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Stanley Clarke: A Lyrical Bass Player
When he was only 25, the word legend was already being used to describe Stanley Clarke. Now, hes a king of the acoustic and electric jazz worlds, having won every major award available to a bass player. Hear an interview with the jazz/fusion innovator.
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Sun Ra: Cosmic Swing
Whenever he took the stage, audiences were guaranteed a musical spectacle. Half mystic, half visionary, the pianist and bandleader charted a relentlessly adventurous course through the jazz tradition.
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Leftover Candy: Top 5 Jazz Halloween Songs
From the lighthearted and fancy to the haunting and grotesque, NPR station WDUQ highlights some spooky Halloween music you can listen to all year long. Hear jazz vocalists conjure different ghosts out of classic tunes, while horn players coax the demons out of their instruments.
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Terence Blanchard: Musical Musings on Gods Will
The latest CD from New Orleans trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard is A Tale of Gods Will, whose subtitle is A Requiem for Katrina. Parts of the recording were heard in Spike Lees HBO documentary When the Levees Broke.
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Red Norvo: Mr. Swing
He was a sideman with the early stars of jazz, led one of the most admired bands on the swing era, and catalyzed the careers of musicians like Charles Mingus. All the while, Red Norvo was bringing the mallet instruments to jazz.
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Buddy Collette: Man of Many Parts
Reedman Buddy Collette has spent most of his music career on the West Coast, out of the national spotlight. But it would be a mistake to overlook his distinguished career as a jazz educator, activist, composer and, of course, phenomenal multi-instrumentalist.
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Digging Up Thelonious Monks Southern Roots
The legendary jazz pianist and composer is best known for his time in New York City, where he developed his eccentric musical genius. But 90 years ago today, Thelonious Monk was born in the Southern city of Rocky Mount, N.C.
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Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Himself
Using dissonant chords, a keen sense of space and knotty, syncopated melodies, Monk created some of the most original and challenging American music of the 20th century. Now, 90 years after his birth, his legacy is as strong as ever.
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Monterey in Minutes: An Audio Montage
The 50th Anniversary of the Monterey Jazz Festival proved to be a rousing success. 45,000 fans attended the historic event and all three days were sold out, a festival first. Hear some of the festivals greatest highlights in an audio montage produced by WBGO.
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Cyrus Chestnut: Reinventing Elvis
Jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and Elvis Presley arent a likely pairing: Chestnut is one of the top pianists of a generation born many years after songs like Love Me Tender made Presley the king of rock n roll. Hear an interview and performance from Studio 4A.
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Mocean Worker: Quintessential Feel-Good Songs
Philadelphia native Adam Dorn, a.k.a. Mocean Worker, has assembled a collection of Manhattans most revered underground soul, jazz and funk players to perform blissfully funky jazz rave-ups on his new album, Cinco de MoWo! Hear an interview and in-studio performance.
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Billie Holiday: Lady Sings the Blues
Few song stylists of any era are as immediately distinctive and arresting as Lady Day. Her rhythmic instinct for melodies brought vocals to the forefront of jazz expression. And her voice itself remains an influential, inimitable and incredible sound.
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A Moody, Sprawling Soundscape of Futuristic Jazz
In Floratones The Passenger, Bill Frisells guitar sits front and center, teasing out references to gritty desert rock, Spaghetti Western soundtracks and even the slinky upstroke strums of dub and reggae. Inventive studio tricks add languid, ethereal atmosphere.
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The Many Moods of Les Jazz Modes
In a mid-50s jazz landscape increasingly dominated by bebops aftermath, the largely forgotten band Les Jazz Modes stood apart. Hoo-Tai finds the groups chops integrating deftly with its orchestral experiments, and the sum is a finely sculpted, acutely appealing jazz tune.
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Queen Latifah Tunes into Travlin Light
Queen Latifah has always followed her mothers simple advice: Dont put all your eggs in one basket. Her success in music and film has allowed her to do some less- commercial things she loves, like singing old jazz and RB tunes.
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