Jazz & Blues Lounge

I don’t want to delay too long on the death of Oscar Peterson.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s very sad that he passed.  I loved listening to him perform and loved his music, but he was in his 80s and had been a bit sick.  Not that that makes things all better, but you get my meaning. 
I also don’t want to appear as some kind of shill for Amazon.com.  They don’t pay me to mention them on this blog and I’ll show anyone my financial records to prove it.  It’s just that, well, you can find just about anything there.  …read more

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Of course, there are no end to the experts in the music world. As I mentioned, one of the biggest places to find lists of all kinds is Amazon.com.  Who are these people?  Then again, who am I?  I’m a guy who answered an ad he found online and now I am considered an expert in jazz and blues, despite the fact I have openly admitted here my blues knowledge was not nearly as great as my jazz knowledge.  Even then, there are people who have left comments here who obviously know more about jazz than me.
That being said, I …read more

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Earlier in the week I talked about an article on Amazon.com that purported to be the best blues albums of 2007.  Of course, there is also a list of the supposed best jazz albums of 2007 there as well. 
In theory, I should have my own list.  I have some problems with that, though.  I am just one guy and it would be physically impossible for me to listen to every single jazz album released in 2007.  How could I reasonably be expected to create a list of my favorite albums when, at best, I may have heard only one tune …read more

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Writing my post yesterday got me feeling bad about the fans of the blues who might have stumbled across this particular blog.  Sure, I may not get quite as many readers as the other bloggers around here, but I get enough to at least be able to hold my head up at the end of the day.  I pictured some poor newbie when it comes to the blues doing a Google search, stumbling across this site, eagerly looking for information about blues artists and venues, and finding only page after page of information about Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and other …read more

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