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One of the premier bassists in jazz history, Paul Chambers had it all: a beautiful tone, a fluid technique, a great choice of notes, impeccable time and a magnificent sense of swing. He could even take a bowed solo and keep it interesting and in tune. Paul Chambers was born in Pittsburgh in 1935, and grew up in Detroit, where he became part of the city's growing jazz scene. He moved to New York, where he played in the {{J.J. Johnson = 8101}}-{{Kai Winding = 11467}} quintet. He joined Miles Davis' first legendary quintet along with {{John Coltrane = 5851}}, {{"Philly" Joe Jones = 8188}}, and {{Red Garland = 6951}}, at the age of 20

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Kenny Drew Trio

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Caravan; Come Rain or Come Shine; Ruby, My Dear; Weird-O; Taking a Chance on Love; When You Wish Upon a Star; Blues for Nica; It's Only a Paper Moon.

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Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Didn't; Will You Still Be Mine; I See Your Face Before Me; A Night in Tunisia; A Gal in Calico; Dr. Jackle; Bitty Ditty; Minor March; Changes; Stablemates; How Am I To Know/ Just Squeeze Me; There Is No Greater Love; The Theme; S'posin.

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Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live from the Blue Morocco

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Blue Bossa; Confirmation; Memories of You; My One and Only Love; Bags’ Groove; Blue Friday; The Theme.

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Article: Album Review

Neal Miner: Invisibility

Read "Invisibility" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Bassist Neal Miner has always been a strong supporter of jazz's lyrical tradition, and Invisibilility finds him in top form, not only as an instrumentalist but also as a composer deeply rooted in the idiom's classic origins. Joined by tenor saxophonist Chris Byars and drummer Jason Tiemann, Miner creates a trio sound that is conversational, closely ...

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Article: Album Review

Mike Clark: Standard Deviations

Read "Standard Deviations" reviewed by Scott Gudell


The goal of Mike and Mike--as in Mike Clark on drums and Mike Zilber on saxophone--the co-leaders on Standard Deviations--was to take eight jazz and pop standards (with one Zilber original) and reinterpret them by adding their 21th century interpretation to them (with the help of Jon Davis on piano and Alex Claffy on bass). Over ...

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Article: Reassessing

Kelly Blue

Read "Kelly Blue" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The classic Wynton Kelly Trio comprised Kelly on piano, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb. Besides being Kelly's most stable trio, this rhythm section provided the underpinning for several important recordings and tours for Miles Davis in the late '50s and early '60s. These include Kind of Blue (Columbia Records, 1959) and Davis' 1960 European ...

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Article: So You Don't Like Jazz

The Unlikely Story of Cannonball Adderley's Rise to the Top

Read "The Unlikely Story of Cannonball Adderley's Rise to the Top" reviewed by Alan Bryson


For me, the most gripping music stories are the tales of “overnight sensations." In the jazz sphere, we have our share. There is the story of an eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday, discovered by producer John Hammond while she was a hostess in a Harlem club. There is the tale of a seventeen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald, whose triumphant debut ...

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Article: Album Review

Lee Morgan: Here's Lee Morgan

Read "Here's Lee Morgan" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


While Craft Recordings' new OJC reissue series has largely drawn from its treasure trove of Prestige and Riverside titles, the label recently expanded its scope to include two standout jazz albums from Chicago's historic Vee-Jay Records. Founded in 1953 by husband-and-wife team James Bracken and Vivian Carter, Vee-Jay was not only one of the ...

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Article: Play This!

Al Foster: Monk’s Bossa

Read "Al Foster: Monk’s Bossa" reviewed by Carl Medsker


On May 28, 2025, Aloysius Tyrone Foster passed away at the age of 82. He brought strong, imaginative, percussive grooves and swing to bebop, post-bop, modal, funk and fusion for over 60 years--even a little calypso and bossa. A very partial list of the musicians Al Foster performed with includes Dexter Gordon, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, ...


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