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Emily Remler jazz guitarist

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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Nina Simone Played to 50,000 People in Harlem – Then the Footage Disappeared for 50 Years

Nina Simone Played to 50,000 People in Harlem – Then the Footage Disappeared for 50 Years

Nina Simone played to a reported 50,000 people at the Harlem Cultural Festival on 17 August…

Keith Jarrett’s Solo Concerts, Ranked: 12 Live Piano Albums

Keith Jarrett’s Solo Concerts, Ranked: 12 Live Piano Albums

From Bremen and Köln to his final European tour in 2016, we rank twelve of Keith…

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Irving Berlin songs: the composer watching auditions at the St. James Theatre, 1948

Irving Berlin Songs | 10 Jazz Standards From the Man Who Wrote in One Key

Irving Berlin wrote around 1,500 songs, and for most of his career he couldn’t read music. He played the piano almost…

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Cole Porter songs: the composer in a 1930s publicity portrait

Cole Porter Songs | 10 Jazz Standards From Broadway’s Wittiest Writer

Cole Porter wrote about 300 songs while he was still a student at Yale. Like Irving Berlin, and later Frank Loesser,…

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George Gershwin songs: the composer in a Bain News Service portrait, c. 1920s

George Gershwin Songs | 10 Jazz Standards From Broadway, Hollywood and Porgy and Bess

At 15, George Gershwin left school to plug songs on Tin Pan Alley for $15 a week. Within twenty years he…

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