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In his new book, Sinatra biographer James Kaplan details the lives of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans and their time together.

Drawing on his original research for a BBC Radio 3 series, Alyn Shipton presents new perspectives on the baritone player's quartets

The 1956 bop, blues and ballad session that introduced the trumpeter's signature harmon-mute sound gets another reissue on vinyl

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, also known as Jaws, was a self-taught originator of soul jazz. He recorded the first records that blend Hammond organ and tenor sax, with Bill Doggett at the B3, for Roost Records in May 1952. He continued to develop his blues-based, jukebox-friendly style of jazz and, in 1955, joined forces with a young organ player from Philadelphia named Shirley Scott. They recorded together for King and Prestige Records and formed a gigging band with drums and bass.

One of the giants assembled for this 1954 session - here back on vinyl - was Thelonious Monk, whom Davis couldn't stand as an accompanist

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Thelonious Monk had a gift for reconciling musical experiment with the immediacy of pop.

Bob Porter, Jazz Producer and Broadcaster, Dies at 80 Hundreds of albums bore his name, notably reissues of classic material. And he helped make WBGO the biggest jazz radio station in the New York area. Bob Porter at a 2018 Jazz at Lincoln Center event for the Newark radio station WBGO. He had been heard on the station since it first went on the air in 1979.Credit...Jacob Blickenstaff for The New York Times April 22, 2021, 5:53 p.m. ET Bob Porter, who as a record producer guided the reissue of ...

Rolling Stone Elliot Mazer, Engineer-Producer for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, Dead at 79 Producer behind Young’s By Michael Putland/Getty Images Elliot Mazer, the longtime producer and engineer who helped craft albums for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, among others, died at his San Francisco home on Sunday. He was 79. Mazer’s daughter Alison confirmed the producer’s death, adding that the cause was a heart attack after years of battling with deme...