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A social music blog created by jazz lovers for jazz lovers.

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🎷 @JohnColtrane, #Tokyo, 1966.

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📷 Katia Labeque pictured with John McLaughlin and Miles Davis during the recording sessions for 'Aura' at Easy Sound Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark in January of 1985. Photos by Jan Persson.

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🆕 New Blue Note Tone Poet reissue of Grachan Moncur III's "Some Other Stuff". Following his debut "Evolution," the trombonist ventured even deeper into experimental waters on this boldly avant-garde 1964 album featuring Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Cecil McBee & Tony Williams.

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🎹 "A civil rights confrontation with racial prejudice as a libretto, was a piece I wrote for Eric Dolphy. The vocalist was singing my naive black and white will one day be in peace. Not the world's greatest poetry by any imagination, but it was sincere."

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🎷 "I got into #jazz because of Dave Brubeck, but jazz got into me because of Eric Dolphy."

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🎺 Do you know the four #JackTeagarden albums on @VerveRecords? #jazz

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🏆 The 10 Best #Jazz Albums of 2024 plus a few recently unearthed treasures from the archives.

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🎷🎸 Four albums with Lee Konitz (1927-2020) and Charlie Haden (1937-2014).

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📀 @ECMRecords

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🆕 The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, November 2024.

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🎸 @PatMetheny about creating 'MoonDial'.

#baritoneguitar
#nylonstrings

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🎺🎷 The emergence, 65 years ago, of a generation of ambitious musicians and best-sellers gave new life to a genre that was losing the talent of Billie Holiday and Lester Young.

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🎷 Chico Freeman at the Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland, July 18, 1981.

Photo by Dany Gignoux.

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🎺 Jim Rotondi (1962-2024).

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🎷 Rahsaan Roland Kirk sharing cocaine with his audience in Montreux.

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🥁 Legendary Danish drummer Alex Riel has passed away. Thank you for the music. Photo: Ane Riel. 🫂🙏 #jazz

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And suddenly all is good in the world now @wbgo...

#jazz #radio

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🇩🇪 Berliner Jazztage 1971: Dewey Redman with the Ornette Coleman Quartet (Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell) at the Philharmonic Hall in #Berlin, Germany, November 5, 1971. Photos by Jan Persson.

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🇸🇪 Palle Danielsson (1946-2014).

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🎷 THREE LITTLE WORDS
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I CAN'T GET STARTED WITH YOU
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Lester Young - tenor sax
Jimmy Gourley - guitar
René Urtreger - piano
Jamil Nasser - double bass
Kenny Clarke - drums

From 'Le Dernier Message De Lester Young' recorded in 1959.