Archives for March 27, 2006

Another location recording by Dave Frishberg? What do you mean, another? There hasn't been one since Do You Miss New York? That was four years ago. Ah, the one with "Jaws" and "The Hopi Way." How can he top that? Top it? Why does he have to top it? Music isn't a contest, a quest to set records (heh … [Read more...]

The Rifftides discussion of the perilous situation of the Voice of America’s English language broadcasting has a running sidebar about Willis Conover. Conover was the VOA’s free lance jazz voice, one of the United States’ most effective instruments of public diplomacy during the Cold War. … [Read more...]

Paul Blair, now an editor, free lance writer and licensed New York City tour guide, was a colleague of Willis Conover at the Voice Of America in the 1980s. He hosted a daily VOA broadcast. Blair sent Dave Frishberg the following recollection after reading Dave's story in the previous Rifftides … [Read more...]

Last night's concert by the Jim Knapp Orchestra at The Seasons Performance Hall drew on much of the repertoire from Knapp's most recent CD, Secular Breathing. There were a few changes in personnel, most notably the addition of Tom Varner, the brilliant French hornist who has moved from New York to … [Read more...]