Like many people my age (and younger), my impressions of the world, for better or worse, are shaped by video. I was thoroughly convinced for years that World...
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Here is the start of a bio of Tito Puente that no longer seems to be onlin: Tito Puente is internationally recognized for his seminal contributions to Latin...
From his body language while playing to his unique, free flowing improvisations, there is nobody like Keith Jarrett. This is from AllMusic: Pianist, composer...
Stanley Clarke is a highly regarded jazz bassist most widely known for his work with Chick Corea and Return to Forever. However, his career is extremely...
The first few seconds of Song For My Father (above) sound a lot like the start of Steely Dan’s Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, which of course came...
Here is the beginning of jazz pianist Bud Powell’s bio at Wikipedia: Earl Rudolph “Bud” Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was a...
It’s against the spirit of jazz to focus too much on a single player, so we are leading off this post about Lionel Hampton with Avalon (above). It...
Eartha Kitt would have been 86 years old today. Above, she sings I Want to Be Evil, in a video that has one odd camera angle after another. Here is more on the...
Like so many folks who had stellar careers and have been around forever, Tony Bennett’s early story is filled with familiar names: The young singer was...
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