CT Blue

This is getting a bit harder. I confess that I really don’t know much about newer music, except what I pick up on Colbert, and I’m running out of the old stuff. I’d appreciate any suggestions I can get (looking at you, MZ). Anyway, in rummaging through my mind’s back catalogue, I realized that I […]

There are those who feel that, the 21st having arrived, we are safe, and the Mayan prediction has proven false. However, the 21st is still here, and the end may still approacheth. So, I don’t want to defer this a moment longer,and I can’t wait until tonight. All in all this seems more appropriate than […]

Unfortunately, the choice was made for me this week. Back in the dim and distant past, if a member of my generation had only one jazz album, the odds were 10 to 1 it was Take Five, The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s masterpiece. Of course, Take Five is the signature piece from the album, but they’re […]

The gloating continues. While helping to prepare our Thanksgiving Dinner I chose to play the American Songbook album of songs by lyricists Yip Harburg. Actually, I didn’t know all the songs were by Harburg, only that the cover art said “American Songbook”. It was a fairly random pick, except I was looking for something “American”, […]

Late posting tonight, as we were out with friends celebrating a birthday and the election results. Earlier in the week I downloaded Neil Young’s last two albums, one of which is called Americana, which consists of Young’s take on an eclectic mix of standards. The iTunes version comes with grainy black and white video versions […]