Posts Tagged ‘jazz’
Claude Williamson: ‘Round Midnight (1956)
It’s funny to see how much mail I get via this website from people who hope that I can help them out with this or that. Funny, because I’ve never considered myself to be someone who knows all that much about music in general and various artists and bands in particular. I am a listener, [...]
Ed Thigpen: Gentleman of Jazz
A Profile of Sorts I pride myself on hardly ever having misjudged people. Naturally, I have been completely wrong at times (and when I am/was wrong, I am/was completely off), but as far as I recall, the number of blunders were rather limited. It is my profession to evaluate people and although that is often [...]
Trio Pim Jacobs: “Come Fly With Me”
I had never heard of Pim Jacobs when, unsuspecting, I accidentally hit one of those sites that discuss more obscure music releases or reissues and, although I can’t quite recall, the album was even offered for download. I quickly read through the veritable epitomizing of this reissue and started investigating in more detail. It’s become [...]
Tord Gustavsen Trio – Being There
It had to come at some point and I almost bet my life on the fact that it would happen with the release of their third album … and it did, somewhat. The Tord Gustavsen Trio put out a new album and if you mosey on past those usual “great album …” reviews by people [...]
Jazz at the Pawnshop (30th Anniversary)
Note: There are photos available on Flickr of this collection. Click on the “more” button on the right side and to the right to see more. If you want to stop any discussion on a jazz board dead in its tracks or, in reverse, want to flame an ongoing discussion on any audiophile forum, you [...]
Jazz in Paris
This post has moved and will be deleted in February of 2010. New link: “Jazz in Paris”
Music for Contemplative Moods
Music is a mood thing, always has been and always will be. There’s the loud stuff for the beginning weekend (at the moment I’m enjoying the hell out of Jeff Beck’s – for that time – extremely noisy but also fun-driven albums “Truth” and “Beck-Ola” from 1968 and 1969 respectively), there’s music to celebrate the [...]
Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
Note: This is a long post. If you are looking for a discussion of the song, scroll down 15 paragraphs … or so. ;) I think it was William Blake who once said that “those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.” Right on, I would say, [...]
Shelly Manne & His Men at The Black Hawk
Recommending CDs is always a difficult affair. As soon as you say that some CD is desert island material for you, someone gets on your case, taking you to task for having said that, stating that the relative merit of this or that recording diminishes when taking other, more relevant recordings into consideration. On top [...]
Eugen Cicero
When it comes around to music criticism, not much bothers me. One cannot argue about taste and one should try to live with critical reviews when they’re bad, just off or just badly researched. There’ll always be that one review that gets things right, negating – perhaps – those that botched things in the past. [...]