Buying or selling vinyl music online can be problematical, but I doubt Astrud Gilberto would have expected to be involved in a scheme to arrest someone over it. For me, apart from one package which went AWOL, and another package that arrived pretty destroyed. The bad news is that package […]
Grammy time – The Travels of the Girl from Ipanema
Today marks the 56th Anniversary of the 7th Grammy Awards, they announced the arrival of Brazilian music in the mainstream, as well as Creed Taylor, (Antonio Carlos) Jobim, and importantly Astrud Gilberto. I wrote extensively last year about the awards show itself[1]https://www.ctproduced.com/on-this-day-the-getz-gilberto-grammys/. It almost didn’t go well. As always with […]
On This Day: The GETZ / GILBERTO Grammys
On April 13th, 1965, 55-years ago today, Jazz had it’s most successful night at the Grammys ever. On a night that originally declared “the British Invasion was complete” , what actually happened was that Jazz arrived on the top step at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. […]
Stan Getz Ringtone
Well we are all stuck at home, and things have all of a sudden become less urgent. It’s time for a less demanding ring-tone. I’ve done this a few times before on one of my other websites, used edits from music tracks as ringtones. When my wife calls, it’s Donna […]