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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...

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...

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...

Compulsion!!!!! - The 1960s jazz scene was all about expanding the possibilities, opening new alleyways for jazz to explore. At times it seemed to be a race to the edge, with the mania bleeding over into Europe where it merged with that scenes sensibilities, as musicians like Peter Brotzmann sought to stretch...

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...

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...

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