The Bebop Revolution
adminHistory of Jazz: Part 4 Bebop arrived on the scene, to hear the tale, a fully formed grotesque of music, a deranged Athena fully sprung from the head of the…
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New Bottle–Old Wine and Great Jazz Standards collected together in Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions
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NDIM Guide to Jazz
Read MoreTraditional Jazz & The Jazz Age
History of Jazz: Part 2 Traditional Jazz is a broad term used to define a jazz style employed by musicians working in New Orleans between 1900 and 1917, and musicians…
Read MoreBlues Music, Ragtime & the Origins of Jazz
NDIM Jazz Guide: Part 1 Jazz music, heavily influenced by ragtime and blues music, first appeared sometime in the 1890s and is typically thought to have originated in New Orleans.
Read MoreBennie Maupin: Early Reflections
The return of Bennie Maupin to somewhat regular recording, beginning with his first Cryptogramophone release Penumbra in 2006, is one of jazz music’s more welcome stories of the past few…
Read MoreBennie Maupin Ensemble: Penumbra
Bennie Maupin is a master of improvisational music and of the woodwind instruments. He has worked with some of the most creative musicians and most innovative ensembles of all time.
Read MoreThe Afrofuturism of Robert Springett and Herbie Hancock
The Art of the Album Beginning in 1972, Herbie Hancock teamed up with artist Robert Springett to produce a series of albums with a vision rooted in Afrofuturism. Although the…
Read MoreSonny Rollins Volume One
At the end of 1956 Sonny Rollins ended his six-year period of recording at Prestige Records, and he proceeded to record prolifically for the next two years for a variety…
Read MoreSam Rivers: Fuchsia Swing Song
In the autumn of 1964 tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers spent two months on tour with the Miles Davis quintet. This was the group that, with the addition of Wayne Shorter,…
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