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Sunday, March 31, 2019

A Little Night Music: Miles Davis' Jazz Rendition Of Michael Jackson's 'Human Naure'

You can listen to Miles Davis' jazz take on Michael Jackson song, Human Nature via the below link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM4WW5yyuu0

Sunday, March 27, 2016

A Little Night Music: Old Jazz Guy Michael Franks' 'The Lady Wants To Know'

Jazz singer and songwriter Michael Franks calls himself an 'old jazz guy.'

I like his song The Lady Wants to Know.

You can listen to the song via the below link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilj-3T7O7f8

Thursday, February 5, 2015

A Little Night Music: Stanley Clarke's 'Pop Virgil"

You can listen to jazz great Stanley Clarke's Pop Virgil via the below link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lorKc69yaJM

Friday, January 2, 2015

A Little Night Music: The Crusaders Add A Touch Of Smooth Jazz To Carole King's Rock Classic 'So Far Away'

The Crusaders, with guitarist Larry Carlton, offer a fine cover of Carole King's So Far Away.

You can listen to the long song via the below link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ygAhakw5w

Sadly, Joe Sample, The Crusader's pianist, died last year.

Paul Davis

Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. He is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and Counterterrorism magazine, and he writes the magazine's online 'Threatcon' column. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. His crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer. He also worked part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist during this time. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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