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Charles Mingus in All Night Long S ignificantly , t he golden age of jazz in the 1940s and 1950s, overlaps the golden age of film noir...

Nat Hentoff's Original Liner Notes: John Coltrane's Giant Steps, 1959 Along with Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane has become the mos...

 The son of George Waldemar and Ethel Irene Nelson, Ozzie Nelson was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. His ancestry was Swedish and English....

Sidney Bechet Lester Young Illinois Jacquest

چارلي پاركر يك روز با تأخير. يك روز بعد از نود سالگي چارلز كريستوفر پاركر، نوازنده افسانه‌اي ساكسفون آلتو. چيزي بيشتر از اف...

من هم مثل خيلي‌هاي ديگر، كه البته شايد «خيلي» چندان كلمه درستي نباشد، در دوران نوجواني شيفتۀ پينك فلويد بودم. بزرگ‌ترين افتخارم اين بود كه...

Coltrane, Monk and Ahmed Abdul-Malik, "Five Spot club." It's been a couple of days that I'm listening to Ahmed Abdu...

Thanks to my fellow blogger and always jazzly-alert, Ian of the Villes Ville , I became aware of a great discovery in the jazz world. Accord...

This Chicago born beauty worked as a singer in California under the name Anna Marie and appeared in the film, The Girl Can't Help It a...

NEA Jazz Masters, 2004 left to right from back row: George Russell, Dave Brubeck David Baker, Percy Heath, Billy Taylor Nat Hentoff, Jim...