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Soul Jazz developed in the late 1950s and become a staple of ghetto jukeboxes. Its catchy lines, heavy beat and blues-influenced phasing became a p...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
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Rarely has a jazz instrument been so completely redefined as the organ was at the hands of Jimmy Smith. In his wake, the Hammond B3 organ gained wi...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 20
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Hard bop created a comfortable setting for a suite of great blues-influenced guitar players who led the way toward soul jazz. Several of these play...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
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During the five-year tenure of Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet (1963 – 1968), Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams were very active o...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
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Miles Davis, through his adoption of modal music, participated in the gradual liberation that resulted in the free music of the jazz avant-garde – ...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
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Joe Henderson may have been the most significant tenor saxophonist to emerge in the 1960s. Gary Giddins wrote that he is “…an irresistibly lucid pl...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
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Blue Note Records in the 1960s released such iconoclastic projects as Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures and Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch, but the label ...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 18
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Nurtured in the seminal recordings of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor in the mid to late 1950s, the jazz avant-garde came into its own in the 1960...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 19
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Fate could not have treated Blue Note saxophonists Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean more differently. While McLean released nine LPs for Prestige and ...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Caption: Queen Elizabeth I playing a lute
Think today’s political intrigues are unusual? Think again! This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a look at how political strife ...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 40
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Roland Kirk, who began recording in 1956, had been an ideal sideman for Charles Mingus, appearing on the 1961 release Oh Yeah. In the 1960s, he est...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 19
Caption: Westminister
We explore points around the globe from London and the Jewish contributions to British society to America as we explore it’s history on the back of...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 59:55
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From his first recordings with Chico Hamilton in 1958 until his unnecessary death from misdiagnosed diabetic shock in 1964, Eric Dolphy was limited...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
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Charles Mingus completed the 1950s with an astonishing series of releases in 1959 - Blues and Roots, followed by Mingus Ah Um and finally, Mingus D...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
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No tenor player cast a larger shadow over the 1960’s than John Coltrane. Arguably, that time frame could be expanded to include all decades since, ...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
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John Coltrane is undoubtedly one of the most influential players in the history of jazz, yet his important work fits within a brief twelve-year per...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
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Clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre and pianist Lennie Tristano were heavily influential in the musical explorations of the 1960s. The Jimmy Giuffre Trio rec...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
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As hard bop was running out of steam and rock & roll was becoming the music of choice for the younger audience, many musicians were building on the...

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  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 18
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This is the final hour of a four-part sequence featuring important tenor players and trumpeters who propelled hard bop into the 1960s. In this hour...

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  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
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In this portion of Jazz at 100, we are featuring tenor players and trumpeters who propelled hard bop into the 1960s. In this hour, we will continue...

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  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 19
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In this portion of Jazz at 100, we are featuring tenor players and trumpeters who propelled hard bop into the 1960s. In this hour, we will continue...

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  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
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Over the next four hours of Jazz at 100, we’ll be featuring tenor players and trumpeters who propelled hard bop into the 1960s. In this hour, we wi...

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  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
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Despite revisionist history that suggests that the energy of hard bop was spent by the time the sixties came, in the last hour we heard from the gr...

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  • Added: May 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
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As the 1960s began Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers were fueled by the compositions of Wayne Shorter with the front line of Shorter and Lee Morgan. In ...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 19
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Fueled by the 1959 international release of the movie Black Orpheus and through reports from US jazz players returning from South American tours, t...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 20