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Stealin' Home: Jackie Robinson Suite

Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lieutenant Jackie; Up From the Minors; Stealin' Home; Fatigue; 0 for 3; High and Inside.

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Donald Byrd: Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux

Read "Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


With the release of his chart-topping, funk-fueled Black Byrd in 1973, Donald Byrd found himself in a volatile place in jazz circles. He was being hailed as having finally stepped out of Miles Davis' considerable shadow, while simultaneously many found the album to be Byrd's selling out his bop legacy for chart success. As most defining ...

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Henry Franklin: Jazz Is Dead 14

Read "Jazz Is Dead 14" reviewed by Chris May


Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad's Jazz Is Dead label is a moveable feast when it comes to consistency. In its fourteen albums date, there have been some great ones, some not so great ones and a couple of duds. With bassist Henry Franklin, however, the label has come up with a blinder, its most satisfying ...

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Bobby Bradford and Friends: Stealin' Home: Jackie Robinson Suite

Read "Stealin' Home: Jackie Robinson Suite" reviewed by Chuck Koton


Born in Mississippi in 1934 and raised in Dallas, Texas, cornet master and composer Bobby Bradford knows racism and segregation. When asked if Texas was completely segregated, Bradford said, “If there's a word stronger than 'completely,' that was Texas." In spite of the hate and discrimination of everyday life in the Jim Crow South, Bradford and ...

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Daggerboard & The Skipper: Daggerboard And the Skipper

Read "Daggerboard And the Skipper" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


For those who think they can tell an album's sound by its cover, think again in the case of Daggerboard and The Skipper. That cover art seems to have come from the walls of an inner sanctum of a Pre-Columbian pyramid. So what kind of music will that be? It is hard to find ...

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Renaissance In Blue

Label: Prime Productions
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. Raindrops (T. Vos) - 5:25; 2. Distinguished Gentlemen (T. Vos) - 3:03; 3. It’s Been A Long Time (T. Vos) - 3:48; 4. My Baby Just Cares For Me (W. Donaldson/G. Kahn) - 3:25; 5. I Want You To Be Free (T. Vos) - 3:13; 6. The Nearness Of You (H. Carmichael/N. Washington) - 4:12; 7. These Are The Things That I Love (T. Vos) - 3:26; 8. He Is Just That Way (T. Vos) - 3:14; 9. I’d Rather Be Crazy Than Be A Fool (T. Vos) - 4:38; 10. What A Difference A Day Made (M. Grever/S. Adams) - 2:43; 11. Carry On By (T. Vos) - 3:17; 12. You Ain’t Heard Nothing (T. Vos) - 2:24

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Henry Franklin

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Montreux Through The Decades: Jazz Recordings, Part One

Read "Montreux Through The Decades: Jazz Recordings, Part One" reviewed by Ian Patterson


To celebrate Montreux Jazz Festival's 50th edition in 2016, and as a posthumous tribute to the festival's founder, the late Claude Nobs, All About Jazz is launching a new column entitled Montreux Through the Decades, which will periodically present reviews of officially released live recordings from MJF, from its first edition in 1967 to the present. ...

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Walking In The Sunshine

Label: Prime Productions
Released: 2019
Track listing: 1. Walking in the Sunshine (Thisbe Vos/Steve Rice) - 3:25; 2. In Love With You (Thisbe Vos/Gary Matsumoto) - 3:13; 3. I Don't Really Miss Him At All (Thisbe Vos) - 4:52; 4. Route 66 (Bobby Troup) - 3:53; 5. Love Me Tender (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley) - 4:20; 6. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (Cole Porter) - 3:21; 7. What A Wonderful World(Bob Thiele/George David Weiss) - 3:58; 8. Dream A Little Dream Of Me (Fabian Andre/Wilbur Schwandt/Gus Kahn) - 3:49; 9. A Warm, Fuzzy Feeling (Thisbe Vos) - 2:13; 10. The Man I Love (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin) - 4:39; 11. Midnight Reverie (Thisbe Vos) - 2:57; 12. Accentuate The Positive (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer) - 2:45

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A Jazzy Christmas

Label: Prime Productions
Released: 2015
Track listing: 1. Let It Snow (Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne) - 2:36; 2. It Must Be Christmas Time (Thisbe Vos) - 2:54; 3. It's Beginning To Snow (Thisbe Vos) - 2:46; 4. When Moonlight Has Hit The Town (Thisbe Vos) - 2:51; 5. I'd Like You For Christmas (Bobby Troup) - 3:28; 6. Christmas Is Everywhere (Thisbe Vos/Gary Matsumoto) - 2:13; 7. Baby It' Cold Outside(Frank Loesser) - 2:55; 8. Santa Baby (Joan Javits/Philip Springer) - 3:02; 9. Silver Bells (Jay Livingston/Ray Evans) - 3:46; 10. The Christmas Song (Robert Wells/Mel Tormé) - 4:59; 11. Jingle Bells (Traditional) - 3:15; 12. Deck The Halls (Traditional) - 3:35


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