Blogs about Jazz
13 blogs about Jazz.
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Between Sound and Space: ECM Records and Beyond
The only archive reviewing every ECM album in existence.
By Tyran Grillo. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Juan Hitters: Bar Italia (Book Review) In his 1969 novella, Il castello dei destini incrociati (The Castle of Crossed Destinies), Italo Calvino presents a series of vignettes introduced by a nameless narrator who finds himself, after trials and tribulations, at the …
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Deep Groove Mono
A jazz record collector blog designed, developed, written, and maintained independently by Richard Capeless.
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Video Vinyl Spotlight: Sam Rivers, Fuchsia Swing Song (Blue Note 4184) RVG vs No RVG Shootout! DGM compares '70s pressings of the album, one made from the original Van Gelder stereo mastering, the other a remaster.
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FLOPHOUSE | magazine
…dedicated to hard bop, soul jazz and Hammond grooves.
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Alvin Queen Trio Feeling Good (Stunt Records 2024) NEW RELEASE – ALVIN QUEEN TRIO Snappy and happy American-Swiss veteran runs the gamut from Tin Pan Alley to firmly rooted post-bop. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Carlton Holmes (piano, synthesizer), Danton Boller (bass), Alvin …
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FW Rare Jazz Vinyl Collector
By Fredrik. 🇸🇪 More infoUpdated
"Out Front!" by Jaki Byard on Prestige PR 7397 The always interesting Jaki. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Jaki is a favorite as I’ve mentioned before. He was quite unique. He …
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the Heat Warps
Revisiting every Miles Davis live tape from 1969 to 1975 in chronological order.
By Jeremy Erwin. More infoUpdated
Alice Coltrane & Carlos Santana: Previously Unissued 1974 Recordings Very few LPs radiate a level of spiritual grandeur quite like the 1974 summit between Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana, Illuminations. With Coltrane’s harp and soaring orchestration, uncharacteristically patient, technically precise lead work from Santana, …
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Impressions of Vince
Commentary, discussions and random thoughts about San Francisco-born jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi, beloved by many … and affectionately known as Dr. Funk.
By Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
The second time around! Big news, gang.Huge, actually.After two lonely years spent in my patented deep-sea isolation chamber, I've emerged victorious with the enhanced and improved second edition of my Guaraldi biography. McFarland, my beloved publisher, graciously agreed to …
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It's A Raggy Waltz
I collect jazz on vinyl, I dig the Dave Brubeck Quartet, & I write about it.
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Waiting For Spring // David Benoit (GRP 9595) I know what you’re thinking. “David Benoit?! We’ve waited a year for a record review and it’s David Benoit?!? What the heck is Tarik doing writing about HIM?!” Weeeeell hold on there. This may seem …
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Jazz Collector
Jazz Collector is the leading jazz blog and jazz website for those who love jazz and treasure the history, archives, ephemera and, most of all, the music.
By Al Perlman. More infoUpdated
Podcast: Jackie McLean, Prestige, Volume One This week’s theme: Jackie McLean on Prestige. Featured artists include Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Art Taylor, Donald Byrd, Bill Hartman, Mal Waldron, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Red Garland, Arthur Phipps, Wade Legge, …
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Jazz Scan
Jazz ain't dead; it's just evolving!
By Derrick Bang, Ric Bang, Scott McGuire. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Holiday jazz 2023: Back to basics [Web master's note: Northern California film critic Derrick Bang — the eldest, youngest and only son of this site's primary jazz guru, Ric Bang — has surveyed the holiday jazz scene for more than a …
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JazzWax
Marc Myers writes daily on jazz legends and legendary jazz recordings.
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Bill Evans Trio on 'Sport en Fête,' 1972 While the following clip may look as if the Bill Evans Trio is being held against its will in some sort of Clockwork Orange experiment, they actually were appearing on the popular French TV show …
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Jerry Jazz Musician
A non-commercial website whose mission is to explore the culture of America with jazz music, jazz history, and jazz culture as the centerpiece.
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“Resilience: For David Sanborn” – a poem by Alan Yount . . photo by Rene Jakobson/Flicker/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED . . Resilience: For David Sanborn …………..“An Alto Sax Jazz Man.” my claim to jazz fame: I have had fun telling people … I got to …
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LondonJazzCollector
Adventures in collecting "modern jazz": the classical music of America from the Fifties and Sixties, and a little Seventies, on original vinyl, on a budget, from England.
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Leo Parker: Let Me Tell You ‘Bout It (1961) Blue Note Selection: TCTB (Parker, Swindell) https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/leo-parker_tctb_let-me-tell-you-bout-it_blue-note-blp-4087_mono-ljc.mp3 . . . Track List: BLP 4087 A1 Glad Lad 5:17A2 Blue Leo (Parker, Ike Quebec) 5:06A3 Let Me Tell You ’bout It (Robert Lewis) 4:18A4 Vi (Lewis) 4:41B1 Parker’s …
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Screen Action Jazz
Commentary and breaking news regarding the golden age of jazz soundtracks that supplied a swing backdrop for the suspenseful adventures of secret agents, private detectives, cops, spies and heist-minded criminals.
By Derrick Bang. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Soundtrack updates Thanks to the ongoing efforts of labels that specialize in soundtracks — and the fans who purchase their products, thereby maintaining the pipeline — quite a few scores have received enhanced treatment since my two …