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On George Gershwin’s Birthday
"Brother, if you can't paint [or write, or sing] in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter."
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DE-FAMILIARIZING THE FAMILIAR by Ira Sadoff
The lyrics of two of my favorite jazz standards, “My Favorite Things” and “Tea for Two,” are cheesy, insipid, even infantile bourgeois fantasies; the original vocals seem to me to be sung in that…
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Happy Punctuation Day!
Punctuation is fun!! Do you have a favorite punctuation mark? Maybe you are partial to the serial comma, which can cause problems when omitted and inspired these Columbia University undergraduates to write this song:.…
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MR. P.C.: IMAGINATION AND IMPROVISATION by Ira Sadoff
John Coltrane’s 1960 album GIANT STEPS changed the path of modern jazz. Using inverted chord structures,accelerated tempi, changing his reed and ambature (contributing to slightly nasal tone), and, most of all, searching out increasingly…
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Tonight at KGB Bar: Erin Belieu and Brenda Shaughnessy
Hosted by Matthew Yeager and John Deming Tonight! September 24 Reading starts at 7:30 pm Admission is FREE www.KgbBar.com 85 East 4th Street * New York, NY The KGB…
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O Canada! [by Northrop Frye]
<<< One of the derivations proposed for the name Canada is a Portuguese phrase meaning 'nobody here.'— Northrop Frye (in The Modern Century, 1967) >>> Compare to Gertrude Stein, "There's no there there," on…
