AlterNet posted a story by someone named Mole333 about Nina Simone. My youngest daughter’s middle name is Simone. My wife and I are huge fans of Nina Simone’s music and life. Nice to see some more respect being paid to a woman that means so much to me. Perhaps surprisingly I had never heard of [...]
Tag Archives | Jazz
Tweet
Tweet
Tweet
Tweet
This One Time At Band Camp…
March 10, 2011 | Article
Many people that know me know that I used to be a professional jazz musician. Used to be has nothing to do with the jazz or musician parts of that statement. A more accurate statement might be, “I used to play music for money.” I care very much for music. When I’m working, I’m nearly [...]
Share This:
Tweet
WordPress 3.0: Thelonious
July 19, 2010 | Article
Image by oddsock via Flickr After a lot of wrangling of PHP, HTML, a tiny bit of JAVA, a little CSS, and redirecting some RSS, BLHill.net is now on a new server running the latest version of WordPress. WordPress 3.0 is a massive upgrade from the previous version. For me the most important part was [...]
Share This:
Tweet
Jazz Fest 4.23 Day 1 | JamBase
April 26, 2010 | Link
Wish I was there! Fans at the 41st annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival were greeted with buckets of rain on the first day. Though the numbers were a bit thin and most of them damp, those who did weather the storm were rewarded with spirited performances, no lines for food and plenty of [...]
Share This:
Tweet
Benefit for trumpeter Khalil Shaheed
April 25, 2010 | Article
I have to confess my ignorance of Khalil Shaheed prior to hearing this story. But I feel like I know the guy, because he reminds me of some amazing musicians that inspired me as a kid – not just because of their musical performances, but also because of their hands-on involvement in the community. There [...]
Share This:
Tweet
