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Freedom Suite - Once again we're paying a visit to Concord's tribute to long-time producer Orrin Keepnews, the Keepnews Collection, a series of 24-bit reissues of a number of timeless jazz recordings. (Previously: Wes Montgomery, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Adderley.) In this review, we're covering Freedom Suite, Sonny Rollins' 1958 classic. Unlike most of the...

Music DVD Review: Cannonball Adderley - Live in '63 -

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U2 Talk Quick Album Turnaround -

Bono compares it to John Coltrane...Word around the mainstream rock campfire this morning is that U2 are aiming to follow up their new album ‘No Line On The Horizon’ â€" out this week, and certainly number one on Sunday â€" with a swiftly delivered successor.‘Songs Of Ascent’, to give said...

Post-bop - Post-bop is a term for a form of small-combo jazz music that evolved in the early-to-mid sixties. The genre's origins lie in seminal work by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus and especially Herbie Hancock. Generally, the term post-bop is taken to mean jazz from the mid-sixties onward...

Freddie Hubbard Dead At Age 70 -

Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard died Monday, Dec. 29 in Los Angeles, California, of complications from a recent heart attack. He was 70-years-old. The musician helped bridge the gap between be-bop and jazz fusion.

Freddie Hubbard's esteemed career combined raw talent and a little bit of luck. As a teenager,...

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