Archives for March 2, 2006

“Jazz is where you find it.” That is the opening sentence in the first paragraph of an essay in Jazz Matters: Reflections on the Music and Some of its Makers. Here is the rest of the paragraph. The Polish novelist and essayist Leopold Tyrmand, who spent much of World War Two as a forced laborer … [Read more...]

Several versions of a joke usually beginning something like, "A note walks into a bar...." are floating around the internet. Buddy DeFranco forwarded the most elaborate I've seen. The Rifftides management makes no claims about the reliability of the musicology in this tale: A C, an E-flat, and a G … [Read more...]