Summertime
As it draws to a close, this has got to be one of the baddest arrangements of Summertime I’ve ever heard:
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everything i know about jazz i learned on teh interwebs
A point-on post from I was doing alright worth reposting here: A few months ago I was introduced to the director of jazz studies at one of the local Atlanta universities. For the sake of anonymity,...
View Article(real) fake books galore
Thanks to David Valdez (Casa Valdez) for posting several wonderful fakebooks at his blog.  Sarting yesterday with a post on the Blue Book, the following are available: The Great Gig Book (the Blue...
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house concerts | better than audiophile
House concerts are a concept that started with the jazz of the 1920′s. Â They were called rent parties then and allowed neighbors to help neighbors, raising money for the musicians or other poor...
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day 4
“We See” is an excellent Thelonious Monk composition from his quintessential Straight, No Chaser. The text and music here is taken from my transcription of it – an exercise in how black and white .pdfs...
View Articleblue note album covers come to life
If you dig the look of all those great midcentury Blue Note album covers, you need to see this super hip Bella Vista Social Pub. Hi-Fi from bante on Vimeo.
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