Puppy Training

People have commented to me over the years about how well behaved and trained my dogs are.  They always want to know what class I took them to or what my trick is or comment how lucky I am to have smart dogs.  I tell them it really wasn’t any of that.  Yes, I did take them to a puppy class, yes they are Labradors and very intelligent and yes, I did carefully research and looked for a top-notch person who produced Labradors to better the breed, not for selling puppies.

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Music from the BOSCH Novels by Michael Connelly

Complete Music List By Book

From The Black Echo
Branford Marsalis
Frank Morgan
John Coltrane, “Soul Eyes”
Sonny Rollins, Falling In Love With Jazz CD
Wayne Shorter, “502 Blues”
Jimi Hendrix, “Purple Haze”


From The Black Ice
Frank Morgan, “Lullaby,” Mood Indigo CD
John Coltrane, “Song of the Underground Railroad”
John Coltrane, “Spiritual”
Percy Sledge, “When a Man Loves a Woman”


From The Concrete Blonde
Cab Calloway, “Everybody That Comes To My Place Has To Eat”
Frank Sinatra, “Summer Wind”
Billy Strayhorn, “Lush Life”
Billy Strayhorn, “Blood Count”
Billy Strayhorn, “Rain Check”

 

From The Last Coyote

Clifford Brown, “Willow Weep For Me,” Clifford Brown With Strings CD

Duke Ellington, “Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me”

Louis Armstrong, “What a Wonderful World”
Abbey Lincoln
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, “Scheherazade”
Marvin Gaye, “Sexual Healing”
Tom Waits, Blue Valentine CD
From Trunk Music
Beach Boys, “Help Me, Rhonda”
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, “Scheherazade”
Eddie Money, “Two Tickets to Paradise”
Warren Zevon, “Lawyers, Guns and Money”


From Blood Work
Howlin’ Wolf, “I Ain’t Superstitious”
Howlin’ Wolf, “Wang Dang Doodle”
Louis Jordan, “Knock Me A Kiss”
Rolling Stones, “Midnight Rambler”
Jimi Hendrix, “Fire”
Bob Dylan, “All Along the Watchtower”


From Angels Flight
Samuel Barber, “Adagio for Strings”
Frank Morgan, “Lullaby”
From Void Moon
Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road CD
Roseanne Cash
Frank Sinatra, “Summer Wind”
Frank Sinatra, “That’s Life”
From A Darkness More Than Night
Art Pepper, “Straight Life,”  Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section CD
Red Garland
Paul Chambers
Philly Joe Jones
Miles Davis
Bob Seger, “Night Moves”
Rod Stewart, “Twisting The Night Away”
Bruce Springsteen, “Darkness on the Edge of Town”
Van Morrison, “Wild Night”
John Fogerty, “Bad Moon Rising”


From City Of Bones
Bill Evans
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue CD
John Coltrane
Clifford Brown
Bill Evans Trio


From Chasing The Dime
Guns N’ Roses
From Lost Light
Art Pepper, “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To”
Jack Sheldon
Cole Porter
Lee Konitz
Art Pepper, “High Jingo”
Art Pepper, “The Shadow of Your Smile”
Frank Morgan, “Lullaby,” Mood Indigo CD
George Cables
John Coltrane, “Soul Eyes”
Chet Baker, “Cool Burnin’”
Chet Baker, “My Funny Valentine”
Louis Armstrong, “What a Wonderful World”
Billy Strayhorn, “Lush Life”


From The Narrows 
Lucinda Williams, World Without Tears CD
Frank Morgan, “Lullaby”
From The Closers
Boz Scaggs, “For All We Know”
Miles Davis, “Freddie Freeloader,” Kind of Blue CD


From The Lincoln Lawyer
Three Six Mafia
Tupac Shakur, “God Bless The Dead”
Tupac Shakur, “Life Goes On”
Tupac Shakur, “To Live & Die in L.A.”
Tupac Shakur, “So Many Tears”
Ludacris
Dr. Dre
Biggie Smalls
Snoop Dog
Pearl Jam


From Echo Park
Ry Cooder, “It’s Just Work For Me,” Chávez Ravine CD
Thelonius Monk, “Evidence,” Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane – At Carnegie Hall CD
Miles Davis, “All Blues,” Kind of Blue CD
The Clash, “I Fought The Law”


From The Overlook
George Cables
Frank Morgan, “All Blues”
Ron Carter
Louis Armstrong, “What a Wonderful World”
Art Pepper
Chet Baker


From The Brass Verdict
Gioacchino Rossini, “William Tell Overture”
Frank Morgan
Art Pepper
Charlie Parker
Eric Clapton
Ron Carter


From The Scarecrow
Jim Morrison
The Doors, “The Changeling”
Death Cab For Cutie
The Doors, “Riders On The Storm”
The Doors, “The End”
Eric Clapton, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”


From Nine Dragons
Ron Carter, “Seven Steps to Heaven,” Dear Miles CD
Tomasz Stanko, “Soul of Things”
Art Pepper
From The Reversal
Death Cab for Cutie
“Scheherazade”


From The Fifth Witness
Ry Cooder, “Teardrops Will Fall”
Ry Cooder, “Poor Man’s Shangri-La”
Maurice Ravel, “Boléro”
Sonny and Cher, “I’ve Got You Babe”
Eric Clapton, “Judgement Day,” Clapton CD


From The Drop
Frank Morgan
Art Pepper
Chet Baker, “Night Bird”


From The Black Box
“Mood Indigo”
Frank Morgan
George Cables, “Helen’s Song”
Art Pepper, “Patricia,”  “Straight Life,” and “Over The Rainbow,” Unreleased Art CD
Ron Carter
Thelonious Monk
Danny Grissett, “Let’s Face the Music and Dance,” Form CD
Tom Harrell
Seamus Blake
Grace Kelly
Gary Smulyan, Hidden Treasures CD
Michael Formanek, The Rub and Spare Change CD

 

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