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  • Duke Ellington’s “Symphony in Black” with 19-year-old Billie Holiday


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    Mike Springer at OpenCulture : In September of 1935 Paramount Pictures released a nine-minute movie remarkable in several ways.  Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life is one of the earliest cinematic explorations of African-American culture for a mass audience. It features  Duke Ellington  and his ...
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  • darcorgaosapatos:adriennes:Speaking of falling into jazz...


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    darcorgaosapatos : adriennes : Speaking of falling into jazz spirals, I found this on YouTube the other night and it blew my mind. Robert Glasper juxtaposing Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage with Radiohead’s Everything In It’s Right Place . You could also juxtapose “Nardis” here… :)
    1 week ago

  • Because I Said So: I want a second chance to be a band geek


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    I like that geeks have taken that word - geek - and empowered it. It has come to be synonymous with "aficionado" or "expert" or "enthusiast." Its become a term spoken with pride. Middle and high school students who put all they have into practicing their instruments and honing their skills have everything to be proud ...
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  • VA-Bar Jazz Cafe-CD-FLAC-2005-BOCKSCAR


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    VA-Bar Jazz Cafe-CD-FLAC-2005-BOCKSCAR Description : Artist : VA Album : Bar Jazz Cafe Bitrate : 841 kbps [Release Info] Source : CD (LP) Label : Sony Music Year : 2005 Genre : Jazz Rip date : 2013-05-08 Store date : 2005-01-10 Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1 [Track List] 1. Charlie Byrd — The Girl From Ipanema 2:46 2. ...
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  • Money, Race and Jazz - Okeh?


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    The history of the - I would say foundational - African American contributions to American musical culture are fraught with politics, economics and race. I have written here several times about how the organizers of the local RIJF have more or less totally failed to navigate that troubled intersection. More on that ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Van Dyke Parks – review


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    Borderline, London "A waltz! Dont jump into the moshpit!" trills diminutive southern gent Van Dyke Parks , as elegant as a paddle steamer after covering John Hartfords Mississippi bluegrass standard Delta Queen Waltz . This rare, intimate evening with the legendary Brian Wilson collaborator and composer is as ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Manhã da Carnaval


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    I travelled back to Brighton this morning and spent the afternoon in a series of meetings in my sweltering office. I now haven’t got the energy to post anything but some music, so here is some rare footage of Brazilian guitarist and pioneer of Latin Jazz Baden Powell (full name Baden Powell de Aquino ) recorded in ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Jazz Listings for May 3-May 9


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    Full reviews of recent jazz performances: A searchable guide to these and other shows is at Monty Alexander and the Harlem-Kingston Express (Tuesday through May 11) Mr. Alexander, an effervescent pianist and one of Jamaica’s proudest musical exports, stamps his native groove with an uptown twist in a group that ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Alan Broadbent – unsung New Zealand hero


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    The All Music Guide has called New Zealand born jazz musician Alan Broadbent : An unsung hero of acoustic piano. Broadbent has played with, and composed and arranged music for, some the greats of the jazz world – Woody Herman, Chet Baker, Natalie Cole and Scott Hamilton among them. He has visited New Zealand ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Miles Davis. (Flamenco Sketches - Listen here)


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    Miles Davis. (Flamenco Sketches - Listen here )
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  • FLAMENGO SKETCHES - MILES DAVIS


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    FLAMENGO SKETCHES - MILES DAVIS
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  • Music for the day: Sweet Georgia Brown


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    Different versions of Sweet Georgia Brown today, which is... .. a jazz standard and pop tune written in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard (music) and Kenneth Casey(lyrics). The tune was first recorded on March 19, 1925 by bandleader Ben Bernie, resulting in a five-week No. 1 for Ben Bernie and his Hotel ...
    2 weeks ago

  • “Sun Ship: The Complete Session”: John Coltrane’s Musical Documentary


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    The release of alternate takes has special significance in jazz, for obvious reasons. Even though no performance of composed music is precisely repeatable—and loving classical music implies being keenly sensitive to the shuddering sublimity of the moment’s unique inspiration—the variety in improvised ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Music Review: Ann Hampton Callaway at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola


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    Ann Hampton Callaway was joined by a quintet for “From Sassy to Divine: A Celebration of Sarah Vaughan” at Dizzy’s Coca-Cola.        
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  • Sexmob’s Nino Rota Tribute: Best Album of the Year?


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    Over the years, with his long-running quartet Sexmob, the Millennial Territory Orchestr a and elsewhere, trumpeter Steven Bernstein has made a career of reinventing repertoires to suit his distinctive, livewire style, veering from the sunnier side of the street (Sly Stone) into the shadows (John Barry’s James ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Attention jazz fans: Tokyo-Manila Jazz & Arts Festival, May 9-11


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    Every day for the last two months we have been jolted out of sleep by election campaign jingles blaring from vans going around the neighborhood. Most of them manage to be both loud and indiscernible: your eardrums get pulped, but you don’t know by whom—you can’t understand the lyrics. We’re not sure whom to ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Music for the day: Diz and Getz


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    Music for the day:A playlist with all the tracks from an album by two Jazz greats - Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz. Album: "Diz and Getz" (1955). (Buy it here.)Personnel :Dizzy Gillespie -- trumpetStan Getz - tenor saxophoneHerb Ellis - guitarOscar Peterson -- pianoRay Brown -- double bassMax Roach - drums
    3 weeks ago

  • Wadada Leo Smith’s Transcendent Opening Night at Roulette


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    Wadada Leo Smith isn’t always in a dead serious mood. After his spine-tingling show last night at Roulette, the New York debut of material from his 2012 magnum opus Ten Freedom Summers (rated best album of the year here), the trumpeter/composer treated the audience to a brief Q&A. Smith winkingly related that ...
    3 weeks ago

  • International Jazz Day: Recalling Jazz Legends


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    The Toonari Post - News, Powered by the People! For jazz lovers, jazz musicians and jazz musician lovers, April 30 was declared “The international jazz day. “     Jazz music has been bringing people together in harmony for more than a century, starting with the “Blue Note” that served as a relief from ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Jazz & Swinging Percussion – Bill Berry


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    Bill Berry Quartet, Jazz & Swinging Percussion , Directional Sound, DM 5002, 1963. Very cool cover. Berry played trumpet with the likes of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton , Maynard Ferguson, and Duke Ellington. Similar Posts: Jazz Great Stan Kenton’s West Side Story Sounds of the ‘Now’ ...
    3 weeks ago

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