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Soundtrack Saturday: “Scrooged”
Kelly Stitzel revisits another post from A Soundtrack Saturday Christmas, this time the Bill Murray classic, ScroogedRead More »
Here’s Something Else!: David Sanborn That Doesn’t, You Know, Suck
Often situated in a pillowy cloud of opaque neo-funk, saxophonist David Sanborn’s talents are understandably obscured. The arrangements on his records, like much of the smooth-jazz movement that he still perhaps wrongly personifies, can
Read More »Smooth Sailing: In Defense of Bob James and David Sanborn
If you were reading my stuff way back in the old Jefitoblog days, you know I have a sick fascination for smooth jazz — to the point that I ended up acquiring a bunch
Read More »Cratedigger: Rickie Lee Jones, “Pirates”
Ken Shane revisits this 1981 classic in a cold and blustery autumn edition of Cratedigger
Read More »Mix Six: “Neo Swing, Baby”
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE There was a moment in the mid to late ’90s when I passed an invisible line from young adulthood — where you crave new and exciting things and your
Read More »Sugar Water: Jarreau!
The title of Al Jarreau’s sixth studio album, released in 1983, is simple and straightforward: Jarreau. But if you ask me, it’s missing an exclamation point at the end — the multiple Grammy winner
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