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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....
Reviews
Daily album reviews—from independent to major label releases.
Dave Allen
The Sky Above Her
Harvey Sorgen / Joe...
Dreamstruck
Abbey Rader West...
Second Gathering
Norihiro Kikuta
Oporo
Harvey Sorgen
Dreamstruck
Sandman Project
Royal Family
Trio Blurb
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David Virelles
Igbó Alákọrin
Features | Articles
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Darrell Katz
To An Angel
Iris Ornig
Storyteller
Ben Zahler
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
News
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Born Today
Celebrating jazz birthdays every day.
June Christy
June was born as Shirley Luster on November 20, 1925 at the Memorial Hospital in Springfield, Illinois and was raised from the age of three in Decatur, Illinois; and from the beginning always wanted to... read more
This Week
- Interviews Rain Sultanov: Putting Baku On The Jazz Map
- In Pictures Jason Moran piano solo
- Radio New Orleans Diaspora - Jelly Roll Morton & Sidney Bechet
- Radio Ben Allison, Anais Drago, Reinier Bass and Other Great New Releases
- Live Reviews Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra at the Lilypad
- Multiple Reviews 3x3: Piano Trios, vol. II
- Radio Vijay Iyer, Max Moran and more
Story of the Day
I love jazz because it speaks to my soul. I was first exposed to jazz in Binghamton, NY seeing Buddy Rich and his Killer Force Orchestra. I met Slam Stewart as a high school student. I've attended a lot of great shows
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By Sherrie Maricle
Member since: 2011
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