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The Night Jazz Fought Back

Kenny Dorham, Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman, Newport Rebels, 1960.

In 1960, while the official Newport Jazz Festival collapsed into riots, Charles Mingus and Max Roach organized a breakaway event that asked a question the music indust...

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Evil Comes with Free Cholesterol Medication

Henry Kissinger hit 100 and the internet reacted the only way the internet knows how. Half the population posted the same joke. Death took one look at Kissinger and quietly backed out of the room. Meanwhile, the obituary page in Peoria was...

13 days ago
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The Night Bud Powell Came Back to Birdland

The tape from Birdland is hard to listen to, and not for the reason you’d expect. September 30, 1964. Bud Powell, back in New York after five years in Paris, working the club named for Charlie Parker, with John Ore on bass and J.C. Moses on...

20 days ago
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The Oral Jazzman

Kitty Bruce died in May at seventy. She was eight when she lost her father, and she spent most of her life afterward keeping his archive together so the rest of us could still hear him. This post is for her.

I found Lenny at thirteen, the...

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Lonely Teardrops in the Music Biz: The Rise and Ruin of Jackie Wilson

The first thing you notice is the body.

Jackie Wilson does not merely enter a song. He attacks it. He drops to his knees as if struck by lightning, springs back up before gravity can file the paperwork, spins across the stage without losin...

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