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Night Lights is a compilation album, pressed on smoky midnight blue vinyl by Jazz Dispensary Records for Record Store Day 2025, featuring 11 cuts from across Moodsville’s catalog.
Ben Webster’s 1959 outing for Verve Records featured jazz giants Coleman Hawkins, Ray Brown, and Roy Eldridge.
We're giving some big ups to organ maestro Big John Patton this week. He was one of a number of B3 players to make their mark on Blue Note Records, capturing the aesthetic of the soul jazz movement ...
Explore Craft Recordings’ Record Store Day 2025 preview featuring exclusive releases from Carla Thomas, Thelonious Monk with Gerry Mulligan, and the Jazz Dispensary Night Lights Moodsville Collection.
Jazz guitar icon George Freeman passed away on April 1 at the age of 97. The celebrated musician had planned to mark his 98th birthday on April 10 with a series of concerts at Chi ...
Jaz Coleman’s choral work will brings to life Aleister Crowley’s Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law), the foundation for ...
We asked 10 musicians and writers to share their favorite Holiday songs: Enjoy listening to ... Roy Eldridge and Doc Cheatham on trumpets, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Lester Young on tenor ...
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Jazz Is Profoundly American
Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder of the arts and humanities, which recently launched a $35 ...
He was given his first saxophone at the age of 9, and was riveted to 1940's radio broadcasts by Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young ... Hamilton's most memorable albums for Impulse Records, ...
Playing the music of Duke Ellington, this visionary artist of the hip-hop generation crafted a magical set, sampling a scrap of this and scrap of that, interpreting the songs of the jazz legend ...