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Monday Music: Wayne Shorter, Footprints
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Monday Music: Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, You Can’t Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover
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Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band version of the Bo Didley song.
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Monday Music: Pino Palladino, Blake Mills – Just Wrong
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Monday Music: Junior Mance, Georgia on my Mind (Live in Concert, Germany 2002)
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See also Junior Mance, jazz pianist whose chords were built on the blues, dies at 92: “Living in Chicago, that was Bluesville,” he told Newsday in 1987. “There were people around like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Memphis Slim; boogie-woogie players like Jim Yancey, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons. When I was a kid, my mother…
Cats, Music, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: Did Mozart Like to Imitate Cats?
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Maddy Shaw Roberts, at classicfm, writes that Mozart apparently liked to imitate cats. Here’s the tail as we know it: This lovely little anecdote has been floating around since the 19th century. Karoline von Greiner Pichler, an Austrian novelist and former student of Mozart, describes her teacher in her 1843 memoirs, quoted in Otto Deutsch’s Mozart:…
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Monday Music: Emmet Cohen, Dardanella
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Cohen covers Dardanella on his upcoming album, Future Stride.
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Monday Music: Joe Bonamassa, Royal Tea
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Monday Music: Essentially Ellington 2020 (25 Solos, 25 Years)
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During every Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, exceptional soloists receive an Outstanding Soloist award. In this special video premiere, to commemorate our 25th Anniversary, we’ll revisit some of the greatest student solos. Many have gone on to be some of the finest jazz musicians in the world today. To learn more…
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Monday Music: The Traveling Wilburys, Wilbury Twist
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Monday Music: Nat King Cole, The Christmas Song
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Monday Music: Tony Bennett, Silver Bells
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Cats, Music
Friday Catblogging: Kitten Cam Translates Meows into Saxophone Sounds
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David Pescovitz writes Live kitten cam with meows transformed into saxophone sounds: Jazz Cats is a live kitten cam in which the meows are changed into saxophone sounds. The software behind the sound is Imitone, pitch-to-MIDI software that translates the notes that you (or the cats) sing into the sound of any digital instrument. When…