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Music Review: Oscar Pettiford –“Lost Tapes: Germany 1958/1959″
Oscar Pettiford has always been one of the “What ifs” of jazz music. He was a bassist/cellist who played with Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach and was considered a pioneer of the Bebop movement. He...
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Music Review: Miles Davis –‘Chronicles: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951...
The Miles Davis box set Chronicles: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951 – 1956 is an eight-CD collection from the man critic Kenneth Tynan once called “a musical lonely hearts club.” Tynan’s...
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The reissue of Sonny Rollins’ first acknowledged masterwork, Saxophone Colossus not only contains some of the best work of his career, it is a real bargain as well. This Extended Jazz Classics release...
View ArticleMusic Review: Clifford Brown Sonny Rollins Max Roach Quintet – Complete...
Although trumpeter Clifford Brown, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and drummer Max Roach did play together within quintets, this shared billing is a marketing idea by the Essential Jazz Classics label...
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Music Review: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Charles...
When five of the most celebrated jazz musicians of the age get together for a one-time concert you would expect something special. So when you have Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max...
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Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada, has hosted over 10,000 concerts during its 118 year existence. The 2,750 seat venue was only about half-full on May 15, 1953, when it hosted one of the most unique...
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Music Review: Thelonious Monk – The Very Best of Thelonious Monk
The best thing about Concord Music Group’s “Very Best of…” series is that it gives jazz fans a chance to hear again a few of those classic vinyl performances that at least some of us have buried away...
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Music Review: Terri Lyne Carrington – Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue
It can be difficult to pay musical homage to a legend, particularly one as towering as Duke Ellington. How do you interpret the music in a fresh way, preventing the music from sounding stale, while...
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