The home stretch. The middle four weeks gave us a Jazz/Funk quartets that likes to mix up covers, a child prodigy, musical LSD from one of the greats, and a powerful, solo piano performance. We are going to close with some legends, an artist who demands utter silence […]
For the first four weeks we visited modern jazz from a cornerstone of jazz music, one of the many seminal records of a jazz legend, the origins of thrash guitar, tucked inside a box of Latin inspired jazz fusion, and I avoided any further legal action from Mike […]
Thanks for sticking with me on this. If you are just checking out what the title means, I would direct you back to my first post, Jazz and the Sound of My Summer. Alright, now that everyone is caught up, I am going to talk a bit about […]
First things first, this has nothing to do with the movie or our grand tradition of checking if the little fella sees his shadow as a predictor for the amount of Winter left (is he accounting for global warming?). Really, it’s just a starting date and I think […]
This blog entry is the result and response of previous discussions on the topic in two podcasts, BoardGames and Brew (episode 6 – 31:51) and Dukes of Dice (episode 22 – 1:20:05). I started to post in the Dukes of Dice Guild and found that my thoughts warranted a […]
Someday My Prince Will Come by Miles Davis is one of the best morning records ever. From the opening title track, Davis’s interpretation of the composition from Snow White waltzes you melodiously into the morning. It reminds you that you are going to have a wonderful day, whether […]
