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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86583)
• United States
10 Feb
What am I doing up so early? Well, it’s the end of the line with Bestill and me. I’m taking the car to my niece in Lexington to begin a new life. Before I leave, I’ll give you another great singer to help you celebrate Black...
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86583)
• United States
10 Jan
We’re having misting rain here in the land of the Kentucky Derby (and if you’re counting, or even if you aren’t, it’s only 110 days until Kentucky Derby 151!). While the weather changes, I don’t. I’m looking back at the musical...
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86583)
• United States
12 Oct 23
Oh, yeah, you’re thinking! About time you got into the 80s! Hold your horses! Ain’t I clever in the countdown of songs with “ain’t” in the title? So before I head out for leaf viewing I’ll give you a song you...
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James Higgins
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
19 Apr 23
Way, way, back in 1965, there was a jazz piano man, Horace Silver and he was playing at another jazz man's club in Hollywood called Shelly's Manne-Hole.
My Uncle Bob Allen, a WW 11 vet and great tap dancer (before he broke his...
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James Higgins
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
19 Apr 23
Way, way back in 1965, there was a club in Hollywood, owned by a jazz drummer named Shelly Mann. The club was called Shelly’s Manne-Hole, just off Hollywood Boulevard on Caheunga.
My Uncle Bob worked there as sous chef (head chef...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381837)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Oct 22
Our son in Ireland is a jazz musician and plays bass. He and his wife would like to buy a house but the banks won’t lend to an itinerant musician. They want borrowers to have a 9 to 5 type of job with a regular income. So he has...
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Scott Ganschow
@teamfreak16 (43571)
• Denver, Colorado
11 Sep 21
The story of how The Kentucky Churchmens Trio’s 1947 masterpiece LP, The Only Book Learnin’ That You Need Is Bible Book Learnin’, came about is astonishing, really. Vocalist Elmer Huckleberry, saxophonist Roscoe Duff, pianist...
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222285)
• United States
23 May 21
I'm not a jazz fan by any stretch of the imagination; but I love today's song in my head which is "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet and is a real blast from the past.
Dave Brubeck was an American jazz pianist and composer...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238277)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Mar 21
I was playing bass along with jazz music from an NPR Sacramento CA radio station tonight. I heard a beautiful tune I wanted to learn. The DJ mentioned the name of the musician and the album, but it was too quick for me to catch....
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238277)
• Walnut Creek, California
24 Feb 21
I was relaxing at my computer this afternoon when I heard loud and bad sounds coming from the parking lot, to my left. It was rap "music," musically simplistic, with racist and sexist lyrics. I got to hear about "white man" this...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238277)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Feb 21
I really like a (1959) jazz album called Kind of Blue. It is by an American jazz musician named Miles Davis. Have you heard of him? Some of the other musicians on that album are also pretty famous to American jazz musicians and...
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GreatMartin
@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
25 Jan 21
Yesterday I came across this story:
https://www.savebirdland.com/?fbclid=IwAR0PTW8U9W21xz-VNZOKV_1wTQl4DYWwHO7xMB13qVChRyQxa8JmrNEjhac
(And still available to see)
and my mind was flooded with singers and songs. In the 1950s...
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86583)
• United States
25 Nov 20
What a surprise: eight people left on this list of famous people from my hometown, and half of them are musicians. Whodathunkit? Oh, and none of them are country musicians. How’s that for a shock!?...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238277)
• Walnut Creek, California
22 Oct 20
I just read that my favorite contemporary piano player, Keith Jarrett, suffered two strokes in 2018 and has minimal use of his left hand right now. The prognosis is not good.
I also learned that bassist Gary Peacock, a member of...
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