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Archives for February 25, 2008

Monk, Strauss And A Brief Pause

February 25, 2008 by Doug Ramsey

Your itinerant correspondent is back from the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, catching his breath, attacking stacks of mail and, generally, taking care of business. We'll have a final installment about the festival in the next posting, probably tomorrow. In the meantime, a diversion. A serious … [Read more...]

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February 25, 2008 by Doug Ramsey

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. -- Richard Strauss I don't conside myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. -- Thelonious Monk … [Read more...]

Doug Ramsey

Doug is a recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the Jazz Journalists Association. He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he settled following a career in print and broadcast journalism in cities including New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Antonio, … [MORE]

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