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Music Monday — Johnny Cash, Get Rhythm
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Monday Music: Loudon Wainwright III’s Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road
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Dizzy Gillespie – One Note Samba
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Monday Music: Tony Bennett & Sheryl Crow, Good Morning Heartache
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From Tony Bennett’s album of blues duets. Update: I’ve received some uncommonly kind questions about whether posting a song about heartache is meant to convey a personal message. No, not at all. I’ve posted allegories here and there, but this song is, to me, simply a good song. Hope you like it, too – Adams
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Monday Music: Django Reinhardt’s Version of Dark Eyes
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Music Monday: Crimson Skies, Arixo Sunset
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Monday Music: Mumford and Sons, Roll Away Your Stone
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Monday Music: Ben Sommer’s Saint Martha
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Monday Music: Singin’ The Blues featuring Bix Beiderbecke
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Monday Music: John Legend’s Our Generation
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Monday Music — John Coltrane: On Green Dolphin Street
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Monday Music: Sophie Milman’s So Long, You Fool
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I hope you’re having a Happy Valentine’s Day, as I am. But if not, it’s worth considering whether the person over whom you might be pining is, after all, worth pining over. Think carefully, and you may find that the answer’s no, not at all. In that spirit of realism (and liberation from someone you’re…
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Ben Sommer’s america’d
by JOHN ADAMS •
I grew up in a jazz-loving household, not jazz as stuffy, artistic presumption, but simply the music of the house. One knew that there were kinds of jazz, and each had its place (the exception was fusion, that everyone agreed had none at all). Glenn Miller, for example, was considered sufficiently tame that his albums…