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Poll Time. Nominations closed, now have your say. There are a little over thirty jazz piano trio nominations, listed in alphabetical order by leader, and I’m giving you ten votes to award. Your vote is really as much for the … Continue reading
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Selection: Birk’s Works (Gillespie) Artists Junior Mance (piano) Ray Brown (bass) Lex Humphries (drums) recorded NYC, April 9, 1959 Biographical Note Drafted into the army in the early ’50s, Junior served his musical apprenticeship in the 36th Army Band at Fort Knox, Kentucky, … Continue reading
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 Selection 1: Autumn in New York Selection 2: You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To Artists Sonny Stitt (alto, tenor saxophone) Bobby Timmons (piano) Edgar Willis (bass) Kenny Dennis (drums) recorded NYC, May 12, 1957 Music: Stitt recorded prolifically over … Continue reading
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Selection 1: Nile Valley Blues Selection 2: Blind Willie Artists Yusef Lateef (tenor, alto saxophone, flute, oboe, chuen, theremin) Hugh Lawson (piano) Reggie Workman (bass) Roy Brooks (drums) recorded NYC, March 8 & 9, 1966 Music Lateef led six … Continue reading
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Cecil Taylor Selection: Nona’s Blues (Taylor)  Jazz Lab Introductions: Willis Conover Byrd Gryce Jazz Lab Selection: Love for Sale (Cole Porter) Music Live at Newport 1957, a continuation of the post previously including the young Bill Evans and Eddie Costa, moves … Continue reading
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Selection 1: Moontrane (Shaw) 320 kbps MP3 Selection 2: Softly as Morning Sunrise (Romberg, Hammerstein II) 320 kbps MP3 Artists Woody Shaw (trumpet) Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone) Larry Young (organ) Elvin Jones (drums) recorded Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, … Continue reading
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LJC Recommends: Available from NPR – National Public Radio – the Blue Note75 Concert (streaming). The music is here: Blue Note 75 Concert Anyone wants to, go straight to Lou Donaldson Blues Walk, it kicks off at 13: 55, by-passing … Continue reading
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Agent Harry Palmer, Funeral in Berlin (1966) Telefunken ECC83 valve (made in  Berlin, 1966) Just arrived at LJC, a pair of the mighty Telefunken ECC83’s, known in the US as 12AX7’s, “new old stock” (NOS), mint unused matched pairs from 1966. Time-machine … Continue reading
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Selection 1: I’ll Remember April (Raye, De Paul Johnston) 320kbps MP3 Artists: Rolf Kuhn (clarinet ) Dick Johnson (alto saxophone ) Eddie Costa (piano) Ernie Furtado (bass) Al Beldini (drums)Â recorded at Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI, afternoon, July 6, 1957 … Continue reading
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 I’m sure I’ve seen this cover before somewhere, it seems familiar… Selection 1: Brilliant Corners (London label, Decca Pressing) 320kbps MP3 Artists: Ernie Henry (alto saxophone) Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone) Thelonious Monk (piano) Oscar Pettiford (bass) Max Roach (drums) recorded  Reeves … Continue reading
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The Jazz Gladiators Poll You have had your say, which jazz musicians you can’t stand, can’t fathom, or who simply leave you cold. Musical taste is a personal thing – this could be controversial. Membership of The League of … Continue reading
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