“He could play rhythm, acoustic, anything you want,”… “He couldn’t read a chart but he had this amazing talent. You hear this all the time but Duane really had it. He’d hear a song one time and you didn’t have to tell him – you play any chord in...
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JAZZ ‘AT HOME’ ON THE HUDSON – JAZZ IN THE VALLEY
Please checkout my latest Post on Fresh Independence. Jazz “at home” on the Hudson Jazz in the Valley Wayras Park, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. August Summer of 2016 Imagine a weekend picnic with family and friends, with the setting of a sprawling lawn at an historic state park, with the backdrop...
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Review of John Fogerty’s Memoir “Fortunate Son”
“The sound of it! Like a bolt to the brain.” …. A recollection of the first time he heard a song and it stuck – at 5 years old – still clear for the songwriter on his 70th birthday. And still clear to me or any other fan is...
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Conversation with Carl Griffin
THE LAUNCH OF A NEW JAZZ LABEL: A CONVERSATION WITH LEGENDARY CARL GRIFFIN What’s it like to launch a new jazz recording label? A conversation with Legendary three-time Grammy award winning record producer Carl Griffin By Doug Hall In the Brave New World of digital music, streaming radio stations...
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Greek Bronze Sculpture Rare View at National Gallery D.C.
“Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. December 13, 2015 – March 20, 2016 By: Doug Hall Imagine a visitor from another planet touching down and arriving at a single point in our civilization and finding only !figurative artwork as evidence...
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Review of Frank Stella’s retrospective at Whitney Museum NYC
As Frank Stella turns 80 next year, a world — who knows him as the peerless modern painter, innovator and pivotal influence to generations of artists after him — will come together with a world that may not know him, yet. But both will be amazed and...
