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Courtney Pine: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Courtney Pine didn't pick up his beloved tenor saxophone for more than a decade, until an album exploring the black British experience demanded it. The multi-instrumentalist eschewed the horn on...
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Rufus Reid: Composer, Educator, Bassist, Gait...
Rufus Reid doesn't play standards, as much as he is the standard, a well of knowledge and wisdom that this bassist was fortunate to sit down with one afternoon....
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Denys Baptiste: Making the Late Trane Accessible
Even the most avowed John Coltrane disciples among us would admit to grappling with some of the albums he released in the couple of years before his death—the likes of Ascension, Sun Ship and Om...
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European Jazz Conference 2017
The snow-capped mountains flanking Ljubljana form a natural border between Slovenia and Italy and provided a picturesque backdrop to the 4th annual European Jazz Conference. For the record...
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Culture Clubs: A History of the U.S. Jazz Clubs,...
Marching bands, ragtime music, and the blues, were all well-entrenched and spreading up the Mississippi River Valley from New Orleans at the beginning of the twentieth century...
Reviews
Daily album reviews—from independent to major label releases.
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Harmony of...
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Rudresh Mahanthappa
Agrima
Heath Watts - Blue...
Bright Yellow with...
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Award / Grant
3-Time Emmy-nominated Composer Steve Sandberg’s ArtistShare Debut Submitted For Grammy Consideration
Recording
Dave Pietro's ArtistShare Debut "New Road: Iowa Memoirs" For Grammy Nomination Consideration
Event
BRIC Announces Third Annual BRIC Jazzfest, A World-Class Jazz Festival In The Heart Of The Brooklyn...
Recording
The Ed Palermo Big Band brings together two fave 1960s American Pop/Rock Superheroes for "The Adventures of Zodd...
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Fred Astaire's Greatest Jazz Recording "The Astaire Story" Returns As Deluxe 2CD Set For 65th Anniversary On October 20...
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King Crimson Releases "Official Bootleg: Live In Chicago, June 28th, 2017" & "Sailors’ Tales (1970-1972)"
Musician of the Day
Celebrating jazz birthdays every day.
Anita O'Day
Born Anita Belle Colton in Chicago, Illinois on October 18, 1919, O’Day got her start as a teen. She eventually changed her name to O’Day and in the late 1930’s began singing in a jazz club called... read more
