Well, I am a day late here. I have visions of people wandering around the jazz section of their particular music store of choice, lost, hopeless and helpless. I hope that didn’t happen to you, my faithful readers. With the death of Bo Diddley and the Chicago Blues Festival this week, my […]
Is it really the last week in the month of May, already? Wasn’t it just New Years Day like, yesterday? At this rate the holidays will be here in the blink of an eye. I will be celebrating my niece’s birthday before I know it. Jeez, who hit the Fast-Forward button?
Anyway, […]
Ah, the saga of the Sad Salamanders and their video or their rockin’ (or is that, jazzin’) tune “My Parents Are Swingers.” Just to recap: The Salamanders are this awesome group that reached out to me back around February wondering if I would give their new CD “Cigarettes and Fishnets” a listen. I […]
Ah, Tuesday, it’s such a lovely day. Seldom does Tuesday get much respect. People have football on Monday and they love to complain about it. They have Wednesday and the call it “hump day” and celebrate the fact that it is the middle of the week. On Thursday you have Must […]
I got an e-mail from the fearless leader of the Sad Salamanders the other day. It appears that the video, which you have seen oosted here and linked to here and talked about here, has been removed from YouTube. I hope Scooter doesn’t mind me cutting and pasting his e-mail, but he writes:
“As […]
It is another Tuesday and that means new releases and reissues galore. Unlike last week, it seems that the record companies have plenty they want you to check out this coming week. This is, once again, from AllAboutJazz.com which is a great online magazine all about jazz (hence the name, I am gathering). […]
Well, it is a Monday morning and I am still in my Blues Training phase. I am loving it. The friend who created the blues CD for me certainly selected some great tunes. Of course, the first part of the CD was the Buddy Guy album “Sweet Tea” that I raved about […]
The spring season has kicked into high gear and things are getting busy in the music world. Things are also getting busy amongst us here at b5media. So, I missed the normal release date when it came to the new releases and the reissues. Actually, this month so far the new releases […]
I love writing this blog. When I started, I just hoped a few folks who were devoted to, primarily, jazz would stop by and read a few things and I would have been happy. However, I have been surprised by how much this site and this blog has grown. I was delighted […]
It is a Saturday morning here in Chicago and the weather is vintage Chicago. In short, it was sunny and bright when I woke up, but now it’s cloudly and threatening rain less than an hour later. It is also that weird mid-ranged temperature when you really should wear a jacket, but it […]
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