Blogs about: Vic Dickenson
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THAT'S LIKE IT OUGHT TO BE
My title comes from a Jelly Roll Morton record from his great Victor period — but it’s a close approximation of the phrase that came into my mind when I watched and heard this great small … more →
JAZZ LIVES
THAT'S LIKE IT OUGHT TO BE
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jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: My title comes from a Jelly Roll Morton record from his great Victor period — but it’s a … more →
JAZZ TREASURES IN CYBERSPACE
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jazzlives wrote 4 weeks ago: I spend more than enough time in front of the computer (my neck can testify to this) but I’ve … more →
THE SPIRITS OF RHYTHM
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: Up until a few weeks ago, I would have sworn that the entire output of the Spirits of Rhythm — … more →
SIGN IN, PLEASE
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: At the risk of turning JAZZ LIVES into a blog wholly devoted to jazz “paper ephemera,” I … more →
JAM WITH DAN! (October 16, 2009)
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: DAN BARRETT’S EAST COAST TOUR (Part Three) This installment in the Barrett Chronicles 2009 tak … more →
INSPIRED ABANDON! (Thanks to Dan Barrett)
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: DAN BARRETT’S NEW YORK CITY TOUR, Part One Thursday, October 15, 2009, was a depressing night … more →
REDISCOVERED PLEASURES
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jazzlives wrote 2 months ago: Of late I have been living in a temporary self-created chaos, attempting to pare down a surfeit of p … more →
MISS LEE WILEY, 1959 and 1972
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jazzlives wrote 2 months ago: I had never seen this photograph before — Lee Wiley, after her “retirement” from m … more →
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 →
TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS!
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jazzlives wrote 5 months ago: As a characteristically generous response to my post on the trumpeter Joe Thomas, my longtime friend … more →
IN A LOUIS MOOD: CLINT BAKER and FRIENDS
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jazzlives wrote 6 months ago: Milt Hinton used to say, “If you don’t like this, you don’t like broccoli.” … more →
BENNY VISITS "AVALON"
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jazzlives wrote 6 months ago: In the last few days I’ve been listening to the Benny Goodman Festival being broadcast on WKCR … more →
DON EWELL and DICK WELLSTOOD, 1981
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jazzlives wrote 6 months ago: Yes, Ewell had had a stroke some years earlier. Neither of the pianos at the Manassas Jazz Festival … more →
Tuesday Lunchtime Tuneage
NR Davis wrote 7 months ago: tip of the baseball cap to my pal Steve S. … more →
A PORTRAIT OF BOBBY HACKETT
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jazzlives wrote 7 months ago: This marvelous documentary in miniature — a precious tribute to the cornetist Bobby Hackett … more →
THE MILLS BROTHERS, 1932
jazzlives wrote 8 months ago: You’ll see that in this 1932 short film, made my Max Fleischer, the animated portion satirizes … more →
LOVE AND THE BLUES, TWICE
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jazzlives wrote 9 months ago: Even though they have the most expressive faces imaginable, so many inspiring jazz players and singe … more →
INSPIRATION'S SOURCES
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jazzlives wrote 9 months ago: People who live for jazz recordings and performances are often surprised to find that jazz musicians … more →
VIC DICKENSON SINGS OF DESIRE
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jazzlives wrote 10 months ago: I never thought I would see this performance again. I first saw it perhaps twenty years ago on a blu … more →
