If Herbie Nichols is remembered for anything, it’s probably for composing one of Billie Holiday’s signature songs “Lady Sings The Blues.” Problem is, Nichols is all but totally forgotten today, even though he recorded a handful of seminal EPs and an album for the Blue Note record label between 1955 and 1956. For the 30 or so years after these recordings were made, the music sat … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day – “House Party Starting” by Herbie Nichols Trio
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Song Of The Day – “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” by Billie Holiday
You can tell a lot about people by the records they own. A relative of a friend dropped some records off at my house this weekend for me to look at. While most had condition issues and were hardly worth selling on eBay, the guy did have some interesting and really good records which he graciously told me to keep anyway. There were jazz records from the 1950s, at least a … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day – “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” by Billie Holiday
Lost In The Music on The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity
This time on The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity, the word lost can be taken many ways. * a person in Solitude * Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland * Mustard gas, also known as Lost. * "Lost", a slang term for being under the influence of the hypnotic drug Ambien * abbreviation for Local option sales tax. It could be one of two tv shows or a pair of movies. … [Read more...] about Lost In The Music on The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity