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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

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

jazz New Wave

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

March 9, 2021March 15, 2021 Jim Allen 0 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

Electronics jazz

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…

jazz Remembrance

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

Electronics Fusion jazz Remembrance

LISTEN: RIP Lyle Mays–A Rock & Roll Globe Playlist

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 Ron Hart 1 Comment American Garage, Christian McBride, ECM, Fusion, Jazz, Joni Mitchell, Lyle Mays, Offramp, Pat Metheny, Petra Haden, RIP, Vernon Reid

Digging into the discography of a man who changed the shape of jazz in the New Wave era

Folk jazz

ALBUMS: The Westerlies Offer a Real Change of Tune

February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments “Entropy”, “In the Mornin’, “Memories”, “The Kiss", 2020, Charles Ives, Herein Lies The Good, Jazz, Judee Sill, Robin Holcomb, The Westerlies

The acclaimed New York brass quartet continues to blur the lines between classic folk and modern jazz on third LP

African Funk jazz

LISTEN: “We’ve Landed” by Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, Africa, Fela Kuti, Hugh Masekela, Jazz, Rejoice, Tony Allen, World Circuit

Legendary African jazz masters have teamed up for the upcoming album Rejoice, out March 20 via the newly re-launched World Circuit Records.

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ALBUMS: A Double Shot of Dave Douglas

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments 2019, Andrew Cyrille, Anna Webber, Carla Bley, Dave Douglas, Devotion, Engage, Greenleaf Label, Jazz, Kate Gentile, Nick Dunston, Tomeka Reid, Uri Caine

Two exquisite and exploratory new albums on the trumpet great’s Greenleaf label continue to showcase his fearlessness in flight

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ALBUMS: Keith Jarrett Solo In Munich

December 18, 2019December 22, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments ECM, Germany, Jazz, Keith Jarrett, Munich

The king of piano improvisation captured live in ECM’s fatherland

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