Blogs about: Mark Shane
NOT SO NICE, 2009
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jazzlives wrote 4 months ago: World traveler Bill Gallagher sent along his photograph of the latest Nice Jazz Festival lineup: Som … more →
SHUFFLE ALONG!
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jazzlives wrote 5 months ago: Egged on by the inestimable Messrs. Riccardi and Hutchinson, I present my unexpurgated and hugely id … more →
CYNTHIA SAYER at the KNICKERBOCKER! (June 12-13, 2009)
jazzlives wrote 7 months ago: Cynthia Sayer, the banjo virtuoso, engaging singer and pianist, has been busy of late working on a v … more →
THE JAZZ CORNUCOPIA
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jazzlives wrote 7 months ago: “Feast or famine,” my mother used to say. Looks like Wednesday and Thursday, May 6 and 7 … more →
"TORNO SUBITO!"
jazzlives wrote 8 months ago: My Italian is not so polished, but the title of this post means “Be back soon.” Hence t … more →
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE, IN ADVANCE!
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jazzlives wrote 9 months ago: The photograph on the right was taken more than a half-century ago, in the Columbia studios, where L … more →
MORE BIRDLAND BLISS (March 4, 2009)
jazzlives wrote 9 months ago: The heroes return: David Ostwald (tuba), Jon-Erik Kellso (trumpet), Dion Tucker (trombone), Anat Coh … more →
LOUIS ARMSTRONG CENTENNIAL BAND, MARCH 4, 2009
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jazzlives wrote 9 months ago: What do you get when you put David Ostwald, Jon-Erik Kellso, Dion Tucker, Anat Cohen, Mark Shane, an … more →
THE PIANIST IN QUESTION
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jazzlives wrote 9 months ago: I was in the middle of writing an ambivalent review for All About Jazz of the Mosaic reissue of Geor … more →
SHE CAME, SHE SANG, SHE SWUNG!
jazzlives wrote 10 months ago: I know that it’s not an exact translation from the Latin axiom — but it sums up what Daw … more →
OH, PLAY THAT RADIO!
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jazzlives wrote 10 months ago: I tried to tell Betty Sue that she didn’t need to place herself so firmly in front of her radi … more →
MARK YOUR CALENDARS (MARK SHANE, THAT IS)
jazzlives wrote 11 months ago: The splendid pianist and singer Mark Shane (here captured by “Opening Minds” at a gig la … more →
JAZZ IN THE AIR
jazzlives wrote 11 months ago: Getting from New York to Maui (with a brief stopover in Los Angeles) is not all that arduous, and w … more →
SONGBIRD IN THE MOONLIGHT
jazzlives wrote 11 months ago: During the Swing Era, it seemed that swinging women singers (the trade magazines called them “ … more →
SANTA'S ALCHEMICAL SECRET
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jazzlives wrote 1 year ago: As is her habit, the Beloved is listening to Jonathan Schwartz’s Christmas show on WNYC-FM, wh … more →
KEVIN DORN PLAYS! (with Dan Levinson's Swing Wing)
jazzlives wrote 1 year ago: Much of what is presented as “traditional” jazz these days is really microwaveable Dixie … more →
THE EYES HAVE IT
jazzlives wrote 1 year ago: It’s deeply foggy here in Halifax, Nova Scotia. And although my thoughts might turn to myriad … more →
