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Music Review: Sonny Rollins - Road Shows Vol. 1 (CD)/In Vienne (DVD)
"A different sunset every night," Rollins once said, "that's what jazz is about."
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Music Review: Bill Moring & Way Out East - Spaces In Time
Assorted jazz that moves your soul. That's the Way Out East way.
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Music Review: Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery - Bags Meets Wes
A chance meeting of two jazz legends turned into a memorable record.
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Music Review: Maceo Parker - Roots and Grooves
The most fully realized compliment ever paid to Ray Charles makes up for the hip-shakers that are often too polite.
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Oscar Peterson, 1925-2007
Jazz piano giant Peterson, whom Duke Ellington once referred to as the "Maharajah of the keyboard," died Sunday.
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Forgotten Series: Ike Turner - 1958-1959
Ike Turner spun a very intense mixture of what would become full-bore rock 'n' roll.
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The Best Beatles Songs You're Not Already Sick Of
Some of our favorite Beatles songs that didn't become hits.
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Music Review: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Caravan
Art Blakey demanded bravado from his bands, and this one was perhaps his most intense and adventurous.
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One Track Mind: Journey - "Don't Stop Believin"
Will we have to wait for the movie to find out why Tony Soprano chose Journey over Tony Bennett?
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One Track Mind: Paul McCartney "See Your Sunshine"
This is the kind of pure pop that McCartney parlayed into a soundtrack for the decade following the Beatles. And just as welcome.
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