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Just in time for the holidays, Jim Nayder of The Annoying Music Show! offers more Christmas music.
A centuries-old Colombian rhythm is emerging in mutant strains in clubs across Los Angeles.
Monteverdi's set of Vespers illustrated a mastery of blending Renaissance and Baroque styles.
Anyone who thinks ABBA is too uncool for this honor can argue about it... with Linda Holmes.
On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H. Res. 894, honoring the 50th anniversary of Kind Of Blue and "reaffirming jazz as a national treasure." It is pretty fantastic that our federal government did this. It is also pretty futile, which makes it slightly more acceptable that it is also poorly argued.
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), a long-time jazz advocate from the Detroit area, introduced the motion. As far as jazz goes, he's best known as the man behind 1987's H. Con. Res. 57, the joint congressional resolution stating "jazz is hereby designated as a rare and valuable national American treasure to which we should devote our attention, support and resources to make certain it is preserved, understood and promulgated." With this latest resolution, the House has the "attention" part down -- if you call a resolution nobody will notice "attention" -- but the "support and resources" part ...
Well, duh, Kind of Blue is great. Read on.>>
It's a wonder Reed has time to get behind his drum kit, let alone lead two of Chicago's best bands.
