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New York: Jazz with Cory Weeds
Posted on March 30, 2021April 2, 2021

New York: Jazz with Cory Weeds

Try to imagine: a ‘Bierstrasse’ restaurant as big as a football field in the midst of Harlem where you can get beer, sausage and kraut delivered to long wooden tables while Japanese jazz-organist Akiko Tsuruga plays with our very own Cory Weeds, of Cellar and Frankies’ fame, on saxophone! It’s all true. Cory never fails … Continue reading New York: Jazz with Cory Weeds

Men, singing window-shattering High Notes
Posted on March 3, 2021December 27, 2021

Men, singing window-shattering High Notes

At an ‘oldies’ concert in the ‘eighties, I experienced the sound of the stratospheric falsetto voice of a male singer for the first time, live and in action. I had heard it before of course, having come into ‘musical awareness’ in the early ‘sixties, shortly before the Beatles came out. We had just entered high … Continue reading Men, singing window-shattering High Notes

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