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Montréal Jazz Festival Takes It Outside in 2022

July 10, 2022July 11, 2022 David Beckett 0 Comments 2022, Canada, Jakob Do, Jazz, Kamasi Washington, Makaya McCraven, Montreal, Montreal Jazz Festival, Pasquale Grasso, Quebec, Ravi Coltrane, Samara Joy

A single outdoor stage alone featured 20 free concerts at this year’s festivities

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Phil Freeman Knows His Jazz

April 3, 2022April 3, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2022, Jazz, Phil Freeman, Ugly Beauty, Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century, Zer0 Books

The acclaimed music critic and impresario delivers the only book on jazz in the 21st Century that matters

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Creative Jazz Titans Pay Homage to Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor

March 20, 2022March 20, 2022 Todd Manning 0 Comments Andrew Cyrille, Barry Altschul, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Enrique Rava, Graham Haynes, Jazz, Joe Fonda, Luciano Rosetti, Oliver Lake, pDon Cherry, William Parker

A pair of new TUM Records titles explore the artistry of two dearly departed legends

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Back In The Days When I Was A Teenager: The Low End Theory at 30

September 27, 2021April 3, 2022 Daniel Offner 0 Comments 1991, A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Check The Rhime, Jarobi, Jazz, Phife, Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, Ron Carter, Scenario, Skypager, The Low End Theory

How A Tribe Called Quest’s sophomore masterpiece put the spotlight on their secret weapon and changed the course of rap music

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ALBUMS: Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller and the Beauty of Harmony

July 26, 2021March 28, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2021, In Harmony, Jazz, Merkin Hall, Mulgrew Miller, New York City, Roy Hargrove, vinyl reissue, Zev Feldman

A classic performance from two departed masters of modern jazz preserve their talents for the ages

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You Gotta Orient Myself: One of Jon Hassell’s Last Interviews

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Bluescreen, Brian Eno, Fourth World, Jazz, Jon Hassell, RIP

The groundbreaking soundscaper and reinventor of modern trumpet died on June 26th at age 84

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LISTEN: Miles Davis at 95

May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 95th Birthday, birthday, Bitches Brew, Darryl Jones, Jason Miles, Jazz, Kind of Blue, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Prince, Scritti Politti, The Man With The Horn

Celebrating the heavenly birthday of a jazz titan with a playlist of our faves from his final decade

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How Landscape’s Subversive Synth-Pop Helped Shape the ‘80s

March 9, 2021March 15, 2021 Jim Allen 6 Comments 1981, 40th Anniversary, Blitz, Einsten A Go Go, Jazz, Kraftwerk, Landscape, New Romantic, New Wave, Spandau Ballet, Ultravox, Yellow Magic Orchestra

Follow the journey from jazz to New Romantic as “Einstein a-Go-Go” turns 40

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William Parker and the Tonal Universe

February 25, 2021February 26, 2021 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2021, AUM Fidelity, Cisco Bradley, Jazz, The Music of William Parker: Migration of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World, Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker, William Parker

A new book and ambitious box set cements the legacy of New York City’s double bass kingpin

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Matthew Shipp at 60

December 7, 2020December 20, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 60th birthday, Blue Note, Columbia, Danceteria, David S. Ware, ECM, Jazz, Matthew Shipp, piano, Rob Brown, RogueArt, Stanley Crouch, Verve

Talking Clifford, Crouch and a career entering its 5th decade with the maestro of NYC piano jazz

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LISTEN: Happy Birthday John Coltrane

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments A Love Supreme, Giant Steps, Happy Birthday, Jazz, John Coltrane, Spiritual Jazz, The John Coltrane Quartet

The Heavyweight Champion of Jazz turns 94 in Heaven

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LISTEN: Sonny Rollins is 90!

September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 90th Birthday, Art Blakey, Blue Note, Clifford Brown, Impulse! Records, Jazz, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Prestige Records, RCA Victor, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk

Digging into the best of the Saxophone Colossus from 1953 to 1966

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ALBUMS: Maria Schneider Assesses The Divide Between Nature and Technology

September 5, 2020September 7, 2020 David Beckett 0 Comments Ben Monder, Blackstar, Data Lords, Donny McCaslin, Duke Ellington, Frank Kimbrough, Greg Gisbert, Jazz, Maria Schneider, Maria Schneider Orchestra, Ryan Keberle

On Data Lords, the Grammy winning composer and bandleader takes on the Matrix on stunning double LP

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Bird Turns 100

August 29, 2020August 29, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments BeBop, Bird, Bud Powell, Centennial, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Dial Records, Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz, Max Roach, Savoy Records, Verve Records

If there is one Charlie Parker album with which to celebrate his centennial…

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LISTEN: A Requiem For Henry Grimes

April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Henry Grimes, Jazz, McCoy Tyner, On This Night, Pharoah Sanders, Reaching Fourth, Spirits Rejoice Don Cherry, Thaiud, Unit Structures, Where Is Brooklyn?

COVID-19 continues to take its toll on the jazz community with the passing of a master bassist and freethinker

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