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Howard Mandel

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Miles Davis’s 100th birthday is May 26. To uncounted millions — billions, after some 75 years? — his music and his image represent cool, modernism, daring, subtly, grandeur, the blues, romance (also, sadly, abuse) and more.

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Phil Upchurch (1941 - 2025), a candid interview, 1979

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Jazz experience of my year

I posted earlier about this article for DownBeat on “The Shape of Jazz to Come” as I heard it in Paris last summer, which was published in the magazine’s web edition. I want more readers to know of the event, with photos and video at hand,...

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    Chicago-born, New York-fired, hometown-returned. Loves music (jazz, blues, new and unusual), fiction ( crime, humor, classics, myths), words, talking, learning.

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