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  The Notebooks Of Sonny Rollins - 3 Quarks Daily

  3quarksdaily.com - Morgan Meis

  Dwight Garner at the New York Times: It is possible to imagine the jazz musician Sonny Rollins’s life as a novel, pitched between realism and …

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  Blue Note’s Classic Vinyl Reissues Series To Issue Titles By Hank Mobley And More

  udiscovermusic.com - Tim Peacock

  The legendary jazz label’s on-going series will also reissue landmark titles by Stanley Turrentine, Wayne Shorter and more over the next few …

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  15 Best Jazz Artists of All Time

  singersroom.com - Samuel Moore

  Jazz, a genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans in the early 20th century, has evolved into a diverse and globally …

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  15 Best Jazz Artists of All Time

  singersroom.com - Edward Tomlin

  Jazz, a genre that originated in the United States in the early 20th century, has produced countless legendary artists who have left an indelible …

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  Jazz Concerts Celebrate Met Opera Composers on an Intimate Scale

  The New York Times - Seth Colter Walls

  Terence Blanchard and Anthony Davis, recent pioneers at the Metropolitan Opera, returned to earlier works in a pair of performances over the weekend. In the musical “Jelly’s Last Jam,” which just had an acclaimed revival in the New York City Center Encores! series, Jelly Roll Morton, a pianist and …

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  Miles Davis and the Recording of a Jazz Masterpiece

  Esquire - James Kaplan

  Kind of Blue is the best-selling jazz album of all time. Here's what it was like inside the studio with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans on the day they laid down one of the record's iconic tracks. Jazz was at the apex of its artistic power and commercial popularity when, in 1959, some of …