Written by: Meem
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929: Ethan Phillion on Charles Mingus
Ethan Philion is an award-winning bassist, composer, and bandleader based in Chicago. A graduate...
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524- The Day the Music Stopped
On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new...
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438- The Real Book [rebroadcast]
Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book. It has a...
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659: Ben Robertson on jazz bass in Australia
It was such a pleasure to chat with renowned Australian jazz bassist Ben Robertson in person...
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Is Today’s Jazz Finally Outrunning the Past?
Jazz could have spent 2017 looking backward, focusing on the centennials of foundational figures....
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Remembering Roy Hargrove, Who Brought Jazz History Into Tomorrow
The trumpeter, who died at 49, was a singular figure dedicated to keeping jazz’s past in dialogue...
01:03:39
The New Battles Over the Direction of Jazz
What did the music, innovations and arguments of 2018 tell us about where the genre is headed...
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In 2019, Jazz Reckoned With Old Boundaries, and Marched Past Them
A conversation about the best jazz albums of the year, and what they tell us about the genre’s...
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In 2019, Jazz Reckoned With Old Boundaries, and Marched Past Them
A conversation about the best jazz albums of the year, and what they tell us about the genre’s...
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