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Thelonious Monk Inside Out: A Fresh Perspective...
Over the years, Thelonious Monk has resided in our collective minds and hearts like the extra-terrestrial "E.T." or Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye, or some such alien figure whom we don't fully understand yet love...
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Blue Highways and Sweet Music: The Territory...
By the second half of the 1920s, New York had supplanted Chicago as the center of jazz. The "Jazz Age"—a label incorrectly ascribed to F. Scott Fitzgerald—could rationally have been framed as the "Dance Age." Prohibition...
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Yakhal' Inkomo: A South African Masterpiece at...
On July 23, 1968, a now-legendary recording session took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, one that would ultimately prove a defining moment in the country's Jazz history and development. Led by tenor...
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Anat Cohen: Musical Zelig
In the 1983 Woody Allen film Zelig, the pseudo-documentary's main character is a man who, out of a desire to fit in, takes on the characteristics of the people he happens to be around, including, in chameleon-like fashion...
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Eric Dolphy: Gone In The Air
Newly-remastered SACD reissues of Eric Dolphy's albums for the Prestige label mark the 90th anniversary of his birth. The recording sessions that Eric Dolphy led in the last four years of his life advanced the evolution of jazz...
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Rob Mazurek
Marfa Loops Shouts...
Jared Gold
Reemergence
Orbital Quintet
Vol.2
Baden Powell
Tristeza on Guitar
Pete Lee
The Velvet Rage
I Think You Are...
Kiss Your Darlings
Mary Halvorson
Theirs
The New England...
Peter and the Wolf
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Rob Thorpe
Pisagua
Jungsu Choi
Anthropology
Teague Bechtel
Naptown
Billy Ponzio
There Will Never Be...
Carlos Henrique Pereira
There and Here
Hans Teuber
Rain Makes Applesauce
The Toronto Jazz...
Georgie and Rose
Tucker Antell
Grime Scene
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Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil carries out a fundamental role in the constant modernization process of Brazilian popular music. Partaking of this scene for 41 years, he has developed one of the most relevant and renown... read more
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Sebastiana by Ricardo Bacelar
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Still Dreaming by Joshua Redman
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Dreaming Spirits by Mark Egan
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Meeting of Minds by Bob Mintzer
Story of the Day
I was first exposed to jazz as a child when my father would play records by Jimmy Smith, Cal Tjader, Eddie Harris, etc. I decided I wanted to play bass after hearing a James Brown tune and asking my dad, “What is that instrument that's playing all of those low notes?”' Once he told me that was an electric bass, I knew that I had found my calling
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By Vince Hakim
Member since: 2018
