Tag: jazz

“Linus & Lucy” Live in 1964

Vince Guaraldi plays “Linus & Lucy,” aka, The Peanuts theme, live on television. “Vince Guaraldi early (rare) playing of ‘Linus and Lucy’ from 1964, as part of ‘The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant Music Fillers Programs’ courtesy of WNET Group under license to LMFP. This is the […]

We Travel the Spaceways

My first exposure to Sun Ra was thanks to a friend who ran a punk rock record shop but liked to dabble in the experimental. He had a bootleg VHS of a film called Space is the Place, a strange amalgamation of blaxploitation, surreal Jodorowsky-esque journey, and concert […]

I’d Like to Be Under the Sea

“To build a city at the bottom of the sea…insanity! But where else could we be free from the clutching hands of the parasites? Where else could we build an economy that they would not try to control? A society that they would not try to destroy? It […]

“Billie Holiday on Swing Street”

At The Alcohol Professor, The Gutter’s own Keith writes about Billie Holiday in a fantastic two-part piece. Part one traces “the history of Billie Holiday and NYC nightlife through the Harlem Renaissance to Café Society.” Part two covers “Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra and the jazz scene in New […]