The Hula Bluebirds • Stowaways in Paradise
Joe Bebco
July 29, 2023
A reader suggested this album to me just in time for summer and I’m glad they did! I was expecting just another ukulele album but
A reader suggested this album to me just in time for summer and I’m glad they did! I was expecting just another ukulele album but
It’s time I went off the beaten tracks again. I’ve made a point in this column of covering bands from Europe, Asia, Australia, and South
Harriet Choice died on July 13th, she was 82 years old. In 1968, she became the first jazz critic at the Chicago Tribune had ever
Where jazz came from has been a compelling topic for over 100 years. It is hard to picture now, but in the 1920s there was
For 14 years retired public school music teacher Dr. Ed Cannava has led the Denver Jazz Club Youth All-Stars, a traditional and classic jazz focused
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One of the great Chicago jazzmen, clarinetist Kim Cusack, died on June 2nd at 84 years old. Ten days earlier he appeared at the final
Bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto has died at 83. She was best known for the Stan Getz’ English language recording of “The Girl From Ipanema”,
Pianist George Winston died on June 4th, in California. His albums Autumn, Winter into Spring, and December were huge sellers for Windham Hill Records in the early 1980s. In
This is a set that every Syncopated Times reader should become familiar with. Remember those? Back when every fan shared a cannon of material they
When Gunhild Carling says she comes from a musical family she doesn’t mean her dad owned Kind of Blue. Her childhood was closer to the
The Barrelhouse Wailers are a hot jazz and blues outfit from Ventura, California. They’ve played together since 2013 and Never Look Back is their third
SCOTT JOPLIN RAGTIME FESTIVAL (Sedalia, MO) – May 31-June 3 More than 6,000 people attend the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival each June, turning downtown Sedalia
Harry Belafonte, the man who more than anyone brought calypso to the masses, died in April. His 1956 alum, titled simply Calypso, was the first
Chris Strachwitz died on May 5th. Born in 1931 in what is now Poland and displaced at the end of WWII his family settled in
Danny Matson passed away on April 25, 2023. Not a musician himself he was a ragtime superfan, a regular attendee of ragtime and jazz festivals,
Harry Belafonte died on April 25th, he was 96 years old. Born in 1927, Belafonte grew up in Harlem during the 1930s and 40s. He
As the Town Rambler was wending his way up Main street the other day he encountered the gayest procession, seemingly, that ever trod the streets
AHOY VINTAGE CRUISES: Matt Tolentino and his Singapore Slingers (Southampton, UK – New York, NY) May 18-26 A Transatlantic Ragtime Romp with Matt Tolentino and
