Jazz Articles

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Johnny Hartman: And I Thought About You

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 1997

The world of jazz, much like life itself, is very often confusing and unfair. Artists that are widely respected and loved by their peers often fail to “make it big", while others that no one seems to care for very often rise to the status of superstars. But as in life, history often seems to have a way of using unusual means to deliver at least a measure of posthumous justice. In the case of vastly under appreciated jazz vocalist ...

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Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie: Diz'N'Bird at Carnegie Hall

by Chris M. Slawecki
August 1, 1997

For those of us born too late to have experienced it ourselves, and for everybody else who missed it as it actually happened, Diz’N’Bird At Carnegie Hall documents an awesome concert performance by a partnership whose influence on the history of jazz is inescapable and profound, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.

Diz’N’Bird At Carnegie Hall provides fifteen selections from a Carnegie Hall performance by Dizzy Gillespie – with Joe Harris on drums, bassist Al McKibbon ...