Clark's Picks
Blog URL http://clarkspicks.com
Located Chestertown, Maryland USA
Tags jazz, country and western, folk music, pop music, music, video, classical music, rock and roll, rock
Real music performances, on video, from the last 100 years, selected by a real disk jockey and presented with relevant commentary.
Latest Blog Posts
- José Antonio Abreu “El Sistema”
I am a great fan of the TED website, (http://www.ted.com/). TED is an annual gathering of smart people, like Al Gore and Bill Gates who give talks to each other about all the very cool things they are doing, each of which will change the world for th...
- Jaco Pastorius: America the Beautiful
Jaco Pastorius is one of those names you hear brought up by musicians that might not be so well known to the wider world. He played bass with the band Weather Report and you have probably heard him in that context. He is one of the people that brough...
- Happy Birthday Harold Arlen: The Man that Got Away
Harold Arlen was born and named Chaim Arlook on February 15th 1905 in Buffalo New York. His father was a cantor in a local synagogue. He changed his name to Harold Arlen after he began to have a bit of success as a singer and pianist in New York in .
- Santa Cruz River Band: La Yaquesita
Teodoro “Ted” Ramirez and Michael Ronstadt play music that they learned growing up in Arizona; music from the Mexican, Native Americans and European cultures of the people who live together in a unique mixture in the southwest. Ted and Michael ha...
- Glenn Gould: Bach Piano Concerto No.7 in G minor
Glenn Gould was a notoriously eccentric prodigy of the piano. Born in Toronto in 1932 Gould developed an interest in the piano as a very young child. He is reputed to have hit single notes and held them listening to the note decay, instead of banging...
- Martin Bogan & Armstrong
A late survivor of the black string band tradition of the early 20th century was the trio of Carl Martin, Ted Bogan and Howard Armstrong. These three musicians from Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee worked together, with the addition of one or m...
- Buck Owens and the Buckaroos: Act Naturally
Alvis Edgar Owens, born in 1929 in Sherman Texas, took the nickname "Buck" from a mule on his family's farm when he was three or four years old. In 1937 the Owens family moved to Mesa Arizona where buck grew up, worked picking cotton and le
