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Donald Byrd: Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux

Read "Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


With the release of his chart-topping, funk-fueled Black Byrd in 1973, Donald Byrd found himself in a volatile place in jazz circles. He was being hailed as having finally stepped out of Miles Davis' considerable shadow, while simultaneously many found the album to be Byrd's selling out his bop legacy for chart success. As most defining ...

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Rory Gallagher: Deuce: 50th Anniversary Edition

Read "Deuce: 50th Anniversary Edition" reviewed by Doug Collette


Since Rory Gallagher's untimely passing in 1995, there have been more than a few posthumous audio and video packages devoted to the prolific output of the late bluesman. And while most of them, supervised by family members as is this one, have been both historically exacting and passionate in devotion to their subject, none are more ...

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Elvin Jones: Revival: Live At Pookie’s Pub

Read "Revival: Live At Pookie’s Pub" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


No matter your format of choice—the deluxe 180g 3-LP set, streaming, or a 2-CD package--there is some serious, late '60s hard bop soul-searching happening on this eye-opening, mind-expanding, previously unreleased Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub. Elvin Jones cleared the cobwebs just two weeks after John Coltrane's passing and the resounding end to the classic ...

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Justin Chart: The Midnight People

Read "The Midnight People" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Saxophonist Justin Chart is an inventive and versatile musician who spontaneously creates mellifluous and enthralling soundscapes. Leading a synergistic band of like-minded sidemen. Chart excels in live improvisations that are simultaneously free as well as charmingly accessible. His output in the third decade of the century has been prolific without sacrificing artistic vision. The Midnight People ...

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Justin Chart: The Scarlet Jazz Room

Read "The Scarlet Jazz Room" reviewed by Kyle Simpler


Improvisation is one of the key elements of jazz, and it isomething listeners expect to hear in most performances. However, it is often a part of the overall composition, which is based around a central melody. But saxophonist Justin Chart takes improvisation a step further with The Scarlet Jazz Room. This album relies almost entirely on ...

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Article: Book Review

Enter the Blue

Read "Enter the Blue" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Enter the Blue Dave Chisholm: writing, drawing, coloring and lettering; Dustyn Payette: color flats 180 Pages ISBN: 978-1940878898 Z2 Comics 2022 Trumpeter/visual artist Dave Chisholm has found ways to combine his two interests before. Instrumental (Z2 Comics, 2017) was an original story featuring a jazz trumpeter; Chasin' the ...

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Justin Chart: The Scarlet Jazz Room

Read "The Scarlet Jazz Room" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Justin Chart is an award winning singer-songwriter and an accomplished jazz saxophonist. On his spontaneously created pieces Chart often collaborates with a rotating cast of like-minded sidemen. The resulting music is as sophisticated and intricately structured as carefully notated compositions. Chart, once again, showcases his unique artistic approach with the cinematic and enchanting The Scarlet Jazz ...

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Live! Breaking Ground August 3, 1977

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2021
Track listing: Living In The U.S.A.; Space Cowboy; Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma; Come On In My Kitchen; Wild Mountain Honey; The Window/Winter Time; The Stake; Mercury Blues; Serenade; Take The Money And Run; Jet Airliner; Space Intro; Fly Like An Eagle; Rock'n Me; The Joker; Seasons; So Long Blues.

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Stage Fright 50th Anniversary Edition 2CD

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD1:The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show; The Shape I'm In; Daniel And The Sacred Harp; Stage Fright; The Rumor; Time To Kill; Just Another Whistle Stop; All La Glory; Strawberry Wine; Sleeping; Strawberry Wine; Sleeping ; Get Up Jake (#1); Get Up Jake (#2); The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show; Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu; Calgary Blues. CD 2:The Shape I'm In; Time To Kill; The Weight; King Harvest (Has Surely Come); Strawberry Wine; Rockin' Chair; Look Out Cleveland; I Shall Be Released; Stage Fright; Up On Cripple Creek; The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show; We Can Talk; Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever; The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; Across the Great Divide; The Unfaithful Servant; Don't Do It; The Genetic Method; Chest Fever; Rag Mama Rag.

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Live In Los Angeles

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2021
Track listing: A Twilight Minor; Swing With a Platinum Ring; Rame; These Cats Are a Strayin; Funky Feelin; No One Knows; Saudade; Fingers & Humdingers; My Amorous Alto Justin Chart; Conversing With Los Angeles and I'm in Deep; The Seraphic Sound; The Right Moves.


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