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And thanks to a music teacher at Locke High School in Watts, who would pick up the young prodigies from school to take them home after rehearsals, he joined an orchestra for gifted teens. Everyone who’s anyone on the current LA scene was there at some stage. The collective West Coast Get Down, which lacks a true leader but whose most well-known mem... See more
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arranger Gil Evans,
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
Don Michael, a one-armed pianist who played and recorded with Erskine Hawkins in the mid-1940s.
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Modern Jazz Quartet,
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
The Cry of Jazz—was based in part on an unpublished book by Bland entitled The Fruits of the Death of Jazz.
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Saxophonist Marshall Allen has been the leader of one of the most important groups in jazz, the Sun Ra Arkestra , since 1995—two years after its visionary founder’s death. It’s fair to give Allen a pass on waiting this long to release his first collection of original compositions given the Arkestra’s steady tour schedule and prolific studio output.... See more
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Art Tatum