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Night By Night
Music is more than lyrics and notes. There is always a story to hear, play and sing. And I will try and bring you those stories from genres and artists far and wide.
DAVID M.
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Charlie Haden and the Grammys
I’ve never watched the Grammys, and don’t intend to start tonight (music, to me, is primarily for the auditory sense, not the visual, which is why I couldn’t find MTV without a well-directed remote or the date of the Grammys without a Hollywood calendar). But I won’t object if I stumble on to the only […]
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Ali Farka Toure: Ai Bine
You can listen to the music of Mali’s Ali Farka Toure almost anywhere in the world you are reading this. Except in much of his home country. If you’re looking, you can find Mali on the map in northwest Africa. But if you were there, you couldn’t find much music to listen to — at […]
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Grateful Dead: Box of Rain
Look into any eyes you find by you, you can see clear to another day Maybe been seen before through other eyes on other days while going home – What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through? It’s all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago The […]
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Randy Newman and the Hall of Fame
Randy Newman was named last week as one of the 2013 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in a class with Heart, Donna Summer and Rush. Which begets the question: What did he ever do to deserve such musical company? It’s not enough that one generation knows Newman as the sappy old […]
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Dave Brubeck: It’s a Raggy Waltz
Seventeen years ago I came home from Europe to learn, over brunch via the New York Times at the News Cafe on South Beach, that Don Pullen had died. When I told my then-girlfriend, now my wife, she misunderstood me and thought I had said someone was pulling her leg. When I explained that Pullen […]
