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"HOT" on SPRING STREET (Nov. 22, 2009) 1 comment

jazzlives wrote 1 day ago: Last Sunday at The Ear Inn, November 22, 2009, the compact, eloquent quartet — The Ear Regular … more →

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

WE'RE THANKFUL FOR TERRY WALDO (Nov. 2009)3 comments

jazzlives wrote 2 days ago: Terry Waldo was a protege of Eubie Blake and continues to be a stomping pianist, an intriguing compo … more →

Tags: Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, Andrew Hall, Arnie Kinsella, banjo jims, Eubie Blake

CHRIS DAWSON: STRIDE FOR CHRISTMAS!2 comments

jazzlives wrote 2 days ago: Yesterday I received my copy of pianist Chris Dawson’s first solo CD, STRIDIN’ THROUGH C … more →

Tags: Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, Bill Evans, CD Baby

SINGING PRETTY SONGS at The Ear Inn (Nov. 22, 2009)1 comment

jazzlives wrote 2 days ago: Jon-Erik Kellso already has a deep repertoire of songs, as listeners know.  I was especially delight … more →

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

TEA WITH THE CARDS (Nov. 16, 2009)3 comments

jazzlives wrote 3 days ago: As I’ve written, the downtown haunt Banjo Jim’s (Avenue C and 9th Street) in New York Ci … more →

Tags: Ideal Places, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, banjo jims, cangelosi cards, cassidy holden

"A PRINCE OF A GUY"3 comments

jazzlives wrote 5 days ago: MARIANNE MANGAN REMEMBERS LEROY “SAM” PARKINS A PRINCE OF A GUY Prequel: After spending … more →

Tags: Awful Sad, Irreplaceable, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, cangelosi cards, cecil taylor

SUNSET: LEROY "SAM" PARKINS4 comments

jazzlives wrote 6 days ago: Leroy “Sam” Parkins, clarinetist, raconteur, and enthusiastic friend of this blog, died … more →

Tags: Awful Sad, Irreplaceable, Pay attention, The Heroes Among Us, banjo jims, cangelosi cards, cassidy holden, dennis lichtman, Gordon Webster

OH, "PLEASE"!1 comment

jazzlives wrote 6 days ago: In honor of Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin, Bing Crosby, Adam Keller, John Gill, and Jon-Erik Kellso  … more →

Tags: Irreplaceable, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, Adam Keller, Bing Crosby, College Humor

1959: JACK, BOBBY, GENE, KENNY6 comments

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: I don’t quite know how “Wolfgang’s Vault” tapped into the great store of rec … more →

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

AN EARLY CHRISTMAS PRESENT!4 comments

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: When Chris Dawson told me that he had recorded a solo piano album of Christmas music, inwardly I cri … more →

Tags: Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, mmmmmmmmmmmmm, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, Chris Dawson

LOVE'S OLD SWEET SONGS (Nov. 15, 2009)3 comments

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: Sunday night at The Ear Inn, the performances that moved me the most were three love songs — i … more →

Tags: Ideal Places, Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, benny goodman, charlie parker

A VICTIM OF "HARDA SATEN"2 comments

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: This morning, I saw with pleasure that a recent post on the jazz club Smalls had been translated int … more →

Tags: Jazz Worth Reading, Pay attention, The Things We Love, harda saten, jazz blog, Jazz Lives, Michael Steinman, sid caesar, smalls

CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE4 comments

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: It’s tempting for those who love an older art form — such as swinging jazz — to ro … more →

Tags: It's A Mystery, Pay attention, Bing Crosby, Cabbage, corned beef, edward everett horton, Helen MacK, jazz blog, Jazz Lives

GO WEST! GET HOT!1 comment

jazzlives wrote 2 weeks ago: It might be a New Yorker’s prejudice, but I don’t associate hot jazz with Arizona.  In t … more →

Tags: Ideal Places, Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, Arizona Classic Jazz Festival

JAZZ TREASURES IN CYBERSPACE1 comment

jazzlives wrote 2 weeks ago: I spend more than enough time in front of the computer (my neck can testify to this) but I’ve … more →

Tags: Ideal Places, Jazz Titans, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, the real thing, The Things We Love, Art Blakey, Bill Coleman, Black Sabbath

JAZZ MERITOCRACY. GONE?1 comment

jazzlives wrote 2 weeks ago: No, it’s not a Jimmie Lunceford original.  But I just read a newspaper profile by Rachel Swan … more →

Tags: It's A Mystery, Jazz Titans, Jazz Worth Reading, Pay attention, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, the real thing, The Things We Love, BeBop

BUNNY, LOUIS, WILLIS1 comment

jazzlives wrote 2 weeks ago: Two items from eBay form a lovely combination.  The first is a Bunny Berigan autograph.  Too bad tha … more →

Tags: Irreplaceable, Jazz Titans, Swing You Cats!, the real thing, The Things We Love, Bunny Berigan, Ebay, Iron Curtain, jazz autographs

FLASHES of BIX / "FLASHES" for BIX7 comments

jazzlives wrote 2 weeks ago: Many YouTube videos of jazz performances are exuberant hot music, nearly violent in their emotional … more →

Tags: The Heroes Among Us, Jazz Titans, The Things We Love, It's A Mystery, the real thing, Awful Sad, Pay attention, Irreplaceable, bix beiderbecke

"WE'RE ONLY HERE TO HAVE FUN"2 comments

jazzlives wrote 2 weeks ago: I celebrate Flemming Thorbye again for sharing this clip from Danish television (October 2008).  In … more →

Tags: The Heroes Among Us, Jazz Titans, The Things We Love, the real thing, Swing You Cats!, Pay attention, Irreplaceable, louis armstrong, Joe Muranyi


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