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Miles Davis’ “Tutu” Encoded in DNA

Recently, I viewed a documentary on the future of data storage. In the documentary it was proposed that encoding data in DNA could be a solution to to storage issues we will face...

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Culture Clubs: A History Of The U.S. Jazz Clubs, Part I: New Orleans And Chicago

All About Jazz published part one of a new series by Karl Ackermann looking at the history of Jazz Clubs in the United Sates. Part one goes back to the roots and looks at the...

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Chasing Bix, the Introverted Enigma

This op-ed article has been posted courtesy of Lynn René Bayley of The Art Music Lounge. “Bix was one of the weirdest guys I ever knew. It wasn’t just that he was...

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Jazz, made in Italy – Anna Harwell Celenza’s superb new book!

Anna Harwell Celenza’s book “Jazz Italian Style” published by CUP (Cambridge University Press) was published earlier this year and I was hooked. I need to clarify: this is...

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Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair, by Nina Simone

Nina Simone is one of the best interpreters in popular music. She wrote over 40 songs, including some of her best such as Mississippi Goddam and Four Women. However throughout her...

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s’wonderful Ella Fitzgerald Live in Amsterdam 1957 & 1960 Reviewed by Peter Beije

The ease with which she sings, the musicality, the range of her voice, her control and diction. Ella Fitzgerald truly is one of the greatest jazz singers in history. And what sets...

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Turkish Mambo, by Lennie Tristano

The technique of overdubbing is second nature to recording artists and sound engineers. You record layers of musical performances one after another until you are satisfied that...

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Chasing Trane ~ The New John Coltrane Documentary

This past week I was at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club to attend the private screening of a new documentary on jazz supreme saxophonist John Coltrane. The film, written and directed...

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Three Views of a Secret, a portrait of Jaco Pastorius

Joe Zawinul was not an easy man to impress, even if you were Jaco Pastorius. On a flight to Japan in 1981, when the rough mixes for what would become his second solo album Word of...

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Miles Davis Quintet | It Never Entered My Mind!

In 1955, Bob Weinstock found himself in a tough spot. He was about to lose his most revered recording artist, trumpeter Miles Davis. Weinstock was head of Prestige Records, the...

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Gloria’s Step~Bill Evans Trio

One of the most important qualities you seek in a Jazz record is the interplay between the musicians, a kind if musical intimacy that survived the transition from the live visual...

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