Interesting post by Alyssa Rosenberg, one of the folks guest-blogging for Ta-Nehisi Coates this past week, all abou yiddish swing. Sarah's played some stuff from Yiddish Melodies in Swing on Divaville Lounge and I just discovered today that XDU has the comp From Avenue A to the Great White Way in our library. I love the story about Sammy Cahn discovering "Bi Mir Bist Du Schön" at the Apollo Theater and the journey the song then took.
In more local and contempo music news, one of my fellow DJs was apparently thrown out of a bar/club in downtown last night for heckling. Srsly. I mean, I wasn't there so I only know what happened from accounts on Facebook. But I will say that: (1) I have generally good faith in his ability to evaluate the quality of a performance; (2) while pretty much any act might get heckled somewhere, and while some acts are always gonna be too far out for any crowd to get (I once saw a crowd at a Devo concert heckling/throwing shit at Suicide), there are also plenty of people out there who do, in fact, suck, and should get off the stage.