Second Editor’s Note (Thanksgiving 2017): This now will be the third time I’m posting Edward Tarte’s Thanksgiving recital. So I guess...
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Some people say that jazz is an acquired taste. If so, an avant-garde jazz trombonist — which is what Roswell Rudd is — is an advanced acquired...
In 1945, Duke Ellington recorded I’m Just a Lucky So and So. Check out Tony Bennett’s version, which is from “The Conan O’Brien...
Editor’s Note: This is the first of an occasional feature focusing on covers of — and sometimes by– a band or artist. Check out The Covers...
Happy Birthday, Daniel.
The version of “Shout” embedded below is the Saturday Night Beech-Nut Hour hosted by Dick Clark. The first two or three seconds are priceless if...
The remarkable ability of New Orleans to produce trumpet (and cornet) players — which began with Buddy Bolden and reached its zenith with Louis Armstrong...
Like many people my age (and younger), my impressions of the world, for better or worse, are shaped by video. I was thoroughly convinced for years that World...
Here is the start of a bio of Tito Puente that no longer seems to be onlin: Tito Puente is internationally recognized for his seminal contributions to Latin...
On Monday, TDMB featured Gioacchino Antonio Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” so it seems to make sense to follow it up with Ian Dury and the Blockheads...
