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- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Tag Archives: Jazz music
Stian Carstensen’s Backwards Into the Backwoods
Stian Carstensen is a Norwegian multi-instrumentalist, the cracked genius behind the group Farmer’s Market, which combines Scandinavian folk, Balkan dance music and wild post-bop jazz into a heady and infectious brew. On Backwards Into the Backwoods, his latest project freed … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Balkan music, contemporary music, Jazz music, Nordic music
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Oddjob’s Koyo and Peaux’s Peaux
Christopher White contributed this review. Amigo Musik is proving to be an excellent source for intriguing music from Northern Europe, principally Sweden. Let me refer you to two recent GMR reviews: Jeanette Lindström’s Walk and the self-titled disk by the … Continue reading
Bobo Stenson and Lennart Åberg’s Bobo Stenson/Lennart Åberg
Christopher White contributed this review. Bobo Stenson and Lennart Åberg are among the best known Swedish jazz musicians, playing piano and saxophones respectively. I hear skeptics out there making cracks about “best known Icelandic blues musicians” and so on, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz music, Nordic music
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Howe Gelb’s Ogle Some Piano
Tucson’s musical savant Howe Gelb has released an album of mostly instrumental keyboard music, Ogle Some Piano. It’s a curious disc, even by Gelb’s eccentric standards — 19 tracks of piano meanderings in a variety of styles: jazz, rock, pop, … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Jazz music, rock and roll
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Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer’s Music For Two and Obstinato
Banjo vertuoso Béla Fleck, having already pioneered and deeply explored the intersections of bluegrass, jazz and pop in a 20-year recording career, in 2001 recorded a double Grammy winning disc of “classical” music, Perpetual Motion. It leaned heavily to Baroque … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluegrass music, classical music, Jazz music
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Jeanette Lindström’s Walk
Christopher White contributed this review. Jeanette Lindström’s lovely Walk is an intriguing example of the influence American culture has around the world. Produced with financial assistance from the Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs with principally Swedish players, nevertheless all … Continue reading
Carl Wolfe’s W.C. Handy’s Beale Street – Where the Blues Began
The year 2003 was named “Year of the Blues” in the U.S. because it was in 1903 that an African-American musician named William Christopher Handy first heard the music that later came to be known as the blues. In a … Continue reading
Tagged blues music, Jazz music, music
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Suzy Bogguss’ Swing!
Suzy Bogguss is a highly popular country star, and something of a Nashville maverick. Which means she got famous enough before Music City was totally taken over by the big labels and the suits that she can continue to make … Continue reading
Pearl Django’s Under Paris Skies
Pearl Django is a regular favorite at the Northwest Folklife Festival and other events around Washington’s Puget Sound. The Seattle-based quartet plays acoustic swing jazz a la Django Reinhardt and the Hot Quintet of Paris circa the 1930s. Under Paris … Continue reading
Scott Yanow’s Swing
Scott Yanow, a well-known and prolific jazz writer, historian and journalist, has produced a definitive treatment of all things Swing. Equally useful as a textbook and a guide to essential recordings, Swing covers the jazz genre also known as Big … Continue reading