Archive for the ‘music’ Category

Bum Rush the Charts TODAY

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

I have been following Bum Rush the Charts, a massive social media experiment-- and the eventtakes place today, March 22. BRTC is an attempt to put an independent (non-major label) music artist in the iTunes Top 100 charts for one day, through word of mouth. Go to Christopher Penn's site at: http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/bumrush ...

Link Wray makes my day (plus Pete Townshend’s blog)

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

While I often listen to podcasts during my workouts, I definitely just tune in some of my music part of the time, and I put a random mix of tunes on my MP3 player so I don't know what I'm gonna get. Sometimes, this really makes me smile. Today, it was ...

RIP–Jimmy Smith

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

I've been hearing that Jimmy Smith died last night-- this is the loss of a great jazz legend. I have often wondered why there have not been more organ players in jazz. While there are several any jazz fan can name at the drop of the hat (Lonnie Liston Smith, ...

Music Listening– in the P’s

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

I have way too many CDs (is ther such a thing?). Anyhow, at some point in 2004 I gave up being selective in packing my travel CD case (ok-- I know I haven't joined the iPod generation yet, but give it time), and just started throwing in my CDs alphabetically ...