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Category Archives: jazz
beautiful carelessly sultry
ongwriter friend Charlie Cheney keeps telling me that song lyrics should lean heavily on nouns. Show, don’t tell. Pack the song with people doing things in places with stuff, instead of talking about feelings and interior monologues and all those … Continue reading
I Wish I Had a Ukulele
uring February Album Writing Month, you’ll hear lots of ukulele songs. A couple years ago, it seemed everyone had one. Everyone but me.
You Can Not Like Steely Dan
ecently a friend reluctantly admitted (his words) that he doesn’t like Steely Dan. Though I understand, I don’t get it.
More Gypsy Jazz
ilm maker (which is quite an understatement, really) Nic Askew graciously pointed out the music credits in his film “The Perilous Journey” which you should go watch right now. I’ll wait.Back? Great. You’ll need to watch it more than once to really let it sink in. Anyway, the credits pointed me to Stephane Wrembel, acclaimed as the finest personification of Django’s gypsy jazz, and I thought you should know. Continue reading
Les Paul; Nothing Else to Say
hese days everyone has a guitar named after them.Only one man had that guitar named after him. ’nuff said. Continue reading
One of These Things is Not Like the Other
Applying thoughts from one industry to a completely different industry is one of my favorite business revitalization tricks. It’s been working with music for aeons. Speaking of Ians, have a listen to the psychedelic classical and big band music of Ian Stewart.There are links on his bio page to some mildly psychedelic jazz, and a fantastic rock arrangement of the standard “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore.” Continue reading
Charlie Cheney and Jimmy Doogan
azzy, with a light edge, floral topnotes and a decisive nose.Charlie Cheney is a distinctive and intelligent songwriter whose love for February Album Writing Month is a driving force behind the fun and learning that I get from it. Continue reading
FAWM Over. We Win.
ebruary Album Writing Month is officially over for 2009. And I officially won.Which means I wrote or co-wrote at least 14 songs during the 28 days of February. (You’ll see on my FAWM profile that it lists 19; it’s actually only 18 because one is listed twice but I don’t want to lose the comments on my original post.) Continue reading
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Journey Down the Nile
roving once again that it’s not just a river in Egypt, J. D. Souther’s Journey Down the Nile is my new intentional earworm.I think it’s a samba. I’ve forgotten most of the little I ever knew about Latin rhythm, but I think it’s a samba. With little machine-gun drum fills and a bass that knows how to samba. Or whichever dance it is. Apparently the horn section was recorded live, sliding in behind the languid vocals and wrapping around the piano which, like the bass, dances to whatever Latin rhythm that is. The trumpet solo defies the subtlety of the other instruments, blaring over the top, holding one long wavering note while they all change chords underneath. It’s one of those little musical witticisms I love. Continue reading
Still Haven’t Found What You’re Looking For? (8)
nother lazy post based on searches, and my best guess at what you were looking for.In no particular order: Continue reading
