Articles by Fringes of Jazz

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 14

by Blue Note Portal
September 12, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14Year 1969--Captured Magic Xap and Julian were relieved by the arrival of Ray, who had used his connections to ensure that local deputies kept a close eye on the rental homes during their routine rounds. Things finally felt normal again, and the days began to whiz by; the creativity was off ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 13

by Blue Note Portal
September 11, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Year 1969--Two Riders Ray had been driving cabs since he came back from Korea, and in that time he'd developed a sense that never wasted words on him. He didn't call it a gift. He called it paying attention, which was free and most people didn't bother with it.

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 11

by Blue Note Portal
September 9, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14Year 1969--The Morning After Morning over Lake Tahoe arrived as if nothing had happened. The lake was still that impossible cobalt blue, the pines still motionless in the cold, high air, the far Sierra ridgelines still cut sharp against a pale gold sky. But inside House B, the mood had altered ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 8

by Blue Note Portal
September 6, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Lifting the Veil The second night at the Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias began the way the first had ended--with the sense that the room itself was listening. Three hundred people filled the horseshoe of red velvet boxes, close enough that George could see individual faces catching the light ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 7

by Blue Note Portal
September 5, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Intimate Immersion By the spring of 1969, the Apollo had ceased to be merely a theater in Harlem. It had become a point of origin. The film--Apollo: Future Perfect--opened to excited audiences around the globe. George Lucas's cameras had caught magic discovering itself in real time--the raw, triumphant ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 4

by Blue Note Portal
September 2, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14Tuff Gong London In the weeks leading up to London, Xap had executed his strategy with pure managerial brilliance. From their new studio in Kingston, he had shipped two separate white-label test pressings directly to the pirate radio ship MV Caroline, idling in the North Sea.Single A was a ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 3

by Blue Note Portal
September 1, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 The Beat Goes On--Year 2092 The intense glare of the live broadcast had faded hours ago, leaving the control room bathed in the amber glow of background standby. Outside the high-altitude windows of 2092, solar arrays silently tracked the Sun, keeping the CCE's baseline status idling. A week had ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 2

by Blue Note Portal
August 31, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Back Up Morning on the Ganges arrived with no particular hurry. The sun burned the mist off the river in layers, and by the time the four musicians had finished their breakfast of tea and flatbread on the veranda, the day was already warm enough to play. They ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 1

by Blue Note Portal
August 30, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Year 1968 Late February, and the Ganges ran the color of unpolished jade beneath the Himalayan foothills. The cold rolled off the mountains at dusk, but the afternoons still held on to warmth, sunlight streaming through the sal trees, laying bars of light and shadow across the stone veranda of ...

Radio & Podcasts

Senri Oe, Dave Glenn, Erica von Kleist, Ryan Barry & Early Times

by Joe Dimino
August 16, 2026

From the prolific musician and longtime radio broadcaster Early Times, we kick off the 971st Episode of Neon Jazz with music from his compelling new 2026 recording, Border Crossings. From there, we take a winding journey through an hour of remarkable jazz, uncovering fresh sounds and familiar brilliance along the way. We dig into recordings from jazz heavyweights Senri Oe, Russ Anixter, and Adrian Younge, while also featuring Dave Glenn's moving “Blues for Buck O'Neil," a perfect soundtrack to a ...