Category Archives: music

I’ll turn 78 in less than 7 years and a month.  I feel good, but by then I’ll be happy to rise from my blue recliner without mechanical assistance.  Unless I can get my hands on whatever that 78 year-old guy I saw on stage last night at the Blossom Music Center is taking.  ThatContinue reading “fortunate”

Olivia van Goor is an up-and-coming jazz singer we’ve been pleased to see around these parts.  A Hudson Ohio girl (home of Western Reserve Academy where my wife Kathy went to high school), her family moved to southeast Michigan in 2017 and she plunged into all things Dee-troit.   She loves the Great American Songbook andContinue reading “jazz singer”

Kathy’s learned to trust my judgement with Ark bookings.  While mostly I just sign up for our old faves, now and then I’ll slip in someone I’ve only heard about.  Worth taking a flyer.  So, it was with last Friday’s Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar.  I scrutinize the Ark schedule far in advance so asContinue reading “South or swamp?”

It wasn’t much like the crazy “rockabilly funeral” Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen sang about (1), but the spirit inside the Hangar on the Hudson Sunday night was sure similar.  All were gathered for “A Celebration of the Art, Music, and Life” of Commander Cody, who ascended to the outer ozone late lastContinue reading “rock don’t cry”

Here listed are the references to the 2nd edition of Lost in the Ozone…Again! The Commander, his Boys, and Me.  50 years and Counting.  Going in sometime soon. The first addition came out on Amazon/Kindle May 2021, but I pulled it September that year after at the request of George Frayne’s widow.  With the helpContinue reading “CC2 TOC”

It wasn’t our first, but yesterday’s evening with Rodney Crowell at the City Winery in Chicago was certainly one to relish. When the evening was over, I had a better understanding of what Rodney sings “Oh, what a beautiful world” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTsYHaOSXeY.  I didn’t write down my own setlist as I wanted to devote full attentionContinue reading “taste of joy”

Kathy and I never fail to take in some jazz when we come to Chicago. Usually, it’s at the venerable Jazz Showcase in the South Loop or the much older Green Mill in Uptown, way north, sometimes Andy’s in the Near North. Tonight it was Jazz Showcase to experience the irrepressible trumpeter Victor Garcia inContinue reading “Chi jazz”

I awoke this morning knowing I was facing a very special day.  Another one of those golden anniversaries.  They come around pretty frequently at this age.  One of the first things I did once I got settled into my blue La-Z-Boy was to fire off e-mails to George Frayne of Gansevoort NY and Bill KirchenContinue reading “Two triple cheese…”

Leon Russell pervades through all my preferred Spotify channels, and none are the ”Leon Russell” channel, which surely exists.  You can never go too far without hearing a Leon Russell tune, which is o.k. because all Leon Russell tunes are cool.  He brought his considerable talents to LA from Oklahoma City in the 60s, becameContinue reading “Leon”