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Remembering Emily Remler – Essential Albums
Emily Remler was only 32 when she died, but in less than a decade she made some of the most compelling jazz-guitar records of the 1980s. A brilliant, warm-toned player with the fluency of Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino, she first won attention through immaculate…
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Charles Mingus Wrote “So Long Eric” Before Eric Dolphy Died — Then Belgian Television Filmed Them Playing It
Before the tour began, Charles Mingus had written a piece called “So Long Eric”. He wrote…
Nina Simone’s “Four Women”: The Song Radio Stations Rejected — and Jay-Z Sampled 50 Years Later
In 1966, Nina Simone released a song about four Black women. There was no conventional chorus…
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Rudy Van Gelder: The Optometrist Who Recorded Half of Jazz
If you own twenty classic jazz albums, there is a fair chance the same man recorded eight of them — in…
Strata-East and Black Jazz: The Labels Musicians Built Themselves
Two independent labels started in 1971 with the same basic idea: that musicians should own their own recordings. Their catalogues have…
Ethio-Jazz: The Best Albums and Where to Start
Ethio-jazz is one of the most distinctive sounds in the whole of recorded music, and for decades almost nobody outside Ethiopia…
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