If jazz is by this point far removed from its heyday as a popular style, it's a form that's still very much alive, valued not only for its contemporary importance at the crossroads of music and history, but also for its ability to provide unadulterated listening pleasure.
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Concord's 10-track disc provides an introduction to Monk's mid-50s recordings for the Prestige and Riverside labels.
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The third season of HBO's crime drama, Boardwalk Empire has just finished.
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Given the modest scale of the jazz economy, it's a source of wonder that so many young musicians are prepared to put in the 10,000 hours of practice and attempt to forge a career in the music.
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The London Jazz Festival, produced by Serious in association with BBC Radio 3 returns to the Barbican this November, featuring a fantastic line-up of concerts, workshops, FreeStages and a complementing film series in the Barbican cinemas.
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Mostly instrumental R&B Lp on the Contact Record label from Denmark - a compilation of tracks from the 50's.
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This month marks 50 years since the release of Sonny Rollins ' 1962 album The Bridge, a milestone event that heralded the young New York saxophone master's comeback after a self-imposed three-year sabbatical.
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Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd's album Jazz Samba , which launched the bossa nova craze in the United States, celebrates its 50th anniversary this month.
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Alto saxophonist Martin Speake releases such a diverse range of music (in recent years, including an Indo-jazz collaboration, a Charlie Parker tribute, and a free improvisation duo) that any new recording must be considered a new piece in the jigsaw that is his discography.
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You come in expecting one thing, being as Jeremy Davis focuses on the mid-century big-band formula.
Read MoreBefore the original release of the Ken Burns film Jazz 11 years ago this month, I knew very little about traditional mainstream jazz; afterward, I began listening to everything I could get my hands on.
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Released on jazz label Prestige's "Swingville" imprint (allegedly even more composed of hastily-assembled blowing sessions, which were then scalped to junkie jazz musicians looking to make a quick buck, than were Prestige's other releases), Night Hawk is a blowing session between --duh-- the Hawk/ Bean and Lockjaw.
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Sam Rivers , the jazz saxophonist who performed with legends like Miles Davis and Billie Holliday and was highly influential in the avant-garde scene, died on Monday, Dec. 26, from pneumonia in Orlando, Fla. He was 88.
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New York City circa 1958, for the jazz aficionado, was the place to be.
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Call it the Ultimate Jazz Festival, as Sony Music's PopMarket.com website presents Complete Album Collections on Columbia Records and RCA Records (spanning the 1950s to the '00s) by the greatest names in modern jazz - the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Return To Forever, Woody Shaw, Wayne Shorter, Grover Washington Jr., and Weather Report (all on Columbia); and Paul Desmond and Nina Simone (on RCA).
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Brooklyn-born to Haitian parents, drummer Andrew Cyrille had gone on to record with Mary Lou Williams, Coleman Hawkins and Roland Kirk before beginning a decade-plus stint in Cecil Taylor's band during some of Taylor's most creative periods.
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We also find out why Hamilton has always preferred showcasing guitarists – from Gabor Sbazo to Larry Coryell to John Pisano – rather than pianists in his own bands.
Read More'Thank you,' said Bennett, who never lets a compliment go unacknowledged.
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Some time in 1936 or 1937 (or 1948 or 1952, depending on who you ask) the strangest thing happened to college student Herman Blount.
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When it comes to ambient psychedelic music, this new collaboration between Eternal Tapestry and Sun Araw , arguably two heavy-weights of the genre, is akin to the landmark jazz summits between Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane or Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins.
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You wouldn't suppose that most musicians would look favorably upon being compared to an old pile of rocks.
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Born in 1930, Sonny Rollins grew up in the Sugar Hill neighborhood of Harlem and has been at the center of the jazz universe ever since.
Read MoreAs this year's London Jazz festival drew to an end yesterday (21 November), my thoughts turned to how vehemently the event's diversity would have been resisted not so many years ago.
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Avishai Cohen, the trumpet player, was last seen nearly two years ago in conjunction with his 2008 release Flood , a sparsely configured work where he sought to push against the outer boundaries of jazz using just his trumpet accompanied by only piano and percussion.
Read MoreJohn McNeil is a trumpet player, a veteran of the illustrious Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and has led recording dates since 1978.
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One of the few jazz musicians who could claim something like equal status joined him for a concert to celebrate his 80th birthday at the Beacon Theatre, New York. Rollins played flat-out for two hours, and towards the end announced that there was someone in the house with a horn who would like to wish him a happy birthday.
Read MoreWhen the saxophonist Sonny Rollins played last year's London Jazz Festival, he was 79 years of age.
Read MoreThe basement in which my band rehearses has a giant poster on the wall that I often find myself staring at as I sing.
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Thanks to my editor/torturer-in-chief, Jeff Giles ( y'all ), I have been compelled to listen to the new Kenny G record, Heart and Soul and tell you all something about it.
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