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Jay Thomas: We Always Knew
Legacy is a fleeting notion. It is incomprehensible in real time when a career hits high points, when certain doors open to quantitative opportunity. Jay Thomas can tell you a thing or two about that...
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Ella Plays Dice
Ella Fitzgerald was eating a piece of pie when the police burst into her dressing room, guns drawn. Nearby, Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Illinois Jacquet were playing a game of...
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Top 10 Moments in Jazz History
10. In 1956, while in the throes of kicking his heroin addiction and late for a gig, Miles Davis picks up a small black snake that had wandered into his Missouri home and...
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Tampere Jazz Happening 2018
In Finland, as winter begins and the clocks change, the city of Tampere, a couple hours north of Helsinki, hosts its International Jazz Happening over a long weekend. The world comes to...
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Meet Roy Hargrove
Yeah, with some cats. Especially cats like Ralph Moore. I like playing with Ralph. I remember the first time I played a gig with him was at The Willow, when I was going to Berklee....
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Daily album reviews—from independent to major label releases.
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Pendulum
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Flow Vertical
Michael Dease
Bonafide
Christian McBride
Christian McBride's...
Michael Dease
Bonafide
Dave Allen
The Sky Above Her
Harvey Sorgen / Joe...
Dreamstruck
Abbey Rader West...
Second Gathering
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Darrell Katz
To An Angel
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Storyteller
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Off the Hook
Lawful Citizen
Shatter
Rebecca Hass
Maracatu do Manatim
Bill McBirnie
My Heart Belongs To...
David Caffey
Shades Of Blue
Ernesto Cervini
My Shining Hour
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Born Today
Celebrating jazz birthdays every day.
Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins single-handedly brought the saxophone to the prominence in jazz that the instrument enjoys. Before he hit the scene, jazz groups had little use for the instrument. One player (forgot... read more
This Week
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- In Pictures Jason Moran piano solo
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- Radio Ben Allison, Anais Drago, Reinier Bass and Other Great New Releases
- Interviews Rain Sultanov: Putting Baku On The Jazz Map
- Live Reviews Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra at the Lilypad
Story of the Day
The best show I ever attended was Ornette Coleman at UCLA's Royce Hall, November 3, 2010.
By Eric Gudas
Member since: 2018
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