Your friendly neighborhood mogger Pete (me) as a Crazy 88 yakuza member (characters from Kill Bill) at this year's Halloween party. I had a great time!!BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!
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As I was going to work today I stopped at the local convenience store to get a cuppa. Just as I was leaving this song started playing.>And an earworm was born. But this was no ordinary annoying earworm, this was earwormus maximus, the single most annoying from I've ever encountered.You see, ??The first stanza?? morphed, circled back on itself, and became an endless loop.Now, I know jazz buffs...
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Possibly one of the greatest hits that Al Hirt ever recorded was "Java" which became his signature tune. It was written in 1964 by Allen Toussaint, Alvin O. Tyler, Murray Sporn and Marilyn Schack. This is the original sound of that hit recording and has a good deal of the funkiness that made the song such a memorable hit for Al Hirt. For many years, Al Hirt was called "The Java Man" among other...
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Fats Domino had a gigantic hit which was as large as the man himself with "Kansas City" which became one of his signature songs. It was written in 1959 by lyricist Mike Stoller and composer Jerry Leiber. Gerald Wilson writes a hard driving chart that is pulsating and vital like the city itself. Trumpeter Al Hirt plays with a hard driving intensity backed by dissonant sax responses along with br...
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A much loved work which brings back memories of a concert band playing outdoors for a summertime music loving crowd, "Carnival of Venice" was composed by Bellak in 1854. It essentially is a work that shows of the technique and skill of a performer and has tested many a trumpet and cornet player ever since its creation. Here the big band sits out and the small sextet comes out to back Al Hirt who p
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"Tennessee Waltz" was written in 1948 by Western Swing masters Rodd Stewart and Pee Wee King and popularly revived in 1951 by Patty Page who made the song her signature tune. More recently, country star Jean Shepard has taken up the song and sings it regularly on the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville, TN. Gerald Wilson has written a vaguely humorous chart in waltz time with the band swinging aw...
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| 2 Music to Watch Girls By |
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| 3 Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air) |
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| 4 Green Hornet Theme |
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| 5 Al's Place |
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