Back during the fad/neo swing days, it seemed as if EVERYONE I knew tried to get in on it and so people would see the worst albums and buy them for me just because it had "Swing" or Swingin'" in the title. They'd say "Oh I saw this in the store and I just KNEW you would LOVE IT!&...
Loved Sweet & Lowdown , one of Woody Allen's better films of recent years and one of Sean Penn's better performances period, and of course the music is excellent. No critics seemed to notice that the plot was a complete ripoff of (or let's be generous and call it an homage to) Fellini's La Stra...
Oh wow!
I've been in Europe for the past few months and had not heard about this. That sucks, I regularly spin his stuff, one of the best being Rub-A-Dub.