Saturday Music Club: some younger jazz bands
Regina Carter: "Reverse Thread" (excerpts)Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: "Transit"Gregory Porter: "1960 What?"Jamie Baum Septet: "Solace"Gilfema + 2: "Question of Perspective"Black Gardenia:...
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new links: Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Near DarkAs is usually the case, there might well be further additions over the course of the day to this list of links to reviews, citations and brief essays about the a/v presentations (and...
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FFB: Semiotext(e) SF, edited by Rudy Rucker, Peter Lamborn Wilson and Robert...
There have been impressive special issues of magazines over the decades, not least such numbers of good little magazines as TriQuarterly or Conjunctions or even the too-often precious McSweeney's, but...
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Lennie TristanoJohn CageDoc WatsonThe Go! Teamwomen in jazzUS folk music(part two, in small increments beginning with this one--copyright challenge on the full episode, though pt. 3 is available in one...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: more links (and some reviews)
Pete Kelly's BluesThe links below are to reviews and citations of the cited insufficiently (usually!) appreciated audio/visual presentations, leaning heavily toward film but not exclusively so. Thanks...
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FFB: Ray Russell's fiction anthologies from PLAYBOY
Playboy, of course, was always about its (mostly Hugh Hefner's) idea of being sophisticated (or at least being seen as such). As Hefner was a lover of fiction nearly as much as he was of pulchritude...
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Hazel Scott: "A Foggy Day"/"Autumn Leaves" The Hazel Scott Show was an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran during the summer of...
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Tom Lehrer: "The Irish Ballad" (from Copenhagen, 1967)(His 1967 Oslo concert will be a public-television pledger this month...)Jackie Kashian: on Conan the other dayPaul F. Tompkins: Â Go Ask AliceMary...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Sergeant RutledgeThanks as always to all the contributors of the reviews and citations at the links below, and to all you readers (and, if you're moved to be, commenters at the posts). There are likely...
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a quick survey of fragrance reviews
My friend Laura, an aficionada of the Voluptuary Arts, is particularly fond of fragrance reviews, not least these from lucky scent:Laura:The fun of fragrance reviews is that they sharply contrast for...
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February's Underappreciated Music: the links
Eva CassidyPatti Abbott: Eva CassidySean Coleman: Elvis Costello and the Attractions:Â Imperial BedroomBill Crider: songs of the day;LaVern Baker Kate Laity: George Harrison: "The Pirate Song" and...
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FFB: THE UNKNOWN 5 edited by D. R. Bensen (Pyramid 1964)--from 2009: an...
This fine and somewhat influential collection is for several reasons newly, sadly relevant...it has a cover and a new (in 1964) illustration by John Schoenherr for the previously-unpublished story in...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: some choices from BUST magazine and nearby
some performers I hadn't listened to before looking at a year-old issue of Bust this morning...Estelle (featuring Janelle Monáe): "Do My Thing"Cate Le Bon: "Fold the Cloth"The Asteroids Galaxy Tour:...
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Miriam Makeba's birthday
...as Google is kind enough to remind us, this is the anniversary of the late Makeba's birth...(1932-2008).So here are posts involving "Mama Africa":"Forgotten Music": Miriam Makebasome music...
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Tuesday's Overlooked FIlms and/or Other A/V: the links
To Have and Have NotAnother Tuesday crop of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links below...as always, thanks to all the contributors and to all you...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club on Thursday: mostly 1960s televised music of various...
Opening themes to a variety of 1960s US series (including documentary series). Interesting the degree to which big-band-flavored jazz arrangements were meant to indicate modernity, and not solely...
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FFB: THE HARPER'S FORUM BOOK: WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? edited by Jack Hitt...
Transcripts of a Bunch of Writers Talking.In 1984, Harper's, which had been fading as a magazine (into the shadows of its traditional rival The Atlantic Monthly and the comparative upstart The New...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club on Sunday: Some Sounds of Honolulu
*Mind you, none of this is traditional Hawaiian music, nor derived much from those traditions. For some of that, try here and here.Martin DennyThe Modern Folk QuartetBette MidlerSeawindKalapanaPoi Dog...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
The Shape of ThingsToday's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links below, including two takes on Side Effects...as always, thanks to all the...
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