Eubie Blake was 98 when this recording was made of him playing his Charleston Rag. The audio is only passable. Blake composed I’m Just While About...
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Scott Joplin lived at the very outer edge of the communications age, and even saying that is pushing it. He came before film or audio recording, but his work...
From a review in the Boston Globe of the Beach Boys concert Tuesday night at the Bank of America Pavilion in Boston: It’s a relief to report that the Beach...
Here is an entertaining interview with These United States’ Jesse Elliott from Seven Days, an online publication in Vermont. Consequence of Sound reviews...
This morning, the site featured the great Big Joe Turner. One of the clips featured Jay McShann along with Turner. Here is more McShann. Kansas City has a...
The Blasters performance above is from the first Farm Aid in 1985. I wasn’t familiar with the band, but a site visitor sent me a clip and the unfortunate...
Bobby Darin — born in 1936 as Robert Walden Cassotto in the Bronx — accomplished a lot in his life, which only lasted 34 years. Here is a short bio...
I bet people who were around during World War II would say this song sums up many of the emotions of those times, especially when things looked bleakest. The...
I ran across a couple of versions of The Peter Gunn Theme by the late, great Roy Buchanan while looking for Henry Mancini clips. It’s quite a tribute to...
The “cat” Mancini refers to in his little intro is sax player Don Menza. He played a key role in one of the most recognizable opening passages in...
