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Moonshine
by Dave Douglas
Achieving the buff power of fusion with the gymnastic agility of bop is usually an impossibly hard b...
When You're Down and Out
by Carrie Smith
That Carrie Smith isn’t universally regarded as a top-notch blues singer is one of the high crimes a...
Esperanza
by Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza documents a 23-year-old prodigy near the onset of her career, wielding her ambition and ef...
Discover Jazz
The Best of Sun Ra
"Sun Ra? He's out to lunch alright — same place I eat at."
— George Clinton
Lone prospector, swingin' shaman and lovable nut, Sun Ra was the Afro-psychedelic Ancient Astronaut of the jazz avant-garde, piloting his Arkestra through the World of Tomorrow. Born Herman Blount in 1914 Birmingham, Alabama, Ra mythologized himself as a cosmic prophet (home planet: Saturn), pioneered the artist-owned indie label and atonal collective-improvised orchestral noise, dressed himself and his band in the spangliest Flash Gordon ga...
— George Clinton
Lone prospector, swingin' shaman and lovable nut, Sun Ra was the Afro-psychedelic Ancient Astronaut of the jazz avant-garde, piloting his Arkestra through the World of Tomorrow. Born Herman Blount in 1914 Birmingham, Alabama, Ra mythologized himself as a cosmic prophet (home planet: Saturn), pioneered the artist-owned indie label and atonal collective-improvised orchestral noise, dressed himself and his band in the spangliest Flash Gordon ga...
Spotlight on Jazz
Professor Jaki Byard's Pre-Postmodern Piano
When Jaki Byard was with Charles Mingus in the 1960s, audiences would laugh when, mid-solo, Byard would burst into 1920s-style stride piano — the revved-up ragtime offshoot where the left hand bounds back and forth over the lower half of the keyboard. Its archaic quality struck listeners as comic — in that avant-garde age, stride was for antiquarians.
Nowadays every hip outside or inside pianist will drop a little stride science once in awhile — like Fred Hersch or Jason Moran or Eric Lewis, all of w...
Nowadays every hip outside or inside pianist will drop a little stride science once in awhile — like Fred Hersch or Jason Moran or Eric Lewis, all of w...
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Top Jazz Tracks
| Listen | Track Name | Length | Download |
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| 1. | |
'Round Midnight
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5:26 |  |
| 2. | |
The Man I Love (take 2)
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7:59 | |
| 3. | |
Swing Spring
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10:46 | |
| 4. | |
Bemsha Swing
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9:33 | |
| 5. | |
The Man I Love (take 1)
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8:29 | |
| 6. | |
Lush Life
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14:00 | |
| 7. | |
Your World
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5:36 | |
| 8. | |
Like Someone in Love
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5:00 | |
| 9. | |
Walk This Way
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6:49 | |
| 10. | |
Trane's Slo Blues
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6:05 | |
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