Jazz musicians

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Thanks to the likes of Esperanza Spalding, Trombone Shorty, and Cécile McLorin Salvant, jazz has found a new rhythm.

It was a piece of black and white magic, a perfect fusion of sound and music boasting Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington – and lots of smoke. Can the landmark TV show now bewitch a new generation of fans?

Richard Brody reviews “The Complete Riverside Recordings” of Thelonious Monk, a fifteen-disk set of his sessions, in the studio and live, for the label.

The recent release, from Mosaic Records, of the eight-disk set “The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70” (https://amzn.to/3dGuBxy) does more than make a significant batch of Mobley’s music compendiously available; it also tells a story of a great artist and of his times.

John Coltrane

Anybody know what kind of bass he played (in this picture at least)? That thing looks and sounds absolutely massive, assuming Jimmy wasn't a small man....

Not just a jazz genius, Miles Davis was also a sartorial chameleon, easily carrying off the Ivy League Look and slim-cut European suits with ass-kicking charm.

Jazz Musician. Born in the slums of segregated New Orleans, Louisiana, neglected, with no supervision, he spent most of his time on the streets, singing with neighborhood kids for loose change and searching garbage cans for food. Delinquency landed him in the New Orleans Waif's Home, where, under the tutelage of the...

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