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Crime Jazz: How Miles Davis, Count Basie & Duke Ellington Created Soundtracks for Noir Films & TV
When we think of film noir, we tend to think of a mood best set by a look: shadow and light (mostly shadow), grim but visually rich weather, near-depopulated urban streets.
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Rare Film Of Louis Armstrong In Recording Studio
The Louis Armstrong House Museum has acquired the only-known film footage of the great jazz musician in a recording studio. The 33-minute, 16mm film captures Armstrong recording his 1959 album "Satchmo Plays King Oliver."
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Dirty Martini
www.thelazyband.com
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Me and Mrs. Jones singer Billy Paul dead at 80
Billy Paul, a jazz and soul singer best known for the No. 1 hit ballad and Philadelphia Soul classic Me and Mrs. Jones, died Sunday.
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Erykah Badu, the Godmother of Soul
The veteran musician is ubiquitous again—with a surprising group of new collaborators. By Kelefa Sanneh.
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Boogie Woogie medley
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‘The Epic’ in Concert
Kamasi Washington
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Rudy Van Gelder, Definitive Jazz Recording Engineer, Has Died
The man who captured hundreds of jazz's greatest recordings — by Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock — died Thursday at his home studio. He was 91.
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Ryo Fukui - Scenery 1976 (FULL ALBUM)
An amazing jazz album I fell in love with. It is aptly named.
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The Sorcerer of Jazz
Adam Shatz reviews "Miles Ahead," a film directed by Don Cheadle, and “Bitches Brew" by George Grella Jr.
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Compared to What
Les McCann and Eddie Harris
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Cajun Moon
Randy Crawford
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Dizzy in the Daylight
In Jim Marshall’s Jazz Festival, we see dozens of the greats, musicians who made their names playing radically different kinds of music, performing or being caught by the camera schmoozing backstage between sets and enjoying each other’s company. Marshall had no idea while snapping these pictures, of course, that he was compiling a record of a vanished world, an America even more remote from us today than the one of the rock musicians and their fans that he covered in later years. By Charles Simic.
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Manilow confirms he's gay and married
Singer Barry Manilow has confirmed he is gay and married but never brought it up before for fear of upsetting his female fans.
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Where did all the saxophones go?
How one instrument went from being the backbone of American popular music to being a punchline in a joke about the ’80s. There’s no song in the Top 40 right now with a saxophone solo, there’s hardly a defined saxophone part on any of those songs at all.
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The Other Woman
Caro Emerald
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Stealin’ Apples
Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell, Tommy Dorsey
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(Roland Dyens) Tango en skai - Julia Lange (16)
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Buddy Rich's Impossible Drumsolo
Placing drum-standards very high.
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Opus 12 EEE
Harry “The Hipster” Gibson
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