...A while back I'd written a tribute article to Charlie "Bird" Parker "*that later got published*":http://www.rhino.com/rzine/StoryKeeper.lasso?StoryID=922 giving props where propers were due which led me to slap on some of Mose Allison's Anthology, Allison Wonderland-- The Mose Allison Anthology while listening to jazz that day and it blew me away...again. It felt like I was always checking h...
...I'd written a tribute article to Charlie "Bird" Parker in "Rhino's R-zine":http://www.rhino.com/rzine/StoryKeeper.lasso?StoryID=922 back in August giving props where propers were due which I tend to do with artists who touch me on that, rare, profound level and last night I had another one of those moments......I was cutting in the crib reading a James Wolcott article last night and slapped...
...I'd written a tribute article to Charlie "Bird" Parker in "Rhino's R-zine":http://www.rhino.com/rzine/StoryKeeper.lasso?StoryID=922 back in August giving props where propers were due which I tend to do with artists who touch me on that, rare, profound level and last night I had another one of those moments......I was cutting in the crib reading a James Wolcott article last night and slapped...
Thought it might be interesting, just for a change, to post not a later version of a song we already know, but the little-known original recording of a song better known from a subsequent incarnation. Bonnie Raitt made this song famous, but let's tip our collective cap to the man who wrote it and provides what is still, for me, the definitive version. If you ever sing along with recordings tryi...
...A while back I'd written a tribute article to Charlie "Bird" Parker "*that later got published*":http://www.rhino.com/rzine/StoryKeeper.lasso?StoryID=922 giving props where propers were due which led me to slap on some of Mose Allison's Anthology, Allison Wonderland-- The Mose Allison Anthology while listening to jazz that day and it blew me away...again. It felt like I was always checking h...