Give A Damn
adminSpanky & Our Gang, John V. Lindsay and the counterculture meet in the whirlwind of 1968 by Marshall Bowden 1968, the summer of the New York Urban Coalition’s ‘Give a…
Read MoreBeatles ’73: The ‘Lost’ Beatles Album Game
by Marshall Bowden The last Beatles album, Let It Be, was released 49 years ago, on May 8, 1970. As we approach a half-century without the Fab Four, I decided…
Read MoreThe Bebop Revolution
History of Jazz: Part 4 Bebop arrived on the scene, to hear the tale, a fully formed grotesque of music, a deranged Athena fully sprung from the head of the…
Read MoreRedemption Day
Sheryl Crow and Johnny Cash duet across space and time Sheryl Crow’s latest single is a duet between her and singer Johnny Cash on her song “Redemption Day,” although the…
Read MoreJohnny Cash Duets
Johnny Cash, one of music’s consummate entertainers, could sing a duet with just about anyone…and did. Johnny Cash could sit down with a guitar and sing with just about anyone.…
Read MoreGil Evans: The Golden Age
New Bottle–Old Wine and Great Jazz Standards collected together in Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions
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NDIM Guide to Jazz
Read MoreYoko Ono: Approximately Infinite Universe & Feeling The Space
In 1972 and 1973 Yoko Ono released two of her most successful albums, Approximately Infinite Universe and Feeling the Space. Both of these albums are focused on issues of women’s…
Read MoreTraditional Jazz & The Jazz Age
History of Jazz: Part 2 Traditional Jazz is a broad term used to define a jazz style employed by musicians working in New Orleans between 1900 and 1917, and musicians…
Read MoreMartin Denny: Exotica Art of the Album
Martin Denny was one of the prime practitioners of the musical style that became known as exotica (sometimes lounge music). Exotica attempted to create a sense of the wild and…
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