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John Coltrane: Live at Birdland

by C. Michael Bailey
August 10, 2005

John Coltrane Live at Birdland MCA/Impulse! 33109 1963 In the early morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, a gaggle of malcontents planted 12 sticks of dynamite in a window well outside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The dynamite exploded eight hours later killing Denise McNair, ...

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The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings

by C. Michael Bailey
August 10, 2005

The top two live Jazz recordings in this ongoing series were recorded at the Village Vanguard within six months of each another in 1961. They represent the polar opposites of jazz. One is melodically searching, the other harmonically searching. One is quiet and exact, the other is loud and torrential. They were equally influential and visionary ...

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Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery - Smokin' At The Half Note

by C. Michael Bailey
August 9, 2005

Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery Smokin' At The Half Note Verve 829578 1965 The late jazz guitarist Emily Remler once said that lurking inside her middle-class Jewish body was a black man with a fat right thumb. That black man with a fat thumb was Wes Montgomery. ...

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Erroll Garner: Concert By The Sea

by C. Michael Bailey
August 9, 2005

Erroll Garner Concert By The Sea Columbia 40589 1955 In the same way that the former St. Louis Cardinal/Atlanta Brave Terry Pendleton demonstrated that a fat man could play most-valuable-player in baseball, Erroll Garner showed that one did not have to be able to read a note of music to ...

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Tubby Hayes: 100% Proof

by Roger Farbey
August 6, 2005

Tubby Hayes 100% Proof Fontana 1966/2005 “But being as this is 100% Proof, the most powerful big band album in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk? As a ...

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Tubby Hayes: Mexican Green

by Roger Farbey
July 28, 2005

Tubby Hayes Mexican Green Fontana 1968/2005 Recorded in February and March 1967 and released in the following year when in the USA the tectonic plates of jazz had already started to shift, Mexican Green was a tour de force recording for Edward Brian 'Tubby' Hayes. Actually it was ...

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The Neophonic Orchestras: New Horizons, Volumes 1 and 2

by Jack Bowers
July 20, 2005

The Neophonic Orchestra New Horizons, Volumes 1 and 2 Tantara Productions 2005 The date was January 4, 1965, and the audience that waited anxiously in the newly christened Dorothy Chandler Pavilion hardly knew what to expect. They had come to hear the first-ever performance by the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra, ...

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Albert Ayler: Prophecy/Bells

by Clifford Allen
July 14, 2005

Albert Ayler Prophecy/Bells ESP-Disk 2005 Despite a rather brief period of artistic flourish (c. 1964 - c. 1967), tenor man Albert Ayler has probably, next to Coltrane and Cecil Taylor, held the most sway on the direction of improvisation from a 'thematic' or 'phrase-based' approach to that of ...

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Frank Wright: The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings

by Clifford Allen
July 13, 2005

Frank Wright The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings ESP-Disk 2005 Despite the fact that avant-garde jazz has often met with the criticism that its tonalities and rhythms put it far outside the jazz (and by extension black music) tradition, it is quite true that many of the forerunners of free jazz found ...

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Visions of an Inner Mounting Apocalypse: A Fusion Guitar Tribute

by Walter Kolosky
July 12, 2005

Various Artists Visions of an Inner Mounting Apocalypse: A Fusion Guitar Tribute Tone Center 2005 Tone Center, Mike Varney's fusion-only label, is not only helping to keep the genre in good shape--it's pumping it full of steroids. Last year the label released A Guitar Supreme: Giant Steps in ...