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JAZZ'S BRIGHT FUTURE

A new documentary, CHOPS, is opening tomorrow (that’s June 26, 2009).  Directed by Bruce Broder, it’s not another run-through of the life of a famous — and sometimes bedraggled … more →

Jazz Lives

Vintage Bird — 3 comments

telescoper wrote 5 days ago: I’ve gone  far too long without posting something by the great alto saxophonist Charlie Parker … more →

Tags: jazz, Ah Leu Cha, BeBop, Parker's Mood

Day 377: Sax appeal — 2 comments

gooddeedaday wrote 1 week ago: It was very blustery in our fair metropolis today. Skirts were flying, debris swirling, toupees hold … more →

Tags: buskers, Good Deeds, Humor, Life, My old flame, Saxophone, Street musicians

show log, 30 june 2009.

rumdoxy wrote 2 weeks ago: Artist  / Title of Track /  Album  /  Year  /  *Notes Lee Morgan / The Sidewinder / The Sidewinder / … more →

Tags: Music, Playlists, WWOZ, bop, jazz, Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, lonnie liston smith, Grant Green

Charlie — 10 comments

frogginette wrote 2 weeks ago: ~~~ Pour un petit Charlie fraichement arrivé: ~~ Charlie Brown, Charlie Parker, Charlie Chaplin ones … more →

Tags: Baby Stuff, Baby, Charlie Brown, charlie chaplin, iron on transfer, onesie, Transfer Paper

Musical Shares: Jim Marfield at Gardner Library

stevebrisendine wrote 2 weeks ago: "Carlos Santana", Oil on Canvas. Jim Marfield  10 a.m.-9 p.m. Gardner Library 137 E. Shawn … more →

Tags: Art, Oil Painting, acrylic painting, Portraits, Art in the Stacks, Velvet Elvis, Rick Griffin, Jim Marfield, Gardner Library

JAZZ'S BRIGHT FUTURE

jazzlives wrote 3 weeks ago: A new documentary, CHOPS, is opening tomorrow (that’s June 26, 2009).  Directed by Bruce Brode … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, Bruce Broder, Bud Freeman, Chops, Essentially Ellington, Future

JAZZ SUSTAINS US — 3 comments

jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: I don’t think I ever heard an actual solo by the acoustic guitarist Huey Long on the recording … more →

Tags: Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Jazz Worth Reading, Pay attention, the real thing, The Things We Love, earl hines, Fletcher Henderson, Dizzy Gillespie

Jazz musician Huey Long dies at 105 — 1 comment

Speak Your Peace wrote 1 month ago: Born in 1904 in Sealy, TX, jazz icon Huey Long enjoyed a long, dynamic career as a guitarist. He be … more →

Tags: African-American History, Art&Culture, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Grammy Hall Of Fame, Huey Long, Jazz Guitar, louis armstrong, rock and roll hall of fame

Bird (for Charlie Parker)

asrivers wrote 1 month ago: R & Beaks avian arias bebophop rockn’sqwauk jazz razzberry rapflap parrotuette whippoorwhi … more →

Tags: People, Poetweetry, Bird, Poem

Complaining with Kay, Episode 19: World Naked Bike Ride.

kristinmh wrote 1 month ago: I can’t go, but I urge you to: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=139007790050 Al … more →

Tags: Music, Rant, Computer, Everyone's a critic, Singing, Podcast, Weirdness, Practice, Complaint

Celebrating Bird - The Triumph of Charlie Parker

Peter Pit wrote 1 month ago: the superb saxophone interpretations by the legendary jazz musician charlie parker. not many video … more →

Tags: 50s, Documentary, jazz

BIG BAND JAZZ -- FREE! -- IN NEW YORK CITY

jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: (To my readers in the tristate area: there’s no JVC Jazz Festival this year, and free jazz eve … more →

Tags: The Heroes Among Us, Thanks-A-Million, Pay attention, Dan Morgenstern, jazz blog, Stan Getz, Michael Steinman, Jazz Lives, Lionel Hampton

You have 20 seconds to name 10 famous Charlies. Your time starts... now! — 1 comment

to55er wrote 1 month ago: Charlie Chaplin; Charlie Sheen; Charlie Parker; Charlie Brown; Charlie Chan; Bonnie Prince Charlie; … more →

Tags: Dodgy Weekend Pursuits, History, humour, Travel, USA, america, Berlin tourist, bonnie prince charlie, Charlie Brown

BENNY VISITS "AVALON" — 1 comment

jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: In the last few days I’ve been listening to the Benny Goodman Festival being broadcast on WKCR … more →

Tags: Jazz Titans, It's A Mystery, the real thing, Thanks-A-Million, Irreplaceable, louis armstrong, Hot Lips Page, carnegie hall, vic dickenson

Charlie Parker & Buddy Rich - "Celerity"

invisibleagent wrote 1 month ago: Watch how “Bird” just breezes right through this tune like he’s bored…it … more →

Tags: Music, alto, Be-Bop, Bird, Blues, Buddy Rich, Cool Jazz, Drums, jazz

WKCR-FM, www.wkcr.org, 212-851-2699 — 2 comments

jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: I don’t like pledge drives on public radio or public television.  More often than not, I have … more →

Tags: Ideal Places, The Heroes Among Us, The Things We Love, the real thing, Pay attention, Irreplaceable, Charlie Christian, Mel Powell, Sid Catlett

Wine and Jazz: Abstract Of A Manifesto — 3 comments

christopherwatkins wrote 1 month ago: Save for very few exceptions, we play jazz in the Monte Bello Tasting Room. From early New Orleans p … more →

Tags: Viticultural Salmagundi, Tasting Rooms, Wine and Jazz, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, louis armstrong, Count Basie, Bill Evans

The beauty of the internet

arodjazz wrote 2 months ago: … is that you can link to stuff like this. It’s been about two weeks now that we’v … more →

Tags: Links, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, YouTube

"Hot House" - Charlie "Bird" Parker & Dizzy Gillespie

invisibleagent wrote 2 months ago: This clip of Bird & ‘Diz playing “Hot House” is great.  The Bird looks slick i … more →

Tags: Music, jazz, Dizzy Gillespie, Saxophone, Bird, DIZ, Dizzy, trumpet, Be-Bop


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