Showing posts with label jazz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jazz. Show all posts
Friday, February 12, 2021

Chick Corea Was A Scientologist (And His Obituaries Ought To Reflect The Cult)

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Fuck that Chick Corea was a Jazz artist, when he used his music to manipulate people into his cult. There is only one way to eulogize such a...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Robin Williams And Now This (Suicide Moves Closer)

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Derek Rieth, a founding member of, and percussionist for, the Portland pop orchestra, Pink Martini "Derek's enormous heart a...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Horace Silver, The Great Jazz Pianist, Has Passed Away

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Sunday, May 11, 2014

It's Just A Miss-Duh-Meaner (You've Got To Get Over It)

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Monday, March 10, 2014

This Is Easily The Best Version Of "Royals" Ever Done

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Springsteen's version sucked, and the original is a well-produced insult. This is a clown song that needed to be finally performed...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Old Jim Crow's Obituary (Was Written Waaay Too Soon)

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Friday, February 28, 2014

Louis Armstrong's Culture (Some Things Never Change)

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“That he was not interested in cultural assimilation is an indication of psychological security and confidence. It may also be taken as...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Spike Lee "Kills" A White Guy On Gentrification In NYC

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An epic rant. "The motherfuckin’ Christopher Columbus Syndrome. You can’t discover this! We been here. You just can’t come a...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

In Passing

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Alice Babs, Who Sang with Duke Ellington,  Dies at 90 Swedish star appeared at Ellington's 1960s Sacred Concerts
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

2014

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Monday, December 9, 2013

Everybody Sees Racism (Except For The Willfully Blind)

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Tearing good blacks down: “Has anyone ever noticed that 'biographers' like Terry Teachout always attempt to tear down great...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Some People Are Going To Have To Start Over Again

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   Stark Reality: Acting, Thinking, Feeling  
Saturday, October 5, 2013

If I Could Stop The World From Getting In Love's Way I'd Strangle It In It's Sleep & Start Life Over With New Music

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Friday, August 30, 2013

Simon Cowell's Having A Baby With Another Man's Wife (So, That Means, Criticism Stops At Judging Ourselves)

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Pop is suffering from the same malady as the art world, which is stuck on the tired old rubric that shock automatically confers value. ...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Don't Say I'm Preaching To The Choir (On Miley Cyrus)

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Jazz lovers know this, and with Jazz, you can't get more upright, suit-and-tie. But - just as with religion - there's a real m...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Same Paper, Two Deaths, Nobody Puts 2 + 2 Together

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Marian McPartland , pioneering female jazz pianist, dies at 95  (The lady in the yellow dress). Jean Bach dies at 94; made O...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

I Read The Althouse Blog Like Liberals Listen To Rush (Though It's Never As Smart, Charming, Or Credible,...)

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Letting white people with no taste - or bad taste - write about music is some kind of a crime: "'Got to Give It Up' i...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Frank Zappa's Funk & Jazz Master George Duke Is Dead

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Sunday, August 4, 2013

All Of My Friends Are Getting Movies Made About Them

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JUST A GUY WHO KNOWS trailer from Blind Escrow Productions on Vimeo . This is a new up-coming documentary about my friend's da...