Okeh Records – Sony – www.BillFrisell.com Title this recording as (updated) memorabilia of the fifties and sixties; it plays like an AM radio jukebox from the same era, but radiates a current and unique vibe. No matter, set your way-back machine(s) and enjoy the modernized and respectful (all-instrumental) blasts from the past that additionally includes a pair of newly penned …
SOUNDS OF BLUE: Grateful Dead “Dick’s Picks Vol.15”
Englishtown, NJ 9/3/77 www.RealGoneMusic.com 3 CD’s “Dick’s Picks Volume 15” is a complete performance from Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ, an outdoor event with over one-hundred thousand fans in attendance. The New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Marshall Tucker Band also performed. How do I know these details? I was there, but I almost didn’t make it for …
SOUNDS OF BLUE: Jefferson Airplane “Bless Its Pointed Little Head” By BOB PUTIGNANO
CD Vinyl Replica www.CultureFactoryUSA.com The Jefferson Airplane’s first live album recorded in ‘68, with the memorable cover art of Jack Casady “passed out” at a long table hanging onto a bottle of wine is classic. It also validated the band’s immense instrumental chops and impassioned vocals from Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, and Jorma Kaukonen, often with shimmering multi-part …
DANTE’S WORLD OF SATIRE: The Redundant Nature Of Redundancy By DANTE LIBERATORE
The issue came to light in 2009 when David Spano, the son of then Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano, called for the abolishment of Westchester County government via the elimination of concurrent jurisdiction. The dissent, however, was small, drawing about a dozen people in front of an obscure office building in downtown White Plains, New York. In fact, a push …
Yonkers Hosts Second Annual YoFi Fest Film Festival at Riverfront Library – Friday, October 17, 2014 @ 7 pm EDT
Three Day Film Festival Will Feature More than 75 Films Including Philip Seymour Hoffman’s “God’s Pocket,” Shot in Yonkers YONKERS, NY – October 17, 2014 – Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano today announced the City will kick-off the second annual Yonkers Film Festival known as YoFi Fest this evening at the Riverfront Library. The festival, which opens tonight, Friday, October 17 …
DANTE’S WORLD OF SATIRE: No Tea for Me By DANTE LIBERATORE
Pizza Hut Express, Holiday Inn Express and Express Lube are organizations I can deal with. Who wouldn’t want a halfway-decent pizza, a comfortable room at a fair price and an engine block that won’t overheat? On the other hand, the Tea Party Express I can do without; primarily for 1) having more messages than Paris Hilton’s voicemail, 2) projecting a …
SOUNDS OF BLUE: The Allman Brothers Band “Play All Night Live at the Beacon Theatre 1992” Epic Legacy By BOB PUTIGNANO
“Farewell to the Allman Brothers Band who’ll end an era: October, 2014 at the Beacon in NYC.” The Allman Brothers final live shows are six sold-out performances scheduled in October at the Beacon Theatre, NYC. Four of these shows (Tuesday, October 21st; Wednesday, the 22nd; Friday, the 24th and Saturday, the 25th) are make-up dates from the band’s upended Beacon …
Superstars of Latin Dancing Come to Westchester
Westchester Broadway Theatre Presents “Superstars Of Latin Dancing” – October 21, 2014 @ 6:15 P.M Show Six of the greatest LATIN ballroom dance superstar couples in the world will present their exciting shows at the Westchester Broadway Theatre Tuesday evening, Oct. 21. You’ll see it all…from the plains of Argentina will come the dramatic Argentine Tango and from other countries …
Evening of Honor Soars at the Westchester Broadway Theatre
ELMSFORD, NY – October 6, 2014– At a fundraiser at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford to benefit the Hudson Valley Honor Flight, WBT donated a portion of all ticket sales for the opening night of “South Pacific”. The $10,000.00 total donated was to sponsor the October 18th inaugural flight from Westchester, with the second flight following in April of 2015. …
SOUNDS OF BLUE: Esther Phillips “Alone Again, Naturally” Expanded Edition By BOB PUTIGNANO
www.RealGoneMusic.com Released on the Kudo Record label imprint (a subsidiary of Creed Taylor’s legendary CTI record label) in 1972, “Alone Again, Naturally” by soul-blues-jazz singer Esther Phillips, produced by Creed Taylor, recorded with all-star session players and solo artists like George Benson, Maceo Parker, Ron Carter, and Billy Cobham. Creed Taylor melded pop, jazz and soul spotlighting Phillips’ vocals around …