Jazz & Blues Lounge

Well, your friendly neighborhood jazz and blues blogger apparently has come down with the flu.  I have been avoiding it all winter.  However, this past weekend I had to visit my grandmother in the hospital and there is no place worse to go when you want to avoid germs than a big building full of sick people.  I also had not slept well last week which always lowers the immune system’s defenses.
So, I am taking today to rest.  I would love to spend the day listening to jazz, in particular the Miles Davis Concert double-CD that is one of my favorites.  …read more

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It’s Monday again and there is more bad weather predicted for Chicago.  Now, normally I prefer Fall and Winter over Spring and Summer.  I am not much for heat and I do not enjoy thunderstorms.  Spring is too full of the second one and summer is too full of the first.  Generally speaking, the heat in July and August turns me from a generally good-natured fat dude into a cranky, sweat, smelly fat dude. 
Still, even so, this winter has gotten to me.  It has been one burying snow fall after another followed by these intense, bone-chilling deep freezes.  This has …read more

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Hello one and all.  I wanted to write and tell you all that I apologize for not writing over the past few days.  I have been fighting some kind of horrific head cold.  I have been very doped up on cold medicine and barely able to keep my head up.
I have been greatly enjoying writing the “Master of Jazz” series (as I have come to think of it) and I wanted to write about several other classic jazz musicians and artists.  They are a lot of fun to write, but they do take a lot of time.  They tend to …read more

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