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Steve Blomgren
NYC Jazz Fan & Aspiring Critic.
About Me
Jazz is a protean art form, and certainly recent decades have taken the music in many different directions, well beyond the jazz fusion of my youth. But my go-to is probably hard bop, esp. the Jazz Messengers, Hank Mobley, and others. In addition to listening, I also enjoy reading about jazz, and my well-thumbed Penguin Jazz Guide, with its incisive artist profiles and album reviews, has given many hours of pleasure. Because it's such a wide-ranging and complex genre, it helps if one is a lifelong learner - there are so many artists past and present (with, of course, unique sensibilities and journeys), musical connections/influences, styles, tastes, and histories, let alone all the standards that comprise the jazz canon, that there's always more to explore!
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