Here are three performances on video, and one ripped 45 of “Caravan” by Juan Tizol, the trombonist for the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Duke Ellington
Thelonius Monk
Nat King Cole
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And here is a snappy rendition of it by the Plas Johnson Quartet (Tampa records). (Courtesy of Office Naps.)
[Thanks to Cynical-C Blog]
The rest of the academic world has gone on their summer vacations while we here at UCLA are still working away. One and a half more weeks of class and then finals week, graduation and SUMMER!
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So as the academic year winds down, I have noticed the most remarkable trend in my friends over […]
A fun 5-minute documentary from 1965 about Igor Stravinsky. (Click on the image and watch it on YouTube.)
I woke up this morning with Miriam Makeba on my mind. I have no idea why, but I searched for her name, found a website that didn’t load for me, but found a recent (May 4, 2007) article by Karen Lotter (suite 101) which begins:
Miriam Makeba, Mamma Africa, lived in enforced exile for 31 […]
Daniel Wolf offers up a pair of brave posts on Renewable Music about composition competitions. He, along with David Ocker’s Mixed Meters blog, have joined the front lines of the QUESTION AUTHORITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC movement. I on the other hand, having become one with the universe, have thrown down […]
Here is Pink Floyd’s first single which was written by original band member Syd Barrett. The song is based on a real person who was a transvestite. (Read Wikipedia’s description of the story.) This is a rather bizarre video I had not seen where the band carries a mannequin around a beach. Hmm, what does […]
A silly June Carter introduces that Tennessee country artist, Hank Williams, singing one of his signature songs, “Hey Good Lookin’.”
The one and only Patsy Cline sings her famous “Walking after Midnight” in this ancient video clip. A good song to launch the summer.
The ur-electronica music from the late ’70s, Jean Michel Jarre is very cool here in this original video of his ongoing Oxygene series. Ah, those were the days where it was sooo cool to have a room full of keyboards, racks, rigs, flashing lights. Of course you really need all that equipment to play those […]
A veritable treasure trove of manuscripts are now available online. The Juilliard Manuscript Collection is a flash-based website with images of 99 manuscripts, and 8000 pages of high resolution scans of manuscripts by “famous” classical composers. I immediately gravitated to Stravinsky, finding early sketches for PETRUCHKA, which started out its life as a piano concerto, […]
Over the past five years I have had an annual photo shoot with my dear friend and trainer Teresina. Here are two (of the 500) from our most recent photo shoot. Teresina is passionate about her stationary bicycle, so this is a sexy pose with her buddy, the bike. The second one shows her surrounded […]
Welcome to SoCal brother Blake!
Young cellist, Blake Oliver, has just moved to LA and has started a blog, called Shake It and Bake It!, chronicling his adventure. Here is Blake playing the David Popper, Etude No.4 for solo cello.
I recently graduated from Northwestern University, where I studied with Hans Jensen. Ja. Now I’m a […]
One of my favorite 20th century artists has been the virtuosa theremin player, Clara Rockmore. I first got to know her on an LP (now on CD) called “The Art of Clara Rockmore.” I always play her performance of the Rachmaninov “Vocalese” for my young electronic composers as an example of EXPRESSIVE electronic playing. Too […]
Alex Ross’s blog is worth $179,523.72.
How much is your blog worth?
Roger Bourland’s blog is worth $27,092.97.
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I have no idea how Dane Carlson has come up with this information, but he has created a little program to determine how much blogs are worth.
Some days it seems–no matter where I turn–I see pain. Not because I’m looking for it, but it seems to build up like a static charge that needs to be grounded, like a possession that needs to be exorcised.
Yesterday I seemed to see more of it than I have in quite a while. One […]
Cher Hector,
My true nature as a hermit coupled with Rufus Wainwright’s hectic touring schedule has led me to the conclusion that I am not the right teacher for him. i am happy to hear that your opium habit is now in the past and would like you to reconsider taking him back as you […]
“I’m Telling You Now” came out the same year HELP! did. Songs like this spelled the death of wholesome or naiive rock n roll. The psychedelic movement was about to happen. The Byrds had just released “Mr Tambourine Man” and things were starting to get very cool. The Beatles were about to go acoustic on […]
A common conversation I have with well meaning wait staff and bartenders is as follows:
Roger: “I’ll have a Tanqueray martini straight up with an olive.”
Waiter: “Ok, that’s a TanGERay martini straight up with an olive. No problem.”
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been “corrected” about its pronunciation. I look at the bottle and […]
Oh dear. I’m sorry but I am obliged to share two version of Pete Seeger’s campfire classic “Where have all the flowers gone” sung in English AND in German by that great folk singer, Marlene Dietrich.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind
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