The site will feature Oscar Peterson more fully in the near future. In the meantime, this clip is recommended to anyone who is at all interested in jazz piano...
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It’s a great trivia question: Name a performer who recorded with Frank Zappa and Frank Sinatra. The answer is Lowell George, the driving force behind...
Ray Charles’ I Can’t Stop Loving You was the top song on the charts during this day in 1962. It held the spot for five weeks, from May 27 to June...
The Los Angeles Times has an interesting piece on the influence of Ray Bradbury, the science fiction writer who died this week at age 91, on contemporary music...
Not too much to say about Vaughan. The videos speak for themselves. High on the too-long list of musicians who died too young. Here are Hendrix’ Voodoo...
Summer is here. It’s time to figure out who to see and where to see them. Here are some notes that may help, along with a bit of news: Justin Bieber...
It is really difficult to watch one clip of Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Try it. The best advice is either to not watch any, or set aside about a half hour. Tharpe...
Nobody can say that Willie Nelson follows the crowd. He started as a button-downed singer-songwriter in Nashville and now is the world’s oldest hippie...
Santana’s performance of Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock put the band — and, of course, Carlos — on the map. Here is Oye Como Va, a song written...
This is from a 1943 broadcast. Here is more on Toscanini and on the Grand Canyon Suite, which was written by Ferde Grofé. The piece is divided into five...
