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  • Modern Jazz Quartet - Django ( full CD Remastered )

    01/29/2016 8:30:01 PM PST · by WhiskeyX · 3 replies
    YouTube ^ | Modern Jazz Quartet
    Modern Jazz Quartet - Django TRACKLIST: "Django" (John Lewis) -- 0:07 "One Bass Hit" (Dizzy Gillespie) -- 7:11 "La Ronde Suite" (Lewis) -- 10:11 "The Queen's Fancy" (Lewis) -- 19:42 "Delauney's Dilemma" (Lewis) -- 22:56 "Autumn In New York" (Vernon Duke) -- 26:56 "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) -- 30:38 "Milano" (Lewis) --
  • Freddy Hubbard: Super Blue

    01/17/2016 11:28:38 PM PST · by Fai Mao · 11 replies
    You Tube ^ | Freddy Hubbard
    Oh boy was he good. This is the whole album Freddy Hubbard: Super Blue
  • Monk's Dream - Thelonious Monk - Full Album

    01/17/2016 11:03:35 PM PST · by WhiskeyX · 2 replies
    YouTube ^ | 1963 | Thelonious Monk
    Monk's Dream (released in 1963) is a stellar bop album from the Thelonious Monk quartet (consisting of Monk, Charlie Rouse, John Ore and Frankie Dunlop). *Tracklist below* Monk's Dream 00:00 Body And Soul 6:30 Bright Mississippi 10:58 Five Spot Blues 19:36 Bolivar Blues 22:52 Just A Gigolo 30:24 Bye-Ya 32:54 Sweet And Lovely 38:57
  • Natalie Cole LIVE - Unforgettable

    01/12/2016 5:33:54 PM PST · by WhiskeyX · 7 replies
    YouTube ^ | Natalie Cole
    Natalie Cole LIVE - Unforgettable
  • Lady sings The Blues - Billie Holiday [Full Album] (1956)

    01/04/2016 12:28:47 AM PST · by WhiskeyX · 9 replies
    YouTube ^ | Recorded: July 6, 1956 | Billie Holiday
    Lady Sings the Blues is an album by jazz vocalist Billie Holiday. It was Holiday's last album released on Clef Records; the following year, the label would be absorbed by Verve Records. Lady Sings the Blues was taken from sessions taped during 1954 and 1956. It was released simultaneously with her ghostwritten autobiography of the same name. The tunes are: 1.- Lady Sings The Blues 3:45 (Billie Holiday - Herbie Nichols) 2.- Trav'lin' Light 3:08 (James Mundy - Johny Mercer- James Oliver) 3.- I Must Have That Man 3:03 (Jimmy McHugh - Dorothy Fields) 4,. Some Other Spring 3:35 (Arthur...
  • 3 Hour Christmas Jazz Piano Instrumental Smooth Songs Music: Holiday Continuos Playlist by JaBig

    12/30/2015 1:15:28 PM PST · by WhiskeyX · 4 replies
    YouTube ^ | Dec 9, 2013 | JaBig
    This 3-hour Christmas mix is a Piano Jazz (and some Classical Music) compilation that features songs in medley form of the best 2013 Holiday songs in instrumental form. Enjoy!
  • Christmas Jazz Mood Songs for 40 minutes

    12/25/2015 4:25:22 PM PST · by WhiskeyX · 5 replies
    YouTube ^ | Nov 20, 2013 | psalmsmedia0
    Christmas Jazz Mood Songs for 40 minutes Light Jazz Christmas no.05 - I wonder as I wander Light Jazz Christmas no.07 - Silent Night Light Jazz Christmas no.10 - Have yourself a merry little Christmas Jazz meets Christmas with JUJU SONG no.02 - Angels We have heard on high Jazz meets Christmas with JUJU SONG no.04 - God rest ye Merry, Gentlemen Jazz meets Christmas with JUJU SONG no.06 - The first Noel Jazz meets Christmas with JUJU SONG no.12 - What child is this? Christmas Treasures A Mcpherson guitars no.02 - Little Drummer Boy Christmas Treasures A Mcpherson guitars...
  • "Okay, Baby" McKinney's Cotton Pickers on Victor 23000 (1930)

    12/13/2015 5:16:05 PM PST · by Arthur McGowan · 1 replies
    YouTube ^ | 1930 | Don Redman and band
    "Okay, Baby" is played by McKinney's Cotton Pickers on Victor 23000, recorded on July 29, 1930. Don Redman is the leader of this hot ensemble.
  • Leading jazz alto saxophonist Phil Woods dies at age 83

    09/30/2015 10:31:45 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 14 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Sep. 30, 2015 1:23 PM EDT | Charles J. Gans
    Phil Woods, a leading alto saxophonist in mainstream jazz for more than 60 years whose piercing solos could also be heard on hit records by Billy Joel and Paul Simon, has died. He was 83. […] Woods grew up in the Swing Era where his early influences included alto saxophonists Benny Carter and Johnny Hodges. He made his name as a fiery disciple of bebop pioneer Charlie “Bird” Parker, earning the nickname “the new Bird” after Parker’s untimely death in 1955. He was married to Parker’s widow, Chan, for 17 years. Woods released more than 50 albums as a leader...
  • Hot Jazz Saturday Night - August 22, 2015 (vintage jazz show)

    08/22/2015 5:07:13 PM PDT · by deks · 26 replies
    88.5 WAMU FM ^ | August 22, 2015 | Rob Bamberger
    CLICK "Listen Live" at the top of the page for live stream: From 8 until 11 p.m. EST, the air is filled with vintage jazz, swing, and big band recordings from the '20s, '30s, and '40s
  • Gunther Schuller Dies at 89; Composer Synthesized Classical and Jazz

    06/22/2015 8:33:44 AM PDT · by EveningStar · 17 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 21, 2015 | Allan Kozinn
    Gunther Schuller, a composer, conductor, author and teacher who coined the term Third Stream to describe music that drew on the forms and resources of both classical and jazz, and who was its most important composer, died on Sunday in Boston. He was 89.
  • Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85

    06/11/2015 7:58:11 AM PDT · by Borges · 11 replies
    New York Times ^ | 6/11/2015 | BEN RATLIFF
    Ornette Coleman, the alto saxophonist and composer who was one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz, died on Thursday morning in Manhattan. He was 85. The cause was cardiac arrest, a representative of the family said.
  • Background music

    05/18/2015 3:41:46 AM PDT · by knarf · 3 replies
    youtube ^ | May 18, 2015 | knarf, variious
    Always lookin' for chill while surfin'
  • Hot Jazz Saturday Night - April 4, 2015 (vintage jazz show)

    04/04/2015 5:03:21 PM PDT · by deks · 3 replies
    88.5 WAMU FM ^ | April 4, 2015 | Rob Bamberger
    Click the link for live stream: From 8 until 11 p.m. EST, the air is filled with vintage jazz, swing, and big band recordings from the '20s, '30s, and '40s.
  • Massive brawl break out at Resorts World Casino in Queens as hundreds look on in horror

    04/04/2015 3:47:14 PM PDT · by Usagi_yo · 49 replies
    New York Daily News ^ | 4/4/15 | BARRY PADDOCK , THOMAS TRACY , DENIS SLATTERY
    All bets were off after a chair-hurling brawl broke out Friday night at the grand opening of a Fat Tuesday New Orleans-style daiquiri bar inside the Resorts World Casino in Queens, officials said.
  • Hot Jazz Saturday Night (vintage jazz show)

    03/28/2015 5:04:00 PM PDT · by deks · 9 replies
    88.5 WAMU FM ^ | March 28, 2015 | Rob Bamberger
    Click the link for live stream: From 8 until 11 p.m. EST, the air is filled with vintage jazz, swing, and big band recordings from the '20s, '30s, and '40s.
  • Middle East Beats: Israel's Ester Rada mines Ethio-jazz

    02/27/2015 5:48:35 PM PST · by goldstategop · 5 replies
    BBC News Middle East Beats ^ | 02/28/2015 | BBC News
    Ester Rada is an arresting young singer-songwriter with a rich musical heritage. Her Ethiopian roots are clearly audible in her music. But so is the influence of Israel where she grew up and now lives. Her EP, Life Happens, released in 2013, was a confident debut showcasing her powerful, soulful voice and seductive combination of Ethiopian Jazz, funk and R&B.
  • Hot Jazz Saturday Night (vintage jazz show)

    11/22/2014 4:54:00 PM PST · by deks · 22 replies
    88.5 WAMU FM ^ | November 22, 2014 | Rob Bamberger
    Click the link for live stream: From 8 until 11 p.m. EST, the air is filled with vintage jazz, swing, and big band recordings from the '20s, '30s, and '40s.
  • New York Jazz Clubs Double as Record Labels

    11/13/2014 7:23:03 AM PST · by a fool in paradise · 2 replies
    NY Times ^ | NOV. 11, 2014 | NATE CHINEN
    ...These labels come out of an old impulse and a newer set of circumstances. Jazz musicians have been making albums in clubs for as long as it’s been feasible... For historical and acoustical reasons... Vanguard leads in this field — a page on its website shows thumbnail images for 123 albums created in the club — but there have also been fine recent dispatches from Jazz Standard, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola and elsewhere. Still, those are albums released on separate record labels. The perpetual challenge of running a successful jazz club, and the equally daunting proposition of starting a record label,...
  • Hot Jazz Saturday Night

    11/01/2014 5:03:30 PM PDT · by deks · 19 replies
    WAMU 88.5 FM ^ | November 1, 2014 | Rob Bamberger
    Click on "Listen Live" at the top of the page...From 8 until 11 p.m., the air is filled with vintage jazz, swing, and big band recordings from the '20s, '30s, and '40s.