Here are some good things to look at while I have a couple of busy days. I haven’t had a lot of time for much serious book learnin’ or ritin’ recently, but I’ll have some […]
Category: Larry Appelbaum
Larry Appelbaum: Before and After with Billy Cobham
Larry Appelbaum, writer, blogger, and jazz specialist for the US Library of Congress, among other things, listens to records with Billy Cobham– covering Paul Motian, Lewis Nash, Ndugu, Philly Joe, and more. Here they are […]
A lot of hip LP covers
Jazz specialist for the US Library of Congress, writer, and blogger Larry Appelbaum has a couple of huge galleries of LP covers which you should be looking at right now. Emphasis is on jazz of […]
It’s hard to believe it has an age.
Via Larry Appelbaum @ Let’s Cool One: today is the 50th birthday of one of the greatest albums in jazz, Oliver Nelson’s Blues and the Abstract Truth. Like a lot of other people, the first […]
Larry Appelbaum: Before & After with Ed Thigpen
Over at Let’s Cool One, Larry Appelbaum, jazz specialist at the US Library of Congress, does a Before & After (his variation of the blindfold test) with Ed Thigpen, from 2005. My favorite part, on […]