Tag: jazz
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Tunesday: That’s Love
Every year, when the Christmas music is stowed away, I look forward to catching up with Steve & Edye’s holiday album, “That Holiday Feeling.” Until next season, guys….
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Tunesday 12/1: Steve & Eydie
Nothing says Christmas to me like Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme’s sweet voices–and each year, the first record I listen to is “That Holiday Feeling,” because it’s been that way since my mom played the title song and “Sleigh Ride” on her old general electric stereo, vinyl recordings crackling and hissing through cheap Goodyear Holiday…
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Lowell Blues
Thinking about things Beat after yesterday’s Shakespeare & Company post. Seems like a good time to share this cool film, found on the equally cool Allen Ginsberg Project blog. “Henry Ferrini’s impressionistic evocative Lowell Blues (2000) is a honeyed melancholic visual poem (somewhat imposed upon in this version by Journeyman Pictures intrusive logo!), with home-town…
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My Favorite Christmas Recordings #3 Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season. Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a constant barrage of holiday fare this season–from themed essays to book reviews to a countdown…
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