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The 25 Greatest Jazz Albums of the 1970s
The 1970s is the decade jazz history has never quite known what to do with. The 1950s have hard bop, the 1960s have Coltrane and the avant-garde, and the 1980s have the neoclassical revival. The 1970s has everything at once, pulling in opposite directions: electric…
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The 20 Greatest Big Band Albums of All Time
Big band music can look, from a distance, like jazz’s past: matching stands, rows of brass,…
10 Essential Albums from Mack Avenue Records
Few independent labels have brought together as many of jazz’s leading artists as Mack Avenue Records.…
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The 25 Greatest Jazz Albums of the 1960s
The 1960s took jazz in several directions at once. Hard bop reached a peak of confidence, bossa nova became an international…
From Jaco to Shorter: The Ever-Changing Line-Up Behind Weather Report
Weather Report released fourteen studio albums between 1971 and 1986. Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter played on all fourteen. No one…
Cassandra Wilson, the Grammy-Winning Singer Who Redefined Jazz, Dies at 70
Cassandra Wilson, the Mississippi-born singer whose unmistakable contralto helped reshape jazz vocals in the 1990s, has died at the age of…
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Jazz music may have existed for only a little over a century, but its history is rich and varied. Jazzfuel is built for people who care about the music — and the stories behind it.
From forgotten pioneers to modern classics, we explore the albums, artists, and moments that shaped jazz.
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