Sweet Freedom

Patti Abbott: Kalena Kai Bill Crider: The Sons of the Pioneers; Don Gibson Jerry House: Bessie Smith Randy Johnson: Jake Holmes, exploited ...

It doesn't seem too likely that a promotional item for a gimmicky chain restaurant might be one of the best anthology albums of the care...

I think I've made it clear by now how much I love third stream music ...the term Gunther Schuller coined for music which mixes jazz id...

I've been flensing the carcass of the most convenient Borders, and just bought this last night for slightly less than you can get it f...

The Witches of Lublin is a radio drama with music...mostly klezmer, or proto-klezmer Middle-European Jewish folk/dance music, and a thoroug...

CBS famously attempted to make Aretha Franklin, young gospel powerhouse going secular, into the New Dinah Washington...which was a remarkabl...

Paul Bishop: Anna Wilson and Friends: Countrypolitan Duets Bill Crider: Jimmie Rodgers (the folk-pop one) Jerry House: Steve Gillette Randy ...

FLiP The Byrds... Hüsker Dü (And since Blogger's been such a charmer lately, you might be better off in several ways by double-clickin...

It's been a rough 48 hours. My friend Laura suggested I treat myself somehow. This music is by me a treat. Takes this one a while to get...

I keep hoping to find a reasonably legit linkable download or video of Halim El-Dabh's fine "Leila and the Poet," but no such ...

In 1963, to mark their 15th anniversary as a performing unit, nearly all the Weavers (and all seven who'd recorded together...one Jackie...

The problem with doing an entry on Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, the vocal trio which formed in 1957 while Dave Lambert and Jon Hendricks wer...

So, here are four of the best of the many brilliant third stream (jazz/"classical" hybrid) albums I've loved for decades, and ...

The Louisville Symphony Orchestra came up with a wonderful win-win idea, particularly for a professional orchestra in a small city in the 1...

A number of folks in the loose assembly of early 1980s LA-based bands which became known collectively as the "Paisley Underground...

Life is not cooperative at all at the moment, so I shall have less to say than I'd like about this wonderful book, which collects most o...