Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters…

Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters…
Dave Brubeck is getting a lot of attention. With his 90th birthday three days away, he is the subject of performance reviews, articles and editorials in dozens of newspapers from The New York Times to Britain’s Guardian . His music is being played over the air to a degree unprecedented since the early 1960s, when “Take Five” was a popular hit.
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New tourism trail created in West Tennessee
By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS (AP) — Tourism in West Tennessee, home of Casey Jones, Elvis Presley and Sheriff Buford Pusser of “Walking Tall” movie fame, may get a boost from a new self-guided driving trail showcasing what one state official calls the “authentic America.”
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Party Down: Katy Perry on America’s Glorious Past, Ke$ha on Our Postapocalyptic Future
One of the words most commonly associated with Ke$ ha’s music is “dumb.” You can straight up just rip the “dumb” entry out of your thesaurus, because Ke$ ha reviews will always have you covered; same goes for “filthy” and “juvenile.” The notices for Cannibal , a mini-album companion to last spring’s Animal LP, are full of this stuff: The album is, allegedly, all “dumbness” and “unrepentant …
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