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September 12, 2025

Does Trump 47=King Donald the First?

The good news–and there is good news–is that the administration’s poll numbers are down. Several…

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August 4, 2025

This is an Important Year in Politics

Theodore Roosevelt and members of the Republican National Committee at Roosevelt's estate in Oyster Bay,…

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August 4, 2025

Video: Philip Clark on Dave Brubeck

Directly below are parts one and two of The Daily Music Break's interview with Philip…

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August 4, 2025

Video: Art Blakey, Drumming and Moving Jazz Forward

Below is Art Blakey’s Jazz Messenger’s live performance of Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night in…

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August 4, 2025

Audio: Horace Silver’s “Song for My Father”

Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver, one of the most important jazz musicians of the twentieth…

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August 4, 2025

Duke Ellington Records “Mood Indigo” 89 Years Ago Today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFUSD23ZXEw Above is a great video of Duke Ellington performing one of the most important…

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August 4, 2025

Earl Bostic: The Sax Players’ Sax Player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcxBLiKpRm0 Eugene Earl Bostic – who dropped the first name as a performer – was…

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August 1, 2025

Video Chat: The Berklee College of Music’s Jeff Claassen on the Importance of Duke Ellington

The Daily Music Break’s first video chat features Jeff Claassen, a trumpet player and Associate…

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August 1, 2025

Coleman Hawkins Made the Saxophone a Modern Instrument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOX0eA-NlZ0 The first paragraph of the 1969 obituary of Coleman Hawkins in The New York…

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August 1, 2025

There is Only One Thelonious Monk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qweSlfP6BtI New York has a lot of great music radio stations. Three of the finest…

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Does Trump 47=King Donald the First?

This is an Important Year in Politics

Video: Philip Clark on Dave Brubeck

Video: Art Blakey, Drumming and Moving Jazz Forward

Audio: Horace Silver’s “Song for My Father”

Duke Ellington Records “Mood Indigo” 89 Years Ago Today

Earl Bostic: The Sax Players’ Sax Player

Video Chat: The Berklee College of Music’s Jeff Claassen on the Importance of Duke Ellington

Coleman Hawkins Made the Saxophone a Modern Instrument

There is Only One Thelonious Monk

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