BillHeise | September 2, 2011
Not a lot of time this week, but I was looking for another song and I found this one, which I like even better. It’s from a band US3 and is called ‘Tukka Yook’s Riddim.’ I love the rhythm of rap, particularly when it’s combined with interesting jazz themes. In case anybody was wondering, this [...]
BillHeise | August 22, 2011
I took the summer off from blogging because I was finishing up a book on a subject you never heard of and didn’t have time to write. During that time I found an article on how blogging was slowing down, while Twitter was rising. Not one to be far behind, I thought about shutting the [...]
BillHeise | June 13, 2011
‘Wildwood Flower‘ from a Grand Ol’ Opry performance. The Carter Family was one of the first bluegrass,/country music acts in America. The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock musicians as well as [...]
BillHeise | June 8, 2011
I like Lady Gaga, and apparently I am not alone. This week, the Economist has an article equating Mother Theresa and Lady Gaga as models of business leadership. I laughed before I got to the article where the headline writer asks the reader not to laugh. I couldn’t help it, though, and laughed again. This [...]
BillHeise | June 2, 2011
I obviously have not had a lot of time this year to keep posting regularly, and for that I am sorry. I have been putting the finishing touches on my next book as well as trying to write 201 (or more) poems for the book after that. It’s exhausting. Anyway, here’s the woman who’s ostensibly [...]
BillHeise | May 28, 2011
Arlo Guthrie classic:
BillHeise | May 20, 2011
I found this article on Thelonious Monk in the IBD today, and I thought I’d share it with you. Monk is one of my favorite jazz musicians. I wrote my semester paper on him in my ‘perfect class’ (the class where I got an A on every quiz, test, and paper after begging to get [...]
BillHeise | May 4, 2011
If anybody is interested, here is my favorite parody of the music I grew up listening to in my teens. This was long before Christopher Guest was famous as a member of Spinal Tap, (listed on Amazon as starring Fran Drescher for some reason). The principle of his work as Nigel Tufnel is the same [...]
BillHeise | April 25, 2011
It’s awesome what they do with medieval music where we do not have enough information to make decisions about instruments or timing. Here are three versions of Guillaume de Machaut‘s Douce Dame Jolie, a 14th century love song: The first is one of my two favorites: But there is also this version, which I like [...]
BillHeise | April 23, 2011
This is my favorite of many masses that have been written. It comes from Mozart and and is entitled The Coronation Mass, although the music experts refer to it as Mass No. 15 in C major, KV 317. Wikipedia gives us these useless facts about the Coronation Mass. This Mass was completed on March 23, [...]
