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Aretha Franklin’s voice has recorded 20 #1 singles on the Billboard R&B charts, earned 20 Grammys and has melted the soul of this twenty-something girl since birth. I can still hear that old, scratchy 45 of “Think” spinning it’s guts out on my parents’ turntable [...]
Growing up, I managed to destroy TWO beta tapes of Annie by watching them over, and over, and over again. I eventually moved onto The Wizard of Oz and the likes of My Fair Lady (although, at the age of 8, I could barely understand what Audrey was saying). Musicals via film or stage have [...]
One of my all-time favorite old flicks is “A Song is Born” (1948) starring Danny Kaye. A Song is Born staffs jazz greats like Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, the Golden Gate Quartet, Tommy Dorsey, Mel Powell, Louis Bellson, and Charlie Barnett and lets the viewer tune in to watch them tear away at [...]
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A beautiful vintage find. The haunting faces in the side of this piece stare right back at you.
Louis Armstrong’s music has the magical power to send me on an emotional rollercoaster. Lucky for us, a new edition of those tracks from the 1935-46 Decca recordings, mostly of his work with the big bands, has just been released by Mosaic.
Listen or read a review of the release over at NPR.
Jazz critic Kevin [...]
