The real shock is that Sly Stone actually lived to 82. And the last 50 years were pretty bad. But my God did he transform music for a few years. Absolute legend for the work we are lucky enough to hear. RIP.
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I finished watching the Netflix series Break It All: A History of Rock in Latin America this week and while I wouldn't say it is breaking any new ground in.
Wow, Big Ears. Just....wow, I saw 31 sets of music in 4 days. I am pretty proud of that. Almost all of these were either full sets or close to.
This is the grave of Dinah Washington. Born in 1924 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Ruth Lee Jones grew up in Chicago. Her family was part of the Great Migration, getting out of the South for better opportunities in northern cities. Her family was also a deeply...
This is the grave of Billy Davis, though very hard to read because of the interaction between the rain and that smooth black stone. Also, I seem to have deleted.
Another new list I started this year was keeping track of all the live music I've seen. Thanks to my Music Notes I was able to backdate this several years.
This is the grave of Torrie Zito. Born in 1933 in Utica, New York, Salvatore Zito grew up in an Italian-American family, in case the name wasn't clear enough on that point. He mostly taught himself to play piano and started getting jobs in clubs...
It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of Quincy Jones to modern music. He knew everyone going back to a young Clark Terry and Ray Charles before he even.
Phil Lesh was the Grateful Dead's bassist and probably the best pure musician in the band. He also was deeply committed to exploring other sonic worlds and used his significant.
GGV- Growing up with that horrible father and all that fame and pressure, I cannot imagine how anyone survived it even semi-functional. Michael sure didn't. Tito seemed to mostly. It's also worth remembering how enormously important the Jackson 5 were to the 1970s and it...
Hey look at me, getting a music notes column out on time. I recently read Alex Harvey's Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles. Focusing on Waits'.
This is the grave of Johnny Pacheco. Born in 1935 in Santiago, Dominican Republic, Pacheco grew up around music. His father Rafael was a bandleader who led Orquesta Santa Cecilia..