(Above: The only acceptable version of “Hoochie Coochie Man.”) By Joel Francis The Daily Record A fun game has been going around the internet recently: Name 15 albums that influenced your taste in music today in 15 minutes. Because we never play anything straight up at The Daily Record, we twisted the rules a little [...]
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15 x 15
Posted in Song Review, tagged Alexis Korner, Alphaville, Beastie Boys, Behind Blue Eyes, Boogie Down Productions, Bruce Springsteen, Changes, Chess blues, Creep, David Bowie, Devil's Right Hand, Dion, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Fight For Your Right To Party, Flaming Lips, Hoochie Coochie Man, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Jay-Z, Joan Baez, Joey Ramone, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Kanye West, KRS-One, Ladies of the Canyon, Led Zeppelin, Let It Be, Limp Bizkit, Long Black Veil, Louis Armstrong, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Muddy Waters, Napoleon Dynamite, Paul McCartney, Radiohead, Sammy Hagar, Stairway to Heaven, Steve Earle, Steven Seagal, The Band, the Beatles, the Who, Van Halen, Wayne Coyne, What A Wonderful World, Young MC on September 3, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Review: “Pops” by Terry Teachout
Posted in book review, tagged Bing Crosby, Dizzy Gillespie, Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, jazz, Joe Glaser, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Satchmo, Terry Teachout on May 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
(Above: Satchmo and his septet rip through the “Tiger Rag.”) By Joel Francis The Daily Record The beauty of Louis Armstrong’s music was that it could be enjoyed and appreciated by everyone from children to adults and seasoned jazz fans to hardened critics. Pity then that “Pops,” the new Armstrong biography by Wall Street Journal [...]
Edwin Starr – “War”
Posted in Motown, Song Review, tagged 25 Miles, 9/11, banned songs, Bruce Springsteen, Clear Channel, corporate censorship, Dennis Edwards, Edwin Starr, Hitsville U.S.A., John Lennon, Louis Armstrong, Norman Whitfield, Paul Williams, protest music, psychedelic soul, Temptations on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Edwin Starr – “War,” Pop #1, R&B #1 By Joel Francis The Daily Record The Temptations had cut other political songs, such as “Message for a Black Man,” before they recorded the original version of “War” in 1969. Although the songs were generally well-received, they were closer to Norman Whitfield songs featuring the Temptations’ vocals [...]
Remembering Gennett Records
Posted in Music history, tagged Big Bill Broonzy, Bix Beiderbecke, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bradley Kincaid, Charlie Patton, cradle of recorded jazz, Decca, Duke Ellington, Edna Hicks, Fiddlin' Doc Roberts, Gene Autry, Gennett Records, Henry Gennett, Hoagy Carmichael, jazz, jazz 78s, jazz history, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, rare records, Richmond, Starr Piano Company, Vernon Dalhart on March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
(Above: A rare Gennett Records 78 featuring Edna Hicks singing “Satisfied Blues.”) By Joel Francis The Daily Record From the highway, Richmond, Ind. looks like any other blip on the highway between Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio. It’s not quite blink-and-you’ll-miss it – the town does have five exits from I-70 – but there’s nothing enticing [...]
Iggy Pop – “Preliminaires”
Posted in Album review, tagged Antonio Carlos Jobim, Blondie, Cole Porter, Debbie Harry, hot jazz, Iggy Pop, Leonard Cohen, Louis Armstrong, Lust for Life, Marianne Faithful, Michel Houllebecq, Preliminaires, Serge Gainsbourg, Stooges on June 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
By Joel Francis Purists of all stripes can relax: Iggy Pop’s much ballyhooed 15 studio album, “Preliminaires,” is not the jazz album Pop talked up before its release. That said, the album’s lone foray into the genre is actually one of its best songs. Borrowing enough of Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans hot jazz sound and [...]
Bird lives! (and so will jazz)
Posted in Industry commentary, tagged A Tribe Called Quest, Albert Pujols, Babe Ruth, Ben Ratliff, Black Star, Blue Note, Bob Dylan, Charlie Mingus, Christian McBride, Common, D'Angelo, folk music, free jazz, future of music, gospel, Hot Five, Hot Seven, Impulse, Jaco Pastorius, jazz, Jimmy Smith, John Coltrane, John Medeski, Joshua Redman, Louis Armstrong, Martin and Wood, Medeski, Mos Def, New York Times, Pharaoh Sanders, Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Roy Hargrove, Rudy Van Gelder, Sacred Harp, Soft Machine, Sonny Rollins, Stan Musial, The Roots, The Stooges on January 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Above: Students at the Berklee School of Music break down the Roots’ “Water.” By Joel Francis The New York Times jazz and pop critic Ben Ratliff participated in a very enlightening Q and A with readers yesterday. It seems Kansas City jazz fans, like our friend at Plastic Sax, aren’t the only ones obsessed about [...]
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A Christmas conversation
Posted in Industry commentary, tagged Albert King, Allen Toussaint, Ava Maria, Back Door Santa, Bill Brownlee, Booker T and the MGs, Brenda Lee, Charles Brown, Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown Christmas, Christmas Cooking, Christmas Gumbo, Clarence Carter, Dan Hicks, Diana Ross, Dolly Parton, Donny Hathaway, Elvin Jones, Emmylou Harris, Fats Domino, Greensleeves, Isaac Hayes, Jackson 5, Jimmy Smith, John Coltrane, John Fahey, Johnny Cash, Lester Bowie, Lou Rawls, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Matt Wilson, Max Roach, McCoy Tyner, Michael Jackson, Motown Christmas, Nat King Cole, Odetta, Otis Redding, Plastic Sax, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rufus Thomas, Sam Billen, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Staple Singers, Stax, Stevie Wonder, Sufjan Stevens, Temptations, There Stands the Glass, Vince Guaraldi on December 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
(Above: Jimmy Smith’s “Christmas Cooking,” released in 1964, is a classic, overlooked holiday album.) By Joel Francis The Daily Record The other day I was in a retail bookstore when I noticed the wonderful sounds of the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack coming from the overhead speakers. As I enjoyed the music, two thoughts hit me. [...]
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