Dizzy Gillespie Quintet at Newport Jazz Festival Jul 1, 1960
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The Willis Conover Facebook Page
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
What three administrations in the White House have refused to do, the people have done. They have recognized Willis Conover, the Voice of America broadcaster who may have been America's greatest cultural diplomat of the Cold War. He now has...
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New Orleans Saints will win the National Concussion League Super Bowl!
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
Word is that there will be a football game this Sunday night. The New Orleans team will face the team that used to be the Baltimore Colts, before the drunken bum who owned the Baltimore Colts snuck the team out to Indianapolis in the middle of the night. I'm not a big fan of the NFL. I can't be a big fan of a sport where there are so many long breaks for commercials ( the game is really terrible live....
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And The Melody Still Lingers On
Damn Fine Day (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
Having already displayed her vocal chops with soul, funk, ballads and disco, Chaka Khan experiments with jazz on “And the Melody Still Lingers On,” her interpretation of Dizzy Gillespie’s “Night in Tunisia.” Featuring Herbie Hancock and Gillespie himself, as well as a Charlie Parker sample, Chaka and producer Arif Mardin add lyrics that pay tribute [...]
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Deceptively Simple (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
“Bird had a knack for getting from one note to another like nobody else.” That’s how Dizzy Gillespie summarized what made Charlie Parker stand out from everyone around him. Parker had the technique to run circles around people, and the harmonic ingenuity to upend jazz harmony as we knew it, but what made his playing [...]
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Saturday Night At The Liberal Curmudgeon: Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, 1947
The Liberal Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Dizzy Gillespie leads his big band in 1947 with a song about a musician who was out of sync with the bebop jazz of the day. The problem? "He beeped when he should have bopped." The performance features vocals and a trumpet solo by consummate showman Gillespie and a vibes solo by Milt Jackson, who later joined the Modern Jazz Quartet.
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WSQ Meets M''Boom: Another "Grand Collaboration"
First of the Month (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Birdland, NYC Jan 19-23, 2010 When last (& first) they met, it was billed “The Grand Collaboration.” The production was the brainchild of the great Max Roach, one of the most formidable musicians to emerge in the 40’s with music media named “Bebop.” He is one of the original Boperators of that innovative upsurge of American Classical musical rejuvenation - the soul...
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Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
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East Side Story
Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 01/30/2010
You can watch this hour-long BBC programme for another week. It's part one of a four-part series on Latin music in the US, and it's the kind of thing that the Beeb, to give them their due, do very well....
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Remembering Roy Eldridge
One Poet's Notes (Free subscription) | 01/30/2010
Roy Eldridge, born on this date (January 30) in 1911, established a reputation as one of the finest trumpeters in jazz during the 1930s and 1940s, when he played with some of the more notable swing bands of the World War II era, such as Gene Krupa’s Orchestra and the Artie Shaw Band, and he has often been noted as an influence on leading figures of the bebop period that followed, including Dizzy...
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Amazon Lists 'the Best' Jazz of All Time...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Amazon : 1. The Shape Of Jazz To Come by Ornette Coleman 2. A Love Supreme by John Coltrane 3. Bird And Diz by Dizzy Gillespie 4. Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis 5. Ella and Louis by Ella Fitzgerald 6. Getz/Gilberto by João Gilberto 7. Concert By The Sea by Erroll Garner 8. The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus 9. Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter 10. Straight, No Chaser by Thelonious...
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50 great moments in jazz: Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan's pianoless quartet
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
The charismatic prince of cool jazz developed an elegant and intertwining sound after being forced to perform without a piano When Bruce Weber released Let's Get Lost in 1988, his documentary on the trumpeter Chet Baker, it joined the likes of Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight and Clint Eastwood's Bird in a group of late-1980s films that showed prominent jazz artists on the skids. A huge improvement...
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Retro TV W/C 29th January 2010
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Barry Murphy returns once more to trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to), finding anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from...
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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Dvorak American Heritage Association Presents: An Evening of Jazz with George Mraz and Friends at the Bohemian National Hall Friday, February 26th at 7:30 PM
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
DVORAK AMERICAN HERITAGE ASSOCIATION (DAHA) Presents: An Evening of Jazz with George Mraz and Friends at The Bohemian National Hall 321 East 73rd Street, NYC Friday, February 26th at 7:30 PM World-renowned jazz bassist George Mraz was presented The Medal of the President of The Czech Republic for Lifetime Achievement on his 65th birthday, June 10, 2009 at the Prague Castle. Known for his historic work...
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band This is the Collection download mp3
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