Archives for December 2006
The J.O.S. Cocktail
The J.O.S. Cocktail
J.O.S. stands for Juice, Orange, and Stuff?
dash of orange bitters
dash of lemon or lime juice
dash of brandy
1/3 oz. Italian vermouth
1/3 oz. French Vermouth
1/3 oz. gin
shake - strain - pour
Rating: 1/10
Why Recorded Music Stinks
Recorded music stinks, and it stinks on many levels. When we listen to recorded music, what we want and think we are getting, is a reproduction of what the musicians sound like in person. This goal is frustrated on so many levels as to make it easier to find the hold grail.
The first hurdle is [...]
Search For The New Land
Search for the New Land was recorded at the same time at The Sidewinder, Morgan’s wildly successful album that solidified his hard bop / latin influenced style. The Search for the New Land was held back and not released for a year after The Sidewinder. It represents a possible alternate future for Morgan’s work and [...]
Interstitual Angst
I sometimes read a humour site called somethingawful.com. I clicked on a link today and was sent to an interstitual. An interstitual is advertiser speak for a bait and switch advertising method used on more annoying web sites. You go to catsRus.com and click on “view cute kittens” and instead of sending you to their [...]
Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
Louis Armstrong and the All Stars recorded “Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy” in 1954, in honour of Handy’s 80th birthday. Handy is the best known blues composer, (to me anyway ), the father of the blues. He is one of the pivotal figures of modern popular music.
Many people think that this is the best album [...]