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I started out aiming to do a post on Fats Navarro, and sort of made it. This is “52nd Street Theme,” which Wikipedia says was written by Thelonious...
This is the beginning of the profile of the great tenor saxophone player Theodore Walter “Sonny” Rollins from his website: Theodore Walter Rollins...
Dexter Gordon’s website sums up his importance in one line. He was, it says, “the first musician to translate the language of Bebop to the tenor...
This morning, the site featured the great Big Joe Turner. One of the clips featured Jay McShann along with Turner. Here is more McShann. Kansas City has a...
This clip, from the television program Jazz Party, is more than eight minutes long — but the climax is cut off. No matter, it’s great. The start is...
Leonard Bernstein’s performance of George Gershwin’s piece, which premiered on February 12, 1924, is in two sections. The continuation is here...
