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  • ()()(';') Happy Easter! On this day (sort of): Back in 1930-something on Easter Sunday, the Benny Goodman trio played the first racially-mixed concert.

  • An accident waiting to happen . . .

  • A few days ago I watched another video with an attractive jazz musician/showman: Dizzy Gillespie in Jivin' In Bebop! Of course the music was good (except for the fact that it sounded a little overdriven at points, but i…

  • ON THE AIR Killer Diller is back on the air with 6 hours of music (as opposed to the mere 3 and a half before the update)! There's still a few songs from the original playlist, but it's been totally redone for the mo…

  • Killer Diller Radio is temporarily off the air while I totally revamp the playlist.

  • An old Down Beat article from June 3, 1946 (I thought it was cute ):

  • More musician jokes I've heard:What happens if you play the blues backwards?Your wife returns, your dog comes back to life, and you get out of jail. crescendo: a musical notation to let you know you've been playing too …

  • Well, I hope everyone had a nice St. Patrick's Day yesterday. Anyway . . . I recently got Gene Krupa: Jazz Legend (as you can probably tell by the large picture), and although it's incredibly expensive for just a video …

  • Larston's comment on my last post has inspired me to post a few more musician/jazz jokes I've heard: A guy walks into a pub in London and hears a familiar blues number being played by the band. He leans over to one of t…

  • Out of my boredom, I created possibly the dumbest survey thing ever: What genre of jazz are you like? Anyway, bebop was my #1 result, followed by swing, trad jazz, free jazz, and finally smooth jazz in that order. Clic…

  • I made a lot of site modifications . . . First of all, you've probably noticed for a while that the eProps are music notes instead of, well, eProps! Also, I now have a cute little bebop smiley face I can use. Also, in t…

  • Last night I watched The Glenn Miller Story. I think it's now the second time I've seen it, and it ranks right up there with the other Hollywood biopics as far as cheesiness and inaccuracy go, but alas, the music is good…

  • Happy birthday, Bix! If you haven't really ever heard Bix before, go listen to a few of his songs today! He had such a beautiful tone and way of phrasing; his style has been analyzed to death, so if you want to kno…

  • I recently realized that it's just a few days until The Kingdom of Swing has been around for a whole year! Then, I thought to myself, "Hey, isn't March 10 Bix's birthday?" Oddly enough, I had created this page a year ago…

  • After months of staring at a "New Site Coming Soon!" page and more months of just giving up on visiting the Downbeat website in general, I finally decided to check up on it again today, and lo and behold, it's finally ba…

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