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If you’ve seen a jazz concert in the Bay Area over the last few decades, ... “Heart Flow,” is a two-plus-hour piece of solo improvised music fusing all the varied notes of her life.
NEW ORLEANS -- The scene, though often portrayed in the pastels of bourbon and magnolia romanticism, was worthy of Dickens. Music was on every corner in the black ghetto of Louis Armstrong's youth ...
It’s treasure trove time, thanks to Craft Recordings, Resonance Records and Elemental Records, along with Jazz Detective Records. On the one hand, we have Sig Sigworth with Craft; on the other ...
For those of us engaged in trying to understand it, the history of jazz turns out to be much more than a study of this extraordinary American music. Jazz has offered a precise prism through which ...
No Jazz Messengers, no Blue Note. It’s like that. When one thinks of the careers that were born from the Messengers (or Art Blakey’s 1954 Quintet) and who recorded for the label, during or ...