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The violin-slinging singer-songwriter walks WBEZ through the creation of four standouts on Sunday Morning Put-On, his new album of jazz standards.

The tutti-frutti loving drummer provided undemonstrative propulsion for Coltrane, Lateef and the MJQ and brushed out the beat for Nina Simone

    Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyNicole Glover has been getting some well-deserved exposure recently in the context of groups like the Artemis sextet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. But this tenor saxophonist is best appreciated on her own albums, where she fronts a saxophone-bass-drums trio. While not a common jazz format, … Continue reading

Byas thought himself a swing player, but the sophisticated rhythmic and harmonic invention in his playing pointed towards bebop

Sixty years ago Kirk gave articulate commentary on jazz, including the heretical opinion that Ronnie Scott was better than Tubby Hayes