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I don’t do resolutions and I’ve pretty much given up on reading challenges. But I did come up with a couple projects for the year over the holidays. One has to do with the perpetual “to read” stacks in various parts of the house. As part of some changes in our bedroom, I moved in [...]            Tim January 8th, 2013 | Tags: Books, jazz, reading | Category: A Reading Life, Music, Personal/Family | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostFor reasons ranging from time and interest (or lack of either), it’s been more than a year since I’ve done one of these posts. And I have to admit that the topic of this one actually came up in late summer or early fall. But I’m hoping to resume this a bit, if only sporadically. [...] Tim November 30th, 2011 | Tags: Beatles, Bill Evans, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Grand Funk, Jackson Browne, jazz, Midweek Music Moment, Neil Young, Rolling Stones, Santana | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostSomething that had been in the back a my mind for a while really started to sink in with last week’s announcement of the Grammy nominees — age is not only staring me in the face, it is slapping it. Ever since this blog started, I’ve had an annual post on my record of the [...] Tim December 6th, 2010 | Tags: jazz, Music, rock | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostToday’s music moment comes about only because of today’s news. The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961, the outstanding performance by the Bill Evans Trio, is one of 25 new additions to the National Recording Registry. In making the announcement, the Library of Congress said the five sets the trio performed on June 25, 1961, “are [...] Tim June 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Bill Evans, jazz, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostWith Springsteen and Dylan both releasing new CDs in 2009, you would think that would simplify my choices for album of the year. But Working on a Dream ranks as a below average Springsteen release and I’m enough of a Grinch that even Dylan doesn’t make me want to buy a CD of Christmas songs. [...] Tim December 28th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, jazz, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostBook blurbs often seem the equivalent of movie blurbs. Skepticism seems justified when a publisher puts a blurb smack on the front cover just below the title — especially when it says, “May be the best book ever written about jazz.” Is this honest commentary or gratuitous puffery? With Geoff Dyer’s But Beautiful: A Book [...] Tim November 10th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, jazz, Music, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews, Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostUsually, I try to use album releases and recording sessions as the basis for these features. But something struck we when I realized that September 15 was the anniversary of the death of jazz pianist Bill Evans. When he died in 1980, he was barely 51. That’s what struck me. With my birthday this week, [...] Tim September 16th, 2009 | Tags: Bill Evans, jazz, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostYou have to be of a certain era for the name Bill Chase to mean much. And it actually could mean something to you in two different contexts. Yet both contexts have an untimely limit. Bill Chase died in a plane crash on August 9, 1974, near Jackson, Minn.. One context is a pure jazz [...] Tim August 12th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, jazz, jazz-rock, Midweek Music Moment | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostToday’s jazz fan could only dream of a line-up like this: Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz. Yet those are just a few of the artists who performed at the first Newport Jazz Festival July 17-18, 1954. Newport is the granddaddy of the [...] Tim July 15th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, jazz, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostWith the Fourth of July upon us, it seems an appropriate time to celebrate a unique American music: jazz. So, you wonder, why is this post about Frank Zappa? The vast majority of the uninitiated think Zappa was just a weird rock musician. In point of fact, he was a too often unheralded explorer of [...] Tim July 1st, 2009 | Tags: Frank Zappa, jazz, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |
      
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