Tag: jazz
member name: Mugg Muggles, "The Man With the Jive"
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September 15, 2006 11:56 PM EDT --
The year was 1933 and Broadway superstar Ethel Waters was offered a coast to coast network radio show with Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra.
The daughter of a rape victim, Ethel rose from poverty to become . . .
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June 01, 2009 10:14 PM EDT --
I have recently been 'logging' some archival video of the San Francisco Folk Music Club's "Free Folk Festival" from 1986 shot by my friend Paul Blake of the East Bay Media Center .
I discovered . . .
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February 02, 2009 07:13 PM EST --
I have collected records all my life and I have accumulated around 1100 78 rpm records along with a couple of hundred LPs and maybe 100 45s. Hell, I've even got a few 16 2/3 rpm "talking . . .
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April 08, 2009 09:45 PM EDT --
Here's some ACTUAL video of me several years ago playing at a birthday party with my friends Steve (on bass) and John (on lead guitar).
John just passed away one week after his 60th birthday. . . .
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January 18, 2009 07:42 PM EST --
This video is from the 1933 film "International House" starring Stuart Erwin, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Bela Lugosi, Baby Rose Marie, W.C. Fields, and many more. Here's . . .
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March 21, 2009 01:52 AM EDT --
Today is the shared birthdate of THREE (3) totally awesome musicians.
Sister Rosetta THARPE Gospel Singer and Guitarist par excellance.
MARIAN McPARTLAND Jazz Pianist . . .
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December 04, 2006 07:20 PM EST --
Many years ago (circa 1975) here in the San Francisco Bay Area there was an FM radio station that specialized in playing vintage Big Band Jazz. One day while I was listening to John Gilliland's (sp?) . . .
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November 12, 2008 06:20 AM EST --
Here's another one from the vault. Mugg Muggles and Renee Wing @ Berkeley's Freight and Salvage Coffee House circa 1983 performing a medley of "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (and Write Myself . . .
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March 11, 2007 10:46 PM EDT --
Interviewer: Yogi, can you explain jazz?
Yogi: I can't, but I will.... 90% of all jazz is half
improvisation. The other half is the part people play
while others are playing something they never . . .
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December 04, 2006 06:40 PM EST --
There is an amusing story of an encounter on an airplane from Europe between Tricky Dick and the legendary trumpeter Louis "Pops" Armstrong.
"Pops" and Nixon were seated next to . . .
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