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Allison Au Quartet: Wander Wonder
Toronto-based alto saxophonist Allison Au returns for her third studio album, blending a contemporary jazz quartet with her own compositional skill and expert improvisation. Inside the album sleeve, a...
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Bangers and clankers /1
Apart from Beryl Bryden, the banjo is the most unmusical thing in jazz.
The Merseysippi Jazz Band was playing at the Sacramento Jazz Festival when Ms Bryden, who was possessed...
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Still Clinging To The Wreckage 09/20
It is said that to copy from one person is plagiarism. To copy from two is research.
I have consulted Dan Morgenstern and Jim Burns, two of the few writers...
Blues From The Delta Avon
There are ordinary books for collectors and there are extraordinary books for collectors. This book surely fits the latter category. This book traces in minute detail the birth of...
JJ 10/59: Gil Evans – New Bottle Old Wine
Gil Evans has become an important figure in jazz, partly by virtue of an important work he has done with Miles Davis, but equally for his overall contribution as...
Billie
Director James Erskine's valuable documentary intertwines Holiday's story with that of Linda Kuehl, a literary journalist who in 1970 began a biography of her. Kuehl was a Jewish liberal...
