Dexter Gordon “Our Man In Paris”
Everyone knows that I’m a big Dexter Gordon fan. I love listening to Our Man in Paris. Dexter Gordon has such a relaxed way of playing. It’s what I want my playing to be like–laid back. Too bad there’s nothing laid back about me.
When I stick the CD in the CD [...]
Andy Hamill “Bee for Bass”
When my husband came home from a trip to London last February, he packed his keys in his suitcase–but that’s a different story–and he brought back some CD’s recorded by people he knew. It took a while before we listened to any of them. They sat in a stack behind the speaker on the [...]
Sly and the Family Stone “Fresh”
I saw the 2006 tribute to Sly Stone on the Grammy’s. It featured various singers, some worse than others, singing a medley of Sly and the Family Stone’s hits. A cheesy announcer’s voice would come in over the music to introduce the next singer coming to the stage. This is an example of [...]
Kirk Adams “Little Elevator”
A few weeks ago, I pulled a CD from the bookcase and took it to the car with me. I was in the mood to listen to something new as I traveled from here to there. Little did I know that the the second track on the CD would be spinning in my head [...]
John Coltrane “I Want To Talk About You”
When I was a girl, my sister and I used to lace up our roller-skates and skate around the living-room. We only did this when our parents weren’t home. My father had a big stereo system and shelves of LP’s. I studied the covers of most of those albums–flipped them over and over [...]
