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Glostrup Trioen/Alice Carreri: Spirit

by Chris Mosey
June 27, 2015

Some time between 1000 and 1197, the Danish village of Glostrup was founded by a man called Glob. In the 17th century it comprised eight farms and 13 houses. Today, engulfed as a suburb by the capital Copenhagen, it even boasts its own jazz trio. Its members, Torben Kjaer (piano), Henrik Dhyrbye (bass) ...

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Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Volume 19

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by Chris Mosey
May 7, 2015

In 1946 the uneasy truce between industry and organized labor in the U.S.A which had persisted for the duration of World War Two came to an abrupt end. Coal miners and railroad workers came out on strike and jazz bands were banned by the American Federation of Musicians under its autocratic boss James C. Petrillo from ...

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Svend Asmussen: Embraceable

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by Chris Mosey
March 14, 2015

In 1987 when he was a young man of 70, Svend Asmussen played a gig in a small club in Paris. This year, on the eve of his 100th birthday, the Danish violinist rediscovered a tape made of the evening for a Parisian radio station. He says: “I assumed it would be just another radio show ...

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Sigurdur Flosason and Kjeld Lauritsen: Nightfall

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by Chris Mosey
March 13, 2015

Icelandic saxophonist Sigurdur Flosason gets a pretty unique sound out of his instrument. His silky, rhapsodic style of playing harks back to Johnny Hodges but with more bite. There are only the very faintest echoes of Charlie Parker and hardly any of John Coltrane. Yet Flosason is both inventive and soulful. This is ...

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Sigurdur Flosason/Kjeld Lauritsen: Daybreak

by Chris Mosey
February 27, 2015

They used to call this kind of thing “mood music." The idea was to put the listener in a particular mood, usually one of calm and relaxation. When it came to jazz, the US label Prestige climbed on the bandwagon with a whole series titled--wait for it-- “Moodsville." Moodsville aimed at providing jazz ...

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Sigurdur Flosason/Kjeld Lauritsen: Daybreak

by Chris Mosey
February 25, 2015

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Archie Shepp: Archie Shepp And The New York Contemporary Five

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by Chris Mosey
January 4, 2015

The New Thing is now old hat; all those squawking saxophones, blipping trumpets and discordant piano explorations a thing of the past. With its arrival in the early 1960s, jazz reached the end of its historical road. The New Thing wasn't The Shape Of Jazz To Come, as an Ornette Coleman album title ...

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Bud Powell: Bouncing With Bud

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by Chris Mosey
January 1, 2015

This album has cropped up in various guises over the years. Most recently it was part of Storyville's In Copenhagen series." It's back, as part of the same label's Remastered Vinyl collection. Powell was one of the most talented yet tragic artists in jazz history, a giant of the bebop era who translated ...

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Bouncing With Bud

By Bud Powell

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Side A: Rifftide; Bouncing With Bud; Move; The Best Thing For You. Side B: Straight, No Chaser; I Remember Clifford; Hot House; 52nd Street Theme.

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Strength, Energy, Imagination

By Dorothy Donegan

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD1: Rosetta; Medley – When I Fall In Love, The Way We Were; The Best Things In Life Are Free; Medley – Pennies From Heaven, You‘re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You; Medley – Out Of Nowhere, Sweet Lorraine, Send In The Clowns; Take The A Train; Medley – You Are So Beautiful, Edmund Thigpen’s Gospel; Satin Doll. CD2: I Just Want To Sing; You Are The Sunshine Of My Life; Donegan's Blues; Lift Every Voice And Sing; Dorothy Runs Away; Willow Weep For Me; Minuet In G; If I Loved You; Stop The World.