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EDDIE CONDON'S, 47 WEST THIRD STREET, TUESDAY NIGHT

jazzlives wrote 10 hours ago: Found on eBay!  I see Eddie, Pee Wee, Bobby Hackett, George Wettling, Bud Freeman, Wild Bill Davison … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Ideal Places, Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, mmmmmmmmmmmmm, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, the real thing, The Things We Love

JAZZ FROM THE VAULT (February 2010)

jazzlives wrote 12 hours ago: Although Wolfgang’s Vault (www.wolfgangsvault.com), that surprising online cornucopia, offers … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Ideal Places, Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love

MAY I JOIN YOU?1 comment

jazzlives wrote 23 hours ago: From the Joe Bushkin website — www.joebushkin.com — a galaxy of stars, seated in a club: … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Ideal Places, Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, the real thing, The Things We Love, Bing Crosby

"BIX AND HIS GANG" REDUX, 19751 comment

jazzlives wrote 1 day ago: I don’t exactly know the source of the videos below — except that they’ve been pos … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Awful Sad, Ideal Places, Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing

RINGSIDE AT KEVIN'S: Feb. 5, 20104 comments

jazzlives wrote 2 days ago: My readers will catch the reference in the title to one of the great recordings of the early LP era … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, BIIELAND, bix beiderbecke, Buzzy Drootin

HOOLEY'S HOME MOVIES

jazzlives wrote 6 days ago: From Bill Haesler, the Australian jazz scholar, and courtesy of Denis King, I learned that Harry Oak … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, It's A Mystery, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Things We Love, Adrian Rollini, Bert Lowe and his Orchestra, Bert Lown, Bill Haesler

THE BOUNCE ACCORDING TO JOE ALTERMAN2 comments

jazzlives wrote 6 days ago: There’s a Stephen Sondheim song — BOUNCE — from the musical of the same name.  I h … more →

Tags: Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, Ahmad Jamal, Bounce, don-friedman, George Gershwin

"SEARCH ENGINE TERMS," February 20101 comment

jazzlives wrote 6 days ago: When you have a blog — this one or any other kind — you find out the words and phrases t … more →

Tags: It's A Mystery, Jazz Worth Reading, Pay attention, Billie Holiday, Fats Waller, Frank Sinatra, Google Images, Jazz Lives, Joel Helleny

DANCERS IN VILNIUS (by TAMAR KORN)

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: Who knew that the ethereally gutty Ms. Korn, an irreplaceable singer, was also a nifty photographer? … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Irreplaceable, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, banjo jims, cangelosi cards

WHEN HOT JAZZ WAS NEWS

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: Three clips from a vanished era — when movies were introduced by black-and-white newsreels (an … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, Albert Nicholas

GROOVIN' AT THE EAR INN (January 31, 2010)2 comments

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: That title isn’t to be taken lightly, for several times last night when The Ear Regulars (with … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Ideal Places, Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love

"THE ODOR OF POPULARITY"12 comments

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: This biography of  Sidney Catlett comes directly from http://www.jazzandroots.com/big-sid-catlett.ht … more →

Tags: It's A Mystery, Jazz Titans, Jazz Worth Reading, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, benny goodman, Big Sid Catlett, charlie parker, Dizzy Gillespie

SOMETHING TORCHY1 comment

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: The Beloved and I made our way uptown on a very cold Friday night (January 29, 2010) to Roth’s … more →

Tags: The Heroes Among Us, Jazz Titans, The Things We Love, the real thing, Swing You Cats!, Thanks-A-Million, Pay attention, Irreplaceable, Billie Holiday

A SMALL TREASURE2 comments

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: Ten inches square (or in diameter) in fact. Often of late I have noted jazz treasures for sale on eB … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Jazz Worth Reading, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love

THE REYNOLDS BROTHERS IN HIGH STYLE, 20103 comments

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: Living on the East Coast, I only knew about the Reynolds Brothers (that’s Ralf on washboard; J … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, Boswell Sisters

FOR THE LOVE OF BIX: TWO MONDAYS7 comments

jazzlives wrote 2 weeks ago: Thanks to Enrico Borsetti, who pointed me in this direction, here are two versions of FROM MONDAY ON … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, Enrico Borsetti, FROM MONDAY ON, Jakub Šnýdl

"J'ATTENDRAI," 1939: DJANGO AT 1008 comments

jazzlives wrote 2 weeks ago: Django Reinhardt in peak form, captured on film with Stephane Grappelli and the rest of the Hot Club … more →

Tags: Thanks-A-Million, Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, the real thing, The Things We Love, 1939, Barney Bigard

"JAZZ LIVES": SETH COLTER WALLS1 comment

jazzlives wrote 2 weeks ago: Excerpts from his piece, “JAZZ IS DEAD.  LONG LIVE JAZZ.”  (From NEWSWEEK, Dec 21, 2009. … more →

Tags: Jazz Worth Reading, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, "Jazz is dead", Bill Gallagher, Branford Marsalis, Ella Fitzgerald, jazz blog

WILL THE REAL VIC BERTON STAND UP?5 comments

jazzlives wrote 2 weeks ago: I have a problem.  Having posted an excerpt from the short film by Walt Roesner and the Capitolians, … more →

Tags: Irreplaceable, It's A Mystery, Pay attention, Hal Smith, jazz blog, Jazz Lives, To Tell The Truth, Vic Berton, Vitaphone


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