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Count Basie: “Good Time Blues”

The sense from “Feel Good Blues” is that this was the Count Basie Band just having a whole of fun. There are smiles all around and Basie talks over...

Americana

What is Americana?

I’ve often wondered how “Americana” is distinguished from other genres of American music. The answer seems to be that the powers-that-be have...

Jazz New Orleans

The Great Dr. John

The last three paragraphs of this post were published a few years ago, though I changed them to not look odd after Dr. John’s death. With some...