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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 … Read more
The 25 Most-Covered Jazz Songs of All Time
Before the list, an admission: nobody actually knows. There is no authoritative count of how many times a song has been … Read more
Atlantic Records: 10 Greatest Jazz Albums
Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson founded Atlantic in New York in October 1947, but it took the arrival of Ahmet’s older … Read more
Verve Records: 10 Greatest Jazz Albums
Norman Granz founded Verve in 1956 for a specific purpose: to record Ella Fitzgerald, whom he already managed, without the constraints … Read more
Columbia Records: 10 Greatest Jazz Albums
Columbia is the oldest label in this list by a considerable margin, with corporate roots reaching back to the Columbia Phonograph … Read more
The Greatest Feuds and Fallouts in Jazz History
Jazz musicians spend their careers in close quarters: cramped bandstands, overnight buses, small clubs where a bad night is heard by … Read more
The Greatest Jazz Musicians of the 1920s
Jazz became a recorded art form in the 1920s almost by accident of timing: the technology to capture it commercially arrived … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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