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Music Review: The Modern Jazz Quartet – Under the Jasmin Tree/Space (Original...

The Modern Jazz Quartet had their origins in trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s orchestra where vibraphonist Milt Jackson, pianist John Lewis, and drummer Kenny Clarke played together. Bassist Percy Heath...

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Interview: Vibes Great Gary Burton – Part 2

In Part 1 of our interview, vibes great Gary Burton discussed the history of the vibraphone in jazz, his development of the four-mallet approach to playing vibraphone, and his early years as a sideman....

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Music Review: The Modern Jazz Quartet –‘The Modern Jazz Quartet: Germany...

The most important thing about the wealth of recordings unearthed from the archives of Südwestrundfunk (“Southwest Broadcasting”) currently being systematically released by Jazzhaus, is the insight it...

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Graphic Novel Review: ‘March’ Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate...

The first book in a graphic novel trilogy by congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis, March (Top Shelf Productions) is a well-wrought personal account of the early days of the movement. It...

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Music Review: The Modern Jazz Quartet – Under the Jasmin Tree/Space (Original...

The Modern Jazz Quartet had their origins in trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s orchestra where vibraphonist Milt Jackson, pianist John Lewis, and drummer Kenny Clarke played together. Bassist Percy Heath...

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Interview: Vibes Great Gary Burton – Part 2

In Part 1 of our interview, vibes great Gary Burton discussed the history of the vibraphone in jazz, his development of the four-mallet approach to playing vibraphone, and his early years as a sideman....

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Music Review: The Modern Jazz Quartet – Under the Jasmin Tree/Space (Original...

The Modern Jazz Quartet had their origins in trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s orchestra where vibraphonist Milt Jackson, pianist John Lewis, and drummer Kenny Clarke played together. Bassist Percy Heath...

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Interview: Vibes Great Gary Burton – Part 2

In Part 1 of our interview, vibes great Gary Burton discussed the history of the vibraphone in jazz, his development of the four-mallet approach to playing vibraphone, and his early years as a sideman....

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Graphic Novel Review: “March: Book Two” by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate...

The second volume in John Lewis’ deeply felt memoir of the Civil Rights Movement, March (Top Shelf) follows the future congressman through the tempestuous early sixties when Lewis became chairman of...

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Book Review: ‘March: Book Three,’ Graphic History by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin...

Say what you will about our present president’s propensity for going on the Tweet attack against anyone he thinks his enemy, but he definitely did John Lewis a favor when he started slamming the...

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Music Review: The Modern Jazz Quartet – Under the Jasmin Tree/Space (Original...

The Modern Jazz Quartet had their origins in trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s orchestra where vibraphonist Milt Jackson, pianist John Lewis, and drummer Kenny Clarke played together. Bassist Percy Heath...

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Image may be NSFW.
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Interview: Vibes Great Gary Burton – Part 2

In Part 1 of our interview, vibes great Gary Burton discussed the history of the vibraphone in jazz, his development of the four-mallet approach to playing vibraphone, and his early years as a sideman....

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Music Review: The Modern Jazz Quartet – Under the Jasmin Tree/Space (Original...

The Modern Jazz Quartet had their origins in trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s orchestra where vibraphonist Milt Jackson, pianist John Lewis, and drummer Kenny Clarke played together. Bassist Percy Heath...

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Interview: Vibes Great Gary Burton – Part 2

In Part 1 of our interview, vibes great Gary Burton discussed the history of the vibraphone in jazz, his development of the four-mallet approach to playing vibraphone, and his early years as a sideman....

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Music Review: The Modern Jazz Quartet – Under the Jasmin Tree/Space (Original...

The Modern Jazz Quartet had their origins in trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s orchestra where vibraphonist Milt Jackson, pianist John Lewis, and drummer Kenny Clarke played together. Bassist Percy Heath...

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Interview: Vibes Great Gary Burton – Part 2

In Part 1 of our interview, vibes great Gary Burton discussed the history of the vibraphone in jazz, his development of the four-mallet approach to playing vibraphone, and his early years as a sideman....

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Music Review: Willie Nile: ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’

Willie Nile is back with a new album, The Day The Earth Stood Still. This is his second album in the last two years as New York at Night was released in May 2020 just as the world shut down for the...

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