Ever hear of rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson ? Well, if you have, it should come as no surprise that the pioneering female rocker just celebrated her 75th birthday October 20thright where you’d expect: onstage. And if you don’t know Wanda and her music, well, let me introduce you. It’s the perfect time, too as Wanda’s […]
Happy (belated)birthday Wanda Jackson!
Posted October 26th, 2012 at 3:44 pm (UTC+0)
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Baseball and The Bee Gees
Posted October 25th, 2012 at 12:17 pm (UTC+0)
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By Doug Levine It’s World Series time and there’s a lot of excitement for this great event featuring the Detroit Tigers and San Francisco Giants. Like many of my fellow baseball fans here in DC, I too was on the edge of my seat pulling for our Washington Nationals to win their divisional playoff series. […]
Legendary Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck
Posted October 24th, 2012 at 5:27 pm (UTC+0)
A 19-CD box set has been released, covering all of the studio recordings of the classic Brubeck Quartet
“Tunnel Of Love” At 25
Posted October 22nd, 2012 at 6:36 pm (UTC+0)
By Ray McDonald Bruce Springsteen’s “Tunnel Of Love” is my go-to Springsteen album. I find myself returning to it time and again. Here was a superstar at his most vulnerable, pouring his heart out during a desperate, confusing moment in his life. Well, just a couple weeks ago – October 9 – “Tunnel Of Love” […]
A Good Live CD Makes You Feel Like You’re At The Show
Posted October 17th, 2012 at 8:12 pm (UTC+0)
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By Katherine Cole It’s funny. I’ve been to Nashville many times and I’m starting to think that no musician there is satisfied doing just one thing. Pickers want to be singers. Songwriters want to be producers, and I bet a bunch of those producers have guitars sitting by their beds, just waiting for the next […]
American Splendors: Coltrane and Pekar
Posted October 16th, 2012 at 5:26 pm (UTC+0)
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I really love jazz, so the other night when I was driving home from work, I was listening to John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things.” It got me thinking about the movie I had seen a few days earlier called “American Splendor,” because Coltrane’s treatment is featured on the soundtrack. The film follows the trials and […]
The British Are Coming…Again
Posted October 15th, 2012 at 4:21 pm (UTC+0)
I have a theory: the U.S. is in the midst of another British Invasion. Of course, there was that first one back in the 18th Century, but musically, the first “British Invasion” began in 1964 with The Beatles, then expanded to include dozens of other acts – many of whom are now in the Rock […]
Jonathan Kreisberg’s One, Exclusive Music
Posted October 15th, 2012 at 3:03 pm (UTC+0)
Acclaimed Kreisberg releases his first solo album next month on vinyl, and in late Dec on CD
Excitement in Nashville!
Posted October 12th, 2012 at 3:58 pm (UTC+0)
By Katherine Cole I never thought I’d be glad to say “hello from my desk,”but that’s how I’m feeling today. Between the recent Americana Music Association conference two weeks ago and the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass event last week, I’m just happy to be home. Not that I didn’t have a great […]
Ramsey Lewis, Taking Another Look
Posted October 1st, 2012 at 2:16 pm (UTC+0)
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Three-time Grammy winner and jazz legend is going to host a new television show about jazz music
