Paul McCartney's new album, Kisses on the Bottom, which you can listen to later today, sees him turning his hand to jazz-age standards. And the result, writes Jamie Cullu...
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He cackles like Ian Dury, smokes like a chimney and grew up preferring Fela Kuti to S Club 7. And as for Jessie J's old haunt, 'It's all right … for school!'Upstair...
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1937: Number 10 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicIn 1937, Nat King Cole and his trio started a residency at the Sewanee Inn, an LA nightclub...
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Ryan Driver - "It's Tulip Season". Ryan Driver cannot quite sing like Chet Baker, but he can listen to Chet Baker. He can study 16mm film and practice Chet Baker's walk, ...
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By PicoI've always had a hard time distinguishing West Coast jazz from East Coast jazz by ear. I mean. I know it's supposed to be a more smoothed-out "cooler" variant o...
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humppazoid said...Chet Baker & Wolfgang Lackerschmid "Welcome Back!" (1987) Cool Jazz Session!http://humppazoid.blogspot.coma r n e l said...VisageYello - 15 albums...
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Robert said...Judas Priest - 1981-02-27 - Wiesbaden, Germany. "Live After Midnight".Rolling Stones - 1995-03-12 - Tokyo Japan. "Eastern Promise".Kiss - 1995-02-07 - Me...
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Someone who identifies himself on YouTube as "liveacid" went to painstaking trouble to manufacture a video of Chet Baker and Paul Desmond playing "Autumn Leaves." The mus...
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Time Bandit said...From C-60 in the mid-week:Doll by Doll "Remember" (1979)Doll by Doll "Gypsy Blood" (1979)Grant Peeples "Down Here in the County" (2007)Tift Merrit...
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Though still in progress with James Gavin's thick new volume on the life & times of the recently departed ancestor Lena Horne, several in-progress observations give high ...
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jeffen said...Great Celtic-folk-punk from this POGUES-related band:THE MEN THAT THEY COULDN'T HANG - BBC Sessions (1984-1985)http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com Wi...
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