Man, I wish I’d been there.
Paul McCartney and Billy Joel at Shea Stadium Paul McCartney and Billy Joel. What a concert that must have been. Two of my faves. I did see McCartney in concert in 1992 — in the pouring rain at the old Cleveland Stadium. It was amazing. Nobody cared that the rain was falling; the Bic lighters [...]
Cool TV
You know…we have it pretty easy today, with 4,000 channels on television running 24/7. But for my money, there’s still no substitute for the great network shows my sister and I used to watch as kids (and with our parents, as a family, in front of the only TV set in the house – imagine [...]
Lady sang the blues…passably
As a jazz singer, I’m probably committing some kind of sacrilege here; an unforgivable sin. But I will go on record as saying that Billie Holiday — considered by many to be one of the greatest jazz vocalists of all time — was overrated. Now don’t get me wrong; I cut my singing teeth on [...]
A dingo ate my ambivalence
Two nights ago, I sat in my cute little office/parlor, working on my homework assignment for class (this week it’s Monteverdi…trust me, you don’t want to know). Well, I lost my big pencil eraser. Couldn’t find it anywhere, although I had just used it. How’m I gonna write music without an eraser? Well that just [...]
Done deal
Well it looks like Anheuser-Busch has some changes coming. The St. Louis brewery – one of the last American beer giants – was acquired, as promised by InBev, for a mere $52 billion. According to Business Week, there are big changes coming. The CEO of InBev doesn’t do business anything like the Busch family, and [...]