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Leary earns another Grammy nomination

Jim Leary earns second Grammy nomination in the category of Best Album Notes.

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  • We are closed today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. John Coltrane composed “Reverend King” in honor of The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a tribute to the civil rights leader, and recorded it in 1966. It wasn’t released until 1968, a year after Coltrane passed away and the year in which King was assassinated, when Impulse combined it with “Manifestation,” added Alice Coltrane’s “Lord, Help Me to Be” and “The Sun,” and titled it Cosmic Music—credited to both John and Alice. [Jazz Impulse AS-9148] #martinlutherkingjr #martinlutherkingday #johncoltrane #alicecoltrane #cosmicmusic #millsmusiclibrary
  • Bonnie Guitar passed away on January 12, 2019, in Soap Lake, Washington, at age 95. She was born Bonnie Buckingham, and her guitar playing skill lead to her stage name when she began performing professionally at age 16. Her 1957 Dot Records single “Dark Moon” was a Top 20 country hit that crossed over to the pop Top 10, making her one of the first women to have a country hit also become a pop hit. The Dot label tried to capitalize on the single’s success by having Guitar record an album of songs with “moon” in the title: Moonlight and Shadows, released in August 1957. [LP 792878] She made many more records, but made more of an impact within the music industry by her work as a producer, arranger, talent scout, and label owner. She co-founded Dolphin Records in the late ‘50s, which became Dolton shortly thereafter, and launched the careers of The Fleetwoods and The Ventures. She continued making records sporadically throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s, and kept performing until retiring in 1996. #bonnieguitar #moonlightandshadows #dotrecords #doltonrecords #millsmusiclibrary
  • Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain publishes leading-edge content in the field of music perception, cognition and neuroscience. Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec 2018) is here now and full of fresh findings. [ML1 .P97] For example, notational audiation is the ability to hear or imagine the sound of music from looking at notation, but assessment for the evaluation of the skill had been lacking prior to the study undertaken by Anna Wolf, Reinhard Kopiez, and Friedrich Platz, which resulted in their article “Thinking in Music: An Objective Measure of Notation-Evoked Sound Imagery in Musicians.” Want to know the results? You’ll need to come in to read the article, or access it online via PsycARTICLES—or submit an article request via your institutional or public library if you’re not affiliated with UW-Madison. #psychomusicology #musicperception #musiccognition #neuroscience #millsmusiclibrary
  • New Book. Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl: The Musicalization of Art, edited by Diane V. Silverthorne. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019. [ML3849 .M9355 2019] From the publisher: “Opening with an account of print portraiture facilitating Franz Liszt
  • Bikini Kill surprised the world today by announcing they’ll be reuniting for three shows this year—April 25, Los Angeles; May 31, Brooklyn; June 1, Manhattan. These will be the band’s first full shows since breaking up in 1997. We have your Bikini Kill listening needs covered: Revolution Girl Style Now [COMP DISC 29227], their original 1991 demo tape reissued in 2015 on Bikini Kill Records; The First Two Records [COMP DISC 29228], the 1994 Kill Rock Stars CD also reissued in 2015 on Bikini Kill Records; Pussy Whipped [COMP DISC 28984], Kill Rock Stars, 1994; The Singles [COMP DISC 28978], a 1998 Kill Rock Stars compilation of three 45rpm records released between 1994-1996; Reject All American [COMP DISC 28989], the 1996 Kill Rock Stars album that was their last. #bikinikill #bikinikillrecords #killrockstars #revolutiongirlstylenow #pussywhipped #rejectallamerican #rebelgirlyouarethequeenofmyworld #millsmusiclibrary