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An Introduction to this Series; & My Contact Info
HELLO FRIENDS and WELCOME! I have LOTS of never-published research on everyone from Jelly Roll Morton through Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, John Coltrane…
Sep 4, 2022
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Freddie Webster, 7 of 8: His Recordings Show A Swing Player, Not Yet A Bebopper (+Bonus Audio)
(Paying Subscribers, in this essay I present many of Webster’s solos, excerpted from his recordings.
Feb 14
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Oliver Nelson: Unknown Audio Interviews, & Concert at Eastman (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, your gifts today are a long feature article on Nelson from Ebony magazine, and his innovative music book Patterns for…
Feb 7
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Freddie Webster, 6 of 8: His Final Years and Death
In the previous essays, I have presented many discoveries about the life of legendary trumpeter Freddie Webster. Almost all of the books and websites…
Feb 1
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Charles Mingus, Earl Hines, and Eddie South: A Rare Recording Behind a Blues Singer—Guest Post by Anthony Barnett (+Bonus Audio)
(Paying Subscribers, at the bottom you’ll find your bonus—three more audio tracks from this session.)
Jan 25
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A +Bonus For Paying Subscribers: Rollins, Shorter, Brecker, Many Others Discuss Their Idols in Print
For Paying Subscribers, attached to the Coltrane/Sonny Fortune post were a few relevant pages of artists discussing their idols, from a special Downbeat…
Jan 21
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John Coltrane and Sonny Fortune Performed in Philadelphia, September 3, 1966 (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, At the bottom you’ll find two pages from the special DownBeat issue of July 2004, where Mike Brecker, Jim Hall, Percy Heath and Von…
Jan 17
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Billie Holiday: The Truth About Her Guitarist Father's Life and Death, (2 of 2) (+Bonus Recordings)
(Paying Subscribers, jazz guitarist and historian Nick Rossi has put together for you some highlights of Clarence Holiday’s recorded work.
Jan 10
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