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I listen to one great jazz album a day, and share it with you here. A great place to start learning about jazz. Link below for a list of all previous albums.

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Started this account to share my love of jazz music. I listen to one jazz record every morning, and I’ll share it here, with some background about the artist or band. Please feel free to message suggestions, comments or corrections.


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RIP Quincy Jones. Listening to a few early tracks with @Mark_Stryker This 1955 session with Dinah Washington is thick with colorful horn lines. Keter Betts was the original (great) bassist in the famed trio with Kelly and Cobb

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Rest in Power, Quincy Jones.

Quincy Jones, Grammy-Winning Producer for Michael Jackson, Film Composer, Dies at 91 variety.com/2024/music/new…



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Thelonious Monk performing "Blue Monk" with Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums live at the University Aula in Oslo, Norway, 1966. #Jazz


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Today, let's wish a very happy birthday today to Esperanza Spalding. I love seeing more and more women in jazz in general, and certainly on the bass! She is a gifted musician and I hope she takes a well-deserved day off today.

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Keith Jarrett performing “Oleo” with Gary Peacock on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums live Japan, 1993.


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Happy birthday to the great Barney Kessel who was born on this day in 1923. #Jazz #botd Barney Kessel 79 "Autumn Leaves"


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Remembering the great Roy Hargrove who was born on this day in 1969. An incandescent trumpeter who blazed a new path for his jazz generation, Hargrove bridged the worlds of hard bop, hip-hop, funk and neo-soul throughout his prolific career, serving as a role model for young…


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Remembering the great Fela Kuti who was born on this day in 1938. He was regarded as the principal innovator of Afrobeat, which fused American blues, jazz, and funk with traditional Yoruba music. Fela’s musical life spanned through a period of almost four decades, from the…


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25 years ago today, Milt Jackson passed away. Rest in peace. #RIP #Jazz Ben Riley - Milt Jackson - Kenny Barron - Ray Drummond -1994

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Jaco Pastorius on piano, in duo with Toots Thielemans on Jaco’s original called “Three Views of a Secret” recorded in Belgium in 1985. #smlpdf #sheetmusic sheetmusiclibrary.website


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Dave Brubeck - St. Louis Blues For anyone seeking a timeline cleanse…


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Hey man! Roy Hargrove & The Big Band sound checking at the Panasonic Greenwich Village Jazz Festival in 1995. Roy played all his instruments with pure passion ❤️ Thanks Jesse Block / Crissy Field Media for this great clip!


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Announcing the Nov. 22 release of "Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’," a previously unreleased 1966 recording of McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson leading a quartet with Henry Grimes & Jack DeJohnette at the hallowed lost NYC jazz shrine! Pre-order on 2LP/2CD/DL: bluenote.lnk.to/TynerHenderson…


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From LACUJI to MILES ママが楽耳マスターに聴かせた一枚。 A2 Nica’s Dreamが最高。 #PhineasNewbornJr #ジャズ喫茶 #JazzKisaa

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PHINEAS and SAKE マスター曰く 「マイルスでママにかけてもらった一枚」 #楽耳 #ジャズ喫茶 #JazzKissa

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@GreatJazzAlbums Check out my interview with the great Jazz musician John Handy (LINK) youtu.be/fAM6-NYr6v8


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"If I had to choose one single musician for his artistic integrity, for the incomparable originality of his creation and the grandeur of his work, it would be Bud Powell. He was in a class by himself." -Bill Evans Remembering the great BudPowell, born on this day in 1924.

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