Saving a Tall Ship in Honolulu...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Music on the Bayou
October is traditionally a great month for music in Louisiana, led by the Voodoo Music blowout at the end of the month. Complete list at the link...
More Endangered Species
The government wants to add 48 plants and animals that are found only on Kaua'i to its Endangered Species list, using a new process.
Guitar Fest
Activision says record labels should pay them for featuring their songs on "Guitar Hero", contrary to what the record labels say (exactly the opposite, of course).
1970 Mitch Ryder Interview
A fascinating look back...be sure to also check out the links to the other interviews on the sidebar.
Thanksgiving Luau
Continuing a longtime tradition, Kailua High will have a fund-raising imu this year. That's a hole in the ground.
Shafted!
Click on the post title for some great music-the theme from "Shaft" as performed by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain!
Ship Ahoy!
The second Hawai'i Superferry eased out of Austal's ship shed on the Mobile River into a floating dry dock Monday...
Top 20 US Resorts Named
The Blackberry Farm in Walland. Tenn., was No. 1. #4 was the Four Seasons Hualalai on the Big Isle. Its sister resort on Mau'i was #20.
Tuesday Music Digest
Mostly jazz today...
Jazz on the river in South Africa
http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=853063
Wayne Shorter sighting
http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/7931/72/
Review of a new DVD by the great Oscar Peterson
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/29/091043.php
Dave Holland!
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=30652
And Soul Queen Irma Thomas surfaces in Montreal
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/arts/story.html?id=2ac76cee-bb2c-4dee-9dfa-7fb976ab8b49
Monday, September 29, 2008
NYC Waterfalls Update
Click the post title for a review of a new book looking at Waterfalls creator Olafur Eliasson.
And click below for a story on his being honored by the City of NY:
"Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg presented the 2008 Doris C. Freedman Award to artist Olafur Eliasson and the Public Art Fund for The New York City Waterfalls...."
http://media-newswire.com/release_1074742.html
"Pele's Whisper"
Landscape photographer Peter Lik is opening a new exhibition in Las Vegas featuring some of his images of the Big Island's volvanic activity. Click the post title for the info, and click below for a sample.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080929/LAM034
Monday Music Digest
Review of Sir Paul in Israel
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017400068&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Guitar songs-the world of Chuck Berry
http://www.pressemeldungen.at/46830/guitar-songs-the-world-of-chuck-berry/
Jazz on the rocks in Arizona
http://ilovesedona.com/articles/sept08/jazz-on-the-rocks/jazz-on-the-rocks0929.htm
A new rock band from South Carolina-NEEDTOBREATHE
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=63041
And a look at the Man of a Thousand Songs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/26/jazz
Sunday, September 28, 2008
We Travel the Spaceways
Space X has successfully launched its fourth Falcon 1. This is the first privately-developed all-liquid fuel rocket.
Say Goodnight, Dick
A review of the new DVD set of the best of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the infamous CBS show from the late 1960s which was cancelled by the network for political reasons. The new release includes bits that were censored and never shown, as well as a batch of great musical performances, by both the SmoBros and their musical guests, who were a Who's Who of 1960s rock.
Trivia-Tom and Dick were both born on...Governors Island in New York Harbor. However, they have no recollection of their time spent there, as their Dad was transferred off the island when they were both less than 5 years old.
Talk About an Intimate Music Venue!
In St. Louis, Rick and Nancy Wood have been doing a monthly house concert series for the past 3 years. Some of the names that have graced the Wood's living room include: Kelly Hogan (with Scott Ligon), John Doe, Susan Cowsill, Jason Ringenberg, Dwight Twilley, Peter Case, The Redwalls, Charlie Louvin, Jon Dee Graham, Robbie Fulks, The Skeletons, Brian Henneman, Blue Mountain, Commander Cody and loads more.
Saturday, November 29, it will be the Terry Adams Rock and Roll Quartet!
Goodbye to Shea Stadium
New York's Shea Stadium is having its last hurrah this weekend-here's a look back at a music event that took place there 43 years ago...
UPDATE: On the final day at Shea, the Mets lost, thereby completing their epic September 2008 collapse, and were eliminated from post-season play on the final day of the season.
CD Review-"Can You Deal With It?"
The latest from 80 year young New Orleans musical madman Andre Williams and his band, the New Orleans Hellhounds.
New Bob Dylan Release Pre-Stream
NPR Music will exclusively stream Tell Tale Signs, the highly-anticipated forthcoming album from Bob Dylan, beginning Tuesday, September 30 at midnight ...
Kukuiula Update
I previously mentioned this vacant former sugar field across Lawai Road from where we stayed in Koloa in 2003; here's more info on what will fill it.
Governors Island Open House
Includes a tour of the usually off-limits southern end of the island...as one who lived there for 3 years, I can tell you the south end ain't much, except for the great views! Mostly warehouses, etc.
It's About Time
Professor Stephen Hawking is to unveil a remarkable £1 million clock with no hands that pays tribute to the world's greatest clockmaker.
Sunday Music Digest
Latest from New Orleans on the upcoming NO-Fest in Londres
http://blog.nola.com/keithspera/2008/09/jazzfest_producers_prepare_a_n.html
Another upcoming music fest, this one by the Sidney Bechet Society in NYC
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=30636
EST
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/cd_reviews/articles/2008/09/28/this_time_its_personal
Remembering drummer Earl Palmer in South Africa
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Insight/Article.aspx?id=851765
And the VOA looks at the "Ambassador of Jazz"
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2008-09-27-voa2.cfm
Saturday, September 27, 2008
R.I.P. New Orleans Photographer Michael Smith
New Orleans photographer Michael Smith, who documented every JazzFest from its inception in 1970 until his retirement in 2004, has died at age 71.
"A New Orleans native, Smith documented the traditions of the city’s Mardi Gras Indians, jazz funerals, second line parades, social aid and pleasure clubs and spiritual churches throughout his legendary career. His photos also document the careers of countless New Orleans musicians of all genres, performing in large venues and neighborhood clubs, including Tipitina’s, the iconic club of which he was an original owner.
"When I'm out there on the streets or in a club, I'm enjoying myself in the authentic environment of New Orleans culture, but I'm also acting out an obsession with documenting as much as I can about the music," Smith said in 1995 Times-Picayune article."
Papa's Cats Saved
KEY WEST, Fla. -- The famed six-toed cats at Ernest Hemingway's island home aren't going anywhere.
Ruby Saturday
M83: The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy
Color Composite: Davide De Martin (Skyfactory)
Credit: European Southern Observatory Science Archive
Explanation: Big, bright, and beautiful, spiral galaxy M83 lies a mere twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. Prominent spiral arms traced by dark dust lanes and blue star clusters lend this galaxy its popular name of the Southern Pinwheel. But reddish star forming regions that dot the sweeping arms highlighted in this sparkling color composite also suggest another nickname, The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy.
About 40,000 light-years across, M83 is a member of a group of galaxies that includes active galaxy Centaurus A. The core of M83 itself is bright at x-ray energies, showing a high concentration of neutron stars and black holes left from an intense burst of star formation. The sharp image, based on archival data from the European Southern Observatory's Wide Field Imager camera, also features spiky foreground Milky Way stars and distant background galaxies.
Led Zepp Reunion?
Led Zeppelin are planning a full tour for next summer, with singer Robert Plant set to rejoin the band, according to reports in The Sun.
R.I.P. Paul Newman
Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money," has died. He was 83.
Are You Ready For Some Football?
BYU and the Rainbow Warriors will resume their football rivlary in a couple of years, with home-and-home games in Honolulu and SLC.
Saturday Music Digest
Review of a new live DVD featuring the great Lionel Hampton:
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/25/160156.php
Nick Cave sighted
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-nick-cave-0926sep26,0,4494649.story
Learn guitar online
http://www.acousticguitar.com/article/default.aspx?articleid=22079
A young jazz vocalist from South Africa is wowing them in Europe:
http://voanews.com/english/Africa/2008-09-26-voa47.cfm
And speaking of African tunes, a new anthology:
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-09-27-anthologising-africa
Friday, September 26, 2008
Scary Flying Story
A Swiss adventurer using a homemade jet-propelled wing has flown across the English Channel from France in less than 10 minutes.
Any glide ratio less than 1:1 is called falling.
Tough Sledding
Last weekend was free kite day on Governors Island. Sadly, one slight problem. No wind.
A Hunka Burnin' Love
A chat with Big Al Anderson! Al and his great band The Balls have just announced they will be back again for what seems to be an annual event, a New Year's Eve show at the Iron Horse in western Massachusetts.
Friday Music Digest
One of our favorite groups since the early 1990s has been the subdudes from New Orleans (by way of Colorado). Normally an electric band, they are about to go acoustic!
http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/sep/26/0926_jukebox/
Taj Mahal is celebrating his 40th year in music. And the former longtime Kaua'i resident has miles to go before he sleeps.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/weekend/20080926_Taj_Mahal_has__quot_tons_more_stuff_to_do__quot_.html
Another Marsalis brother goes Brazilian-
http://www.modbee.com/scene/story/442549.html
BeanTown Jazz hits the bricks
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=524234
And a look at the latest from Ungar and Mason:
http://hub.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080925/THINGS0201/809250327/1104/HUB
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Soukous In the Congo
Many music fans have no idea that Hawai'ian steel guitar music has been a major inspiration and later an integral part of Afro-Pop music for decades. Ask King Sunny Ade!
Preserving Hawai'i's Native Seabird
Hawai'i's largest population of Newell's Shearwaters live on Kauai. That's mostly because there are no mongoose on the Garden Isle.
Thursday Music Digest
Coming sometime in the next few months on PBS, a show about Kamaka ukuleles
http://starbulletin.com/2008/09/16/features/dakine.html
New film unites Guitar Gods
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23087822/new_film_unites_guitar_gods
Flautist James Gallaway branches out into Latin Jazz
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/28652514.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUnOiP3UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
Upcoming music biopics
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/09/19/examining_the_music_biopic
Blazing a blues trail in Mississippi:
http://www.leadercall.com/opinion/local_story_266100007.html?keyword=secondarystory
And another gab with Uncle Tom Moffatt
http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/utg_article/uncle_toms_gabbin134/
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Scary Flying Story #297
"Derrick Lining first noticed something wrong with the short commuter flight from Honolulu as it approached Hawaii's Big Island.
"When I noticed we weren't descending I told my wife - I mentioned to her I think something is kind of weird with this flight pattern," he told a local TV station."
More Sugar!
A detailed look at the demise of consumer sugarcane production on the Garden Isle, and also the continued production of same on the Valley Isle.
New O'ahu Traffic Cams
19 new traffic cams will soon be added to the Kam and Likelike highways in Kane'ohe, where the traffic jams are legendary!
Wednesday Music Digest
Jim Boggia has a new song about a beloved band
http://www.antimusic.com/news/08/sep/23Singled_Out-_Jim_Boggia.shtml
Another great band name-Doom Jazz
http://www.dailycollegian.com/home/news/2008/09/24/ArtsLiving/Doom-Jazz.To.Bring.New.Twist.To.Old.Music-3447784.shtml
A final wrapup of Monterey Jazz 2008:
http://www.mercurynews.com/richardscheinin/ci_10531411
The drunken lounge singer as high art
http://www.mountainx.com/ae/2008/092408the_drunken_lounge_singer_as_high_art
And a tribute to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/article.html?Ukelele_Orchestra_Of_Great_Britain&in_article_id=321228&in_page_id=204
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
A Hundred Years Later
"One hundred years ago this afternoon, the New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs played a game that can still be found on baseball's figurative Mount Rushmore, next to the Bobby Thompson home run game, the Sandy Amoros catch game, Don Larsen's perfect game, and the game where Carlton Fisk waved it fair.
No one who played in or saw the game is alive. The Polo Grounds, where it was played, was demolished a half century ago. Doesn't matter. Some games just endure."
"New" Randall Hall Update
More of the original Randall Hall granite slabs are in place around the windows...
Obligatory Scary Flying Story
Back in 1963, Stanley Kramer made a little film about a batch of crazy treasure-hunters. One of the highlights of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" was the great sub-plot in the middle when Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett convince pilot Jim Backus to take them up in his plane so they can beat the others to the treasure.
The result was several of the wildest scary flying sequences ever filmed, all flown by the legendary stunt pilot Frank Tallman. After Thurston Howell the Third gets drunk and then passes out after hitting his head, Buddy and Mickey have to take over flying the plane, a Beechcraft D-18.
They end up flying thru an open airplane hanger (which was actually at the Sonoma County airport in northern California, one of the only scenes not done in the southern part of the state), and also fly thru a billboard, which was in reality made of flimsy styrofoam and balsa wood. However, when Tallman flew the plane thru, the foam and balsa clogged the air intake on one of the engines, and he had to make an emergency landing!
Later in the film, Buddy and Mickey finally land the plane at an airport where the crash fire squad are three guys named Moe, Larry and Curly Joe...
Clicking on the post title will take you to an excellent "Mad World" tribute site, which includes a lot of info about the famous plane, which sadly no longer exists.
"Vog" May Relocate Farmers
The State of Hawai'i might need to help some farmers move away from Kilauea volcano so they can escape the effects of vog and stay in business...
Congo Square Rhythm Festival
A look at the second annual Congo-Fest, which this year had to be moved from Armstrong Park (due to ongoing construction work) to Bayou St. Jean. There will be 4 different troupes of Mardi Gras Indians, along with other musicians and lots of great food!
First Day of Autumn on Saddle Hill
This is looking southeast, which would mean that this is the northwest side.
The summit of Saddle Hill is just over 1500 feet above sea level and has a great view to the north and east. There's even a small shelter there, built in the early 1970s.
My location is on the left in the distance. Behind the upper left branch.
Makaha Sons Hit New Hampshire
The Sons played on the Seacoast Saturday night in a benefit concert, and then Monday went to a local school to sing and teach hula! Auwe!
Tuesday Music Digest
Jazzman Charlie Haden, who's played with everyone from Mahavishnu to Ringo, goes back to his...country roots?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212530566765113.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Going for baroque in New Orleans
http://www.nola.com/living/t-p/index.ssf?/base//living-11/122214745057990.xml&coll=1
Randy Newman pops up again
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20080923_Newman_pops_up_again.html
Pops' son Cyril hits da Mainland
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hawaii/detail?&entry_id=30615
And R.I.P. to bluesman Nappy Brown
http://www.thecharlottepost.com/index.php?src=news&refno=1129&category=News
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sail On Sailor (USCG)
Wags is a Governors Island Kamaa'ina
ROTA, Spain, Sept. 22, 2008 – Civilian leaders who visited here today had seen the Coast Guard in action in U.S. waterways, patrolling ports and harbors, interdicting drug smugglers, and sometimes conducting heroic search-and-rescue missions as depicted in the movie, “The Guardian.”
So Coast Guard Capt. Robert Wagner, commander of Coast Guard Cutter Dallas, greeted Joint Civilian Orientation Conference participants here today with the rhetorical question he knew all had on their minds: “What is the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas doing in Rota, Spain?”
In addition to its historic role protecting U.S. coastlines from external threats while promoting safe navigation, the Coast Guard has had a little-known or -understood role supporting U.S. combatant commanders overseas for the past 15 years, Wagner told the group.
“We are an armed force of the military at all times, and our missions are global,” he said. “U.S. interests don’t stop at our borders, so the Coast Guard pretty much hits all seven continents.”
The End of Kodachrome?
I shot a few rolls of Kodachrome slides on my trip to Hawai'i in 2003. The pictures were far superior to those from my Canon Powershot.
As Paul Simon sang:
"Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summer
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama don't take my Kodachrome away"
Monday Music Digest
Steve Earle sighting:
http://www.amny.com/entertainment/am-earle0922,0,4281710.story
New album from The Bridge
http://www.pluginmusic.com/news/archive.php?id=3883
Exploring the musical world of steel guitar:
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/music/20080922_The_varieties_of_steel_guitar_experience.html
Dueling jazz legends- Marsalis and Shorter.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/ENT04/809210329
Pink Floyd bandmate Nick Mason recalls Richard Wright:
http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=6354
And Ringo announces the 2008 All Starr Band Photo Contest
http://www.whatgoeson.com/news/ringo-starr/200809201740/ringo-announces-all-starr-tour-2008-photo-contest.html
Sunday, September 21, 2008
A Dilemma For Kalaupapa
The impending Sainthood of Father Damien is being eyed warily by the remaining residents of the colony...
Air Dogs!
A look at the Southern Air Dog contest in the Florida Panhandle. Click the post title for the main story, and there will be a link there for another page with additional photos.
"Waterfalls" Still Attracting NYC Visitors
Despite the greatly reduced operating hours the New York City Waterfalls are still drawing a crowd.
Sunday Music Digest
Ukulele fest! The George Formby Society meets in Britain. Formby was an idol of George Harrison, who bought his banjolele.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/turned-out-nice-again-george-formby-society-celebrates-in-blackpool-936995.html
A new film exposes some myths about John Lennon-
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2450045.0.0.php
Exploring trombones in New Orleans
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/sep/21/focus-on-arts-irvin-mayfield-and-the-new-orleans-j/
A look at an Alabama fiddlers' convention:
http://www.enewscourier.com/local/local_story_264195847.html
And R.I.P. to South African guitarist George Lee
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Insight/Article.aspx?id=847260
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Famous Amos Goes to Waikiki
Kailua cookie maven Wally Amos has opened a new outlet on Waikiki Beach.
R.I.P. Drummer Earl Palmer
New Orleans drummer Earl Palmer, who played on a slew of ground-breaking Crescent City classics like Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" and later was a legendary L.A. session drummer on hits like Ike and Tina's "River Deep, Mountain High", has left the building at age 84.
Earl showed up several years ago as a guest on the documentary that "Simpsons" executive producer Mike Scully made about his favorite rock band, NRBQ. Earl said that the Q's Tommy Ardolino was one of the finest drummers he had ever seen!
Earl at work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb9E2O5SiGU
Saturday Music Digest
N'Orleans voted best food and music destination:
http://www.travelbite.co.uk/news/north-america/united-states/new-orleans-voted-best-destination-dining-music-$1241385.htm
A music fan in Israel can't afford a ticket to see Sir Paul there!
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1022610.html
Long live Satchmo
http://www.morningsun.net/entertainment/x154122955/The-Jazz-Beat-Long-live-Satchmo
Pigboy Crabshaw makes jam
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/19/PK8D12S056.DTL
More on Hari Georgeson's banjolele:
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/09/19/museum-pride-of-place-for-george-harrison-s-musical-memento-64375-21852901/
And a music fest today in Vermont
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080919/FEATURES02/809190301/1011/FEATURES02
Friday, September 19, 2008
Hurricane Ike Update
"When the waves from Hurricane Ike receded, they left behind a mystery — a ragged shipwreck that archeologists say could be a two-masted Civil War schooner that ran aground in 1862 or another ship from some 70 years later."
Sky Pilots
The latest additions to the Aerospace Walk of Honor include original Mercury 7 astronaut Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr.; Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins; and the first female space shuttle commander, retired Air Force Col. Eileen M. Collins, will add their names to the 90 already honored with plaques along Lancaster Boulevard.
The three astronauts will be joined by test pilots Irving L. "Irv" Burrows, who piloted the first flight of the F-15 Eagle fighter jet, and retired Air Force Col. Joe Schiele, who was heavily involved in aviation technology development and flight research programs.
New Report-Tough Sledding for Hawai'i Economy
A new economic forecast predicts visitor arrivals to Hawaii will tumble this year and the state economy won't recover until 2010. ...
Kam School to Sell Land Leases
Many homes in the 50th State sit on land owned by someone else. Some of that land is now for sale.
"He's A Hometown Guy Who Made It"
A review of last weekend's free concert by longtime NRBQ guitar giant Big Al Anderson and The Balls in Al's hometown of Windsor CT. It was in celebration of Windsor's 375th birthday.
After leaving the 'Q, Al moved to Music City, where he started writing hit songs for people like Vince Gill, Leann Rimes, and Tim McGraw. Last time I saw him "live" was 4 years ago, at the NRBQ 35th Anniversary Reunion concert. Next year is #40!
Friday Music Digest
Corky Siegel sighted!
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080918/Ent/809180158/1043/Ent
Raising funds for an upstate NY jazz radio station:
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20080918/NEWS01/80918008/1002/NEWS
Great name for a new band (too long to print here!)
http://baltimore.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=32667
Brah Hugh Masekela sets an example...
http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=846646
Meanwhile, Hughie's ex wins an award:
http://www.artzone.co.za/template_level2.asp?parentseq=5369
More info on the upcoming N'Orleans muzit fest in England:
http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1035542&c=1
And Leonard Bernstein meets Michael Tilson Thomas
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-sfso19-2008sep19,0,3409155.story
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Bettye's Blues
A nice interview with a lost music legend, Betty Lavette, who will be playing in Nova Scotia this weekend.
New Orleans Music Pops the Pond
Coming to London in late October, the O2 Arena will host its first ever free music festival, celebrating the music of New Orleans. The same weekend, the New Orleans Saints will be in town to play a NFL game against the San Diego Lightning Bolts.
Scheduled to appear: Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Buckwheat Zydeco, Marcia Ball, BeauSoleil Avec Michael Doucet, ReBirth Brass Band and Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers.
R.I.P. Norman Whitfield
Norman Whitfield, songwriter and producer who co-wrote a string of Motown classics including “War,” “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)” and “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” has died. He was 67.
Thursday Music Digest
Monterey Jazz on disc:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122170532363351061.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Speaking of jazz, it's almost time for the annual Berklee Bean Town Jazz Festival in Boston. Part of it will be held at Fenway Park!
http://www.voanews.com/english/Entertainment/2008-09-17-voa18.cfm
The Derailers roll merrily along:
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2008/sep/17/derailers-are-little-bit-country-little-bit-rock-n/
A new stupid music band debuts in California-
http://www.swvoice.com/home/ViewPost/74734
And a look at the Masters of New Orleans clarinet:
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuar/arts/article/11/1036/802549/Radio/Licorice.Stick.Gumbo:.The.Masters.of.New.Orleans.Jazz.Clarinet/
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Picture Book
"Twenty-three vintage Bob Dylan poems will be included in the upcoming book Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript, according to Rolling Stone.
The poems were written in 1968 for the book which feature classic Hollywood photos by photographer Barry Feinstein. Feinstein is best known for shooting the cover of Dylan's 1963 album The Times They Are A-Changin', George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Janis Joplin's Pearl, and many more legendary rock shots."
DVD Alert: "Love"
"All Together Now" faithfully recounts how the LOVE project came into being, borne from the personal friendship between George Harrison and Cirque du Soleil ...
Ruth Grace Moulon R.I.P.
RUTHIE the DUCK GIRL, a holdover from a time when colorful characters were as much a part of everyday life in New Orleans' French Quarter as beignets and cafe au lait, has died. She was 74.
Ruthie, whose real name was Ruth Grace Moulon, was an eccentric who zoomed from bar to bar on roller skates, often wearing a ratty fur coat or wedding gown and trailed by a string of her beloved ducks.
The Grateful Dead in Egypt
In 1978, the Dead played several shows at the Pyramids. Now the best of these performances have been remastered and are coming out on 2 CDs, with a bonus DVD with 13 songs from the third show, which took place during a lunar eclipse!
Wanted: Half a Million Ti Leaves
The caretakers of Kamehameha the Great's personal residence in Kailua-Kona want 500000 ti leaves to restore a roof...
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