Blogs about Jazz
12 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
New Book Dear readers: I appreciate your patience as I navigate some life changes (some negative, ultimately positive), which have taken much of my time away from listening and reviewing. I do hope to return to 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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Rudy Van Gelder Discography Updated and Expanded! Back in 2014 I published the first edition of my Rudy Van Gelder Collector’s Discography. That version focused on albums I was interested in collecting at the time and didn’t contain any albums recorded after …
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FLOPHOUSE | magazine
…dedicated to hard bop, soul jazz and Hammond grooves.
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Bud Shank Quartet Featuring Claude Williamson (Pacific Jazz 1956) Bud beautiful. [row-start][half] [/half] [half] Personnel Bud Shank (alto saxophone, flute), Claude Williamson (piano), Don Prell (bass), Chuck Flores (drums) Recorded on May 7 & 8, 1956 at Capitol Studio, Los Angeles Released as PJ-1230 …
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FW Rare Jazz Vinyl Collector
By Fredrik. 🇸🇪 More infoUpdated
"Glass Bead Games" by the Clifford Jordan Quartet on Strata-East (SES-19737/8) Cliff Jordan’s Magnum Opus. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize For me, this Cliff Jordan album, recorded …
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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
Heart and soul! Valentine's Day will come early next year.January 17 will see the first-ever release of Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack to Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown.This soundtrack debut will be one of the first highlights during what promises …
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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: Rollins Plays Rollins This week’s theme: Sonny Rollins plays the compositions of Sonny Rollins. Musicians include Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Clifford Brown, George Morrow, Richie Powell, Art Blakey, JJ Johnson, Horace Silver, Paul Chambers, Red Garland, Philly Joe …
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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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Perfection: Jazz Studio 1 - 'Tenderly' (1953) Love the song Tenderly? Composed by Walter Gross with lyrics by Jack Lawrence and published in 1946, the ballad was first recorded by Dick Farney, the Brazilian singer and pianist in June 1947. Sarah Vaughan …
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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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Charles Rouse: Two is One (1974) Strata East Selection: In His Presence Searching (David Lee) https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/charles-rouse_in-his-presence-searching_two-is-one_strata-east_1974_ljc.mp3 . . . Track List A1 Bitchin’ (George Davis) 7:19A2 Hopscotch (Joe Chambers) 7:18A3 In a Funky Way (Davis) 4:52B1 Two Is One (Charles Rouse, Roland Hanna) …
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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
Fallen Angels and a wayward Fugitive I covered Showtime’s marvelous film noir series, Fallen Angels, in my second volume. This anthology show delivered six episodes in the summer of 1993, followed by another nine in the autumn of 1995. Each playlet …