Rick McLaughlin | Bassist
Marsalis and Ochs
I have not yet made it to letters M or O in my LP collection yet*, but there has been a pretty interesting story coming from Europe. It all started with Larry Ochs (avant garde saxophone player) giving a concert in Spain, during which the police were called. Later, Wynton Marsalis offered his entire catalog [...]
New Theme, New Name
Ok, ok, so I haven’t really been paying any attention to the blog. There are several great reasons for that, all of them positive but overwhelming. I have also been annoyed by the design, and let me say that I have noticed the fact that I bypassed the original intent of this blog eons ago (remember? [...]
Excellent Mashup
Actually, it’s more of a remix. Anyway, last year, I mentioned that I was digging some mashups (by “last year,” I mean 2007). A friend of mine just sent me this very excellent mashup (again, more of a remix, but very very excellent nonetheless):
2008 and Beyond (take 2)
Sitting here in my hotel room, thinking about tonight’s gig in Denver with the great Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed, it dawned on me that there were a few more things about 2008 that I wanted to mention. I started the conversation in my last post.
2008 and Beyond
Good God. Months have passed by since my last post. It’s almost like I have been so overwhelmed by life that there has not been time to post anything new. It’s not like I’m out of ideas. No, in fact, if I can find the time somehow, I have a backlog of material, plus new [...]
Carpe Blogem
So that’s it. After something like 6 years, the time has finally come to put the old rm.com site out to pasture. It’s still here, living behind the scenes, hanging out, reading Proust, longing for the good ol’ days. But the time has come for the old site to retire.
Free Vicente Lebron Update
Several weeks ago, I posted a few things about my friend Vicente Lebron. On July 16, 2008, many area musicians (including yours truly) performed at a benefit concert for him – it was rather successful, although it has by no means solved his financial challenges. At the concert was the great Chris Burbul, a longtime [...]
