Thelonious Monk at Newport Jazz Festival Jul 3, 1959
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Download for $9.98. Listen to Thelonious Monk performed at Newport Jazz Festival on July 3, 1959
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Whose Words These Are (15): Bloom’s Hart Crane
Open Source (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
We’re in the “living labyrinth” of Harold Bloom’s astonishing memory here. Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Harold Bloom (32 minutes, 15 mb mp3). The great sage of New Haven is walking us through the dark, dense maze of his first and favorite poet, Hart Crane (1899 – 1932). Take this as a [...]
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Walking-around music: MP3s on my phone, sorted by artist
enrevanche (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Aimee Mann Andrew Bird Ani DiFranco Art Tatum Avett Brothers The Beatles Bettye Lavette Big Joe Turner Big Star Bill Evans Bill Hicks Bill Monroe Bill Withers Billy Bragg Biz Markie Bo Diddley Bob Dylan Bobby Timmons Booker T Jones, with or without MG's British Sea Power Bruce Springsteen Buck Owens Bud Powell The Carter Family Charles Mingus Charlie Parker Chet Atkins Chet Baker Chic Coleman Hawkins...
Explore : Actors and Actresses, Art Tatum, Big Joe Turner, Bill Evans, Bill Monroe, Bill Withers, Billy Bragg, Blues, Bob Dylan, Bo Diddley, Bruce Springsteen, Buck Owens, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Chet Atkins, Chet Baker, Coleman Hawkins, Country, Digital Entertainment, Dizzy Gillespie, Django Reinhardt, Dr. Dre, Duke Ellington, Eddie Harris, Electric Light Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Costello, Eminem, Emmylou Harris, Entertainment, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Everything But the Girl, Flatt and Scruggs, Folk and Folk-Rock, Frank Sinatra, Grant Green, Hank Williams, Howlin' Wolf, Ike and Tina Turner, Iris DeMent, Irma Thomas, James Brown, James Taylor, Jay-Z, Jazz, Jeff Buckley, Jelly Roll Morton, Jimmy Smith, Joe Jackson, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Les McCann, Lester Young, Little Richard, Little Richard, Liz Phair, Louis Armstrong, Lou Reed, Marshall Crenshaw, Marvin Gaye, Merle Haggard, Miles Davis, Mos Def, MP3, Muddy Waters, Music, Neil Young, Nina Simone, Otis Rush, OutKast, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Patsy Cline, Patti Smith, Paul Desmond, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Pete Townshend, Pink Floyd, Prince, Radiohead, Randy Newman, Rap and Hip-Hop, Ray Charles, Rhythm and Blues, Richard Pryor, Richard Thompson, Rickie Lee Jones, Robyn Hitchcock, Rock and Pop, Rock and Roll, Ruth Brown, Sam Cooke, Soul, The Beatles, The Carter Family, The Pretenders, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tina Turner, Tina Turner, TV, TV Shows
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Bassist Dave Young Releases New CD "Mean What You Say"
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Multiple Award-winning Bassist, Composer and Arranger, Dave Young Releases New Quartet CD, Mean What You Say Featuring Kevin Turcotte, Robi Botos and Frank Botos and...celebrates his new recording with a Special CD Launch at Toronto's vibrant new Jazz Venue, "The TRANE STUDIO Jazz Lounge...
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Kirk Lightsey Trio, Brighton Jazz Club, 6 November 2009
A Jazz Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Last night US pianist Kirk Lightsey played with an energy and intensity that belied his years (he's in his Seventies). Kirk delighted the audience with a set that was passionate, joyful and virtuosic. Elements of his playing include they way he balances hard bop soulfulness and with the harmonic complexities of Bill Evans. He has a fiercely strong left hand - jabbing away in a bebop style, playing...
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Fusion violinist Jean-Luc Ponty electrifies
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The brilliant French fiddler Jean-Luc Ponty was leading a double musical life in Paris in the early 1960s, performing with the symphonic orchestra Concerts Lamoureux before dashing over to the Blue Note to play jazz until 4 a.m. Warned he'd be fired if he...
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50 great moments in jazz: The Quintet - Jazz At Massey Hall
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Charlie Parker's final collaboration, featuring bebop's biggest stars, is one of the greatest recorded live shows in jazz In this series on the fast-changing, 100-year-old history of jazz, the alto saxophone genius Charlie Parker has featured to an extent that might seem at odds with his short life, and a period of creative intensity that lasted barely 15 years. However, Parker's revolutionary sound...
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Erroll Garner - 'Concert by the Sea' Will Set You Free!
with both hands (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
I have six music discs in the console of my Malibu. The Rascals Greatest Hits Essential Frank Sinatra The Best of Sam Cooke John Roothaan and Terry Sullivan" (Acapulco Stomp) Kinks - Vol.1 & 2 Errol Garner Concert by the Sea Long road stretches get the Rascals and the Kinks. Traffic gets the sobering and soothing sounds of vocalists Cooke,Sinatra, Miss Terry Sullivan and especially the piano...
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God turns 100
EconoSpeak (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Today is 100th anniversary of the birth of Art Tatum, who was certainly the best jazz pianist to ever walk the earth. I lifted the title from the name of the thread on a jazz e-mail list group I subscribe to. It comes from a story told about Bud Powell - another hall-of fame jazz pianist. He was playing in a club on 52nd street when Tatum walked in the door. Powell stopped cold, right in the middle...
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Wessell Anderson: Warm It Up, Warmdaddy!
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Alto saxophonist Wessell Anderson is a traditionalist who clearly enjoys upending tradition. On Warm It Up, Warmdaddy! several of the songs rework the harmonic structures of some cherished standards and their titles are the work of someone who embraces the classics without taking them too seriously...
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Erik Noonan, Leah Canelaria-Tyler & Me, Reading together this Saturday in Denver
Yes, Starlings! Yes! (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Erik NOONAN, Leah CANDELARIA-TYLER, Mathias SVALINA reading their works Saturday, October 10th at 7:30pm at the Dikeou Collection 1615 California St (at the 16th Street Mall), Denver Take the elevator to the 5th floor FREE and open to the public (donations to the readers welcome) Leah Candelaria-Tyler was born and raised in southern New Mexico. She studied English at New Mexico State University and...
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Miles Davis - The Birth of the Cool (Capitol 1948-50, 1998)
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Miles Davis’s first great record as a leader came when he was very young, just 23 years of age. Tempered by the fast paced bebop he was playing with Charlie Parker, Davis make a conscious decision to move in another direction. Experimenting with like minded musicians at the apartment of arranger Gil Evans, they moved from the feverish pitch of bebop to a more impressionistic form of improvised...
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October 5, 2009
breath of life (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
This week we feature jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown and Rio Samba-ista Ana Costa, plus nine versions of Benny Golson's classic composition, "I Remember Clifford," featuring Art Blakey, George Cables, Ernestine Anderson, Don Byas & Bud Powell, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Kalamu ya Salaam and Slide Hampton. R.I.P. Brownie.
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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Bud Powell
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
All About Jazz is celebrating Bud Powell's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Bud PowellBud Powell is generally considered to be the most important pianist in the history of jazz. Noted jazz writer and critic Gary Giddins, in Visions of Jazz, goes even further... more Website | Videos | Articles...
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Interview with Keith Jarrett
Do the Math (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
There’s a big board that has the list of the greatest pianists in history. One of the interesting things about the big board is that these musicians are also the most controversial: Franz Liszt, Art Tatum, Glenn Gould, Thelonious Monk,...