Here is a jump page to all the posts in my online screening, "Adventures in Music". Jump in to the comments and share your thoughts. Adventures in Music The Coolest… Read the rest of the article: Adventures in Music Link Page

Finale to "Stormy Weather" 1943 with Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers Any performer will tell you, the way you leave the audience is the… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 15: The "Boffo" Finish

Nathan Milstein: "Paganiniana" 1968 (sorry for the typo in the slate) Now here's an area of music where I'm a little out of my familiar territory. I played violin for… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 14: The Importance of Skill

Duke Ellington: "Improvisation for Miro" Another stunning clip from Norman Grantz's Improvisation. Here, the painter and sculptor Joan Miro (apologies in advance to the punctuation police) and jazz composer Duke… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 13: Artists Communicating Together Without Words

"Three Songs By Lead Belly" 1945 In case your credit card isn't maxed out from my previous recommendations, here is another "must have" set of three DVDs… Legends of Country… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 12: A Priceless Fragment of American Folk Blues History

"Jammin' the Blues" with Lester Young Quick Note: I uploaded the legendary short film, "Jammin' The Blues" starring Lester Young to YouTube to share it with you. But Warner Bros… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 11: Jammin' The Blues

Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man, Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts Here is another hot tip on a fascinating set of DVDs… Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts. Leonard Bernstein… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 10: Bernstein On What Makes American Music American

Shirley Temple and Buddy Ebsen: "At the Codfish Ball" from Captain January 1937 Music and Dance are sisters. They go together. They both know how the other one moves. And… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 09: Buddy And Shirley At The Codfish Ball

Louis Armstrong and Friends: "When The Saints Go Marching In" I'm afraid I'm a little bit at a loss for words on this one… What do you say about a… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 08: The Ambassador Of Jazz Comes Marching In

Sviatoslav Richter: Chopin Etudes Op. 10 No. 1-4 Music has the power to spur performers on to superhuman feats of skill that from the audience just don't look humanly possible.… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 07: Superhuman Powers of Concentration

The Osbourne Brothers: "Rocky Top", "Ruby" This clip comes from another "must have" DVD… Bluegrass Country Soul. Back in the sixties, there was an explosion of bluegrass festivals- gatherings of… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 06: Beehives, Bluegrass and Beautiful Ignorance

Jimmy Dean and Jim Henson's Rowlf, "You Are My Sunshine" I mentioned before how upset I was to find out that "The Jimmy Dean Show" DVDs were out of print.… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 05: A Scenester And A Square

Dave Brubeck Quartet (with Paul Desmond) live in Belgium 1964 One of the things about "bad" music that drives me up the wall is unimaginative rhythm… boom, boom, boom… everything… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 04: Rhythmic Innovation

Maria Callas sings "O mio babbino caro" by Puccini What the heck does opera have to do with cartoons? you ask… Well, more than you might think! Opera is an… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 03: The Power To Create Emotion in Time

Buck Owens and his Buckaroos on the "Jimmy Dean Show" Buck Owens was the poster boy for the "Bakersfield Sound". At this time, many country artists like Eddie Arnold, Ray… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 02: Bakersfield Shines in a Nudie Suit

Booker T and the MGs: Green Onions, Live in Oslo, Norway 4/7/67 Don't waste a second. Go buy this DVD right now. (Stax/Volt Revue Live In Norway 1967) Sam &… Read the rest of the article: Adventure 01: The Coolest Sound EVER!

When I was a kid, I always loved the "Wonderful World of Disney" show. It seemed that every show had the word "adventure" in the title. At Disneyland, Walt built… Read the rest of the article: Adventures in Music

I used to feel like the worlds of science and art were a million miles apart. But then I happened across an amazing documentary called "Proteus". It tells the story… Read the rest of the article: Ernst Haeckel: The Intersection of Art and Science

For the past 37 years, The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood has produced The Annie Awards. The Annies have grown from a small gathering of "old timers" at the bar… Read the rest of the article: The 37th Annual Annie Awards- Animation's Highest Honor

Last weekend, I had a great time hosting The Boing Boing Cartoon Circus. This Saturday afternoon, I'll be presenting an all new show… Adventures in Music. A lot of college… Read the rest of the article: Saturday Screening on Boing Boing: Adventures in Music