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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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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…
The 36 Greatest Jazz Albums of the 1990s
The 1990s were supposed to belong to jazz’s young lions. Instead, some of the decade’s biggest…
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Trumpet Solos in Pop Music
The trumpet solo on “You Can Call Me Al” is not played on a trumpet. It is Morris Goldberg on a…
10 of the Greatest Saxophonists of the Fusion Era
When Miles Davis went electric, he didn’t just change the sound of jazz. He created a new job for the saxophone.…
Impulse! Records: 10 Albums That Defined the Label
Few record labels have a catalogue quite like Impulse! Records. Behind those instantly recognisable orange-and-black spines are some of the most…
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