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refurbishing Jazz Lounge, with more crowds and adding a new color wash using digital and screen print
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I've been loving Phil Schaap on the Colombia University radios stations. He is a jazz scholar has these long broadcasts playing jazz and putting them in context. He'll speak for about 20 minutes about every musicican in a 5 minute piece and give you loads of superfluous information. It's sort of tedious and most of my drives are too short to hear more than one song and the preceding commentary (actually it's long schpeel), but it's so worth it to pay attention. Best e... MORE
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...It's nice to run into people you haven't heard from in a while...even if they no longer exist on this mortal coil...Yesterday someone dropped me a line via a comment on a post I'd done back in 2005 which spoke about MJQ on my older blog...the piece spoke about a trip I'd taken back to Atlanta, GA and, more specifically, a friend of mine named George Chang (pic above is a caricature featured in Atlanta's Creative Loafing magazine) who launched the original spot in the b... MORE
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Tomorrow, August, 29th is Charlie "Bird" Parker's birthday which always gets me thinkin about the "woulda-coulda" questions. I wrote a piece last year on that began something like this: I was was first introduced to Charlie "Bird" Parker on the corner of 55th and Madison Ave ...Since I got all my tunes for free, I sampled everything I could get my hands on from Dylan's Blonde on Blonde to Public Enemy's Greatest Misses LP and then there was the jazz catalogue which require... MORE
