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The Friday Morning Listen: Cab Calloway – Minnie The Moocher (1940)
If you’ve paid any attention at all to what I’ve been writing about over the years, a simple conclusion can be reached: this stuff is very important to me.
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Ricky Skaggs – Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass (2008)
With today’s passing of Earl Scruggs at age 88, we returned to a stirring tribute to the three-finger banjo style of this Country Music Hall of Famer by Ricky Scaggs.
Mort Weiss: Paul Whiteman’s TV show, and spending New Year’s Eve with Ella Fitzgerald
I was quite active in the early days of live television, most of which was shot in Hollywood, California. Sometime in the latter part of 1951, I got a call from the director and producer of many teen-oriented TV shows.
Mort Weiss: Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry once blew us away under LA’s Big Top
Los Angeles/Hollywood, California, in the late 1940s through the early 1960s was a happening place for jazz and jazz musicians. There was always a place to play a jam session, or more correctly session(s)
Mort Weiss: Two strangers on a train, me and another kid named Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley. I spent most of a day and night with the cat, back in March or April 1956. Me? I was stationed at Fort Riley Kansas in the 1st Infantry Division — the Big Red One
Jeremy Davis and the Fabulous Equinox Orchestra – Great American Swagger (2011)
You come in expecting one thing, being as Jeremy Davis focuses on the mid-century big-band formula. And, at times, you hear Sinatra in this album. Dorsey, too.
Mort Weiss: On white guys playing the blues, and Benny Goodman practicing nude
Yes, I drank muddy water — and slept in a hollow log! Um, hmm! I said that I steady drank muddy water, and slept in a hollow log. Ah huh!
Peter Appleyard and the Jazz Giants – The Lost 1974 Sessions (2012)
A vibraphonist very much in the tradition of Lionel Hampton, Peter Appleyard — who’d, fittingly, worked with Benny Goodman in the period that these recordings were made — has issued 21 albums as a leader. Unfortunately, many (maybe most) of them have long been out of print
Paul McCartney to stream live set through iTunes on Thursday from Capitol Studios
Paul McCartney will stream a live concert featuring songs from his forthcoming release Kisses on the Bottom this Thursday from Capitol Studios.
Paul McCartney admits to pressure-filled moments during sessions for Kisses on the Bottom
Recording a collection of well-known standards for the forthcoming Kisses on the Bottom, despite its cheeky title, was something of a challenge for Paul McCartney.
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