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Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Horace Silver — piano Carmell Jones — trumpet Joe Henderson — tenor saxophone Teddy Smith — bass Roger Humphries — drums
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What Jazz Is - and Isn't --Wynton Marsalis
LEAD: My generation finds itself wedged between two opposing traditions. One is the tradition we know in such wonderful detail from the enormous recorded legacy that tells anyone who will listen that jazz broke the rules of European conventions and created rules of its own that were so specific, so thorough and so demanding that a great art resulted.
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John Coltrane - Giant Steps
"Giant Steps" is a jazz recording by John Coltrane, on tenor saxophone, which is the first track on the album of the same name and is 4 minutes and 49 seconds long. The composition is a milestone for jazz musicians' progress, given the difficulty of improvising its rapid progression of chord changes that progress through three keys (see Coltrane changes) shifted by major thirds, creating an augmented triad.
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Miles Davis - So What
Music video by Miles Davis performing So What.
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Bill Evans Trio - Autumn Leaves
Album: Portrait In Jazz Year: 1959 Label: Riverside Bill Evans - piano Scott LaFaro - bass Paul Motian - drums
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Overwhelmed with sound: Terry Riley interviewed
“That’s the sort of thing that’s always interested me: things where you can’t quite figure out what you are hearing.”
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If Streaming Is the Future, You Can Kiss Jazz and Other Genres Goodbye
If streaming represents the future of music, then my own future is looking grim. In its first year of streaming on Spotify, my band Ceramic Dog earned 112.80 euros in Europe and $47.12 in the United States from our album "Your Turn." The album cost over $15,000 to make. By contrast, CD sales on earlier albums netted us between $4,000 and $9,000.
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Jazz star Buddy DeFranco dies at 91
Renowned jazz clarinettist Buddy DeFranco, known for working with Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday and other well-known musicians, has died aged 91. DeFranco's family said the musician died on Wednesday evening at a Florida hospital. His wife, Joyce, said his health had been poor in recent years. DeFranco, a member of the American Jazz Hall of Fame, performed at venues around the world for 75 years and also recorded many albums.
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Miles Davis - Freddie Freeloader
The 2nd track of Miles Davis's 1959 album "Kind of Blue"
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Charles Mingus - Fables of Faubus
Charles Mingus: Original Faubus Fables from the album Mingus presents Mingus.
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Oscar Peterson - Hymn To Freedom
Live in Denmark,1964. Oscar Peterson on Piano Ray Brown on Bass Ed Thigpen on Drums
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A jazz-themed tour of New York - FT.com
In an ill-lit New York basement crammed with people, Deborah Gordon is trying to explain why the subterranean club we are sitting in — the legendary Village Vanguard — has been the go-to place for jazz aficionados from all over the world for the
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The Best of Thelonious Monk
“The Complete Riverside Recordings,” a fifteen-disk set being rereleased this week, tells a musical story that is as much about Monk as it is about that era of jazz.
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Detroit jazz great Marcus Belgrave dies at 78
Jazz musicians and fans on both sides of the border are mourning the passing of a patriarch of the Detroit scene: Marcus Belgrave. The diminutive...
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Ornette Coleman Dies at 85; Composer and Saxophonist Reshaped Jazz
Mr. Coleman was a leader in making jazz less beholden to rules of harmony and rhythm.
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Jazz master Ornette Coleman dead at 85
Ornette Coleman, known as one of the greatest innovators in free jazz, has died in New York at the age of 85, according to a published report.
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Ornette Coleman’s Revolution
Coleman broke through style and structure to seek sound.
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The JazzCode documentary - how jazz musicians work
Hear what Cameron Brown (bassist) , Rob Scheps (saxophonist) and Tore Myrholt (McKinsey consultant) have in common. Narrated by Carl Størmer for Jazzcode AS. Produced by Nordisk Film 2008
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The Failure and Potential Future of Vocal Jazz Harmony
Sitting on a flight from Beijing to ShenZhen, listening to Bill Evans on my iPod, I'm inspired to write about a topic that has long haunted me...
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Mouse on the Keys - Spectres de Mouse
Piano drum jazz fusion from Japan.
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