'Heart Of Gold'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I remember learning a lot about the Marsalis family (not just the official stuff, a lot of which I already knew) through listening to Harry Connick Jr talk about them post-Katrina.
And actually, I never held the guy (Connick Jr) in much esteem until Katrina. I was very impressed by everything he did and said when the floods hit. And the way he talks about Ellis Marsalis...well, made me wish I coulda been taught by the guy too.
So much music!
I actually came to know Branford through Sting and Bring on the Night, which led to a brief foray into Wynton but never quite dug him, nor Branford sans Sting.
Okay, I think I'll stop now before I break the bank.
Thanks y'all!
Slide show from James Brown's estate sale:
Oooh, cool! Wow, check out that furniture. This totally belongs in the House on the Rock collection: [link] (and the jumpsuits too!).
Isn't there a 3rd Marsalis brother who plays trombone? (Or did I just make him up?)
Zeppo?
Delfeayo (third brother) plays trombone and Jason, the baby, plays drums.
Seriously talented family.
But they call him "Zeppo", right? Right!
(and Barb, I got the Frida tickets, score!)
I'm sure someone calls him Zeppo. Probably Branford. :-P
And SCORE on Frida!
Looks like Bowie's Live in Santa Monica '72 album (his first tour in the States in Ziggy mode) is receiving an official release.
Sex Pistols frontman branded bigot over attack on singer
London
July 22, 2008 - 9:58PM
Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has been branded a bigot after his entourage allegedly attacked Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke at a music festival in Spain.
Okereke and witnesses, including members of Kaiser Chiefs and Foals, claim the beating was so severe it left the singer with a bruised face and cuts to his face and body, Britain's Independent newspaper reports.
Security staff broke up the fight at a Barcelona festival on Saturday after the Kaiser Chiefs and Foals members intervened, the report said.
Okereke, a fan of Lydon since he was young, said he went over to speak to the Sex Pistols vocalist formerly known as Johnny Rotten.
But Lydon quickly became "intimidating and aggressive," according to a statement released by Okereke yesterday.
Lydon's entourage responded with a tirade of racist abuse including the statement: "Your problem is your black attitude".
Okereke was then allegedly set upon by three members of Lydon's crew who reportedly punched and kicked him before starting on the Kaiser Chiefs frontman, Ricky Wilson, and Yannis Philippakis, from Foals, when they tried to mediate, The Independent reported.
Okereke, whose parents emigrated from Nigeria to Liverpool in the 1970s, criticised Lydon for failing to halt what he believed was a racist attack.
"It's not an issue of the physical assault, even though it was an unprovoked attack," The Independent quoted him as saying.
"It is the fact that race was brought into the matter so readily. Someone as respected and as intelligent as Lydon should know better than to bring race into the equation, or socialise with and encourage those who hold such narrow-minded attitudes."