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Perfection: Tommy Flanagan: In the Blue of Evening
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1960, pianist Tommy Flanagan recorded The Tommy Flanagan Trio, an album of easy-going jazz for Prestige's Moodsville line. Joining Flanagan was the exceptional Tommy Potter of bass and superb Roy Haynes on drums. By then, Flanagan had made a name for himself as a first-call sideman and would soon become Ella Fitzgerald's accompanist. While the entire album is top-notch, the track that has always stood for its sheer elegance and beauty is In the Blue of Evening. The song ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Tommy Flanagan
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Flanagan's birthday today!
Rarely has such unanimously unstinting praise been bestowed on a less self-congratulatory recipient. As genial and matter-of-fact off the stand as he is fiercely individual at the keys, Tommy Flanagan handles his world class ranking with an equanimity, a modesty, an easy friendliness not always associated with the psychic burden of being Number One. Perhaps because almost instant early recognition by his peers and the universal affection in which he has ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Tommy Flanagan
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Flanagan's birthday today!
Rarely has such unanimously unstinting praise been bestowed on a less self-congratulatory recipient. As genial and matter-of-fact off the stand as he is fiercely individual at the keys, Tommy Flanagan handles his world class ranking with an equanimity, a modesty, an easy friendliness not always associated with the psychic burden of being Number One. Perhaps because almost instant early recognition by his peers and the universal affection in which he has ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Tommy Flanagan
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Flanagan's birthday today!
Rarely has such unanimously unstinting praise been bestowed on a less self-congratulatory recipient. As genial and matter-of-fact off the stand as he is fiercely individual at the keys, Tommy Flanagan handles his world class ranking with an equanimity, a modesty, an easy friendliness not always associated with the psychic burden of being Number One. Perhaps because almost instant early recognition by his peers and the universal affection in which he has ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Tommy Flanagan
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Flanagan's birthday today!
Rarely has such unanimously unstinting praise been bestowed on a less self-congratulatory recipient. As genial and matter-of-fact off the stand as he is fiercely individual at the keys, Tommy Flanagan handles his world class ranking with an equanimity, a modesty, an easy friendliness not always associated with the psychic burden of being Number One. Perhaps because almost instant early recognition by his peers and the universal affection in which he has ...
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