Jazz & Blues Lounge

I love getting comments on this blog.  I never cease to stop learning from the people who take the time out of their busy day to comment on what I write.  I have written novels and I have written non-fiction books and there is nothing quite like running any kind of blog.  Blogs are so much more immediate, it’s like when I was in radio and would make a comment about the White Sox and get immediate phone calls from angry Cubs fans.
I love the recent comments for “joared” who left a few on recent posts.  I wanted to mention …read more

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It was my original intent to hunt down some video somewhere of the Sad Salamanders performing live.  Apparently such an animal does not, as yet, exist.  Guys, you need to get on that.  Start posting to YouTube or something, wouldja?  I spent the whole weekend grooving to your awesome CD “Cigarettes and Fishnets” and wanted to spread a little more cheer around the the public, and couldn’t.
So, I found THIS instead.  What is it?  Why nothing more than Miles Davis and the great John Coltrane performing “So What.”  I love that tune and the look of Miles Davis in his …read more

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I was rooting around on MySpace, becuase I do that as you know, and I came across a site and immediately checked it out. I was totally digging the music and everything and immediately thought about directing the people who come to this site to it. Then I had to pause. Did I already direct people to this site? Had I mentioned this one before? Hmmmm…
Being the lazy SOB that I am, I am not bothering to root through my own blog and find out. I figure, if I posted this before, it was a long time ago and, well, …read more

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I love writing these posts about certain artists that have greatly influenced and set the groundwork for modern jazz.  It usually sparks a debate, or gets me a few comments from jazz fans, and I love that.  That’s part of why I do what I do.
I wrote about Dizzy yesterday and got a decent response from it.  There is another artist that really helped jazz become what it is today, but there are a lot of people who probably don’t really realize the talent and artistic value the man brought to the world of jazz.  Why?  Well, because his songs …read more

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When I worked at the jazz radio station on the campus of Webster University in the earl 90s, a lot of us who were not jazz fans when we started, slowly became fans of the music as time went on.  Some of the people I worked with became fans of some of the more modern jazz musicians.  While I certainly liked music by the likes of Tom Scott and David Sanborn, I sort of developed a soft spot for the classic jazz musicians.
My absolute favorite was always Miles Davis, as I have stated repeatedly here on this blog.  It was …read more

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