Nov 8 They’re Old-Fashioned: The Hot Sardines [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLhhlQzbRI0&w=560&h=315] I am put off by bands that sentimentalize the past. I’m thinking of those hokey ensembles whose repertoire consists By Matthew Kassel
May 20 A Dozen Songs, a Dozen Notes- Standards From the Golden Age Stardust Melodies: A Biography of Twelve of America’s Most Popular Songs , by Will Friedwald. Pantheon Books, 397 pages, $27.50. By Wilfrid Sheed