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84Top 100 jazz songs, The 100 great jazz songs of all time
This is my list of the 100 top jazz songs of all time. Before I go any further, I need to make a couple of things clear. First, I really love jazz music. It is an important part of my everyday life and I...
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79Jazz Guitarist Sonny Sharrock--Ask the Ages
People can either take or leave jazz. There are those that are absolutely passionate about it; those that are snobs over it; those that are entirely dismissive of a lot of what is out there today and there...
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62Giant Steps into the 21st Century
One of the greatest talents among many great talents on Miles Davis's seminal album Kind of Blue was tenor man John Coltrane and he also produced an outstanding album which broke new jazz ground in 1959: Giant Steps.
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6950 Years on and Kind of Blue is still a winner!
Fifty years ago this year trumpeter extraordinaire Miles Davis went into a studio in New York with six of the top jazz musicians of the day and laid down five tracks which have together made up a unique jazz album which is still rated as not only the top selling jazz album of all time, but one of the artistically most influential.
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68He Swung Both Ways: Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
He’s long gone now, but one of my fondest memories is that of seeing Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson perform. The Hyatt Regency Hotel was running a jazz series and several of us had gone to partake of some...
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67He wore a Dashiki: Miles Davis at his best
I moved to Chicago in the 1960s, as a single mother with two young children. It was a very exciting city with lots going on in art, music, and theater. I first settled in an area called Saganash Park, then...
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65The feeling of JAZZ ...in just six songs!
All that JAZZ history Jazz is an American music genre which can be traced back to the the 1920s and is a combination of dixieland, blues, and swing music. One of the most unique characteristics of Jazz is...
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66Ten Coltrane Albums Every Jazz Fan Should Own
"TRANE" - An original portrait in oils by the author The following is a list of ten albums . . . Each album is a compositional realization, execution and recording from the mind, mouth and flurrying digits...
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68Albert Ayler, Free Jazz Pioneer
Albert Ayler Albert Ayler was a jazz visionary who remains to this day, largely unknown. Born on July 13, 1936, in Cleveland, Ohio, Albert began taking alto sax lessons at the age of seven from his father,...
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62McCoy Tyner Guitars Album Review
Image provided by Amazon.com It’s an interesting concept, to be sure. Take one legendary pianist, one who was at ground zero on some of the most important jazz recordings ever. Add an equally...
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