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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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Waltz for Debby: The Story Behind Bill Evans’ Classic Album
Some albums document a band at its peak. Waltz for Debby documents something rarer and sadder:…
The Greatest Feuds and Fallouts in Jazz History
Jazz musicians spend their careers in close quarters: cramped bandstands, overnight buses, small clubs where a…
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Jazz Albums That Were Banned, Censored or Pulled From Shelves
Jazz has a long history of making people in positions of authority uncomfortable, and a handful of records paid a real…
The Greatest Comeback Albums in Jazz History
Jazz careers rarely move in a straight line. Addiction, imprisonment, grief, commercial collapse and simple exhaustion have interrupted even the most…
10 Jazz Recordings Almost Lost Forever
Recorded sound is more fragile than it looks. A master tape can be destroyed to save warehouse space, melted in a…
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