Happy Fourth of July, 2017.
Category - Historical
Periodically, The Daily Music Break will highlight an important song, Please send candidates to carl@dailymusicbreak.com. Evidence of the importance of...
The Red Hot Jazz Archive calls Johnny Dodds one of he greatest clarinetists of the 1920s. The site says that two other greats of the day — Sidney Bechet...
In the right hands — and Joshua Rifkin is (or has) the right hands — ragtime piano speaks to something deep, poignant and sad in the American soul...
Sometimes things just happen in neat little bundles. Yesterday, my wife, daughter and I spent much of the afternoon at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens. The...
The first idea for this post was to cover a genre that had yet to be posted at the site. One of those is the barbershop quartet, and I found a version of...
Rudy Vallee would have turned 115 years old today. Wikipedia says that Vallee — Hubert Prior Vallée — “…was one of the first modern pop...
Music of the 18th century as recorded by Chester Simpson at Fort Frederick, Maryland in April 2011. The players, as best I can hear, are Dave McKnew, Al...
This is a 2001 reenactment of General Charles Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, which essentially ended the Revolutionary War. The tradition...
James McPherson’s “Battle Cry of Freedom” is considered by experts to be the best one-volume history of the Civil War. The book covers the...
