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But I would urge you to remember that this was also the trendiest and most popular commercial music of its day.
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
“Rude Boy”
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
insistent earthiness.
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
Thelonious Monk was a particular favorite. Monk’s Music was my favorite of his albums.
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
ALAN LOMAX, Notes to Blues in the Mississippi Night, Rykodisc 90155 [1990] Little Sally Walker, sitting in a flying saucer Arkestra chant at Slug’s, c. 1967
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Buddy Bolden,
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
“irrational exuberance”—
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
W. C. Handy blues songs, performed by the young Louis Armstrong, with Barney Bigard on clarinet and Trummy Young on trombone.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
The music producer Adrian Younge was hanging out on Twitter one day and tweeted, “Who is better: The Dramatics or The Delfonics?” As his followers erupted in a debate over the two soul groups, one follower mentioned that the lead singer of The Delfonics, William Hart, was a friend of his dad’s and that Hart just happened