Tag: jazz
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November 26, 2009 07:22 AM EST --
Honda has been heavily into small cars since the 1960s, with the company launching its N360 in 1967, fitted with a 31bhp 354cc two-cylinder engine. The first Civic followed soon after, in 1972, . . .
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November 26, 2009 02:04 PM EST --
Magic vs Hawks is my marquee match-up for today’s NBA Picks. Though it is traditionally a NFL day, the NBA is enticing hoop fans with two games. This particular contest pits two divisional . . .
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October 13, 2009 10:16 PM EDT --
Here is another opportunity to listen to the Atmos Trio which, I will admit up front, is my son's group. I am listening to the music while at Gather. Rob plays jazz, the American classical music.
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April 02, 2009 08:15 AM EDT --
It was Spring break. Number 1 grandson was about to graduate from high school. I had taken his cousin and her little brother to Orlando for Spring break several years earlier. . . .
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July 09, 2009 03:33 PM EDT --
My favorite TV show is "Jeopardy". It's a game show where they give you an answer and you have to form the correct question that applies to the answer. It's fun to watch and . . .
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October 06, 2009 11:03 PM EDT --
I play the piano, but I love to hear a trumpet being played. And I really enjoy jazz band concerts. My daughter plays the violin, piano, flute and bassoon. Two of my sons play the guitar. Two of them . . .
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November 05, 2009 12:58 AM EST --
My earliest memories have a jazz soundtrack. It was the music my father listened to, that permeated our home. As a rebellious teenager, I rejected it as “old people’s music,” favoring . . .
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September 15, 2006 11:56 PM EDT --
The year was 1933 and Broadway superstar Ethel Waters was offered a coast to coast network radio show with Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra.
The daughter of a rape victim, Ethel rose from poverty to become . . .
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December 05, 2007 03:25 PM EST --
I don’t want to make anyone mad or anything, that is not my style. (Yea, and the Pope is a Southern Baptist.) [I promise you alter that I am going to find a way to put you down hard] . . .
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May 18, 2009 03:50 PM EDT --
Okay, so Saturday was dance photos. Angela has 3 different costumes this year, so that ment changing both costumes and hair styles. Now, I DON'T DO HAIR AND MAKE-UP...I'm lousy at it. I can't . . .
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August 10, 2007 09:21 PM EDT --
Ella Fitzgerald is back on the charts after 38 years.
Her new album is the number two jazz album, and she starts off at number 97 on the Billboard charts.
Even though she has been dead since 1996, . . .
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August 18, 2007 11:43 PM EDT --
One reason it took me such a long time to finish college--or for college to be finished with me--was that I couldn't seem to focus on my requirements. I was supposed to be a "Communication Studies" . . .
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January 22, 2008 09:58 AM EST --
Sunday I went to a little jazz cafe to hear some live jazz. This little cafe serves brunch...mimosas, shrimp and grits, eggs benedict, eggs Sardou. Every kind of person comes in the door, from white . . .
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December 26, 2007 06:22 PM EST --
I was saddened to hear about the passing of Oscar Peterson. He was an innovative pianist. He played with a lot of the great jazz artists. He was a mentor to Benny Green and Diana . . .
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September 27, 2008 02:53 AM EDT --
I know this is kind of late, but, back in January ( 2008) my favorite radio station ( CD101.9 NYC ) went off the air. One day it was there, and the next day "Poof" it was gone! CD101.9 . . .
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December 07, 2007 10:46 PM EST --
Frank Zappa
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 21, 1940, to Francis Zappa (Greek and
Lebanese descent) and Rose Marie Colimore (Italian and French), Frank Zappa
was the oldest of four children . . .
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March 21, 2009 01:52 AM EDT --
Today is the shared birthdate of THREE (3) totally awesome musicians.
Sister Rosetta THARPE Gospel Singer and Guitarist par excellance.
MARIAN McPARTLAND Jazz Pianist . . .
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April 08, 2009 09:45 PM EDT --
Here's some ACTUAL video of me several years ago playing at a birthday party with my friends Steve (on bass) and John (on lead guitar).
John just passed away one week after his 60th birthday. . . .
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June 13, 2009 11:25 PM EDT --
Dress Rehersal was on Monday for Angela's dance company. It's a long day, since all the dances from both days of recital are run through. Since we had a couple of girls that were out due to injury or . . .
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August 04, 2008 08:20 AM EDT --
I had a couple of "Flapper's" in the family, of course many years ago, and heard the song and heard it played many times, but not anytime lately.
Someone here did an article referring . . .
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