It’s the end of the year as we know it, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Whether you’re out of a job (and these day, who isn’t) or just hanging by a thread, 2008 was the year of the economic collapse. It didn’t start out that way, though. In January of 2008 [...]
It was on this date in 1947 that Dizzy Gillespie and Luciano “Chano” Pozo put the “Latin” in Latin Jazz, recording for the first time the tune that would become a signature of the genre. This is, as far as so-called “Latin Jazz” goes, the Big Bang. (Extra points if you can tell us the [...]
We love jazz around here, and we intend to do our part to keep it alive, because the truth is that there aren’t many of the greats of jazz still around any more. Those who created this music a century ago and even those who radically changed its direction more than 60 years ago have [...]
I’m not a big football fan, although I played some in high school. I’ll watch five games a season or so, but to the extent that I follow the game, I’m a Giants fan. But, this season, with the Giants flush in the (fair-weather) fan department, I admit that I was a Jets bandwagon jumper. [...]
In 2001, I was just starting out at WBGO-FM, the jazz radio station in Newark. I had just come back from Asbury Park and was running an on-line magazine called elbeat.com. (Don’t bother to look. It doesn’t exist any more.) It was, in retrospect, the daddy of blogcityblog.com. Back then, there weren’t 70,000,000 blogs out [...]
We don’t get a lot of it around here but when we do see some fog, it’s pretty cool. I was walking late last night and thought maybe there would be some great photo opportunities to be had on the waterfront, but then it started to rain … Cruz
Former Tennessee Republican Party Chairman and wannabe National GOP Chairman Chip Saltsman shared his Christmas spirit with fellow Republicans by sending them a music CD, which featured a song called “Barack the Magic Negro.” Set to the tune of “Puff the Magic Dragon,” it’s one of 40 song “parodies” on the album “We Hate the [...]
“What I said to Mrs. Johnson upset her? I don’t know why it should upset her, I was telling her the truth.”
Sure, Christmas is fun and most of us are lucky enough to have someone or something to be with on the holiday, but, thankfully, many of us also recognize that this season sucks for a lot of people. So, with that in mind, here’s Bob Dorough with Miles Davis, singing “Blue X-Mas (to whom it [...]
It turned out to be a lovely holiday. Despite the pending world economic collapse, Americans were shopping their arses off, at least around here. I guess that’s good for the economy, right? Luckily, my exposure to the retail craziness was limited to a quick trip to Target. That’s one of the reasons I had a [...]
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