New York has a lot of great music radio stations. Three of the finest are WBGO (a jazz station that actually is in Newark), WKCR and WFUV (the radio stations...
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Click to hear “Mood Indigo” by Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard and Irving Mills. Everyone knows that jazz sounds great. It looks great, too. Perhaps...
Oscar Peterson is among the greatest jazz pianists. Many consider Art Tatum — as the excerpt below suggests — to be the best, while Peterson, Bud...
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...
The Daily Music Break periodically re-post artists and posts from earlier in the site’s run. Here is the great Thelonious Monk’s “Blue Monk...
