Lana Del Rey is, in the language of our time, a complicated woman, with all the contradictions immanent in complication. The passage from Elizabeth Woolridge Grant to Lana Del Rey was unlikely to lead elsewhere.
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Monday Music: Grupo Menos é Mais, Jurerê
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Monday Music: Socorra, Muddy Water
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Documentary, Music
Monday Music: How Olivia Rodrigo Wrote ‘Drivers License,’ the Biggest Song of the Year (So Far)
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America, Ethics, Legislation, Liberty, Music, Politics, Wisconsin, WISGOP
The Party Demands Unity
by JOHN ADAMS •
One reads that WISGOP Bill Would Make It Illegal For Sports Venues to Skip National Anthem: It would be illegal for some sports venues to skip the national anthem before games under a new bill proposed by a Republican legislator. Stevens Point Republican Sen. Patrick Testin’s Star Spangled Banner Act, proposed Wednesday, would require the anthem…
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Monday Music: John Williams, Finale from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
by JOHN ADAMS •
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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
by JOHN ADAMS •
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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)
by JOHN ADAMS •
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?
by JOHN ADAMS •
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
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Monday Music: Joe Bonamassa, Royal Tea
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Monday Music: Essentially Ellington 2020 (25 Solos, 25 Years)
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…