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The Hawk Flies High - Presented for your perusal is the second in a series of reviews (previously: Nat Adderley) based on Concord's Keepnews Collection, a salute to legendary producer Orrin Keepnews. This edition finds us taking a look at a Coleman Hawkins classic, The Hawk Flies High, now reissued with 24-bit digital remastering. Coleman Hawkins...

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...

Across The Tracks - Tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton is primarily known as a key interpreter of the jazz mainstream, the old songbook, before it even turned into bebop. Who better to record, mix and master this album of funky 1960s-style organ-guitar blues, than the original Blue Note Records sonic mastermind Rudy Van Gelder? Hamilton...

Joe Henderson - Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 - June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Born in Lima, Ohio, he studied music at Kentucky State College and Wayne State University before playing in Detroit at the beginning of his career. After a two year hitch in the U.S. Army (1960-1962), Joe...

Remembering Lester Young (1909-1959) [Things We Actually Like] -

Sunday will be the 50th anniversary of the death of Lester Young, one of the great saxophonists of all time. I'm not going to pretend to be a jazz expert, but Young's cool, relaxed style of play has always been...

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

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