Ray Bryant, Milt Hinton, and Johnny Hodges are grinning. Guitar fetishists can confer as to who Joe Sounds Like. I frankly don’t care. I’m happy he sounds like Joe. And Daniel and Keith could rock the New York Stock Exchange in sixteen bars, no questions asked. ...
Be prepared to remove your shoes and navigate a beautiful Japanese-script menu (someone will assist you if you can’t read it), while soaking in the tea-salon like decor. My favorite thing to look at is the wooden chest along the back wall, upon which lay an extensive ...
Clauberg settled at the 47th Street location in 1941, bolstering his jukebox supply by selling new stock from smaller jazz labels. The store was originally called Joe’s Juke Box, then the Jazz Record Corner, then the Jazz Record Center. Its inventory was jazz heavy but eclectic, including ...
An established fixture on the European jazz scene for several years, he has finally begun to draw some much-deserved attention in the United States. His stock should continue to rise thanks to the release of his latest CD, Soho Stories. Despite the vocal jazz explosion of the last 10 years...
in a position where their legs invade your personal space. Or if you are very unlucky as I was when I went from New Zealand to America, you will sit next to someone who takes off their shoes and then sits cross legged in the seat with their foot firmly against your thigh. Basically ...
Confide In Me– the greatest and most epic song of all time, that is just perfection for overly dramatic dancing. Which is obviously the best kind of dancing. Kylie’s 1994 single was her first outside of the control of the Stock Aitken Waterman Hit Factory, narrowly missing out on the ...
Standing on the same stage with Basie, you felt like what he was doing was coming up through the center of the earth up through your shoes and up through your body. It didn’t hit you in the chest or head. It came from the ground up, through the crust, up through the stage and ...
in a position where their legs invade your personal space. Or if you are very unlucky as I was when I went from New Zealand to America, you will sit next to someone who takes off their shoes and then sits cross legged in the seat with their foot firmly against your thigh. Basically ...