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Single Artist
3/30/2005
Steve Lacy died last year and the world lost one of the great jazz musicians of the 20th century. I wasn't in a position to make this mix then (all my records and cds were in boxes) but now it is possi …
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Single Artist
3/20/2005
Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane..Art Blakey and Max Roach..the composer playing his compositions. Allowing that I was not alive to see these songs played when Monk was alive, this is the closest I can …
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Theme - Alternating DJ
3/18/2005
As opposed to the Miles and Monk mix, this one is actually listenable, not ideological. I won't say anything else about Davis the trumpet player and instead focus on Davis the guy who assembled all thi …
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Jazz
3/17/2005
Since I've already infuriated the Miles loyalists, might as well bring up another sticking point for me and this titan of 20th century music. He played Monk's songs wrong. Admittedly, Miles didn't play …
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Mixed Genre
3/15/2005
One of those 'let's see what's on the hard drive' games. I noticed the date while listening to #1 and thought it appropriate to construct something with that. But like all my non artist specific mixes, …
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Single Artist
3/14/2005
I wanted to see if it was possible to create a cd that had Ayler playing ballads, as per lostinthejazzmix's suggestion. Now, if you want to be particular, then none of this stuff qualifies as a ballad, …
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Jazz
3/14/2005
I was being rather confrontational when I made the blanket statement that Clifford Brown was a better trumpeter than Davis. Although we agree on the point of Brown's superior technical facility; my phr …
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Jazz
3/14/2005
Clifford Brown, better trumpeter than Miles Davis. Brown plays on all these tracks, the Once in a While is the first ballad I ever enjoyed, and Sarah is the first vocalist that I could listen to withou …
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Theme - Alternating DJ
3/13/2005
Henry Grimes plays bass on these tracks. After a long while away from music (30+ years) Grimes was found living in LA. William Parker gave him a bass and Henry Grimes reemerged in the world of improvis …
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