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Don Was

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Was was born in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Oak Park High School in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, then attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor but dropped out after the first year. A journeyman musician, he grew up listening to the Detroit blues sound and the jazz music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Using the stage name "Don Was", he formed the group Was (Not Was) with school friend David Weiss (David Was). The group found commercial success in the 1980s—releasing four albums and logging several hit records. A jazz/R&B album of Hank Williams covers, "Forever's A Long, Long Time" was released in 1997, under the name Orquestra Was

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Article: In Pictures

SFJAZZ Gala 2025 Honoring Don Was

Read "SFJAZZ Gala 2025 Honoring Don Was" reviewed by Ronald Davis


A collection of photos from the SFJAZZ Gala 2025 Honoring Don Was concert at SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco on June 12, 2025 featuring SFJAZZ Collective, Terence Blanchard, Don Was, Ambrose Akinmusire, Melissa Aldana, Gabrielle Cavassa, Kurt Elling, Lisa Fischer, Bill Frisell, Charles Lloyd, Jason Moran, Larry Grenadier, Eric Harland, Salar Nader and Alam Kahn. With ...

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Article: In Pictures

SFJAZZ Spring Festival 2025

Read "SFJAZZ Spring Festival 2025" reviewed by Ronald Davis


A collection of photos from the SFJAZZ Spring Festival in San Francisco from June 13, 2025 to June 15, 2025 featuring SFJAZZ Collective, Don Was, Charles Lloyd, Eric Harland, Larry Grenadier, Sachal Vasandani, Dayna Stephens, Braxton Cook, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Mark Lettieri, Kassa Overall, Lakecia Benjamin, Somi, Nicholas Payton, Lisa Fischer, Grand Baton, Stanley Clarke, ...

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Article: Album Review

McCoy Tyner / Joe Henderson: Forces Of Nature: Live At Slugs'

Read "Forces Of Nature: Live At Slugs'" reviewed by Joshua Weiner


How does one go about nominating Zev Feldman for a Nobel Peace Prize? Time and again, the intrepid “Jazz Detective" tracks down unknown, unheard, un-even-hoped-for sonic artifacts, painstakingly brushes away the audio dust and grime, and puts us front and center at events that rewrite the history of jazz. Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' another ...

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Article: Live Review

At Monterey Jazz Festival 67, Jazz Gospel According to a New Head

Read "At Monterey Jazz Festival 67, Jazz Gospel According to a New Head" reviewed by Josef Woodard


Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey, CA September 27-29, 2024 Getting a semblance of a summarizing angle on a densely-programmed jazz festival, which the 67th Monterey Jazz Festival most certainly was, can be tricky business. The equation gets more complex with a festival geared towards covering many genre and sub-genre bases within ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Don Was, divr, Roberto Gatto, Lucy Woodward, Peter Erskine & More

Read "Don Was, divr, Roberto Gatto, Lucy Woodward, Peter Erskine & More" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


The return of Don Was behind the bass, tributes to Tony Williams and Leonard Bernstein and much more in another energizing edition of Mondo Jazz.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 The Jazz Defenders “Snakebite Playfight" Memory in Motion (Haggis) 0:16 Host talks 4:56 Lucy ...

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Ace - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2CD)

Label: Rhino
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: Greatest Story Ever Told; Black-Throated Wind; Walk In The Sunshine; Playing In The Band; Looks Like Rain; Mexicali Blues; One More Saturday Night; Cassidy. CD 2: Greatest Story Ever Told; Black- Throated Wind; Walk In The Sunshine; Playing In The Band; Looks Like Rain; Mexicali Blues Intro; Mexicali Blues; One More Saturday Night; Cassidy.

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Article: Album Review

Johnathan Blake: Passage

Read "Passage" reviewed by Dave Linn


The drummer Johnathan Blake was born in Philadelphia in 1976. His father was the esteemed jazz violinist and educator John Blake Jr. who played in many diverse settings, (most notably Archie Shepp and McCoy Tyner), before releasing seven albums under his name. He died in 2014. Blake (the son) began studying music at a young age, ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Makaya McCraven: In The Moment to In These Times

Read "Makaya McCraven: In The Moment to In These Times" reviewed by Rob Garratt


Makaya McCraven needs a coffee--fast. It's 4pm and he's crashing. It will be his third of the day. His first caffeine hit, consumed on stage six hours earlier, was a chemical necessity; McCraven was drinking at a nearby Irish pub until the early hours and nearly missed his early morning panel talk appearance alongside fellow percussion ...

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Article: Album Review

Kendrick Scott: Corridors

Read "Corridors" reviewed by Chris May


Some of the press releases coming out of Blue Note's Los Angeles HQ since the pandemic have been ripe for inclusion in British satirical magazine Private Eye's Desperate Marketing column. In this, the Eye prints particularly egregious, or just plain laughable, attempts by publicists to hook-up what they are selling with headline news events, or to ...


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