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Article: Rediscovery

Greg Lake & Keith Emerson: Their Best Work Together

Read "Greg Lake & Keith Emerson: Their Best Work Together" reviewed by John Kelman


While it should come as no surprise that musical heroes from across all genres are beginning to die off, some of the highest profile losses are, in particular, in the rock/pop world, where many of its biggest stars are now in their mid-to-late sixties...or older. Few would disagree that one of the years biggest losses happened ...

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Article: What is Jazz?

Jazz Stories: 2016

Read "Jazz Stories: 2016" reviewed by Michael Ricci


All About Jazz--a longstanding internet destination for all things jazz--is a community bound by its love of the music. Since March, we've solicited jazz stories from our members asking them to answer any of a handful of questions and we wanted to recognize some of our submissions from 2016. New stories arrive daily and ...

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Holding The Stage: Road Shows, Vol. 4

Label: Doxy Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: In A Sentimental Mood; Professor Paul; Mixed Emotions; Keep Hold Of Yourself; Disco Monk; You're Mine You; H.S.; Medley: Sweet Leilani, Solo (Rollins only), Don't Stop The Carnival.

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The Complete Blue Note, Riverside & Contemporary Collection

Label: Enlightenment (3)
Released: 2016
Track listing: Sonny Rollins, Volume 1 1957; Decision; Bluesnote; How Are Things In Glocca Morra; Plain Jane; Sonnysphere; Sonny Rollins, Volume 2 1957; Why Don't I; Wail March; Misterioso; Reflections; You Stepped Out Of A Dream; Poor Butterfly; Way Out West 1957; I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande); Solitude; Come, Gone; Wagon Wheels; There Is No Greater Love; Way Out West; The Sound Of Sonny 1957; The Last Time I Saw Paris; Just In Time; Toot, Toot, Tootsie; What Is There To Say; Dearly Beloved; Every Time We Say Goodbye; Cutie; It Could Happen To You; Mangoes; A Night At The Village Vanguard 1957; Old Devil Moon; Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; Striver's Row; Sonnymoon For Two ; A Night In Tunisia; I Can't Get Started; Freedom Suite 1958; The Freedom Suite; Someday I'll Find You; Will You Still Be Mine?; Till There Was You; Shadow Waltz; Sonny Rollins And The Contemporary Leaders 1958; I've Told Every Little Star ; Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody; How High The Moon; You; I've Found A New Baby; Alone Together; In The Chapel In The Moonlight ; The Song Is You; Newk's Time 1959; Tune Up; Asiatic Raes; Wonderful! Wonderful!; The Surrey With The Fringe On Top; Blues For Philly Joe; Namely You;

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Article: Interview

Jack Wilkins: Playing What He's Preaching

Read "Jack Wilkins: Playing What He's Preaching" reviewed by Rob Rosenblum


Some time in 1975 a box of records from the Mainstream label was dropped by my front door. I picked it up and began to open it with a mix of excitement and dread of having to face writing more record reviews. I saw an LP titled Windows with an unfamiliar cast of characters and put ...

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Article: Album Review

Claire Daly: 2468 West Grand Boulevard

Read "2468 West Grand Boulevard" reviewed by Rob Rosenblum


Full disclosure--I am far from an expert on Motown music, having pretty much lived in a jazz bubble. And this album is a salute to some of Detroit's legends including The Jackson Five, The Four Tops, The Temptations and especially Smokey Robinson, who is identified with five of the eleven songs here. Claire Daly ...

Article: Interview

Marco Pesatori, sotto le stelle del jazz

Read "Marco Pesatori, sotto le stelle del jazz" reviewed by Rosarita Crisafi


Marco Pesatori è un noto astrologo italiano e un intellettuale eclettico. Scrittore, laureato in Storia della critica d'arte con una tesi sul movimento Dada, è stato collaboratore di Gianni Sassi nella Cooperativa Intrapresa, un laboratorio che influenzò profondamente la cultura e l'industria discografica italiana ed europea a cavallo tra gli anni '70 e '80. Nel suo ...

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Article: Year in Review

Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases of 2016

Read "Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases of 2016" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Another year is almost in the books. And while there were many things to fret about in 2016, a lack of good music wasn't one of them. A quick look back at the year reminds us that jazz legends remain strong, rising stars continue to rapidly ascend, newcomers are making their presence felt, and the dearly ...

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News: Recording

Sonny and Horace: 1959

Sonny and Horace: 1959

On Thursday, March 5, 1959, the Sonny Rollins Trio and the Horace Silver Quintet were in Zurich on a joint European tour. Interestingly, Sonny and Silver were at different points in their careers. Silver had yet to crest and would record the fiery Blowin' the Blues Away in August before riding his funk piano style into ...

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Article: Album Review

John Coltrane: Trane 90

Read "Trane 90" reviewed by Jim Trageser


Along with Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, the late saxophonist John Coltrane is one of the most anthologized figures in the history of jazz. He is also one of the most studied, with at least four full biographies on Amazon, and dozens of other books looking at various aspects of his music. The number ...


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