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Mingus Dynasty
by Charles Mingus
The second, and final, album Charles Mingus recorded for Columbia in 1959 is a contrast to the first...
Baltimore
by Nina Simone
"Trust the art, not the artist," someone smart once said.
They might as well have been talking abou...
Nefertiti
by Miles Davis
By 1967 and Nefertiti, the fourth (and last full) album by trumpeter Miles Davis's great '60s quinte...
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West Coast Jazz
Jazz reached California as early as the mid-teens &mdash possibly even before it was heard in New York &mdash thanks to the diaspora from New Orleans. Jelly Roll Morton made it to Los Angeles shortly before World War One and in that same city in 1922, Kid Ory made some of the earliest records ever by a black New Orleans jazzman. Jazz thrived in L.A. during the '30s and '40s: it could be heard nightly, along with the blues and other Afro-American musical expressions on Central Avenue; film stars danced to it courtesy ...
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The Rise and Fall of Lucky Thompson
A few years ago, Italian saxophonist Daniele D'Agaro was visiting Chicago, and a critic friend put on a fairly obscure record to stump him. D'Agaro listened for about three seconds, said: "Lucky."
Good ears. He knows the distinctive sound of Lucky Thompson after he started hanging out in Paris and playing sumptuous tenor saxophone ballads recalling old idol Don Byas's Parisian sides. On "Solitude" and "We'll Be Together Again," from Lucky in Paris 1959, his tenor's all velvet, powerful but with a light, subdued tone. ...
Good ears. He knows the distinctive sound of Lucky Thompson after he started hanging out in Paris and playing sumptuous tenor saxophone ballads recalling old idol Don Byas's Parisian sides. On "Solitude" and "We'll Be Together Again," from Lucky in Paris 1959, his tenor's all velvet, powerful but with a light, subdued tone. ...
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Top Jazz Tracks
| Listen | Track Name | Length |
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| 1. | |
Lush Life
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14:00 |
| 2. | |
Like Someone in Love
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5:00 |
| 3. | |
What A Wonderful World
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2:20 |
| 4. | |
I Hear a Rhapsody
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6:01 |
| 5. | |
I Love You
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5:33 |
| 6. | |
Trane's Slo Blues
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6:05 |
| 7. | |
Raju
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12:31 |
| 8. | |
The Disguise
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13:34 |
| 9. | |
New Blues, Old Bruise
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14:08 |
| 10. | |
Hymn to Andro meda
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27:45 |
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