3/8/2005
While I'm a huge jazz fan, I am by no means an academic listener, with facts, dates and other bits of minutia at the ready to stump fellow enthusiasts. (Where Bop ends and Hard Bop begins, for example, …
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3/7/2005
This mix (and its companion) was inspired by Hemizen's last mix, as well as Steve Mossholder's light-hearted challenge to pit his forthcoming Ellington mix against Terry's. It's also a re-working of my …
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3/7/2005
This mix (and its companion) was inspired by Hemizen's last mix, as well as Steve Mossholder's light-hearted challenge to pit his forthcoming Ellington mix against Terry's. It's also a re-working of my …
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3/6/2005
I came to jazz rather late in the game (mid 20s), and a guy who was coming on the scene around the same time as I was getting interested was Jacky Terrasson, who's eponymous first album is still one of …
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3/5/2005
for driving through the jungle early in the morning
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3/5/2005
This won't even get your toes wet as an intro to the wonder of Ellington but maybe it will pique your interest.
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3/1/2005
Well, these aren't "retreats" in the shy and retiring sense. Even ballads can be bold in conception and execution. This is a companion piece to my previous mix. The original working title for this was …
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2/23/2005
"Charges" as in charging forward. While not all of these are speedy races to the finish, they all at least gallop with aplomb.
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2/21/2005
Another re-working of an old mix for a trade. ECM is a label folks either love or hate. I happen to dig a lot of their artists, and I think the aesthetic and visionary genius that is Manfred Eicher is …
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