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18.12.2024 16:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I hear you, Nate—same here. Do you have any other platforms in mind that might be worth exploring?
18.12.2024 11:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🔊 Soultrane
Joe Lovano • Hank Jones
Kids: Live at Dizzy's Club
Blue Note (2007)
🔊 'Senzo' - Contours And Time
Abdullah Ibrahim
Senzo
Sunnyside (2008)
🔊 The Star Crossed Lovers
Art Farmer
To Duke with Love
East Wind (1976)
• Art Farmer • Cedar Walton •
• Sam Jones • Billy Higgins •
Bill Anschell dropped one hell of an album
Improbable Solutions
Origin (2024)
Phil Freeman's picks for the Best Jazz Albums of 2024, via Stereogum
17.12.2024 08:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🙏🙏🙏 For this thoughtful, beautifully crafted review ☮️❤️🎶
16.12.2024 15:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wow! A really nice review of the two latest releases on Burning Ambulance Music just went up on JazzSketches (N.B.: I would not call Tungu's album "jazz"). Check it out, won't you?
jazzsketches.substack.com/p/polarity-3...
2024 Year in Review, Part 3
Five Beyond Category
TT 467: Mark Stryker's Barry Harris Playlist
Whether you’re new to Barry’s discography or a committed disciple, there’s a lot to explore here 👇
https://iverson.substack.com/p/tt-467-mark-strykers-barry-harris
🔊 Chant in the Night
Sidney Bechet And His Orchestra
Sidney Bechet • Ernie Caceres • Leonard Ware • Dave Bowman • Henry Turner • Zutty Singleton
Jazz saxophonist Xhosa Cole Shares New Single "Come Sunday"
A heartfelt tribute to Duke Ellington featuring Heidi Vogel and Liberty Styles, ahead of Cole's upcoming album On A Modern Genius (Vol. 1)
jazzsketches.substack.com/p/jazz-saxophonist-xhosa-cole-shares
Yep, JazzTimes Magazine is back
2024 Year in Review, Part 1
jazztimes.com/blog/2024-year-in-review-part-1/
2024 Year in Review, Part 2
jazztimes.com/blog/2024-year-in-review-part-2/
More Best Jazz Albums of 2024 👇
14.12.2024 10:05 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Haha, right? I was scratching my head over that too!
13.12.2024 19:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Songs of the Fathers, the latest release from Satya on Resonant Artists, is more than an homage to Abdullah Ibrahim—it’s a sonic journey through the life and spirit of one of Jazz’s most revered figures.
my review: jazzsketches.substack.com/p/songs-of-the-fathers-a-celebration
yeah that's the message he was trying to get across, limited run pressings on diamond vinyl. Beatific.
13.12.2024 17:36 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
John Coltrane’s 'A Love Supreme' Gets 60th Anniversary Reissue
By Sam Armstrong
To mark the anniversary of one of the most iconic and influential jazz albums of all time, Impulse! Records is releasing A Love Supreme: 60th Anniversary Edition, a limited run pressing on diamond vinyl.
The musician who inspired Nina Simone to dedicate her "life to music"
by Reuben Cross
While it can often take some people an entire lifetime to master their instruments, with some arguably never reaching a point of perfection, some musicians were evidently born to play theirs.
🔊 Let's Play One
Thad Jones
Motor City Scene
United Artists
Thad Jones • Billy Mitchell • Al Grey • Tommy Flanagan • Paul Chambers • Elvin Jones
Who did this?
12.12.2024 11:25 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Joe Henderson: His Long & Unknown First Audio Interview
by Lewis Porter
open.substack.com/pub/lewisporter/p/joe-henderson-his-long-and-unknown
Photo by Jan Persson
🔊 Milestones
Bill Evans
Waltz For Debby
Riverside (1962)
• Bill Evans • Scott LaFaro • Paul Motian •
ECM: Birth Of A Label 👇
11.12.2024 20:10 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🎂 Remembering McCoy Tyner on what would have been his 86th birthday—a true innovator whose commanding left hand and visionary harmonies transformed Jazz forever
11.12.2024 18:40 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This just went up on YouTube 3 days ago 👇
Jazz and the Avant Garde
A two-part docuseries on the birth and evolution of the free jazz movement in American jazz
