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Great Moments in Modern Music
How’s that for a blowhard title? The operative word being “moments”… which speaks to one of several fundamentally different ways that we experience music. Some folks like it in the background, like...
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10 by Sonny Rollins
Check it – RCR is now optimized for iPad and iPhone use. We’re also the only site I’m aware of that’s optimized for rotary phones. Just dial Garfield 1-2323 and I’ll have Dottie from the steno pool...
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10 by Art Pepper
I’ve got a real weakness for West Coast jazz – that cool, seductive sound that didn’t exactly get a big thumbs up from Miles Davis in his autobiography Miles: “What bothered me more than anything was...
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Sweet Summits: Jazz
I thought this theme worked pretty well in our blues post. But I couldn’t resist expanding the definition so I could cover some of my favorite jazz summits. Think of these collaborations as...
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A Brief History of American Roots Music
1903: While waiting on a train in the Mississippi Delta, W.C. Handy heard “a lean loose-jointed Negro” play slide guitar with a knife while singing strange lines, each one repeated three times. Handy...
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