Jazz & Blues Lounge

You have to love speciality record stores.  I also love a place where you can still buy jazz records.  I mean real records.  I mean things pressed out of vinyl and with grooves in it that you have to put on a turntable and then place a needle.  There is just something cool about jazz listened to on vinyl.  A lot of the jazz from the era I love the most was designed to be listened to on vinyl.  That’s why, in my dreams, I have a classic jazz radio station that operates on the AM dial…  *sigh*
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There was a time when Michigan Avenue was lined with record labels.  Michigan Avenue is the main road through downtown Chicago, for those of you who do not know.  In fact, the south Michigan area was once know as “Record Row.”  Some of the greatest Chicago blues musicians the world has ever seen recorded there.  They are all gone now, and many of them forgotten.
An article by the Chicago Daily Herald talks about how some are trying to preserve at least one of those legendary record labels.
A new CD release has attempted to collect the now-forgotten sound of Vee-Jay Records.  …read more

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