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Beastie Boys: I Was Asked to Be Their "Expert Witness"
In the Introduction to these essays, I mentioned that sometimes I might post an essay that’s not about jazz. Here is an experience I had in music, but…
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Coltrane: A Love Supreme, Part 3, for his Birthday—Overdubbing
In honor of Coltrane’s birthday (September 23), let’s continue our in-depth study of his most famous recording. (Please look in the Index on the home…
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Coleman Hawkins Tribute: My Second Memory of the Village Vanguard (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, a lesser-known audio interview with Hawkins is your gift, at the bottom.) My first “memory” essay, about Pete La Roca, was one of…
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Coltrane: A Love Supreme, Part 2—Coltrane's Written Plans
We continue now with my new series about A Love Supreme. There is quite a bit of new material in these essays, things that I have only recently…
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Coltrane: A Love Supreme, Part 1—Background Information, and My Personal Memories
THIS IS the first of what will be a series of many detailed essays exploring the beloved album A Love Supreme. This recording is very important to me…
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Best Jazz Reference Sources, and INDEX to this site! EXPANDED re FILMS, etc.
(In response to requests by subscribers, I wrote a paragraph about films at the bottom, and added more links throughout.) FIRST—Great News! Substack has…
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Every Film of Charlie Parker, 10A: Bonuses for Paying Subscribers
Dear Paying Subscribers, I owe many thanks for your support, which allows me to spend many, many hours researching and writing these essays. This time I…
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