Jazz & Blues Lounge

I was a punk kid who was into Pink Floyd. What I really wanted to do was be on the radio. I thought I was going to be the next Howard Stern or, more likely, the next Steve and Garry (two Chicago radio legends). I had worked at the tiny AM station that my college, Webster University, has created first. It was known as WEBU AM 660 and you could pick pretty much any shift you wanted and play whatever the hell you wanted. This created a scattered program schedule and no one ever listened. …read more

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Well, I spent time on Friday looking up jazz and blues festival within the 100 mile radius of Chicago. Of course, there are blues and jazz festivals all over the country. I am only one man, however, so I am sticking close to home. I often get to places like St. Louis and Milwaukee, so I included those in my search.
I had originally planned to go through this list and then try to present them to you in order of their dates. Yeah, well, that seems like it will take a lot of time, so I …read more

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Well, I did some checking out of the various blues and jazz clubs in this fine city of St. Louis.  It wasn’t long before I came across what the Riverfront Times readers dubbed the Best Jazz and Blues Clubs in St. Louis for 2007.  It’s called BBs Jazz, Blues and Soup.
I love the city of St. Louis for several reasons.  It has a rich history, for one.  It also has a lot of very old buildings and really cool architecture.  It appears that BBs is a club housed in one of those places.  It was a hotel, house and even …read more

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Hello there faithful readers.  I hope you have a great weekend.  If you are visiting Chicago this weekend, I hope you have snow-shoes.  Chicago got hit with at least a foot of snow last night and into today.  Despite this, I did manage to get a flight out of Chicago and to St. Louis to hang with friends and watch the Super Bowl.
So, I will be here for a few days.  I did that last year too and posted a few jazz and blues things going on here in the Gateway City.  People seemed to enjoy that.  One thing is …read more

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So, I have this book that was just published.  It’s called “Ghosts of St. Louis: the Lemp Mansion and Other Eerie Tales” and you should buy it if you love real-life ghost stories.  You can find it at Amazon.com and other book websites and it’s by Schiffer Publishing.
But anyway… since it is about haunted places in St. Louis, I had to come to St. Louis to try to promote the book.  I had a radio station appearance on a morning radio show scheduled along with a book signing at a local bookstore all set up.  I have to say, if …read more

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