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The Best Mystery Authors – Part One – The Ranker List – What Do You Think??

By ekkarn May 22, 2014 May 22, 2014 Books-Fiction

Ok so I have visited the Ranker site before, but today and yesterday, I spent some time on the site looking at various list that would pertain to this blog. The following list is one of them. I am in total agreement that Agatha Christie is the greatest mystery writer of all time, but many of the writers that I have read over the years are not even on the list!! and if they are they are well below where they would be on my personal list of the best mystery writers of all time. So I will break this post down into two posts, this is the first, duh! and in it I am presenting the Ranker listing and would ask for your thoughts or comments! The second list will be the Me, Myself and Mysteries list. But you will have to wait until after my 6 and 1/2 hour break! So for now the question is What Do You Think??? No James Lee Burke??

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This Day in Music – May 20, 1975 – Tunisian Jazz Pianist Wajdi Cherif was born. Happy Belated Birthday, Wajdi!

By ekkarn May 22, 2014 May 22, 2014 Uncategorized

So May 20th was a holiday in several nations including, Cambodia, East Timor and Cameroon. It was also the birthday of a Tunisian jazz piano player, Wajdi Cherif!! Knowing nothing about his music, other than that he played piano, I went to Spotify and listened to his 2009 release Fuzzy Colours and I didn’t have to listen long to become intrigued by and enjoy his music. Returning to All About Jazz, I discovered that at five years of age Wajdi was learning to play tunes he heard on the radio in his homeland of Tunisia on his little piano. Wajdi never lost his love for music and along his life’s journey, he earned his BA in English Literature, but more importantly he discovered jazz!! At the American cultural center in Tunis, he watched live performance videos of pianists Chick Corea, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans. He soon decided to make jazz music his career, and set out exploring it on his own. He made his professional debut in 1998. In 2003, he released his first album Phrygian Istikhbar in Paris. Accompanying Wajdi on the album were Diego Imbert on acoustic bass, Jeff Boudreau on drums and Habib Samandi on Arabic percussion. The album went on to become a finalist in the Indie Acoustic Awards in the USA in 2004!! From All About Jazz:

Three years later, Wajdi Cherif recorded his second album entitled Jasmine with some of the finest young French jazz musicians, released in 2006 in France. “Jasmine” shows the maturity and excellent artistic standard that pianist and composer Wajdi Cherif has accomplished so far (Honorable Mention in the International Songwriting Competition (Judges included Sonny Rollins ,John Scofield, Steve Vai…), Indie Acoustic Project winner Best CD of 2005, UNISONG songwriting Contest 1st place winner…).

Wajdi’s music has been described as…..

… a fusion of the modern jazz piano styles ranging from Thelonious MONK to Keith JARRET and Chick COREA, but at the same time with the influence of the colorful melodies of Arabic music that he was exposed to since his early childhood. All this resulted in the creation of a brand new jazz sound, a symbiosis of jazz and Arabic sounds. Read More

Not surprising, since it was watching performances of Monk and Corea that set him on the path to a career in jazz. I started this post saying that I listened to his 2009 release Fuzzy Colours, which I really enjoyed, From what I’ve read and from quick listens to his first two albums it seems that Middle Eastern influences are less prominent on this album than his earlier albums, particularly his first. From The Voice Magazine….

The Arabic influence and instrumentation is a little more salient on Jasmine than on Fuzzy Colours, with the oud and the percussion instruments granting a delicious texture to the improvisations, but in Fuzzy Colours (which also incorporates Latin sounds) Cherif has incorporated Arabic modes into his compositions and has revived, as is the wont of many Maghreb and Maghreb-influenced players, tunes penned eons ago by jazz greats like Gillespie (“A Night in Tunisia”), Juan Tizol (“Caravan”), and Miles Davis (“Nardis”), highlighting his awareness of the natural understanding that Arabic music shares with jazz. Fuzzy Colours has brought remarkably lively interpretations to these standards and Cherif’s own compositions have beautiful melody lines and an innovative élan while sitting squarely within the jazz tradition. Read More

So Happy Belated Birthday Wajdi!! And check out this fine pianist and composer and his latest album – Fuzzy Colours Here is a performance by the Wajdi Cherif Electric Quartet with Manu Codjia sitting in on guitar…….

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Where the Characters in My Favorite Mystery Series Live and Work!!

By ekkarn May 14, 2014 May 14, 2014 Books-Fiction

Next Read?

This year so far has been a slow year for reading. I have spent much more time over the last several months listening to music than reading. I think that I will make it a goal to read at least two books, that are part of a series that I read, per month for the rest of the year. Maybe one can be new one from a series that I am current with, and the other an older book in a series that I am trying t catch up on!

One of the aspects of reading all the mystery series that I do are the places that I get to roam, if only through the pictures painted in my mind by the words of these great writers. The major series that I read along with the main character, the main setting for the series and the author of the series are listed on the table below this post. I cover both coast, the central part of the US and five countries!! So which one should I start with… oh no! looks like I left out Kathleen Mallory of New York created by author Carol O’Connell maybe that means I should start, or should I say resume that series. Double oh, no …. Greg Isles’ Penn Cage novels set in Mississippi…. and Greg has a new one out…. and I need to read The Devil’s Punchbowl ... decisions, decisions!! Oh, well let’s go for a run and think about it!!

Character

Location

Author

Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn	Arizona/New Mexico	Tony Hillerman
Elvis Cole	California	Robert Crais
Nameless Detective	California	Bill Pronzini
Joe O’Laughlin	England	Michael Robotham
Jake Lassiter	Florida	Paul Levine
Will Trent	Georgia	Karin Slaughter
Detective Erlendur	Iceland	Arnaldur Indriðason
Dave Robicheaux	Louisiana	James Lee Burke
Stoney Calhoun	Maine	William G Tapply
Tess Monaghan	Maryland	Laura Lippman
Brady Coyne	Mass	William Tapply
Kenzie &Gennaro	Mass.	Dennis Lahane
Jane Rizzoli	Massachusetts	Tess Gerritsen
Alex McKnight	Michigan	Steve Hamilton
Amos Walker	Michigan	Loren Estleman
Cork O’Connor	Minnesota	William Kent Krueger
Myron Bolitar	New York-New Jersey	Harlan Coben
Stephanie Plum	NJ	Janet Evanovich
Inspector Sejer	Norway	Karin Fossum
Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov	Russia	Stuart Kaminsky
Bill Brockton	Tennessee	Jefferson Bass
Hackberry Holland	Texas	James Lee Burke
Maggie O’Dell	Washington DC	Alex Kava
Joe Pickett	Wyoming	C.J. Box

This Day in Music – May 3rd – Happy Birthday Jazz Flutist Andrea Brachfeld!! (Video)

By ekkarn May 4, 2014 May 4, 2014 Uncategorized

On this day May 3rd in the year ??? (Hum, we don’t really need to know that) flutist Andrea Brachfeld was born! From All About Jazz….

Flutist Andrea Brachfeld, is a graduate of The High School of Music and Art and Manhattan School of Music. Over these past 20 years she has recorded more than a dozen CD’s with many artists including, Africando, Noel Pointer, and Timbalaye. Her breakthrough performance as the flutist for the popular Latin band Charanga ’76, catapulted her into Salsa history and fame as the first female flutist to play this music in the United States. While in high school she received the “Louis Armstrong Award for Outstanding Student” from Jazz Interactions. Study with Hubert Laws, Jimmy Heath, and Mike Longo helped her develop her own style. Downbeat magazine referred to Andrea as “one of the finest jazz flutists around.” She has twice been the recipient of the Latin New York Music Award as a flutist.

Andrea started her career in the 1970s while she was still a teenager and then from 1982 to 1999 she took a little what is that a 17 year break and then returned to her career with her album Remembered Dreams. She has released four more albums. The latest is her 2012 release Lady of the Island which is her first straight-ahead jazz album. I gave that album and Remembered Dreams a listen today and really enjoyed both. While both of them were good I liked Lady of the Island a little better. The piano and the trumpet playing on that album were great here’s a list of the personnel on the album. Both of the pianist and trumpet players were great and I’ll have to go back and listen to each track to decide which ones were the ones I liked best.

Bob Quaranta: piano (4, 9), Fender Rhodes (8)
Andy Eulau: bass (1, 2, 4-9)
Kim Plainfield: drums (1, 2, 4-9)
Todd Bashore: alto saxophone (2, 6)
Chembo Corniel: congas (2, 6, 8, 9), percussion (8)
Wycliffe Gordon: trombone (1, 2, 6)
Yasek Manzano: trumpet (2, 6, 9), flugelhorn (8)
Bill O’Connell: piano (1-3, 5-8)
Wallace Roney: trumpet (2, 5)

Now since Saturday is a brain-dead day and I have to leave for work in a few minutes I am not going to add links but you know where you can check out her music. So do yourself a favor and do it!!

Here’s is Andrea and her band performing Herbie Hancock’s “Eye of the Hurricane” And Happy Birthday Andrea!!

Book 7 of 2014 – Light of the World – James Lee Burke

By ekkarn May 1, 2014 May 1, 2014 Books-Fiction

I read the first of James Lee Burke’s twenty novels featuring Dave Robicheaux The Neon Rain in July of 1990. I loved it and I have read almost every books since. I actually finished reading the latest book Light of the World back on the 14th of April, but I am just getting around to writing about it now and for most of those 16 days I’ve asked myself why am I avoiding writing about the book. The truth of the matter is that I really don’t know why except that I just thought that there was just something amiss with the book. It certainly wasn’t the descriptive writing that Burke is so well-known for, because that was still there, although this time he was describing Montana and not the Louisiana bayou. And it wasn’t that Dave and Clete Purcel were not battling some really bad villans because the main one serial killer Asa Surrette was a bad as they come and many of the other characters on both sides of the law were pretty evil, too. So what was it?? I know that at 502 pages this book is the longest of the series, and it took me a long time to get through it. Actually, it took much longer for me to get through the first half of the book than the second. Generally I think that Burke may have tried to force things a little too much, for me it seemed that there were too many bad guys, none on the level of Asa but a couple them, including one police officer came pretty close and the rich folks that Dave and Clete always run up against were no sweethearts either!

The story starts with Dave’s family wife Molly, and daughter Alafair on vacation with Clete in Montana. They are joined in this adventure by Clete’s newly discovered daughter Gretchen Horowitiz a former Mafia hitman turned movie maker who is on a busman’s holiday as she is visiting Montana to work on a documentary concerning the environmental damage wrought by the oil and gas industry. When they first arrive Alafair has an arrow fly past her and the question raised is who tried to kill her, She is convinced that it the shooter was Asa Surrette As Dave and Clete and the gang set out to discover who did fire they arrow/ They meet up with an ex-con and Rodeo rider Wyatt Dixon. Wyatt’s new talent is that he can talk in tongues. Both Dave Wyatt believe that the shooter was Asa Surrette who is out to even the score with Alafair for what she wrote about Asa that got him sentenced to prison. Dave and Wyatt are also convinced that Asa is well beyond a normal being and is rather the true personification of evil. In addition to this the police are also investigating the murder of the adopted Indian daughter of Caspian Young son of oil baron Love Young(these are the rich people Dave and Clete are bumping heads with), a crime the Police think Wyatt committed. Are you lost yet, see why Burke needed 502 pages… because in addition to these story lines there is also one or two involving Gretchen!! And then Asa uses the name of a Roman Emperor, and the wife, of Caspian, becomes a gladiator ready to sacrifice her life….too much yet? I don’t think I understand all the undercurrents….

Ok so the bottom line did I enjoy the book, yes Would I recommend it, yes, but I think you should read several of the other books first Finally, before I wrote this post I read this book review in The Houston Chronicle Review: James Lee Burke faces dilemma in “Light of the World” in the review Mike Snyder writes:

…But Burke has a problem: His signature character, Robicheaux, is about played out.

It’s hard to provide new insights about a guy whose life Burke’s dedicated readers have been following so devotedly since the first book in the series, “The Neon Rain,” was published in 1987. Those who have read all or most of the Robicheaux books — surely a substantial portion of Burke’s readers — might be tempted to skip the pages with the familiar back story. They already know about the death of Robicheaux’s father in an offshore-oil-rig accident. They know about the years when Robicheaux bonded with sidekick Clete Purcel in the jungles of Vietnam and later on the streets of New Orleans, where the two police officers were known as “the Bobbsey Twins from Homicide.” They know about his alcoholism and recovery.

and summarizes …..

Burke’s writing gifts haven’t dimmed, but the character who defines his career has lost his luster. It’s quite a dilemma. Read Full Review

Sadly, I say, I really have to agree with him and maybe that’s the reason I didn’t love the book like the earlier ones. Throughout the book I kinda’ felt that Dave was really a fifth wheel to Clete and Gretchen… and I don’t know if that’s the way I like it!! But I know I will still be waiting for the next installment of the series!!

This Day in Music – May 1, 1982 – Jazz Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire was born (Video)

By ekkarn May 1, 2014 May 1, 2014 Uncategorized

On this day May 1st in 1982 Ambrose Akinmusire (ah-kin-MOO-sir-ee) was born in Oakland California. His latest release The Imagined Savior is Far Easier to Paint has been in my listening rotation and I have enjoyed it! This was not my first meeting with Mr. Akinmusire, winner of the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition, two of the most prestigious jazz competitions in the world. No, I first listened to his trumpet back in August of last year when I spent A Night of Exploration – Contemporary Jazz Trumpeters! Since then I have listened to his second album on Blue Note records,When the Heart Emerges Glistening and I like it more and more with each listen. The New Yorker calls Ambrose: “a thrilling young trumpeter and astute bandleader [with a] unique spark in his playing” Ambrose’s musical journey started when Steve Coleman asked the then 19-year old Ankinmusire Manhattan School of Music student to join a European tour with his Coleman’s Five Elements. After the tour Akinmusire returned to the West Coast and received his Master’s Degree from the University of Southern California. In 2007 he attended the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, and studied with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Terence Blanchard. the imagined savior is far easier to paint is Ambrose’s second release on Blue Note Records and the second with a title that is pretty long. On his website he says…..

: “I don’t think I’ve been able to make an album yet where one word can capture the whole vibe. Maybe eventually I will. Right now I’m drawing from so many different parts of myself, and things that are outside of myself, that it’s hard to just have one word that says, ‘This means this.’”…. “The last album was about me — about things that I was experiencing and trying to change or accept about myself. The inspiration for this album is things outside of myself: people that I know, documentaries that I’ve watched, characters that I’ve made up.”

Of the thirteen tracks on the album 12 of them are Akinmusrie compositions. Many of the song titles have a name attached in parenthesis indicating the name of the character upon which the song is based. Examples of the named tracks are

“Ceaseless Inexhaustible Child (cyntoia brown)” — dedicated to the imprisoned young woman at the heart of the documentary The 16-Year-Old Killer and “asiam (joan),” ….inspired by Joni Mitchell — specifically, Michelle Mercer’s portrait of “Joan” in her 2009 book Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell’s Blue Period Read More

.The core quintet on the album in addition to Ambrose features: tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, pianist Sam Harris, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Justin Brown. On this album, Ambrose increased the size of the band by adding guitarist Charles Altura, as well as, the OSSO String Quartet and flutist Elena Penderhughes! In addition, he brought in vocalists Becca Stevens, Theo Bleckmann, and Cold Specks. The cool thing about the album, is that Ambrose gave the above guest vocalist a sketch of an idea and allowed them to create their own lyrics based on that idea.The two songs “Ceaseless Inexhaustible Child (cyntoia brown)” and “asiam (joan),”, mentioned above, feature Cold Specks and Theo Bleckmann respectively. Summing it up, the imagined savior is far easier to paint is a great album, that’s sure to be near the top of many reviewers “Best of 2014” lists. So check it out!! Links Website Wikipedia Facebook Amazon Finally, let’s send a big “Happy Birthday” to Ambrose, while we watch and listen to Ambrose and his quintet live @ Belgrade Jazz Festival in 2012!

P.S. and my SECOND son, Andrew, was one month old!!

No Herbie Hancock – What was I thinking?? Happy Belated Birthday – Herbie!!

By ekkarn April 15, 2014 April 15, 2014 Uncategorized

So last Saturday April 12th Herbie Hancock celebrated his 74th birthday, when I read that it was his birthday I started to think about his status in the jazz community and I asked myself – why haven’t you listened to more of his music through the years?? I think I’ve asked that question a dozen time, don’t you think?? And as usual my first response was – “Beats Me” But as I thought about it the only explanation that I can come up with is that when the roots of my music listening were being planted (1970 – 1975) Herbie was making some pretty avant-garde music in those years and since I really wasn’t that into that type of music, I never listened to Herbie – hum – but you did listen to Bitches Brew?? I think that the most likely scenario was that I heard something of his, didn’t really like it that much and from there figured I didn’t like his music, and so I never sought it out! Now as I read this jazz icons biography and realize that he is not only a great jazz musician but also just a flat-out great person – I think I have missed out on a lot over the years!

So one of the first things that I did as I set out to explore Herbie’s music was to go to AllMusic and check out the editor’s picks. The first editor’s pick that caught my eye was Herbie’s 1965 release Maiden Voyage it has a five-star rating as does the album that was released the year earlier, Empyrean Isles. So these two albums went on the iPhone and after listening to them I have confirmed that I made a mistake! On both albums Hancock’s band featuring two of his fellow alums from Miles Davis’ Second Quintet – bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams along with the trumpet of Freddie Hubbard is outstanding – from Allmusic:

…On Empyrean Isles, he returns to hard bop, but the results are anything but conventional. Working with cornetist Freddie Hubbard, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams — a trio just as young and adventurous as he was — Hancock pushes at the borders of hard bop, finding a brilliantly evocative balance between traditional bop, soul-injected grooves, and experimental, post-modal jazz -Stephen Thomas Erlewine Read More

and about Maiden Voyage I read

Less overtly adventurous than its predecessor, Empyrean Isles, Maiden Voyage nevertheless finds Herbie Hancock at a creative peak. In fact, it’s arguably his finest record of the ’60s, reaching a perfect balance between accessible, lyrical jazz and chance-taking hard bop.-Stephen Thomas Erlewine Read More

After listening to both albums I think that I slightly prefer Empyrean Isles but it’s a toss-up Now this morning I did listen briefly to Herbie’s debut album Takin’ Off and I liked it, too.

Now before I wrote that he also is a great person, in reading his biography I discovered that he is a devout Buddhist about which Herbie says…

“Practicing Buddhism has brought several revelations to me. One that has been extremely important to my own personal development and consequently my musical development — is the realization that I am not a musician. That’s not what I am. It’s what I do. What I am is a human being. Being a human being includes me being a musician. It includes my being a father, a husband, a neighbor, a citizen and an African-American. All of these relationships have to do with my existence on the planet. “

He is a family man and has been married to Gigi since 1968 and is the proud father of one daughter Jessica. His philanthropic endeavors includes but is not limited to…

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
International Committee of Artists for Peace (ICAP)
Daniel Pearl World Music Days Foundation
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
The Rhythm of Life Organization (ROLO)
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America

You can read more about these organizations here!

So in closing let’s wish Herbie a belated “Happy Birthday, and I will apologize for not searching out his music, but now that I’ve found it I once again have a lot of catching up to do!! So let’s go “into the night” with “One Finger Snap” from Empyrean Isles

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Morning Music from Soprano Saxophonist – Jane Ira Bloom – Sixteen Sunsets….

By ekkarn April 10, 2014 April 10, 2014 Uncategorized

Yesterday, I spent some time listening to the latest release from soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom Sixteen Sunsets and after the first few of tracks I knew that I was listening to a VERY special jazz musician. From her webpage biography….

Soprano saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom has been steadfastly developing her unique voice on the soprano saxophone for over 30 years. She is a pioneer in the use of live electronics and movement in jazz, as well as the possessor of “one of the most gorgeous tones and hauntingly lyrical ballad conceptions of any soprano saxophonist – Pulse.”

Her continuing commitment to “pushing the envelope” in her music has led to collaborations with such outstanding jazz artists as Kenny Wheeler, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell, Rufus Reid, Matt Wilson, Bob Brookmeyer, Julian Priester, Jerry Granelli, Matt Wilson, Jay Clayton, Mark Dresser, Bobby Previte, & Fred Hersch Continue Reading

I know Jane’s music may not be the best music for getting you started in the morning, but let’s say we sit back, with our morning coffee, as we surf the Internet, and listen, first to Jane discuss the making of Sixteen Sunsets followed by the opening track from that album. Maybe I’ll listen while doing a few sun salutations – Have a Good Morning!!

This Day in Music – Jazz Organist – Jimmy McGriff was born!!

By ekkarn April 3, 2014 April 3, 2014 Uncategorized

Jiimmy McGriff born on April 3,1936 in the Germantown section of Philadelphia!

On this date April 3rd in 1936 James Harrell McGriff was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.His musical journey started at the age of five when he started to learn to play the piano. By the time he reached his teen years he had expanded the group of instruments that he could play to include: vibes, alto sax, drums and upright bass. Growing up Jimmy Smith was a childhood friend. After a stint as an Army MP during the Korean War, McGriff returned to Philly and became a police officer. During that time his thoughts kept drifting towards music. By this time Jimmy Smith’s career was growing, after hearing Richard “Grove” Holmes’ organ playing at McGriff’s sister’s wedding McGriff was determined to learn to play the organ. Eventually Holmes became his teacher. In 1956 he bought his first Hammond B3 and spent six months learning to play, He ultimately studied at Julliard in New York City and privately with others including his friend Jimmy Smith! You can read his complete biography here at Wikipedia.

Steve Huey in his biography of McGriff ar AllMusic writes:

One of the all-time giants of the Hammond B-3, Jimmy McGriff sometimes gets lost amid all the great soul-jazz organists from his hometown of Philadelphia. He was almost certainly the bluesiest of the major soul-jazz pioneers, and indeed, he often insisted that he was more of a blues musician than a jazz artist; nonetheless, he remained eclectic enough to blur the lines of classification. His sound — deep, down-to-earth grooves drenched in blues and gospel feeling — made him quite popular with R&B audiences, even more so than some of his peers; what was more, he was able to condense those charms into concise, funky, jukebox-ready singles that often did surprisingly well on the R&B charts. His rearrangement ofRay Charles‘ “I Got a Woman” was a Top Five R&B hit in 1962, and further hits like “All About My Girl,” “Kiko,” and “The Worm” followed over the course of the ’60s. Continue Reading

It makes me feel a little better that Huey says that Jimmy McGriff gets lost among the great-soul-jazz-organists from Philly, because I only discovered his music a little while ago!! Everything I’ve listened to though so far I have enjoyed. This morning in honor of his birthday I listened to his 1990 release On the Blue Side, on this album McGriff is co-leader with saxophonist Hank Crawford.Scott Yanow says this about the album…..

One of the most consistent and most soulful of all jazz altoists, Hank Crawford sounds at his best when he has strong melodies to wrap his tone around, and when he can dig into the blues. Both aspects are true during this quartet outing which he co-leads with organist Jimmy McGriff. Crawford sounds particularly strong on “Jumpin’ With Symphony Sid” and “Hank’s Groove” and even if “Any Day Now” is a bit of a misfire, the interplay between the altoist and the organist (helped out by guitarist Jimmy Ponder’s occasional solos and strong support from drummer Vince James) makes this an excellent soul jazz effort overall.

I have enjoyed Crawford’s sax before and his album Wildflower is in my library, but Jimmy Ponder is new to me but I enjoyed the playing of both of them on this album. This one certainly is going to have a place in my music library!!

The sad part of this piece is that jimmy is no longer with us to celebrate his birthday. McGriff, at the time of his passing in May of 2008 McGriff was a resident of Voorhees, NJ. He died of complications from Multiple Sclerosis

Anyway Happy Birthday Jimmy – and I hope you, Jimmy Smith and Hank Crawford are have a great jam session wherever you are!! Jimmy’s website has the tag line “The World’s Greatest Blues Organist” so let’s go with that – here’s Jimmy McGriff, along with Hank Crawford and Bob DeVos on guitar and “Everyday I have the Blues”

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Kathy’s Korner – More Magical Photos from My Wife’s Camera!!

By ekkarn March 31, 2014 October 22, 2025 Potpourri

If you watch my wife take pictures, many times she’s bent over, with the camera focused on something small. She can really capture the details of life, like these three shots of a spider and its victim!