Cowboy Bebop is a great series, and if you’ve watched it, then you’re ready for this video, which is a kickass performance of the intro. It’s definitely different, but amazingly faithful to the studio version. From wikipedia for Tank!: “Tank!” is the opening song for th...

At Sammy's at 2016 Main, on September 8, a historic jam session occurred, an impromptu reunion of many of the city of New Orleans's finest musicians. Each player who walked in the door was much more than a mere musician that night -- they were an affirmation of life. Not only did their attendance in...

Over the past couple of day, since Herbie Hancock pulled out a surprise win for Album of the Year during this year’s Grammys, I have noticed a bit of a backlash against the Grammy people.  Of course, this is nothing new.  Every year, there are dozens of people who claim to be music experts w...

Hello there faithful readers.  I hope you have a great weekend.  If you are visiting Chicago this weekend, I hope you have snow-shoes.  Chicago got hit with at least a foot of snow last night and into today.  Despite this, I did manage to get a flight out of Chicago and to St. Louis to hang with...

I have continued to poke arond on YouTube to see if I could find any more footage of Charlie “Bird” Parker.  It turns out that the stuff I posted yesterday is not exactly the ONLY existing footage of him performing live, at least from what I can see.  However, the one clip that struck ...

There's an art festival going on this week - tonight was a celebration of Minnesota college faculty artists at the Civic Center. Jazz Band played, life is good. We weren't at our best - there was quite a bit of tripping over notes amongst the seconds. We really do need to make copies of some of our ...

I'm going to be grinning for the rest of the afternoon. This is an interesting contrast to yesterday, when I couldn't get a real smile up. Having insane amounts of difficulty with the boyfriend, barely saw him yesterday and still managed to be depressed. During Jazz Band! Do you have any idea how im...