Some Links to Musical Thoughts and Delights

We stumble across the coolest things across the internet. For example, ever wonder just what you might have been handed as you entered the door for a concert in 1929 by Louis Armstrong? Here's a blog with a scan of the program from June 29, 1929 at the Graystone Garden in Detroit. And when you're done being impressed with that, check out some of the other cool things on this blog - it's a great way to see the more day to day role jazz played in the olden days.

We are all in favor of people talking about music, and discovering new ways to hear things (or a way to find something in it for the first time). This takes you to a conversation between a jazz expert and a jazz neophyte, discussing the things going on in a particular Ella Fitzgerald track. There's a whole mess of interesting stuff on the NPR jazz blog itself.

This next link is only peripherally about music - it's from Eric Ambel's enjoyable blog, knuckleheadnyc. Ambel has played guitar over the years with Steve Earle, the Del Lords, and Joan Jett, among many other stalwarts, and has produced more than his share of good records. This little tale of how he became a Yankees fan, and of how he enjoyed their World Series victory, may annoy those who reflexively hate all things about that New York team, but it's really a sweet story about the fun of baseball fandom.