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A Link to Eric Dolphy - When it comes to jazz you run across certain names and they are usually whispered by fans with a kind of awe. For me, as you may already know, that name is Miles Davis. For my brother, it is Charlie 'Bird' Parker. For some it is John Coltrane. One of...

Music Music DVD Review: Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Live In '63 & '67 -

Why is it that in every musical genre there have to be people who appoint themselves as the protectors of its integrity. I hate to admit that the majority of the time these people are critics who seem to feel they know what the music is better than the people...

Act Like You Know: Ornette Coleman -

When Ornette Coleman won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, Stephen Colbert did a routine which summed up why you should like Ornette Coleman. Colbert cued up a particularly raucous clip from Sound Grammar, Coleman’s latest album, and started dancing uncontrollably to it. When it finished, he went for his first...

Avant-jazz - Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines elements of avant-garde art music and composition with elements of traditional jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, contrary to the impression it may give that results from a...

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...

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...

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