Music - April 2, 2008
Mangione performs in South Milwaukee
The Bob Kames Foundation hosts a jazz extravaganza Saturday at the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, 901 15th Ave., starring Grammy-winning flugelhornist Chuck Mangione and his band.
Tags: Chuck Mangione, Bob Kames, Streetlife, South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, Michael Drake, jazz

Music - March 31, 2008
Mix tape: March 2008
This edition of Mix Tape is long overdue, I know it. Sorry for the delay, but here's what's spinning...
Tags: Enzo Vacca, EVOA!, Sportclub, Luciano, Cedric Myton, U Brown, Dub Syndicate, Reggae, jazz, Blue Note, Jimmy Smith, Jutta Hipp, Louis Smith, Cannonball Adderley, Zoot Sims, Rudy Van Gelder, Smith & Mighty, Thornel Schwartz, Ike Quebec

Bars & Clubs - Feb. 10, 2008
Caroline's Jazz Club an intimate music hideaway
There is no mistaking Caroline's, 401 S. 2nd St., as anything less than a classic jazz club. Regular bands like Annie & the Jazz Orphans and the Paul Spencer Band and are the focus of this little club tucked away in Walker's Point.
Tags: caroline's jazz club, jazz, annie and the jazz orphans, paul spencer band, caroline rubitsky, tom waits

Music - Dec. 11, 2007
Stocking stuffers for music geeks
If the music fiend in your life needs a stocking stuff, here are two very different options.
Tags: Blue Note, Bob Blumenthal, Handsome Dick Manitoba, Amy Wallace, Hal Leonard, The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists, Rudy Van Gelder, jazz

Music - Dec. 10, 2007
New batch of Blue Notes contains some classics
I've fallen slightly behind, but recently checked out the latest batch, which arrived in late September. I was thrilled to find some of my favorites among them.
Tags: Blue Note, Jazz Messengers, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Kenny Burrell, Thad Jones, Jimmy Smith, Stanley Turrentine, Duke Jordan, Grant Green, Midnight Special, Back at the Chicken Shack, jazz, Willie Bobo, Potato Valdez, Dizzy Reece, Horace Silver, Art Blake

Music - Oct. 10, 2008
The Music of the Stars with Lou Rugani - Sunday mornings over WLIP AM 1050
Chicago and Milwaukee's most-tapeable radio show - as modern as tomorrow, and as vintage as radio itself  - radio that you can sink your teeth into, and savor. In this age of iPods and homogenized uniformity, here's a real radio program. Linear thought. Song sets. Real moods. ...
Tags: Swing, jazz, torch songs, soundtracks, comedy, drama, poetry, instrumentals, narratives.