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What Albert Murray Taught Us About Jazz 24 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
Written by Eugene Holley from NPR An essayist, cultural theorist, novelist, educator and biographer who died on August 18 at 97, Albert Murray spent more than five decades developing his thesis that ...
Kenny Barron On Piano Jazz 24 Aug 2013 | 05:30 am
Written by Grant Jackson from NPR Listen: Kenny Barron On Piano JazzAudioDownload Kenny Barron is one of the most highly regarded players of his generation. Playing professionally since he was 15, B...
Fresh Air Remembers ‘Piano Jazz’ Host Marian McPartland 24 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
Written by from NPR ListenAudioDownload For more than 30 years, jazz pianist Marian McPartland hosted one of public radio’s most beloved shows, Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz. As NPR’s Felix Contrer...
4 Ways To Sing “The Same Thing” 24 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Muddy Waters 'The Same Thing'The Blues Time MachineDownload This deceptively simple blues song is a masterpiece of restraint and execution. Recorded first in 1964, it features the voice of Muddy Wat...
Twilight World: Remembering Marian McPartland’s Songs 22 Aug 2013 | 07:54 am
Written by from NPR Listen: Marian McPartland's SongsAudioDownload Jazz musicians strive for an individual voice. If a listener can tell right away who’s playing, that’s an achievement. The same is ...
‘Beauty’ On Orrin Evans’ Block 22 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
Written by Kevin Whitehead from NPR ListenAudioDownload On Philadelphia pianist Orrin Evans‘ trio version of Ornette Coleman‘s “Blues Connotation,” drummer Donald Edwards and bassist Eric Revis set ...
Marian McPartland, ‘Piano Jazz’ Host, Has Died 21 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Written by Felix Contreras from NPR ListenAudioDownload For more than 40 years, Marian McPartland gave the world an intimate, insider’s perspective on one of the most elusive topics in music: jazz i...
From Cuba To America, Arturo Sandoval Is An Ambassador For Jazz 21 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Written by from NPR ListenAudioDownload Cuban-born trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is set to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom later this year for his contributions to the world of music. He’s won...
‘Looking For The Next One’ Reveals An Underappreciated Sax Trio 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
Written by Kevin Whitehead from NPR Listen NowFresh Air from WHYYDownload The English trio S.O.S. — saxophonists John Surman, Mike Osborne and Alan Skidmore — was formed in 1973, and made only one L...
Albert Murray, Writer And Co-Founder Of Jazz At Lincoln Center, Dies 20 Aug 2013 | 09:30 am
Written by Joel Rose from NPR Albert Murray, the influential writer and critic who helped found Jazz at Lincoln Center, died Sunday at home in Harlem. He was 97 years old. Duke Ellington once describ...
