Monday, December 28, 2009

Monday Music Digest

15 items!

10 for 2010

http://www.earvolution.com/2009/12/earvolutions-ten-for-2010.asp

2009 music R.I.P.s

http://www.examiner.com/x-2623-Swing-and-Big-Band-Examiner~y2009m12d27-Music-Performers-who-died-in-2009

A legacy of song

http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_14050414?nclick_check=1

A musical trip that will never end

http://www.sowetan.co.za/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=1098044

A new ookelele CD

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/blogs/blog-on-the-tracks/3196528/CD-Review-Wellington-International-Ukulele-Orchestra

15 musical resolutions for 2010

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/12/fifteen-musical-new-years-resolutions-for-2010.html

Norah Jones hits the big 3-0

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-12-28-norah28_ST_N.htm

Buffalo Springfield Again!

http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-the-buffalo-springfield-buffalo1/

Blues and Chaos

http://blogcritics.org/books/article/sony-reader-adventure-blues-chaos-the/

The year in pop

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/recordings/article/742739--the-year-in-pop-music-20-albums-that-wowed-us

Saluting women musicians in Oklahoma

http://www.newsok.com/discover-oklahoma-pioneer-museum-salutes-women-musicians/article/3427394?custom_click=headlines_widget

Fine fiddling

http://www.cdispatch.com/lifestyles/article.asp?aid=4246

Bill Tapia breaks his hip

http://www.starbulletin.com/features/20091226_musician_bill_tapia_breaks_his_hip_days_before_turning_102.html

Best music of the decade

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091226/LIFE/912260301

Definin' the blues

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703523504574604284273616214.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Jazz up your New Year's Eve

http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/8757/115/

And Dusk Tiger, the Killer Guitar

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/235766/dusk-tiger-killer-guitar

Sunday, December 27, 2009

No Music Digest Today

Back tomorrow-have been cutting over to a new more powerful computer!

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Facebook Reminder

Just a reminder-more music and assorted mayhem over at my Facebook page-recently added friends include New Orleans musicians Zigaboo Modeliste and Cyril Neville, 1960s singer Johnny Rivers, and even comedian Marty Allen!

Click on my badge to see the fun.

Sunday Music Digest

Music has seen better years

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/music-has-seen-better-years/article1405994/

'Fess!

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/Story.aspx?storyID=20904

Sir Duke's Sacred Music

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=46951

Government Mule sighted

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=46892

2009's top jazz CDs

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2010525936_topjazz20.html

Reinventing AfroBeat

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/ArtsandCulture/Music/5497380-147/Reinventing_Afrobeat_the_Aiyetoro_way_.csp

A jazz funeral in New Orleans-the 13-0 Saints finally lose a game!

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/marvez-cowboys-beat-saints-121909

Hula-la-la

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20091220/LIFESTYLES12/912200304/-1/lifestylesfront

Historic New Orleans jazz pictures

http://jazztimes.com/articles/25525-historic-photos-of-new-orleans-jazz-thomas-l-morgan

And my life at Second City

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-17/my-weekend-in-the-second-city/?cid=hp:topnav:sxyb

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Snowfall Tally Added

I have resumed the annual winter snowfall tally to the sidebar, just above my Facebook Badge. Snow Season officially runs from December 1 to May 1 here. The last 2 winters have been unbelievable-the 1007-2008 winter saw me get a total of 15 FEET of snow, and last winter I had 10 feet.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Facebook Reminder

Click on my Facebook badge for my FB page, which has a lot of musicians and other assorted mixed nuts.

Newly added FB musical friends include It's a Beautiful Day's Linda LaFlamme, New Orleans blues singer Mem Shannon, and original Asleep at the Wheel vocalist Chris O'Connell!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Oops!

Forgot that this is Wednesday...click on the post title for Uncle Tom Moffatt's weekly talk-story!

Wednesday Music Digest

Great food and African music at a new NYC restaurant

http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/article208560.ece

Using eBay to find...Klezmer music

http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/news/2009/1127/top_news/002.html

The end of music?

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/the-end-of-music/

Jazz for a good cause in Seattle

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlehumane/archives/186198.asp?from=blog_last3

Bata Drum workshops in New York City

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=45958

A new Elvis release

http://www.musicbox-online.com/review/11192009/elvis-memphis.html

A Quebe Sisters sighting

http://www.c-bstatesman.com/news/2009-11-26/Historical/BOB_BOWMANS_EAST_TEXAS.html

Jake heads to Buckingham Palace

http://www.kitv.com/entertainment/21717122/detail.html

An Austin musician gets 31 years

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6736563.html

And 20 indirect Beatles memories

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/116633-in-my-own-life-20-indirect-beatle-memories/

Saturday, November 21, 2009