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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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The Louis Armstrong Concert a High School Student Taped in 1957 Is Finally Being Released
In March 1957 a student stage manager recorded Louis Armstrong and His All Stars in a…
The Pistol, the Piano and Erroll Garner: How Art Blakey Became a Jazz Drummer
Art Blakey started out as a pianist. In the early 1930s, while still a teenager, he…
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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 and no attempt to make…
The Best Post-Bop Albums of All Time
Some of jazz’s most loved albums belong to a genre many listeners could not name. Maiden Voyage, Speak No Evil and…
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…
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