Dec 31, 2014
To all who are traveling on an evening that often becomes "amateur night" take extra care and pick that designated driver!
A perennial favorite song for New Year's Eve, and the Offical SNC Song of the evening is Frank Loesser's classic, "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" Written in 1947, when Loesser was already an...
Dec 18, 2014
The newspapers and internet are swarming with critics “Best of 2014” lists right about now, but here at Straight No Chaser we take a slightly different approach. I am grateful to get the chance to listen to a great number of jazz-related releases during the course of the year, and rather than attempt to say what is...
Dec 15, 2014
Podcast 462 is the annual Christms gift from me to you - an hour plus uninterrupted music for decorating, drinking, hanging out and soaking up that holiday atmosphere. I've gone through my library to mix up old and new tunes, some old favorites and others new to your ears. In any event, enjoy, and pass the download on...
Dec 11, 2014
2014 has been something of a lean year for Christmas Jazz releases. While in past years I have had close to a dozen CDs to showcase, this year only three new releases, and one expanded reissue are worth pointing out to those who are shopping for seasonal sounds.
However, the quality is most DEFINTELY here.
Trumpeter...
Dec 8, 2014
With the possible exception of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, no jazz album has found its way into non-jazz fans’ record collections over the years more than John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme. Recorded fifty years ago this week in Rudy Van Gelder’s Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, two days of recording resulted...