Guardian Music — (Mainstem)Despite the title, this session by UK trumpeter Steve Waterman doesn't actually concentrate on the New Orleans funerals-and-marches music proto-jazz legend Buddy Bolden might have played, but it does include the famous West End Blues (one o... more info

All About Jazz — Valve Trombonist Barry Mosley and tenor saxaphonist Dennis Lapron play a West Coast Jazz Tribute Show at Cafe 322 The focus of the quartet is on tasteful melodic playing, influenced by the Cool West Coast sound that has been Mosley's inspiration s... more info

All About Jazz — Someone who identifies himself on YouTube as "liveacid" went to painstaking trouble to manufacture a video of Chet Baker and Paul Desmond playing "Autumn Leaves." The music track is from Baker's 1974 album She Was Too Good To Me. It was later reissue... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Time Bandit said... From C-60 in the mid-week: Doll by Doll "Remember" (1979) Doll by Doll "Gypsy Blood" (1979) Grant Peeples "Down Here in the County" (2007) Tift Merritt "Bramble Rose" (2002) http://c-60lownoise.blogspot.com Joao Kartoshka said...... more info

All About Jazz — Though still in progress with James Gavin's thick new volume on the life & times of the recently departed ancestor Lena Horne, several in-progress observations give high marks to the writer's thorough, detailed efforts. Gavin, who penned the equally-... more info

Totally Fuzzy — jeffen said... Great Celtic-folk-punk from this POGUES-related band: THE MEN THAT THEY COULDN'T HANG - BBC Sessions (1984-1985) http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com Willard said... * THE EVERLY BROTHERS EB '84 (1984) * THE EVERLY BROTHERS Born Yes... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Smilin Tyler said... Good things, like aspects of the ONE TRUE LORD, come in threes, and both of the above come extremely rarely. Much like my updates, which this round includes classic squack from Harry Pussy, perfect country music from Freakwater, ... more info

Detroit Free Press — The versatile veteran pianist Hal Galper has done it all in jazz, from early apprenticeships with Sam Rivers and Chet Baker in the '60s to important stints with Cannonball Adderley in the 1970s and Phil Woods in the 1980s to more recent work at ... more info

Guardian Music — This 1956 interpretation of Thelonious Monk's typically flinty Bemsha Swing might not sound revolutionary at first. But listen closer ...The drummer swings, and the theme sounds like Monk's rhythmically quirky conception of bebop. The opening of the ... more info

Guardian Music — Duke Ellington's postwar reputation was faltering until one spectacular night in Newport in 1956 that would alter his fortunes for everJazz was finding itself in a changed world by the mid-1950s – though not all the changes disadvantaged it. T... more info