Month: June 2025

From the Record Shelves #354 – Lazy Weather – When it says “University Six,” you’re counting on Adrian Rollini for the musical excitement. He starts on xylophone, inspired. Then Arthur Fields sings, as he does on many of those recordings, and after that you hear that the bass sax of Rollini is (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #95 – I’ll String Along with You – The lyrics of this Harry Warren song celebrate a more realistic ideal than usual. “You may not be an angel…” and “every little fault that you have” point to that. It comes from the flowering period of the early 30s pre-Code musical films (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #353 – You’re Getting to Be a Habit With Me – Five things that I enjoy with this. One: That it’s a 78 rpm record. Now you hear it through your computer or telephone, but here in my living room with my equipment, the presence of the recording is unbearable. Two: The record (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #94 – Rosetta – Here’s a jam on another tune that is fit for that purpose. The tempo that I’ve chosen is somewhere between Fats Waller’s (slower) and Frankie Newton’s with a swing ensemble (faster). Earl Hines wrote the tune and recorded it as a piano solo (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #93 – Am I Blue – Today I play one in jam session mode. First there is the verse and then a couple of choruses, mostly played ensemble. In the 80s and 90s we had plenty of sessions to try out tunes like this one. We often met more than once in a week to jam, but now it’s at best once a month (…) read more and listenread more and listen