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Article: What is Jazz?

Social Skills

by AAJ Staff
February 3, 2003

We, as a society, are rapidly losing all of our important social skills. I'm not talking about etiquette things, like which one is the salad fork. I'm talking about the skills needed to have any type of meaningful interaction with our fellow human beings. Things seem to be conspiring to keep us more and more isolated. ...

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Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section

By Art Pepper

Label: Contemporary
Released: 2002
Track listing: You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To; Red Pepper Blues; Imagination; Waltz Me Blues; Straight Life; Jazz Me Blues; Tin Tin Deo; Star Eyes; Birk's Works; The Man I Love.

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The Complete Vee Jay Paul Chambers/Wynton Kelly Sessions 1959-61

By Paul Chambers

Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: 74 performances, including 21 alternate takes

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Article: Album Review

Paul Chambers/Wynton Kelly: The Complete Vee Jay Paul Chambers/Wynton Kelly Sessions 1959-61

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 1, 2001

Following hard on the heels of Mosaic’s already acclaimed Vee-Jay set collecting early works from Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan, we get The Complete Vee Jay Paul Chambers-Wynton Kelly Sessions, a superlative companion piece that sets straight material that has been issued and reissued in haphazard form for many years now. In addition to a pair ...

Article: Profile

Art Pepper

by Robert Spencer
May 11, 2000

It's all in his remarkable autobiography, Straight Life. Art Pepper was a junkie. First and foremost. He spent long stretches in prison, had innumerable wild adventures, and used drugs to the end of his life. He spent years devoted entirely to scoring the next dose. But in and through it all, he somehow managed to become ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

The Rudy Van Gelder Blue Note Editions

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 1, 1999

As far as jazz goes from the hard bop era, two names are synonymous with their groundbreaking work of the period-Blue Note Records and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder. Blue Note released a canon of recordings that have been revered by collectors and musicians alike over the years and Van Gelder was the man behind the ...

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Bass on Top

By Paul Chambers

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1997

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Article: Album Review

Paul Chambers: Bass on Top

by Joel Roberts
May 1, 1997

In July of 1957, when Paul Chambers recorded “Bass on Top," his third and final Blue Note release as a leader, he was already in his third year with the most influential jazz group of the time, the first great Miles Davis Quintet; he had just taken part in the Davis/Gil Evans Orchestra sessions ...

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Poppin'

By Hank Mobley

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1980
Track listing: Poppin'; Darn That Dream; Gettin' into Something; Tune-Up; East of Brooklyn.

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The Art Of The Trio

By Sonny Clark

Label: Blue Note
Released: 1980
Track listing: Tadd's Delight (Alternate Take); Two Bass Hit (Alternate Take); I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Alternate Take); Ain't No Use; Black Velvet; I'm Just A Lucky So And So; Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You; The Breeze And I; I Can't Give You Anything;