Day 3: Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson, “Christmas Time Is Here” I’m one of those purists who laments what I call “Christmas creep,” that is, …
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Category Archives: jazz
Thursday night I attended my first official GRAMMY Week event: “One Night Only: A Celebration Of The Live Music Experience,” benefitting the GRAMMY Foundation’s Music …
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Please welcome my friend and guest contributor, Ed Tracey, who has a sequel to his post about how jazz helped win the cold war! ~MMN …
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Happy May, music nerds! Please give a warm music nerd welcome to guest contributor, my friend and fellow music nerd Ed Tracey! Ed is an …
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Multitasking is an important skill to master in today’s super-busy world. Sometimes a music nerd has to ask herself, “How can I find the time …
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Happy New Year, music nerds! I hope 2010 is off to a good start for everyone. I figure it’s about time I start publicizing my …
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Two New Year’s Eves ago, I posted A Nerdy Playlist for New Year’s Eve. I thought it might be fun to tweak it a bit, …
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A while back, I wrote about the wonderful world of misheard lyrics, a.k.a. Mondegreens, which come about when you can’t quite understand the words to …
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Two Decembers ago, I came across a wonderful online Advent Calendar, featuring a different piece of advent music for each day performed by the wonderful …
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Happy Thanksgiving Eve, music nerds! I was all set to post about what I want for Christmas, but that will have to wait. I mean, …
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