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The Infinite Groove: Top 10 Classic Jazz Marathons
by Michael Ricci
Classic Jazz | Prog Rock While the “3-minute single" was the rule for radio, the jazz world of the mid-20th century operated on a different internal clock. With the arrival of the Long Play (LP) record, jazz musicians finally had the “room" to let their ideas breathe. This era gave birth to the extended jam, often referred to as a “blowing session," where the primary goal was to capture the spontaneous telepathy of a group of virtuosos. These ...
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia Jazz
by Victor L. Schermer
Philadelphia Jazz Suzanne Cloud and Diane Turner 127 pages ISBN 978-1-4671-0784-6 Images of America Arcadia Publishing 2022 Philadelphia longs to be known as a jazz town, a city distinguished by its major contribution to the jazz legacy. There is a good reason for this. A large number of members of the jazz pantheon came up and/or made their home in Philadelphia. They include, just for ...
Continue ReadingYour Favorite Hammond B-3 Organists
by Michael Ricci
All About Jazz member votes were tabulated and this list represents our favorite Hammond B-3 organists. Fully transparent and easily verifiable, All About Jazz's organists poll was conducted during the 2022 calendar year running from July 20th to December 7th. We want to thank every member who participated in creating this impressive list for the next generation of jazz enthusiasts to discover. 1Jimmy Smith2Joey DeFrancesco3Dr. Lonnie Smith4Larry Goldings5Shirley Scott6Larry Young7Jack McDuff8Jimmy McGriff9Charles Earland10Richard “Groove" Holmes11Tony Monaco12Pat Bianchi13Mike LeDonne14Big ...
Continue ReadingIt's Infrastructure Week!
by H William Stine
This week I paid tribute to the roads and highways, the bridges and tunnels, the power, communications, and water systems. I thought I'd better hurry up and celebrate Infrastructure Week before everything crumbles, fizzles out, implodes, and self-destructs. Playlist Cody Owen Stine “Paris Mismatch (Theme Music)" 00:00 Rosemary Clooney “On The Road Again" from Still On The Road (Concord) 3:40 Hilary Gardner “Brooklyn Bridge" from The Great City (Anzic Records) 07:28 Frank Sinatra “Street Of Dreams" from Sinatra ...
Continue ReadingLast Dance (for Now)
by Marc Cohn
So, this is our “last dance" at least for now, and we hope to have new Gifts & Messages shows in 2021. As many of you know, even this is only a two-hour show, it's almost a full-time job, with listening to new/old music, selecting tunes, doing the program-specific research and lots of reading, in addition to actually producing the show. I'm at a time of life where other business demands my attention. Rather than do a half-assed job each ...
Continue ReadingMeet Marc Cohn
by Marc Cohn
Meet Marc A. Cohn Dr. Cohn is a New Yorker-in-exile and has been doing jazz radio as an avocation since 1967. He is Professor Emeritus in Seed Biology at Louisiana State University, where he has won numerous teaching awards. He is a widely recognized authority on seed dormancy, is Editor Emeritus of Seed Science Research (the premier scientific journal in the field), and is a recipient of the Seed Science Award (nationally, the most prestigious research award in seed biology) ...
Continue ReadingJames Bond and other Secret Agents, Spies and Detectives - Part 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
In the first part of the show [click here to listen to it] we focused on jazz inspired by the music composed by James Barry for the James Bond series. Here we switch our attention to other great soundtrack composers like Lalo Schifrin, or Quincy Jones, and other movie characters like Sherlock Holmes, Ms. Marple, Nero Wolfe or Dirty Harry. And we look into how Charlie Parker became Charlie Chan. We then wrap things up with the daughter of the ...
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