Jazz

Writing Assignment: All That Jazz

12.02.2011 Jazz

Louis Armstrong said, “Man if you gotta ask, you’ll never know.” There are some things that are next to impossible to describe with words. Not impossible, just pretty damn close to it. There’s even a quote: “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” And the quote itself is popular enough that it’s close to [...]

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So Much Music — iTunes Match & Life In The Cloud

11.21.2011 Future

I’m completely giddy over iTunes Match. I love music. As soon as iTunes was first released in January of 2001 I started ripping all of my CDs into an online collection. I also borrowed CDs from friends, libraries, and anywhere I could get my hands on them. Both of my daughters are musicians and music [...]

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Not Found In Our Collection

09.09.2010 Jazz

I love music and I listen to what I think is a wide variety of it.  My iTunes library has over 17,000 tracks (individual songs). Some of them are for my wife and daughter and not to my taste, but the bulk of it is mine. What have I got? Lots of blues and jazz, [...]

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Cultivate Connoisseurship

08.11.2010 Art

Do you feel like you’re always behind with EVERYTHING? Do you find that you can never get through your list of tasks, and worse than that, all of those other things in life keep nagging at you? Do you feel like you’re under pressure because your TiVO or DVR is full of recorded shows that [...]

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Jazzing Up The Holidays

12.23.2009 Jazz

The local radio stations started playing Christmas music just after Halloween this year. I’m starting a drive to revise the Ohio state constitution to prohibit this in coming years. From my perspective, no Christmas music should be played until after Santa Claus arrives during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. But setting politics aside, I do [...]

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