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Doug Collette

South Burlington

Freelance Music Writer at Freelance

Senior Staff Writer at All About Jazz

Senior Staff Writer at Glide Magazine

Discerning aficionado & pragmatic purist.....

Articles

  • 5 days ago | glidemagazine.com | Doug Collette

    Many fans and other music lovers who’d seen the Who live around the turn of the Sixties/Seventies might well have been disappointed with Live At Leeds, a concert album fifty-five years later deemed one of the ground-breaking albums of its kind in contemporary rock history.

  • 5 days ago | glidemagazine.com | Doug Collette

    Even given Bob Dylan’s self-professed discomfort about exactly who constituted his audience by the time the Eighties rolled around, it still defies logic he would attempt to connect with the MTV Unplugged demographic by appearing on the popular television series half-way through the next decade. But, leave it to the Nobel Laureate to fully play the part for those watching and listening.

  • 1 week ago | glidemagazine.com | Doug Collette

    Had The Beatles been able to successfully fulfill the vision they originally conceived for the album that was released over a half-century ago as Let It Be, we might not have seen that LP as we now know it. Fresh off the recording and release of The White Album (a/k/a The Beatles) in late 1968, the foursome reconvened early in the new year to work together in a more straightforward fashion than on that double set and Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band of 1967.

  • 1 week ago | glidemagazine.com | Doug Collette

    It’s absolutely uncanny to listen to this latest Little Feat album and notice how the stylistic similarities of Strike Up The Band evoke the vintage releases of their namesake lineups from the mid-to-late Seventies. Implausible as such comparisons may sound, they are wholly apt because neither the musicianship nor the songwriting sounds forced nor fake.

  • 1 week ago | glidemagazine.com | Doug Collette

    Listening to Beyond Today: Live at the Farm – San Francisco 1986, the thought occurs Translator was so far ahead of its time, the band now transcends all the glib labels of musical category concocted in the interim since they first flourished in the EightiesThis foursome was one of the few bonafide rock and roll bands of that synthesizer-driven decade.

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Doug Collette
Doug Collette @BackItUp7
8 May 25

My revisitation of The Beatles' 'Let It Be,' on its fifty-fifth anniversary, was posted at Glide Magazine HERE: https://t.co/2DSNW4Q256 #thebeatles #paulmccartney #georgeharrison #ringostarr #johnlennon #glynjohns #georgemartin #rollingstones #thewho https://t.co/2DSNW4Q256

Doug Collette
Doug Collette @BackItUp7
6 May 25

My latest 'Time Out Take Five' jazz column was posted @Glide Magazine HERE: https://t.co/35844aowF3 #martonjuhasz #jazzfuel #yelenaeckemoff #landhproductions #eldadtarmuvibes #nanamiharutatrombone #originrecords #emmarawiczsaxes #gwilymsimcockpiano https://t.co/35844aowF3

Doug Collette
Doug Collette @BackItUp7
4 May 25

My review of Grateful Dead 'Dave's Picks #54' was posted at Glide Magazine HERE: https://t.co/SW9LJxQKLK #gratefuldead #rhinorecords #jerrygarcia #bobweir #phillesh #billkreutzmann #keithgodchaux #donnajeangodchaux #insight #info https://t.co/SW9LJxQKLK