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Afro-Harping Deluxe Edition

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Soul Vibrations; Games; Action Line; Lonely Girl; Life Has Its Trials; Afro-Harping; Little Sunflower; Theme From Valley Of The Dolls; Come Live With Me; The Look Of Love; Action Line Master A, Take 2; Afro-Harping Alt. Take; Theme From Valley of The Dolls Master B, Take 2; Lonely Girl, Master G, Take 1; Soul Vibrations Alt. Take;Life Has Its Trials Master C, Take 2; Little Sunflower Master F, Take 3; Theme From Valley of the Dolls Master B, Take 6.

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Article: Year in Review

Chris May's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

Read "Chris May's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024" reviewed by Chris May


In case you missed the sad news, our dear friend and compatriot, Chris May, passed away in November (read our tribute). Below are the albums he considered extraordinary in 2024--a final testament to his discerning taste and love of sound. -mR Rob LuftDahab Days Edition Records

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Jazz on Soul, Pop, Rock, Folk, and other intangible territories - Part 2

Read "Jazz on Soul, Pop, Rock, Folk, and other intangible territories - Part 2" reviewed by Artur Moral


Part 1 | Part 2 James Carter soloing on a song by Sting? A prolific French guitarist and producer, approaching his thousandth album, deconstructing one of Billy Joel's most candid love songs? A Spanish trumpeter translating the Bee Gees into the jazz language? Yes, all this will happen in this second installment of a ...

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Article: Album Review

Dorothy Ashby: Afro-Harping Deluxe Edition

Read "Afro-Harping Deluxe Edition" reviewed by Chris May


There are certain instruments that struggled for attention in the years when the jazz ecology was an overwhelmingly male preserve--or rather, when many men perceived jazz to be a male preserve, and a heterosexual, alpha male one at that. Exhibit A, the flute, was described by one leading male alto saxophonist, a near contemporary of Charlie ...

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Jimmy Smith: Dot Com Blues

Read "Dot Com Blues" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


He's known as one of the founding jazz fathers of Hammond B-3 organ funk, but Jimmy Smith has always played the blues. Born in December 1928 in a suburb west of Philadelphia, Smith has been performing since he was 12, at that time in a song and dance act with his father. After a stint in ...

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Brand New Life

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2023
Track listing: You're A Girl For One Man Only; Brand New Life; Come Live With Me; (Interlude); Livin' And Lovin' In My Own Way; Running Game ( Intro); Running Game; Moving Target; Dust; The Windmills Of Your Mind; If It's Magic.

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Article: Album Review

Brandee Younger: Brand New Life

Read "Brand New Life" reviewed by La-Faithia White


American harpist and composer Brandee Younger fuses hip hop, classical, funk and jazz on Brand New Life. Younger became a Grammy award nominee for her label debut. Brand New Life features new works inspired by her hero, harpist Dorothy Ashby. “You're A Girl For One Man Only" written by Younger and Ashby, has reinterpretations ...

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Article: Reassessing

The Easy Way

Read "The Easy Way" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


It is fair to wonder how Jimmy Giuffre would be remembered had he not gone off on to the wilder shores of atonality, collective improvisation, and free jazz with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow in the early 1960s. It is easy to forget that Giuffre was regarded as a rising star, both as a multi-instrumentalist (he ...

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Louis Wishes You A Cool Yule

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Cool Yule; Winter Wonderland (Single Version); I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm; 'Zat You, Santa Claus? (Single Version); Christmas In New Orleans; White Christmas (Single Version); Christmas Night In Harlem (Single Version); Baby, It’s Cold Outside; Moments To Remember; What A Wonderful World; A Visit From St Nicholas.

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Article: Reassessing

Momentum Space

Read "Momentum Space" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Momentum Space was released in 1999 on Verve Records. Considering the players--saxophonist Dewey Redman, pianist Cecil Taylor and drummer Elvin Jones--the album didn't make much of a splash. Reviews were mixed, leaning toward the dismissive. Taylor was 70 at the time. Jones was in his early 70s and saxman Redman was in his late ...


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This and That: November 2024
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