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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Prestige Records: An Alternative Top 20 Albums

Read "Prestige Records: An Alternative Top 20 Albums" reviewed by Chris May


Along with Alfred Lion's Blue Note and Orrin Keepnews' Riverside, Bob Weinstock's Prestige was at the top table of independent New York City-based jazz labels from the early 1950s until the mid 1960s. Like those other two labels, Prestige built up a profuse catalogue packed with enduring treasures. Originally a record retailer, Weinstock ...

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Musician

Moondog

Born:

Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his prolific work widely drew inspiration from jazz, classical, Native American music which he had become familiar with as a child, and Latin American music.His strongly rhythmic, contrapuntal pieces and arrangements later influenced composers of minimal music, in particular American composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

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Moondog: Piano Trimba

Label: Shiiin
Released: 2019
Track listing: Für Fritz, Chaconne in A Minor; Fleur de Lis; Barn Dance; Canon 2, Op. 67; Divisi 2: I; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: I; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: II; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: IV; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: VI; First Look, then Sound; Ma petite; Caribea; Deuce 1: II; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: V; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: XXII; Mother's Whistler, Chaconne in C Major; I'll Tell You a Story; Ambideque 1: I; I'll Tell You a Story - Arranged for Harpsichord; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: VIII; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: X; Canon Book V: XII; Canon Book V: XVI; Short Spot; Mazurka; Rue Lette; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: XVIII; Canon Book V: IV; Canon Book V: XVII; The Square Monkey; Ma Petite - Arranged for Harpsichord; Archey Says.

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The Stockholm 1981 Recordings

Label: Brus & Knaster
Released: 2019
Track listing: A Furore; Bifrost; What Is the Name; See the Mighty Tree; Buri, Borr; See the Tree; Rollo; Ten Legs.

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Erk - Moondog

Label: Rockwerk Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Bye, Bye, Manhattan; Anolion; Down the Donau; BACH; Logrundr 26, Organ Book 1; Jeanie; Hanging Gardens; Ka-Choo; Symphony No. 34 - 1. Mov.; Logrundr 1, Organ Book 1; Tout Suite No. 20 - 1. Mov.; Romany Road; Tamagotshi; Symphony No. 47 - 3. Mov.; Logrundr 1, Organ Book 2; Canon in A minor; My Contribution; Hymn to Peace; Logrundr 19, Organ Book 1; My Kind of Avenue.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

NY Free Quartet, Michael Gregory Jackson & Marc Jufer

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There's a wide variety of great tunes this episode: Club D'Elf kicks it off with the title track to their latest live set, saxophonist Muriel Grossmann and her quartet acknowledge the musical and mystical paths of John Coltrane, the New York Free Quartet's Dream Time marks their return to releasing excellent work, and the very influential ...

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Moondog: Round the World of Sound

Label: New World Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Bells Are Ringing; Voices of Spring; What's The Most Exciting Thing; All is Loneliness; My Tiny Butterfly; Why Spend a Dark Night with You?; Coffee Beans; Down is Up; Be a Hobo; Remember; I Love You; Nero's Expedition; No, The Wheel Was Never Invented; With My Wealth; This Student of Life; Some Trust All; Wine, Women and Song; Sadness; Maybe; Each Today; Imagine; You, the Vandal; Trees Against the Sky; Behold; Sparrows.

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Article: Live Review

Live From Old York: Laura Jurd, Annie Whitehead, Brooks Williams & Koshka

Read "Live From Old York: Laura Jurd, Annie Whitehead, Brooks Williams & Koshka" reviewed by Martin Longley


Laura Jurd's Dinosaur National Centre For Early Music November 11, 2016 Dinosaur are one of the UK's fastest rising new bands, although their recent re-naming hides a few years of history as the Laura Jurd Quartet. The London foursome still look even younger than their actual ages, thus qualifying as ...

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Article: Live From New York

Red Hook Jazz Festival 2016

Read "Red Hook Jazz Festival 2016" reviewed by Martin Longley


Red Hook Jazz Festival 2016 Urban Meadow Community Garden Red Hook, Brooklyn June 12 & 19, 2016 This ninth edition of the Red Hook Jazz Festival appeared to draw its biggest crowd yet. Not that it's a large- capacity event, but perhaps a setting close to the water's ...

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The Orastorios - Moondog Rounds

Label: Makro Musikverlag
Released: 2009
Track listing: Hell Is Not a Place; See the Tree; To Listen; Dragon Scale Pattern; Armies Contending; Travelling by Thumb; Miss You on the Balcony; Logrundr 14; Frey and Freya Chewing on Big Soup Bones; Thor and the Midgard Serpent; Hnossa; Out of the Mouth; Logrundr 2; Man Hole; Tell Me, Tell Me; Over the Mountain; Let Me Not Be Forgot; Hnossa - Instrumental; When I'm Deep in Sleep; Snorting; Logrundr in A; Sail Down.


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