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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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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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Ginger Baker Did Not Want To Be Remembered As The Best Drummer In Rock

October 7, 2019October 8, 2019 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment Art Blakey, Bill Frisell, Blind Faith, Charlie Haden, Cream, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Ginger Baker Trio, Hawkwind, Jack Bruce, Kofi Baker, Ltd., Masters of Reality, Max Roach, Public Image, RIP

Jim Sullivan recounts his testy interview with the legendary percussion great upon his passing at 80

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Signature Moves

March 22, 2019March 25, 2019 Ron Hart 0 Comments ESP-DISK, Matthew Shipp, Max Roach

A brief conversation with underground jazz piano great Matthew Shipp

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