If you live within range of KSFR, Santa Fe’s public radio station, I’ll be talking about jazz–and, more than likely, about The Letter–on “Good Morning Jazz,” John Greenspan’s Wednesday-morning jazz program, which airs from nine a.m. to noon MT (that’s eleven a.m. to two p.m. ET). Tune your radio to 101.1 FM, or go here to listen on the Web via streaming audio.
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Archives for July 29, 2009
TT: Snapshot
Billie Holiday sings “Fine and Mellow” on The Sound of Jazz, originally telecast on CBS in 1957. The soloists (in order) are Ben Webster on tenor saxophone, Lester Young on tenor saxophone, Vic Dickenson on trombone, Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone, Coleman Hawkins on tenor saxophone, and Roy Eldridge on trumpet:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
TT: Almanac
”A man who tells me my play is very bad, is less my enemy than he who lets it die in silence. A man, whose business it is to be talked of, is much helped by being attacked.”
Samuel Johnson (quoted in James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides