Spitball Army

“Margie” (1920) by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

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At last!!  Last.fm, that is. Last.fm is a UK-based website that compiles information on music-listening habits, massages that data, and shares the information with an active user base of over 20 million people, making recommendations in a manner similar to Amazon’s system.  Wikipedia has a very extensive description of the history and development of the Last.fm […]

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There are hardly any of those great used music or book stores left. I especially miss the one on Church Street, which is now a bunch of offices. Thank God there seems to still be no McDonald’s in the Square, but there are plenty of Starbucks storefronts, which is just plain odd in an area with sooooo many great small indie coffeehouses.

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“not long ago, kenny g put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a 30+ year old louis armstrong record, the track “what a wonderful world”. with this single move, kenny g became one of the few people on earth i can say that i really can’t use at all – as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music.”

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