The Hunt for New Music: There’ll be lots of New Year’s Eve Concerts to select from this coming Thursday, but, just to wrap up the Extended Christmas-New Year’s Holiday Weekend, why not a little searing music from blues master Robert Cray and his band. Here, as the final Weekend Concert Series program for 2015 is …
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The Hunt for New Music: Mariah Carey sings “All I Want For Christmas Is You”
It’s not a new version. It’s THE VERSION. The most popular Christmas song of modern times. Thank you, Mariah.
The Hunt for New Music: Mariah Carey sings "All I Want For Christmas Is You"
It’s not a new version. It’s THE VERSION. The most popular Christmas song of modern times. Thank you, Mariah.
The Weekend Concert Series: Stan Getz-The Last Recording.
The Hunt for New Music: Stan Getz is a jazz saxophonist who was born on February 2nd, 1927 and who died on June 6th, 1991. Getz is being treated in the first person—as if he were still here—because he is. It is midnight and I am listening to one of the classics of modern jazz, …
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Ornette Coleman
Transitions. Ornette Coleman (March 9th, 1930-June 11th, 2014) Fall. A Few Decades Ago.Siler City, North Carolina. I am wandering through the record library at my dad’s radio station. The station is small…a 1000 Watt daytimer…but the record library is massively oversized for the size of the station and the market. It was then a real …
Weekend Concert Series: Curtis Salgado
The Hunt For New Music. You can find the blues in a lot of places and in the case of this weekend’s concert series, we find it in the form of Curtis Salgado, from Portland Oregon, playing in a Blues Festival in Gaildorger, Germany. You may not have heard for Curtis before, but like a lot …
The Weekend Concert Series: The Foo Fighters in Rio De Janeiro Brazil, 2015
The Hunt for New Music: The complete concert from the Foo Fighters 2015 show in Rio. Play it big and turn it up. In Honor of Letterman and the fact that the Foo Fighters were the last band to play on the Letterman’s late night TV Show. The Fine Print: Embed courtesy of …
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B.B.King ClickPak
Resources and research into the life and music of B.B. King. B.B. King’s Playlist (Source: Daily Beast.Com) How I Got My Sound (B.B. King Interview in Rolling Stone) (Source: rollingstone.com) B.B. King Passing As Reported on BBC (Source: bbc.com) An Oral History of American Music with B.B. King (Source: pbs.com) The B.B. King Museum (source: bbkingmuseum.org) B.B.King …
The Weekend Concert Series: B.B. King Live in Hamburg, 1991
An older performance, Hamburg, 1991, when B.B. King was a mere 65 years old. The video is what you would expect from a concert recorded two and a half generations ago; the music is still stellar. One of the things that jumps out about this concert is that B.B. jumps right into it….. The …
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The Weekend Concert Series: B.B. King Live in New York, by Request
A 2006 concert of B.B. King live in New York, recorded in 2003. This is the seventh concert in the Weekend Concert Series tribute to B.B. King. The Fine Print: Embed via YouTube (thanks!), via Mr. SameEverynight (thank you for posting). All rights reserved by respective rights holders.This is a full length concert video …
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