July 14th, 2008
I am declaring this Mingus Monday. I have no idea why other than I was rooting around online for some cool jazz to listen to and came across some of Charles and his and from 1975 which you will see below. He was playing live at Montreux at the time and playing his […]
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June 11th, 2008
At the “Blues on the Fox” festival this weekend the featured artist is a remarkable musician named KennY Wayne Shepherd. If you do not know of him, you really should. In my opinion he is one of the greatest living guitar players around. He first burts onto the scene back in the […]
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June 5th, 2008
Well, the 25th Annual Chicago Blues Festival kicked off officially today. I did not get a chance to go downtown and see the concerts today because I have this, you know, job thing to take care of. However, thanks to radio station WXRT I was able to listen to performers from the Blues […]
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June 5th, 2008
Well, as you know, we lost one of the biggest names and influences on modern music this week. He is known as a bluesman, but he really influenced rock and roll right along with some of the earliest rock and roll musicians. I felt like I hadn’t really done the man justice with […]
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May 28th, 2008
Tonight I am just in a mellow mood. It’s been a rough couple of nights for your humble writer of the Jazz and Blues Lounge. For some reason, I have not slept well in a couple of nights. So, as I write this one, I am barely conscious. When I get […]
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May 19th, 2008
Please understand that I understand that there are more blues musicans out there besides Buddy Guy. Just like I do understand that there are other jazz musicians out there besides Miles Davis. I just get into these moods. Right now, I am in the Buddy Guy mode when it comes to […]
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May 12th, 2008
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 […]
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March 13th, 2008
If you have not found the Sad Salamanders yet, you need to. I have mentioned them before and I am attempting to champion them as one of the premier jazz bands out there right now. They are, at the very least, a helluva lot of fun to listen to. Well, now they have released their […]
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March 5th, 2008
I have to admit I am fairly new (and now a little late) to the music of Jeff Healey. Since I started writing this particular blog, I have been trying to expand some of my music listening. So, it is only since I started writing here that I came across the blind guitar player. As […]
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February 25th, 2008
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 […]
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