The most sectarian of the jazz journalists would have you believe that jazz artists each had a Style and a School, and they were reluctant to leave their little ideological nests. The reality was quite different, as we see here. Their assumption would be that John Coltrane couldn't find common ground with Oscar Peterson, although…

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15.01.2025

JUST AROUND THE CORNER: THE JAZZ BASH BY THE BAY (March 6-9, 2025, Monterey, California) | JAZZ LIVES

With a few interruptions, I've been attending the Jazz Bash by the Bay since 2011. The music is fine and varied, and the location is congenial. So this is an unabashed encouragement to be there. Monterey is a lovely city, and temperatures in March should range from 47-62 degrees, an improvement on what most of…

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16.01.2025

CLASSIC VANGUARD SMALL GROUP SWING SESSIONS (Mosaic Records) | JAZZ LIVES

I have been waiting for this music to be issued properly for more than fifty years. The music I'm speaking of is a series of recordings created for the Vanguard label, under the supervision of John Hammond, between December 1953 and March 1957. But before you read any more, I suggest you go here and…

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17.01.2025

MARY LOU WILLIAMS, JO JONES, RONNIE BOYKINS (Nice Jazz Festival 7.8.78) | JAZZ LIVES

Another one of the musical and visual marvels captured at the Nice Jazz Festival by French television: forty-five minutes of composer-pianist-icon Mary Lou Williams, her regular bassist Ronnie Boykins, and the entirely unpredictable master of the drums Jo Jones. I say "unpredictable" because by this time, Jo had often abandoned any notion of being a…

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JOHN COLTRANE, WYNTON KELLY, PAUL CHAMBERS, JIMMY COBB, STAN GETZ, OSCAR PETERSON (Jazz at the Philharmonic, Dusseldorf, Germany, August 27, 1960) | JAZZ LIVES

JUST AROUND THE CORNER: THE JAZZ BASH BY THE BAY (March 6-9, 2025, Monterey, California) | JAZZ LIVES

CLASSIC VANGUARD SMALL GROUP SWING SESSIONS (Mosaic Records) | JAZZ LIVES

MARY LOU WILLIAMS, JO JONES, RONNIE BOYKINS (Nice Jazz Festival 7.8.78) | JAZZ LIVES

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