise. Here’s my advice: Get on a train. A deluxe edition of Out of Noise. Is being released in the US by Decca (dropping 28 September) with a companion CD, Playing the Piano. Which came out last year. Playing the Piano. Contains a dozen solo piano versions of earlier Sakamoto compositions (“self-covers,” he calls them, including themes from The Last Emperor. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence,. Is a di...
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The New Low Down: Russ Long Rides Again
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Russ Long Rides Again. The music of Russ Long got another public airing recently. This time in Topeka, Kan., an hour west of the pianist's home town of Kansas City, Mo. Arranged for septet by Long's long-time bandmate Gerald Spaits, the bakers dozen tunes included the pianist's most widely known, Save That Time. Long died just over five years ago, after a long illness, but not before recording the septet arrangements for the appropriately-titled album Time To Go. Here's an interview I did with Spaits.
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The Jazz Clinic: June 2009
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Jazz and Blues Music Reviews. Los Amigos de Durutti. Rifftides by Doug Ramsey. The Jazz Clinic Moves to a New Home. View my complete profile. ITunes 25 Latest Jazz Releases. FREE hit counter and Internet traffic statistics from freestats.com. Saturday, June 20, 2009. The Jazz Clinic Moves to a New Home. As of today, I (with the help of web guru and talented bassist, Professor Hummingflower of The Waitiki 7. Have ported all of this blog's old content to a new Wordpress format. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Jazz Clinic: February 2008
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Jazz and Blues Music Reviews. Los Amigos de Durutti. Rifftides by Doug Ramsey. Links - I forget which volume. Why is it the drum solo always comes at the end. View my complete profile. ITunes 25 Latest Jazz Releases. FREE hit counter and Internet traffic statistics from freestats.com. Thursday, February 14, 2008. Links - I forget which volume. Let me first say that ESP-Disk sent me some KILLER stuff in the last year and I've neglected to write about any of it.until now. Rave about all the time. Apparentl...
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The Jazz Clinic: December 2008
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Jazz and Blues Music Reviews. Los Amigos de Durutti. Rifftides by Doug Ramsey. Best Recordings of 2008. View my complete profile. ITunes 25 Latest Jazz Releases. FREE hit counter and Internet traffic statistics from freestats.com. Wednesday, December 24, 2008. Best Recordings of 2008. THIS IS THE UPDATED LIST. I MADE A FEW LAST-MINUTE CHANGES, REALIZING SOME EDITS WERE NOT MADE. PLEASE ENJOY AND PLEASE BUY SOME OF THIS MUSIC. I HOPE MY RECOMMENDATIONS CARRY SOME WEIGHT. 12 Will Vinson - Promises (Ninetee...
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The Jazz Clinic: December 2007
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Jazz and Blues Music Reviews. Los Amigos de Durutti. Rifftides by Doug Ramsey. Catching up.Top 10s (new stuff and reissues/box se. View my complete profile. ITunes 25 Latest Jazz Releases. FREE hit counter and Internet traffic statistics from freestats.com. Tuesday, December 25, 2007. First are the records that I that almost made the top 10:. Architect of the Silent Moment. Pi Recordings) (which I publicized). Night and the Music. Jason Lindner Big Band. Live at the Jazz Gallery. Joe Lovano and Hank Jones.
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The New Low Down: Mel on Louis
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So I'm on a Mel Torme jag. Sue me. I'm reading his book My Singing Teachers: Reflections on Singing Popular Music. Oxford University Press, no less, 1994), which includes this anecdote about Louis Armstrong:. I got to know Louis over the years and found him to be a warmhearted, loving man. He had a great pride in himself and his accomplishments, particularly his role as unofficial goodwill ambassador from America to the world. Next book in the stack: Terry Teachout's Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong.
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The New Low Down: Crushing the Velvet Frog
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Crushing the Velvet Frog. A publicist dubbed Mel Torme "The Velvet Fog" sometime in the late 1940s for the singer's signature smooth style. Torme hated the nickname, but it clung to him like ivy, as the poet once said, like a slug to a garden path, like toilet paper to a shoe, like a dryer sheet to a polyester pantsuit. Torme would later joke about his "velvet frog voice." So it's hard to tell whether some drudge toiling away deep in the bowels of Amazon.com. Is an amazing deal. Fifty songs by one of...
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The New Low Down: TNLD Podcast 003: Stan Kessler of The Sons of Brasil
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TNLD Podcast 003: Stan Kessler of The Sons of Brasil. The Sons of Brasil. Have been bringing the bossa (and samba and other styles of Brazilian music) to audiences in Kansas City for almost 20 years. So who cares if none of them are Brazilian? The Sons of Brasil released While You Were Out. Huge tip o' the TNLD hat to Stan Kessler. Download TNLD podcast 003. Cuts featured in this podcast are:. Bala Com Bala (Bosco, arranged by Kessler). The Sons of Brasil are:. Stanton Kessler - Trumpet/Flugelhorn. Follo...