Jazz & Blues Lounge

Well, I for one had a really great Christmas.  I spent most of it looking at my baby niece and marveling at the fact that she was so beautiful and starting to respond to my voice, make noises back at me and look around and notice things.  I mean, really, how incredibly cool is that.  I can also say, without a doubt, that she is the cutest baby in the history of babies.  Then again, I might be a tad biased.
I will confess, I had a remarkably music-free Christmas, however.  Much of the focus was on the baby and the …read more

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I was doing some poking around online and found some new music you migh like.  Of cousre, I also mixed up some medication this morning and instead of taking my acid reflux meds, took a Melatonin pill that has all but put me in a coma all day.  As such, I will be lucky to get a few paragraphs written here.
Although it is well documented that I love the horn players, particularly the trumpet players I do love other instruments used in jazz.  I am a big fan of Lionel Hampton, for example, and he plays the vibes.  I love …read more

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The Christmas season is here which means people will soon be pestering me for things to buy me for the season.  Thankfully, being a fan of jazz, this usually  means I can find some jazz box sets or compilations to help round out my collection.  As I have mentioned before, those compilations and boxed sets are some of the best ways to get a wide variety of music, especially for some classic artists like Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. 
So, I decided to take a peek at Amazon.com and look at their Jazz Box Sets.  Some of these look interesting to …read more

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