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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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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 …
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 Hunt For new Music. First in a series of playlists for the summer. Play it loud and play it often. Notes on the selections. 1. Because it’s summer. 2. The right title (lots of us are at the beach) and it involves “Mr. Summer”, Jimmy Buffett. 3. Great song that can be perceived …
From Style.com comes this nice survey (complete with all the videos) on the Top 25 Music Videos that used models (super and otherwise) to the musical story. While we agree with most of the picks, we’re puzzled about why the ground-breaking Terence Donovan video of Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” was left out of the survey. …
Deep Background. The second of two features on the classic rivalry between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, a Shakespearean drama played on the terre batu at the French. All you need to know about how to play and win on clay can be found in this and the preceding video. It’s listed as “the most …
Deep Background: Nadal and Djokovic was projected to be the match of the tournament in 2015. In many ways, it was, but it came in the quarters, not the semis or the finals. Djokovic finally took Nadal out at The French and he did it by playing to win, not by playing not to lose. …
Deep Background: Nadal was going for his 10th French Open title this year (2015). He didn’t make it. Djokovic (who had lost to Nadal the last 3 times they met in the French) finally took down the King of Clay. Although Nadal is out of the French this year, he’s probably the very best clay court player of …
Deep Background. This is part two of our posts on playing the clay court game. It’s a totally different game but you enter with the same tools you enter any tennis match: groundies, court coverage, service and return, volleys off both wings. But one more element comes into play on clay: strategy. Clay court tennis …
Deep Background: Clay court tennis is not like any other form of tennis. The grass court game requires a terrific serve (and, before power tennis became THE ONLY way to play, a good first and even better second volley) and the ability to quickly hit a fast rising shot. Rallies are short. Reputations on grass are …