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Saturday, July 24, 2021

Dr. Billy Taylor and "The Subject is Jazz"

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Dr. Billy Taylor ( source ) Dr. Billy Taylor (1921-2010), whose centennial we celebrate today, debuted on record in March 1945, right when t...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

Bud Powell with the 'Birth of the Cool' nonet

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Bud Powell at Birdland One the many discoveries made by Peter Pullman in his definitive biography of Bud Powell is that the pianist sat in ...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

80 years ago today: the Benny Goodman-Count Basie Octet

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By the autumn of 1940, Benny Goodman had undergone his first back surgery and was already on the mend. He had put his orchestra on hold for ...
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Saturday, October 17, 2020

Sean Levitt, guitar master (1955-2002)

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2021-02-03 update: after a couple of comments below by John Lyon, author of Sean Levitt—Seven Transcriptions , which includes the most compl...
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Friday, October 9, 2020

Jamal v. Shearing (or let's hear it for Crosby & Fournier)

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The piano is one instrument where comparisons between musicians are easier to make. There are no two identical pianos in the world, but the ...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

A few notes about Charlie Parker

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Charlie Parker After all the work putting together a  three-hour podcast for Club de Jazz to celebrate Charlie Parker-s centennial (in Spani...
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Friday, June 26, 2020

Cecil Taylor dances to...

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Passion for music is one facet common to both its practitioners and their audiences. If not passion, at least its overbearing presence in ou...