Category Archives: cool

Seriously Cool

Who else was cool? Steve McQueen

Mlle. Cool

Lorraine Glover 1955 Donald Byrd’s Wife She is so cool, although there was a question around her identity, because some people argued that the trumpeter’s second wife was named Yourma. www.burnedshoes.com solved the mystery with research and wrote that in April 1958, Donald Byrd recorded the song “Yourna” with the Pepper Adams Quartet. They suggested […]

Serge Gainsbourg and Whitney Houston 1986

Serge Gainsbourg was the coolest French musician of the last century. His hip stature reverberates to the present. THE BALLAD OF MELODY NELSON is a 27-minute long gem of a concept LP. His conquests of love were legion. His loves were few. Jane Birkin was his muse for 13 years. After their break-up the drink […]

How Old?

vixely.com posted this sexy versus unsexy list online. At my age none of the sexy really matters to me. I’m 100% unsexy. Even after a few beers.

House of The Rising Sun – Bob Dylan 1962

Fifty years later. The LP BOB DYLAN changed our world. I was ten years old. It was arranged by Dave Van Ronk. The Pope of Greenwich Village.