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CHRIS DAWSON: STRIDE FOR CHRISTMAS!
Yesterday I received my copy of pianist Chris Dawson’s first solo CD, STRIDIN’ THROUGH CHRISTMAS, and it’s a wow. But perhaps you’d like to read some expert testimony: Let… more →
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CHRIS DAWSON: STRIDE FOR CHRISTMAS!
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jazzlives wrote 3 days ago: Yesterday I received my copy of pianist Chris Dawson’s first solo CD, STRIDIN’ THROUGH C … more →
CHRIS DAWSON, SWING MASTER
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jazzlives wrote 2 weeks ago: I don’t use those words lightly. If you’ve never heard Chris play, go immediately to th … more →
HOT JAZZ: FOR PHILIP LARKIN
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: The poet and acerbic jazz lover Philip Larkin wrote in ALL WHAT JAZZ (his collected jazz criticism) … more →
RARE DISCS FOR SALE
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: I find it soothing to visit eBay on a regular basis to see what’s for sale and to muse about i … more →
What Small Potatoes We All Are, Compared With What We Might Be!
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Karen Resta wrote 1 month ago: Bar Harbor, Maine – Tuesday. Hello folks: – You should raise potatoes like they raise up … more →
SERIOUS PLAY (IN THE DARK)
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: I showed up at Roth’s (Columbus Avenue at 93rd Street) on the Upper West Side of Manhattan lat … more →
DO THAT THING!
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: I’m always slightly dubious about “all-star” groups, for occasionally these assemb … more →
MARTY GROSZ LIKES IT HOT!
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: Since the mid-Seventies, when I first saw him as an integral part of Soprano Summit, Marty Grosz has … more →
WRITE NOW!
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: The American novelist William Maxwell (1908-2000), who wrote searchingly and lovingly about his Illi … more →
MARTY GROSZ IN THE GROOVE! (Chautauqua 2009)
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: It was Friday night at Jazz at Chautauqua — September 2009. The crowd was still working on th … more →
LOUIS and FATS, by SAMMY CAHN
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: When I was a young boy Louis Armstrong was already a legend. All these rumors that he was not allow … more →
Slim? Fats? If the Ella Fitzgerald, Take a Cab Calloway Home
DSL. wrote 1 month ago: Five more from Slim, Fats, Louis and Cab – ♫ O, do have a Calloway, Galloway: all our readers … more →
ANDY SCHUMM and FRIENDS! (Sept. 2009)
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jazzlives wrote 1 month ago: I don’t think I have to praise young Mr. Schumm in this post — the video clips I’v … more →
Mos 'Def'initely back to form
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jessekg wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been hearing a lot of stuff about Mos Def recently. A lot of good stuff actually. Not stuff l … more →
Black Vaudeville Performers
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marymiley wrote 1 month ago: In turn-of-the-century America when segregation was at its peak, vaudeville defied the convention—it … more →
A WONDROUS TRIO (September 2009)
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jazzlives wrote 2 months ago: Three by three . . . Or perhaps the Jazz Magi, bearing gifts . . . . On Friday night at the 2009 Ja … more →
PETRA VAN NUIS / ANDY BROWN, Chautauqua 2009
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jazzlives wrote 2 months ago: Petra and Andy are long-time sweethearts (now married) who make lovely intimate swinging sounds toge … more →
Rewriting (of a kind)
hmk139 wrote 2 months ago: Writer/director Michel Gondry is known for his visually stylistic music videos, advertising spots an … more →
Alban Elued: Ending and beginning
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Mam Adar wrote 2 months ago: Today like every other day We wake up empty and scared. Don’t open the door of your study And … more →
