Jazz & Blues Lounge

You have to love the news and the people who do weather.  You would have thought that the snow storm that blew through the Chicago area was going to somehow kill every living being here.  You would have thought that so much snow would fall that every building in the city would collapse, burying millions beneath the rubble.
Of course, the East Coast news people go exactly the opposite way.  It only becomes news to them when it actually hits New York.  Chicago COULD have been wiped out by a freak snow fall and they wouldn’t notice or acknowledge it until …read more

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So, I have been fighting some kind of nasty illness that I am calling (with all due respect to writer Dave Barry, from whom I am stealing) “The Martian Death Flu.”  Of course, what does this have to do with jazz and blues?  Very little really, but I will make a stab at it.
It all started exactly one week ago when the weather changed and I began coughing.  It was a cough as loud and annoying as any wrong note Charlie Parker may have ever played when he first picked up his saxophone.  I could only wish the coughing would …read more

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