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Chess Match

Label: April 1
Released: 2024
Track listing: Opening Gambit; Pawn Picking; Fianchetto; Pinned Piece; O-O-O; Knife Fork; Queen Sack; Pawn Race; Under Promotion; Time Trouble; Zugswang; White Resigns.

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Anthony Braxton & Lee Konitz: Chess Match

Read "Chess Match" reviewed by Ken Dryden


Anthony Braxton and Lee Konitz were hardly strangers by the time they appeared together on Dave Brubeck's LP All The Things We Are (Atlantic), on the track “All The Things You Are." Prior to that 1974 session, the men had met, found common ground and planned to record together in Copenhagen, though that session evidently did ...

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Dick & Spiro Play Duke & Billy

Label: April 1
Released: 2022
Track listing: Rockin’ In Rhythm; Mood Indigo; Drop Me Off In Harlem; Prelude To A Kiss; Johnny Come Lately; In A Sentimental Mood; Tonk.

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Nursery Rhymes A La Tatum

Label: April 1
Released: 2022
Track listing: Billy Boy; Grandfather Clock; Hickory, Dickory Dock; The Animal Fair; A-Tisket, A-Tasket; Freres Jacques; London Bridge Is Falling Down; Pop Goes The Weasel; Three Blind Mice

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Art Tatum: Nursery Rhymes A La Tatum

Read "Nursery Rhymes A La Tatum" reviewed by Ken Dryden


Art Tatum was a piano virtuoso whose improvising skills impressed even the likes of classical greats such as Vladimir Horowitz, though he had a fondness for folk songs in addition to standards and jazz favorites. This recording came about when a friend, Mitt Kinder, and his wife Mutti, announced the arrival of their first child, a ...

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Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew: Dick & Spiro Play Duke & Billy

Read "Dick & Spiro Play Duke & Billy" reviewed by Ken Dryden


Anyone who has read much history probably knows that President Richard Nixon once serenaded ex-President Harry Truman during a White House visit by playing “Missouri Waltz" on the piano in his honor (he was unaware that Truman hated the song). But history buffs may overlook that Nixon's Vice President, Spiro Agnew also played piano and was ...


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