Posts Tagged ‘lite jazz’

“John Bull. That’s what we used to call English people.”

I’ve mentioned before my deep love for lite jazz.  To this day I reflexively lump David Sanborn in with lite jazz — but only for a moment.  When I was 17, David Sanborn hosted the best damn music show on television: Night Music, sponsored by Michelob Dark, a two-car-garage beer desperate to appear as urban [...]

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Wandering Intensely

I remember the day Miles Davis died because my twenty year-old self possessed not an iota of curiousity in jazz music nor enough sense or insight to realize the phenom that had passed.  I knew the name but not the significance.  I’d heard him perform Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” and reflexively lumped him in [...]

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