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There is a good deal of history within and around the live performance you are about to hear. However, the sound is not ideal — which I will
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Feeling kind of punk? Down in the mouth? Are the Amazon cardboard boxes beginning to overwhelm you? Freezer door won’t stay shut? Phone
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At least for now, face-to-face meetings still seem fraught. So this wonderfully sweet song seems an alternative, perhaps. Whether “Dreamland”
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Arthur Bradford Gowans, often overlooked but peerless. Fate did not treat Brad Gowans that well, although I don’t know that he yearned for the
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In front, Bobby Hackett, Louis Armstrong, George Wein; behind them, Joe Newman, Dizzy Gillespie — at the July 1970 celebration of Louis at the
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Zoot, riding the range. The splendid people at jgautographs (on eBay) have reached into the apparently bottomless treasure chest and come up with an
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Here’s the second part of our vision of Bud Freeman — uniquely swinging tenor saxophonist, raconteur, a singular stylist for more than six
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The astonishing eBay treasure chest called jgautographs has opened its lid again. Apparently the trove is bottomless, since the latest offering is
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Mr. Freeman, always beautifully attired: Bud Freeman, who made the long journey from being an Austin High School boy, earnest and enthusiastic, to
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Less than a week ago, I published a post here, marveling at the riches made available in an eBay auction by “jgautographs” which have been all
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If cornetist Max Kaminsky (1908-1994) is known at all today, he might be categorized as “one of the Condon mob,” or, “a Dixieland
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I think WHO’S SORRY NOW? (note the absence of the question mark on the original sheet music above) is a classic Vengeance Song (think of GOODY
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Kamasi Washington With jazz on an seemingly unstoppable rise Getintothis’ Jonathan Butters takes us on a personal journey through the music that
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I wouldn’t have known of these programs (now shared with us on the Musikladen YouTube channel) except for my good friend, the fine drummer Bernard
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I wouldn’t have known of these programs (now shared with us on the Musikladen YouTube channel) except for my good friend, the fine drummer Bernard
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I had a wonderful time last weekend at the one-day jazz festival — the little party thrown by the Juvae Jazz Society in Decatur, Illinois.
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I had a wonderful time last weekend at the one-day jazz festival — the little party thrown by the Juvae Jazz Society in Decatur, Illinois.