I finished off 2023 with a small lament about the need to do some clutter reduction at home. Now 2024 is underway, and so it is time to begin that project in earnest. It seems that home-organization is a universally-held goal at the beginning of a new year, because every major retailer is hawking “storage solutions”. Bins, shelves…
A habit has developed here, in which we highlight a classic holiday album as we approach that most wonderful time of year. One such album that has become a staple at the JP household is from the 1965 CBS Television special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. It may be unique among Christmas music collections in the…
It seems that most jazz standards can trace their lineage back to a well-known recording of a Tin Pan Alley song from the 1920’s. Others began with a well-known recording of an original work by a particular “name” musician. Today we examine a less-common occurrence – a jazz standard that began as a forgettable song…
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