Well, it took a lot longer than I thought it would, but I finally got my other blog — my real blog — The Jazz Observer back up and running with a whole new look, a completely new backend and, finally, some fresh content. Please check it out at www.jazzobserver.com.
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Forrest Bryant
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Tune of the Week: Leonard Cohen & Sonny Rollins
Here’s a cult classic from “Sunday Night,” the fearlessly eclectic TV show hosted by David Sanborn and Jools Holland in the late 1980s (better remembered by its second-season title, “Night Music”).
Dig Leonard Cohen and Sonny Rollins, paired on a haunting rendition of Cohen’s “Who By Fire,” joined by the backing singers from Was (not Was). [...]
Tune of the Week: Joe Lovano Us Five, “Big Ben”
Us 5 is a hot new two-drum quintet led by veteran saxophonist Joe Lovano. This live performance of “Big Ben” is more straightforward and beboppish than most of the tracks on the band’s new CD, Folk Art (Blue Note Records). But Lovano really goes to town on the Aulochrome, a unique double-soprano saxophone with an exotic, [...]
Concert Picks: July 27-August 2
I don’t get out as much as I’d like, but if I could drag my butt to one music event in the San Francisco Bay Area every day this week, this is what I’d choose. Just sayin’…
Monday, July 27
Jaz Sawyer & Horace-Scope @ Stanford Jazz Festival – 7:30pm
or… Bill Bell @ Yoshi’s, Oakland – 8pm/10pm
Tuesday, July 28
Jeb [...]
Proofin’ Palin
Sarah Palin’s recent speech announcing her resignation from the Alaska governorship was truly shocking, not just for its out-of-the-blue suddenness, but also for its long, rambling, sometimes incomprehensible content.
Vanity Fair magazine set literary editor Wayne Lawson loose on a transcript of Palin’s announcement, red pencil in hand, and the results are both hilarious and unsettling. [...]