Subject: RE: 74 Of ’74 For an interesting exercise, compare this 50-years-after-the-fact list with the Top Album list Rolling Stone actually issued in 1974. The original list had jazz or jazz-fusion albums in each of the top five spots. In this list, the top-rated jazz album is Miles Davis at 32 – and Miles wasn’t […]

ELECTION Mainstream media doesn’t reach everybody, even though the Democrats thought it would. MUSIC BUSINESS Print means nothing, TV little, except for SNL and CBS Sunday Morning, yet the labels keep focusing on these outlets. As for radio… Find me anyone under 20 who listens to terrestrial radio, I can’t. But labels keep focusing on […]

We’re here for a hundredth birthday concert for Henry Mancini. L’Aquila is somewhere between one and two hours from Rome, depending on the traffic. It’s in the Apennine mountains. (You remember them from elementary school, right? Well, I remembered they were in Italy, but I couldn’t have picked them out on a map, nor did […]

If you like Carbonara get the traditional type made with Guanciale instead of bacon or pancetta. Spaghetti Guanciale Pepper Salt Peppered pecorino cheese egg Yolk (NO CREAM) Created in 1944 Rome Italy Val Garay ___________________________________ The trick of the Trevi: Go early and if you cant, go to the benetton and go upstairs in the […]